Revises definition of "landlord" to include rooming and boarding house owners and operators with regard to ordinances holding landlords to certain standards of responsibility.

This bill revises New Jersey's definition of "landlord" to explicitly include owners and operators of rooming and boarding houses. It directly affects these housing providers by allowing municipalities to apply existing local ordinances - currently used for small rental properties (≤4 units) and mobile home owners - to enforce housing standards for rooming and boarding houses. The key mechanism expands the scope of current ordinances (under P.L.1993, c.127) to cover these properties without creating new requirements. Municipalities would need to adopt separate ordinances for rooming/boarding houses, but existing standards for smaller rentals would now apply to them.