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Council adopts ordinance imposing mandatory minimum fines for housing-code violations to strengthen enforcement
Summary
Ordinance 25-105, which creates continuing violations and sets mandatory minimum fines (sponsor testimony and public commenters cited $100 per tenant/unit per day), was adopted unanimously 9-0 to give municipal enforcement stronger penalties for persistent housing-code breaches.
The Municipal Council unanimously adopted ordinance 25-105 to establish mandatory minimum fines and continuing violations for breaches of Jersey City's housing-related ordinances, aiming to strengthen enforcement against negligent landlords. The final vote was 9-0.
The ordinance applies to multiple provisions of the municipal code — including provisions in chapters 2-18 (multiple dwellings), 2-54 (property maintenance) and 2-60 (rent control) — and creates continuing violations so that repeated or ongoing failures can be cited in an administratively feasible way. Public speakers and…
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