New Jersey § 2a:18-61

§ 2a:18-61.

a. Tenants receiving notice under section 3 g. of P.L.1974, c. 49 1 may request of the landlord within 18 full months after receipt of such notice, and

the landlord shall offer to the tenant, personally or through an agent, the rental

of comparable housing or park site and a reasonable opportunity to examine and rent

such comparable housing or park site. In any proceeding under subsection 2 k. of P.L.1974, c. 49 2 instituted following the expiration of notice required under section 3 g. of P.L.1974,

c. 49, the owner shall prove that a tenant was offered such comparable housing or

park site and provided such reasonable opportunity to examine and rent such housing

or park site as requested pursuant to this section. The court shall authorize 1-year stays of eviction with reasonable rent increases

until such time as the court is satisfied that the tenant has been offered comparable

housing or park site and provided a reasonable opportunity to examine and rent such

housing or park site as requested pursuant to this section. However, in no case shall more than five such stays be granted. b. The court shall automatically renew any 1-year stay of eviction in any case where

the landlord failed to allege to the court within 1 year of a prior stay that the

tenant was offered a reasonable opportunity to examine and rent comparable housing

or park site within such prior year. c. However the court shall not authorize any further stays at any time after one such

stay has been authorized when the owner has also provided a tenant with hardship relocation

compensation of waiver of payment of 5 months' rent. d. On or after the effective date of the “Senior Citizens and Disabled Protected Tenancy

Act,” P.L.1981, c. 226 ( C. 2A:18-61.22 et seq. ), notwithstanding the provisions of subsection a. of this section, where the court

has jurisdiction pursuant to that subsection, whether by virtue of the authorization

by the court of a stay of eviction or by virtue of any other proceedings required

or instituted pursuant to P.L.1974, c. 49 ( C. 2A:18-61.1 et seq. ) or P.L.1975, c. 311 ( C. 2A:18-61.6 et seq. ), or in any action for declaratory judgment, the court may invoke some or all of

the provisions of the “Senior Citizens and Disabled Protected Tenancy Act” and grant

to a tenant, pursuant to that amendatory and supplementary act, a protected tenancy

period upon the court's determination that: (1) The tenant would otherwise qualify as a senior citizen tenant or disabled tenant

pursuant to that amendatory and supplementary act, except that the building or structure

in which the dwelling unit is located was converted prior to the effective date of

that amendatory and supplementary act; and (2) The granting of the protected tenancy period as applied to the tenant, giving

particular consideration to whether a unit was sold on or before the date that the

amendatory and supplementary act takes effect to a bona fide individual purchaser

who intended personally to occupy the unit, would not be violative of concepts of

fundamental fairness or due process. Where a court declines to grant a protected tenancy status, it shall nevertheless

order such hardships stays as authorized by subsections a. and b. of this section

until comparable relocation housing is provided. The hardship relocation compensation alternative of subsection c. of this section

shall not be applicable in this situation. 1

N.J.S.A. § 2A:18-61.2. 2

N.J.S.A. § 2A:18-61.1.