New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 10 - MAINTENANCE OF HOTELS AND MULTIPLE DWELLINGS › Subchapter 19 - BUILDING SECURITY › Section 5:10-19.2 - Multiple dwellings

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The following provisions apply to multiple
				dwellings.
1. Every building entrance door or other
				exterior door permitting access to two or more units of dwelling space shall be
				equipped with heavy duty dead latching locksets (series 161, FF-H-106c, minimum,
				with a minimum 7/8 inch by 5/8 inch with 1/2 inch minimum throw latch bolt with
				automatic dead-locking plunger, or ANSI/BHMA A156.2 Grade 1). Outside cylinders of
				main entrance door locks shall be operated by the tenant's key, which shall not be
				keyed to also open the tenant's dwelling unit entrance door.
2. All exit and exitway doors shall be freely
				openable from the inside at all times.
3. All exterior entrance doors to common basement,
				cellar or storage areas shall be self-closing and lockable.
4. All entrance doors to dwelling units shall be
				equipped with a medium duty dead latching lockset (series 160, FF-H-106c, minimum,
				with a minimum 11/16 inch by 1/2 inch with 1/2 inch minimum throw latch bolt with
				automatic dead-locking plunger, or ANSI/BHMA A156.2 Grade 2) or with a dead bolt
				lock separate from the latch set.
5. All
				entrance doors to each dwelling unit shall be equipped with a chain door guard so as
				to permit partial opening of the door, and a viewing device installed on the
				designated main entrance door to the dwelling unit, located so to enable a person on
				the inside of the entrance door to view a person immediately outside.
6. All openable windows, sliding doors, basement
				windows and windows opening onto exterior stairways, fire escapes, porches,
				terraces, balconies or other areas affording easy access to the premises shall be
				equipped with a locking device of some kind.
7. Grilles lockable from the inside only may be
				placed on the inside or outside of windows only if the windows do not serve to
				provide access to exits.
8. Every
				exterior entrance door leading to interior common areas which provide access to two
				or more interior dwelling unit entrance doors shall be a self-closing and
				self-locking door, shall be kept closed at all times except when in actual use and
				shall be equipped with a viewing device if it would not otherwise be possible to see
				a person seeking to enter without opening the door. In addition, the main entrance
				door shall be either attended at all times by a doorman or equipped with an
				electrically operated buzzer and latch-release system, individual exterior door
				bells connected to each dwelling unit, or an approved alternative security and
				entrance system. However, no building shall be equipped with an electrically
				operated latch-release system if such building is not also equipped with an
				intercommunication system allowing effective communication between a person in any
				dwelling unit and a person standing outside of the main entrance door.
9. When the main entrance to a building contains a
				vestibule with doors at both ends, only the inside set of doors must conform to the
				security requirements.
10. Buildings
				with fewer than six dwelling units shall not be required to have bells in every
				dwelling unit provided there is at least one exterior door bell connected so as to
				ring at least one bell in the common areas which will be audible in all dwelling
				units.
11. Exposed hinges on building
				entrance doors and entrance doors to dwelling units are either to be removed and
				replaced with hinges which have nonremovable hinge pins, or altered so that the door
				would be protected against being lifted from its hinges by pulling the hinge pin.
				(An acceptable alteration method to an existing door would be to remove two screws,
				opposite each other, from both leaves of the hinge, insert screw, steel pin or
				equivalent into jamb leaf, protruding 1/2 inch, drill out the opposite screw hole in
				the door. Do this in the top and bottom hinge of the door. When closed, the hinge
				pins may be removed, but the door will remain firmly in place.)