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NJ.com
NJ.com
A shutdown of thousands of New Jersey buildings is threatened. The clock is ticking down to the end of access to homeowners’ association-run facilities for 1.5 million residents. State government must act now to extend the COVID-19 civil liability protection law for homeowners’ associations (HOAs) that expires at midnight December 31. Unlike businesses and municipalities, HOAs are governed by unpaid volunteers on boards of directors. Without the current tort immunity law, they could be sued individually and personally liable for huge sums of money. With such a threat hanging over their heads, …