Relocation Assistance Act

New Jersey · Eminent Domain · §§ 20:4-1 to 20:4-9 · 28 sections

Overview

The Relocation Assistance Act governs the assistance owed to people displaced by government programs — including displacement caused by public acquisition of property, housing or construction code enforcement, voluntary rehabilitation, or an emergency such as a fire in a multiple dwelling. It obligates displacing agencies to make relocation payments covering moving and related expenses and the added cost of replacement housing for both homeowners and tenants, to operate advisory programs that help displaced persons relocate, and to assure that standard housing is available, providing it directly when suitable housing for sale or rent is not. The act also establishes the machinery behind those duties: a revolving fund and loans to finance relocation and replacement housing, state participation in the cost of local payments and services, recovery of relocation costs from owners whose code violations caused the displacement, and an appeal process for contested payments, with relocation payments treated as additional to any condemnation award and disregarded as income or resources in determining eligibility for other benefits.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

Sections covered

N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-1Short title
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-10Authority of the commissioner
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-11Administration
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-12Fund availability
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-13State participation in cost of local relocation payments and services
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-14Displacement by code enforcement or voluntary rehabilitation
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-15Payments not to be considered as income or resources
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-16Payment under state law of eminent domain not payment under this act
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-17Loans for costs in planning and in obtaining financing for housing for displaced persons
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-18Payments under this act additional to awards in condemnation awards
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-19Appeal procedure
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-2Declaration of policy
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-20Severability
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-21Repeal of inconsistent acts
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-22State department of transportation; inapplicability of act; supplemental program; consultation with commissioner of department of community affairs
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-3Definitions
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-3.1Displacement of tenant from multiple dwelling by fire or other emergency; eligibility for relocation assistance
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-4Moving and related expenses
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-4.1Displacement by housing or construction code enforcement where owner liable for penalties; payment of relocation costs; lien; enforcement; appeal
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-4.1aRevolving relocation assistance fund
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-4.2Unpaid balance; recovery by public agency in civil action; persons liable
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-4.3Rights and remedies cumulative and concurrent
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-5Replacement housing for homeowners
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-6Replacement housing for tenants and certain others
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-6.1Relocation payments to persons displaced by government programs
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-7Relocation assistance advisory programs
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-8Assurance of availability of standard housing
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 20:4-9Provision of standard housing when sale or rental housing unavailable

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