52:27D-199 - Building in use on effective date of regulations; compliance; fire safety improvement as capital improvement under rent control

52:27D-199.  Building in use on effective date of regulations; compliance; fire safety improvement as capital improvement under rent control
    A building, which is subject to this act but the use of which shall have commenced in good faith on or before the effective date of any retroactive regulations, shall comply with the provisions of this act on or before the first anniversary of the effective date of the regulations and, in the case of any building subject to local rent control, any improvement required to be made  pursuant to this act, or any other law, ordinance, or regulation concerning  fire safety shall, for the purposes of the rent control ordinance, be deemed to  be a capital improvement, the cost of which may be passed on to the tenants.   In a case of imminent hazard to life, a building shall comply within the  period of time designated by the enforcing agency.

     L.1983, c. 383, s. 8.