Township of Pohatcong, NJ
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2023-12-19
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 72 Trust Funds
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration of Government
- Ch 7 Bond Ordinance Referendums
- Ch 10 Civil Service
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 17 Defense Against Criminal or Civil Charges
- Ch 20 Economic Development Advisory Commission
- Ch 23 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 32 (Reserved)
- Ch 34 Hotel and Motel Room Occupancy Tax
- Ch 37 Intermunicipal Agreements
- Ch 44 Rezoning of Property
- Ch 45 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 54 Officers and Employees
- Ch 55 Open Space Committee
- Ch 56 Personnel Practices
- Ch 58 Purchasing, Cooperative
- Ch 61 Retirement
- Ch 66 South Warren Municipal Alliance Committee Against Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- Ch 72 Trust Funds
- Ch 72 Art I Open Space/Farmland Trust Fund
- § 72-1 Creation of Trust fund.
- § 72-2 Purpose.
- § 72-3 Funding source.
- § 72-4 Determination of expenditure.
- § 72-5 Sale of property.
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 84 Alarm Systems
- Ch 86 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 89 Animals
- Ch 90 Background Checks
- Ch 95 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 98 Buildings, Numbering of
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- Ch 102 Cannabis
- Ch 104 Campgrounds
- Ch 108 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 110 Charitable Donation Clothing Bins
- Ch 111 Commercial Security
- Ch 112 State Uniform Construction Code Enforcing Agency
- Ch 115 Critical Geologic Areas
- Ch 118 Curfew
- Ch 123 Definitions
- Ch 126 (Reserved)
- Ch 130 Driveways
- Ch 132 Drug-Free School Zones
- Ch 134 Dry-Cleaning Establishment Permits
- Ch 140 Environmental Impact Statement
- Ch 142 Facilities Use Policy
- Ch 143 Fire Prevention
- Ch 146 Floodplain Management
- Ch 151 Garage Sales
- Ch 153 General Penalty
- Ch 156 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 158 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 159 Highlands Act Exemption Determinations
- Ch 160 Historic Preservation
- Ch 162 Housing Standards
- Ch 164 In-Building Radio Communications Equipment
- Ch 167 Insurance
- Ch 172 Junkyards
- Ch 179 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 182 Littering
- Ch 184 Affordable Housing
- Ch 191 Noise
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- Ch 199 Off-Tract Improvements
- Ch 203 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 206 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 208 Peddling, Soliciting and Transient Merchants
- Ch 209 Police Services Reimbursement
- Ch 210 Public Buildings and Property
- Ch 211 Public Records and Fees
- Ch 213 Quarrying
- Ch 220 Sewers
- Ch 222 Property Maintenance
- Ch 222A Registration and Maintenance of Certain Real Property by Mortgagees
- Ch 223 Registration of Rental Properties and Businesses
- Ch 224 Site Improvement Standards
- Ch 228 Snow and Ice
- Ch 231 Soil Disturbance
- Ch 232 Soil Importation
- Ch 233 Soil Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 235 Soil Fertilization
- Ch 237 Solid Waste
- Ch 238 Special Events
- Ch 239 Stormwater Pollution Control
- Ch 240 Stormwater Management
- Ch 241 Street Openings
- Ch 245 Subdivision and Site Plan Review
- Ch 250 Taxicabs
- Ch 255 Towing
- Ch 258 Trailers and Trailer Camps
- Ch 264 Utilities
- Ch 269 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 271 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 274 Vehicles, Motor-Driven
- Ch 278 Vending Machines
- Ch 280 Volunteer Emergency Services
- Ch 285 Zoning
- Board of Health
- Ch 288 Dry-Cleaning Establishments
- Ch 290 Food Handling Establishments
- Ch 292 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 296 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 299 Pigs and Swine
- Ch 303 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Ch 308 Vending Machine Standards
- Ch 310 Water Supply, Individual
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of Pohatcong as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-14-1999 by Ord. No. 99-15]
There is hereby created a Township of Pohatcong
Open Space/Farmland Trust Fund, whose purposes are set forth below.
[Amended 9-5-2018 by Ord.
No. 18-05]
Funds from the open space/farmland trust fund may be utilized
for any of the following purposes:
A.Â
Acquisition
of lands for recreation and conservation purposes;
B.Â
Development
of lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes;
C.Â
Maintenance
of lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes;
D.Â
Acquisition of farmland for farmland preservation purposes;
E.Â
Historic preservation of historic properties, structures, facilities,
sites, areas or objects, and the acquisition of such properties;
F.Â
Blue acres projects;
G.Â
Payment of debt services or indebtedness issued or incurred for any
of the foregoing purposes.
The funding source for the Township Open Space/Farmland
Trust Fund shall be the establishment of a separate township tax line
item at an annual rate not to exceed $0.05 per $100 of ratable for
each and every taxable property located within the township. The rate
shall be set every year by the Township Council, by ordinance, during
the existence of the Township Open Space/Farmland Trust Fund, no later
than the meeting at which the township budget shall be introduced.
The Township Chief Financial Officer, the Township Auditor and the
Township Tax Assessor shall assist the Township Council in the annual
creation/collection of this open space tax.
The determination of how the Township Open Space/Farmland
Trust Fund shall be expended at anytime shall be at the sole discretion
of the Township Council and it shall be the final determiners of the
allocation(s) of the Trust Fund during its existence.
No property acquired with these funds from the
reserve for open space/farmland acquisition shall be leased or sold,
until the sale or lease of the same has been authorized by the Township
Council in the manner prescribed by law.
