This bill prohibits zoning ordinances or regulations from restricting the number of occupants in a residential rental property to less than 2 occupants per bedroom. It also prohibits the adoption or enforcement of any code, ordinance, by-law, or regulation that restricts the number of occupants based on unrelated or non-familial relationships between the occupants, or that requires the existence of familial relationships between the occupants. The bill will take effect 60 days after its passage.
Statutes affected: Introduced: 674:16