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BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Township Council of the Township of Jackson, County of Ocean, and State of New Jersey, as follows:

SECTION 1. The Township Code of the Township of Jackson is hereby amended and supplemented so as to amend Chapter 334, entitled “Rent Control for Apartments and Mobile Home Parks,” so as to amend § 334-9, entitled “Exemptions; vacancy decontrol,” so as to amend subsection B. entitled “Vacancy decontrol” so as to amend subsection (1) which shall read as follows:

  1. Upon the voluntary, uncoerced vacation of a mobile home by any tenant for which rent increases are controlled by Chapter 334, and upon compliance with this section, at the time of re-rental of a lot pursuant to this section, a landlord may charge the succeeding tenant a new rent which is no higher than 7.5% of the highest rent in the park added to the prior tenant's rent, for a single-wide or double-wide home, as applicable. This vacancy decontrol provision shall not apply to circumstances wherein the unit is inherited by a spouse, parent or child of the former owner.
  2. SECTION 2. The Township Code of the Township of Jackson is hereby amended and supplemented so as to amend Chapter 334, entitled “Rent Control for Apartments and Mobile Home Parks,” so as to amend § 334-31, entitled “Notice to tenants,” so as to add subsection D. which shall read as follows:
  3. In addition to the notice requirements above under subsections (A) and (B), if a hearing for which a landlord was required to give notice is cancelled, postponed or otherwise rescheduled, the landlord is required to give additional notice for the rescheduled date by any of the methods in subsection (C).

SECTION 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision, and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof.