New Jersey Notice to Vacate

New Jersey notice periods

Each period is the one LeaseCraft's record of the statute holds. Read it with the conditions under it: some periods are minimums and some apply unless the lease sets another. "Lease controls" means the record holds no statutory period for that situation, and "No pre-suit notice" means it holds no notice before filing. The source column shows the law and the date LeaseCraft read it on the official site (most recently 2026-09-27).

What the New Jersey statute says

Ending a month-to-month tenancy: 30 days

• For residential tenancies covered by the Anti-Eviction Act there is NO no-cause termination: a landlord may only recover possession on one of the enumerated good-cause grounds in 2A:18-61.1 (a)-(r), each with its own notice period under 2A:18-61.2.
• For NON-covered tenancies only (owner-occupied premises with not more than two rental units; hotels/motels/guest houses; seasonal/transient), 2A:18-56(b) requires that a month-to-month tenancy be 'terminated by the giving of 1 month's notice to quit' before judgment for holding over.
• Statute says 'one month', recorded as 30 days; the notice period should run a full calendar month ending on the rental-period boundary.

Exceptions

• Owner-occupied three-unit buildings where the owner seeks personal occupancy: covered by 2A:18-61.1(l)(3) with two months' notice under 2A:18-61.2(f).

Tenant staying after the lease ends: Lease controls

• Covered tenancies: a tenant holding over after a fixed term cannot be removed merely for holding over; good cause under 2A:18-61.1 and 2A:18-61.3 is required.
• Exempt tenancies: 2A:18-53(a) permits removal of a tenant who 'holds over and continues in possession' after the term expires 'after demand made and written notice given by the landlord' — no minimum period stated in 2A:18-53(a); 2A:18-56 supplies the notice periods by tenancy type.

Delivery, form and other New Jersey rules

Statewide just-cause rule

Yes: a statewide law requires a stated legal reason to end some tenancies

• Covered housing: every residential lessee/tenant of a house, building, mobile home or land in a mobile home park or tenement, except owner-occupied premises with not more than two rental units and hotels, motels or other guest houses rented to transient guests or seasonal tenants; removal is allowed only on the grounds enumerated in 2A:18-61.1(a)-(r).
• Exemptions: owner-occupied premises with not more than two rental units, hotel/motel/guest-house transient or seasonal occupancy; owner-occupied three-unit buildings are covered but have a personal-occupancy ground (l)(3).
• Grounds include non-payment, disorderly conduct, damage, rules/covenant breaches after notice to cease, code enforcement/demolition, permanent retirement, refusal of reasonable lease changes, habitual late payment, condo conversion, owner/purchaser occupancy, and drug/assault/theft/trafficking offenses.

N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1 (Anti-Eviction Act, L.1974, c.49); N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.3 (non-renewal) · read 2026-09-27

How the notice may be delivered

Personally upon the tenant by giving a copy; or by leaving a copy at the tenant's usual place of abode with a family member above age 14; or by certified mail, and if the certified letter is not claimed, by regular mail (N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.2).

N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.2 (final paragraph) · read 2026-09-27

Preparing the notice

The form asks for the tenancy, the date the tenant must leave and how the notice is delivered, and states the notice period plainly. You enter the period; where LeaseCraft has verified the New Jersey period for ending a month-to-month tenancy, it refuses a shorter one.

Create a New Jersey notice to vacate

A notice is not a court order and does not by itself remove a tenant. Cities and counties can add rules. LeaseCraft is not a law firm and this is not legal advice.

Notice to Vacate rules in nearby states

Notice to Vacate rules for every state