Section 46:8-59 - Immunitya. To encourage residential landlords to provide housing opportunities to formerly incarcerated individuals, landlords subject to the provisions of this act shall be immune from liability in any civil action arising as a result of the landlord's decision to rent to individuals with a criminal record or who were otherwise convicted of a criminal offense, or as a result of a landlord's decision to not engage in a criminal background screening.b. Nothing in subsection a. of this section shall be construed to affect in any way the immunity from liability conferred by law upon a landlord who rents an apartment to a person with a conviction for murder, aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping, arson, human trafficking, sexual assault in violation of N.J.S. 2C:14-2, causing or permitting a child to engage in a prohibited sexual act or in the simulation of such an act in violation of paragraph (3) of subsection b. of N.J.S. 2C:24-4, or any crime that resulted in lifetime registration in a state sex offender registry.Added by L. 2021, c. 110,s. 8, eff. 1/1/2022.