Ocean County — lead-safe rental certification under P.L.2021, c.182, as amended by P.L.2024, c.74.
Lead Safe Certification is a required Yes/No item on the Township's Rental Certificate of Occupancy application (Admin-2710); that application carries a flat $65 fee, but it is unclear if this covers or is separate from the lead inspection/state $20 fee. Whether the Township's own inspector performs the lead inspection or only landlord-hired DCA-certified contractors are used was not confirmed via an official Lakewood source (a non-Lakewood third-party summary claimed 'either' but could not be verified against a Lakewood-specific page, so left null).
Statewide 3-year certification rule applies here too
Regardless of Lakewood Township's specific process above, the certificate itself is valid three years statewide (P.L.2024, c.74) — not the two years some older DCA guidance still states. See the lead-safe hub for the full statewide timeline, deadlines, and landlord checklist.
Lakewood's rent control page →
Email me before my lead-safe certificate expires
We'll send a one-time confirmation email first (double opt-in) — no reminder is sent until you click the link in it. There's no scheduled reminder sender wired up yet on our end beyond that confirmation, so treat this as staking a place in line; see the disclaimer below.
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