NJ A5544

Codifies a multi-factor test to distinguish between hotel/motel tenants entitled to Anti-Eviction Act protections and transient guests who can be removed without formal eviction proceedings

Factors indicating tenant status include: occupancy of 3+ consecutive months in the same unit, changing official address to the hotel/motel, using it as the only residence, and having cooking facilities like a stove and refrigerator

Automatically grants tenant status to occupants receiving or appealing for emergency assistance benefits when the hotel/motel serves as temporary housing, but tenant protections end if assistance is denied or exhausted

Denies tenant protections to occupants who willfully fail to provide registration information to the owner or operator

Protects occupants from losing tenant status if the owner/operator willfully or negligently failed to collect registration information