Rule library

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  "team_rule_id": "r-6e5a6f",
  "jurisdiction": "NJ",
  "level": "state",
  "category": "algorithmic_rent_setting",
  "status": "not_yet_effective",
  "title": "Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation of Rent (FAIR) Act",
  "requirement": "Landlords may not pay for or use a rent-setting software or algorithmic service that performs a coordinating function, and no one may operate such a service or take part in parallel rent-pricing coordination. These acts are violations of the New Jersey Antitrust Act.",
  "key_value": "ban on algorithmic rent-setting coordination and parallel pricing coordination",
  "penalty": null,
  "requirement_es": "Los propietarios no pueden pagar ni usar un servicio de software o algoritmo para fijar alquileres que cumpla una función de coordinación, y nadie puede operar ese servicio ni participar en una coordinación paralela de precios de alquiler. Estos actos violan la Ley Antimonopolio de Nueva Jersey.",
  "coverage_conditions": "Applies to rental property owners, coordinators operating algorithmic revenue management software or algorithmic devices, and residential dwelling units used as a primary residence in NJ.",
  "exemptions": "Excludes inpatient medical care, licensed long-term care, and detention or correctional facilities; government entities setting rents through affordability controls; research/statistical use not used to set rents; free public rent estimates; certain equal-terms brokerage databases.",
  "overrides": [
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  "interaction": "Municipalities are prohibited from enacting ordinances that conflict with this act, except ordinances explicitly authorized or required by other law. Effective date computed as first day of the twelfth month after enactment on July 20, 2026.",
  "effective_date": "2027-07-01",
  "citation": "P.L. 2026, c.43 (A3497 1R ACS), C.56:9-20 to 56:9-26",
  "source_doc_id": "D069",
  "source_url": "https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2026/AL26/43_.HTM",
  "quoted_span": "a coordinator to facilitate a tacit or express\nagreement among rental property owners that restricts competition with respect\nto residential dwelling units, including by performing a coordinating\nfunction;",
  "confidence": 0.85,
  "conflict_flag": true,
  "conflict_note": "Section 6(b) bars conflicting municipal ordinances; the document does not resolve how particular local ordinances would be treated.",
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            "description": "Excluded facilities are not residential dwelling units (inpatient medical care, licensed long-term care, detention or correctional facilities)",
            "quote": "“Residential dwelling unit” shall not include inpatient medical care, licensed long-term care, or detention or correctional facilities."
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        "quote": "“Residential dwelling unit” shall not include inpatient medical care, licensed long-term care, or detention or correctional facilities."
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    "doc_id": "D069",
    "url": "https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2026/AL26/43_.HTM",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-01T22:56Z",
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