[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Delanco 11-21-1988 by Ord. No. 17-1988 (Ch. 76 of the 1971 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Drunk-driving-free school zones — See Ch. 161.
[Amended 8-21-2000 by Ord. No. 6-2000]
The Drug-Free School Zone Map is hereby amended by William Birdsall, the Township Engineer, on August 7, 2000, and is hereby approved and adopted as the Drug-Free School Zone Map. The Drug-Free School Zone Map is 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 preschool, elementary or secondary school or school board and of the areas on or within 1,000 feet of such school property.
[Amended 8-21-2000 by Ord. No. 6-2000]
The Drug-Free School Zone Map approved and adopted pursuant to § 160-1 of 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 preschool, 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 locations and boundaries of school property and drug-free school zones.
[Amended 8-21-2000 by Ord. No. 6-2000]
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 Township Administrator and Township Attorney of any changes or contemplated changes in the location and boundaries of any property owned by or leased to any preschool, elementary or secondary school or school board and which is used for school purposes.
The Township Clerk is hereby directed to receive and keep on file the original of the map approved and adopted pursuant to § 160-1 of this chapter and to provide at a reasonable cost (as provided by Township Council by resolution) 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 of this chapter shall be provided without costs to the Clerk of Burlington County and to the office of the Burlington County Prosecutor.
The following additional matters are hereby determined, declared, recited and stated:
A. 
It is understood that the map approved and adopted pursuant to § 160-1 of this chapter was prepared and is intended to be used as evidence in prosecutions arising under the criminal laws of this state, and that, pursuant to state law, such map shall constitute prima facie evidence of the following;
(1) 
The location of preschool, elementary and secondary schools within the municipality;
[Amended 8-21-2000 by Ord. No. 6-2000]
(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; and
(4) 
The location and boundaries of areas which are on or within 1,000 feet of such school property.
B. 
All of the property depicted on the map approved and adopted herein as school property was owned by or leased to a school or school board and was being used for school purposes as of July 9, 1987, that being the effective date of L. 1988, c. 1091 (N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7).
C. 
Pursuant to the provisions of L. 1988, c. 44, a prosecutor is not precluded from introducing or relying upon any other evidence or testimony to establish a violation of the offense defined in that statute, including use of a map or diagram other than one approved and adopted pursuant to § 160-1 of this chapter. The failure of the map approved herein to depict the location and boundaries of any property which is, in fact, used for school purposes which is owned by or leased to any preschool, elementary or secondary school or school board, whether the absence of such depiction is the result of inadvertent omission or the result in any changes in the location and boundaries of such property which have not yet been incorporated into a revised approved map, shall not be deemed to be an official finding and record that such property is not owned by or leased to a school or school board or that such property is not used for school purposes.
[Amended 8-21-2000 by Ord. No. 6-2000]
D. 
All of the requirements set forth in L. 1988, c. 44 concerning the preparation, approval and adoption of a Drug-Free School Zone Map have been complied with.
A. 
The township is hereby empowered to authorize the placing of signs notifying of the existence of a drug-free school zone in certain locations within the township. Signs to this effect shall be installed at the following locations:
(1) 
On Burlington Avenue at its intersection with Cooper Street facing North.
(2) 
On Burlington Avenue at its intersection with Cooper Street facing South.
(3) 
On Burlington Avenue at its intersection with Walters Avenue.
(4) 
On Burlington Avenue at its intersection with Richards Avenue.
(5) 
On Burlington Avenue, a distance of 780 feet in an easterly direction from the intersection of Burlington Avenue and Larchmont Drive.
[Added 8-21-2000 by Ord. No. 6-2000]
(6) 
On Burlington Avenue, a distance of 55 feet in an easterly direction from the intersection of Burlington Avenue and West Avenue.
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B. 
This section may be amended from time to time to alter, increase and/or decrease the number of signs.