[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Hillsdale
9-12-2000 by Ord. No. 00-14. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Alcoholic beverages — See Ch. 88.
The Drunk Driving Free School Zone Map by the Borough Engineer is hereby
approved and adopted as an official finding and record of the location and
areas within the municipality of property which is used for school purposes
and which is owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary school on school
land and of the areas on or within 1,000 feet of such school property.
The Drunk Driving Free School Zones Map approved and adopted pursuant
to this chapter shall continue to constitute an official finding and record
as to the location and boundaries of areas on or within 1,000 feet of property
owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary school or school board which
is used for school purposes until such time, if any, that this chapter shall
be amended to reflect any additions or deletions with respect to the location
and boundaries of school property and drunk driving free school zones. The
list of school crossings designated above by the Borough Committee shall continue
to constitute an official finding and record of the location of school crossing
zones within the Borough of Hillsdale until such time, if any, that this chapter
shall be amended to reflect any additions or deletions with respect to school
crossing zones in the Borough of Hillsdale.
The School Board or the chief administrative officer in the case of
any private or parochial school is hereby directed and shall have the continuing
obligation to promptly notify the office of the Borough Engineer and the Borough
Attorney of any changes or contemplated changes in the location and boundaries
of any property owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary school or
school board and which is used for school purposes or of any additions or
deletions to school crossings.
The Borough Clerk is hereby directed to receive and to keep on file
the original of the map approved and adopted pursuant to this chapter and
the list of school crossings and to provide at a reasonable cost a true copy
thereof to any person, agency or court which may from time to time request
such a copy, along with a certification that such copy is a true copy of the
map approved and adopted herein and kept on file. It is hereby further directed
that a true copy of such map and list and of this chapter shall be provided
without cost to the Bergen County Clerk and to the office of the Bergen County
Prosecutor.
The following additional matters are hereby determined, declared, recited
and stated:
A.
It is understood that the map and list approved and adopted
pursuant to this chapter was prepared and is intended to be used as evidence
in prosecutions arising under the criminal and traffic laws of this state
and that, pursuant to state law, such map and list shall constitute prima
facie evidence of the following:
(1)
The location of elementary and secondary schools within
the municipality.
(2)
The boundaries of the real property which is owned by
or leased to such schools or a School Board.
(3)
That such school property is and continues to be used
for school purposes.
(4)
The location and boundaries of areas which are on or
within 1,000 feet of such school property.
(5)
The location of all school crossings in the Borough of
Hillsdale.
