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Borough of South
Toms
River Office of the
Municipal
Clerk 144 Mill Street South Toms River,
N.J. 08757 A request for a
copy of
Public
Records must be submitted on this form which has been adopted by the Municipal Clerk as Custodian of
Records. Some
records will be imme- diately available during normal business hours. Some
records
will require time to compile and to make the copies requested, but will
normally be available within seven (7) business days. If any document
or copy
which has been requested is not a public record or cannot be
provided within the seven (7) business days. you
will
be provided with a response with that information within the seven (7)
business
days. Some records requested have specific fees or other response times
established by statute and that information is set forth on this form
or will
be included in any response to the request. There is no fee involved in
simply
inspecting a document during normal business hours. 1 . Person/Entity
Requesting information:
Address:____________________
Telephone Day:____________________
___________________
Telephone Eves:___________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
2.
Type
of Information Sought: ( ) Copy of Minutes - Specify
board of entity, date, topic or other identifying information.
________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________ ( ) Copy of Ordinance or Resolution - Specify board or entity, date, topic or other
identifying information._________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
( )
Police Accident
Report
Fee:_________________________ Date & Names:_______________________________________________________ ( ) Zoning
Permit________________________________________________________ ( ) License information:______________________________________________________ Specify ( ) Other: ( ) Adjacent Property Others (200’) Lot
_____Block_____
As provided in
N.J.S.A. 4055d-12
s10.00
( ) Municipal Lien Search Certificate -- Lot
Block_____
S10.00 Municipal
Lien Searches are provided by the designated search officer and wilt be
provided within 15 days after the request is received and the fee paid
as
provided in N.JS.A. 54:5-11. et seq. ( ) Finance
Office______________________________________________________________ 3. Date on which the Borough will
endeavor to have
information ready: ______________________ 4. Approximate # of Pages ______ 5., Approximate
cost for reproduction: $______________________________________________ “Final
cost shall be determined at time of reproduction and no document shall
be
released without payment of any copying and/or related costs.” The
information requested will be ready on
____________________________________ Estimated
Number of Pages
__________________________________________________________________ Estimated
Cost
____________________________________ The public records requested will normally be
available in accordance with PL. 2001, . c. 404, within seven (7) business days. Some records will
be
immediately available. In general: 1.
. Immediate
access ordinarily shall be granted to budgets, bills. vouchers.
contracts. including
collective negotiations agreements and individual employment contracts.
and public employee salary and
overtime
information. Minutes
of public meetings will be generally available immediately after the
minutes
have been approved by the Council or Board; 2.
. Records
which are not readily available or which will require a search of
records will
be made available as soon as possible and the applicant will be
provided with
an interim report within seven (7) business days indicating the amount
of time
which will be required to complete the search of the records. 3.
Except
as
otherwise provided by law or regulation, the fee assessed for the
duplication
of a printed record shall be: first page to tenth page, S0.75 per page:
eleventh pace to twentieth page, $0.50 per page; all pages, over
twenty, 50.25 per page; 4.
Where
a
request is for a copy in a format other than a photocopy, reasonable
efforts
will be made to provide the information in the format requested. The
cost will
be based on the costs involved in providing the copy in the format
requested. 5. Where
a legal determination must be made as
to whether records are ~public records” as provided by law, the request
will be
reviewed by the
Municipal Attorney and will be generally provided immediately after
the
municipal official receives the determination from the Municipal
Attorney or a
Court that the records should be provided. The term ‘pubic records” generally includes
those
records determined to be public in accordance with P.L. 2001. c. 404.
The term
does not include employee personnel files, police investigation
records, public
assistance files or
other matters in which there is a right of
privacy or confidentiality or which is specifically’ exempted by law. The
Applicant hereby acknowledges receipt of a copy of this form with the date on
which the information is expected to be available and the estimated
cost. The
applicant hereby certifies that he or she has not been convicted of any
indictable offense under the laws of this State. any
other state of the United States and is not seeking government records
containing personal information pertaining the victim or the victim’s
family as
provided by FL.
2001. c. 404. This
completed form, when signed by the municipal official shall constitute
a
receipt for the deposit made by the applicant.
__________________________________
___________________________________
Applicant
Municipal
Official
__________________________________ ____________________________________
Individual Seeking Public Records
Municipal Clerk or Designee
Date: _______________________ Date:
_________________________________ THE APPLICANT AND
THE BOROUGH
CLERK OR DESIGNEE
HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE
RECEIPT
OF A
COPY OF
THIS COMPLETED FORM. |