[HISTORY: Derived from the Revised General
Ordinances of the Borough of Fort Lee, 1978, adopted 3-1-1979, as indicated
in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Derived from Ch. II, Sec. 2-22, of the 1978
Code]
[Amended 9-13-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-46; 9-12-2002 by Ord. No. 2002-40; 5-27-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-23; 8-19-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-33; 3-27-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-21; 2-12-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-9; 4-14-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-10]
A. All public records which are required by law to be made, maintained
or kept on file by the Borough shall be available to every citizen
during regular business hours to copy such records by hand, and they
shall have the right to purchase copies of such records, pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-2. Copies of records shall be made available upon
the payment of the following fees, which shall be based on the total
number of pages, or parts thereof, to be purchased at a price of $0.05
per letter-size page or $0.07 per page for legal-sized copies.
B. In the event said public records are requested and necessitate the
location and mailing of same to the party requesting said public records,
then the additional fees therefor shall be as follows:
(1) Mailing charge: actual postage, plus $0.25 for stationery-related
expenses.
C. Police escort for the transportation of moneys, valuables or other
personal property: $5 per trip per hour or fraction thereof.
D. Writs of discovery:
(1) Seventy-five cents per page for the first 10 pages.
(2) Fifty cents per page for the next 10 pages.
(3) Twenty-five cents per page thereafter.
E. Video recordings/audio recordings.
(1) Fees for the purchase of police video recordings and/or audio recordings
will be charged at the flat rate of $1 each per video and/or audio
recording.
(2) An additional cost of mailing of any video and/or audio recordings
via certified mail will be at a flat rate of $6.00.
F. Requests for proposals, documentation and/or plans and specifications:
fee not to exceed $50 or the cost of reproducing the documentation,
whichever is greater.
H. Reproduction costs. When the Borough does not have the ability to
reproduce a document for a person requesting such document, the exact
reproduction cost charged to the Borough will be passed on to the
requestor with no other administrative charges added in.
I. Police accident reports. In the event that police accident reports
are not requested in person and not part of Municipal Court discovery,
copies of the reports shall be made available upon the payment of
the following fees:
(2) Each page thereafter: $1.
J. CDs. In the event that a request is made for recordings of meetings
of the Borough Council, Planning Board or Board of Adjustment, the
Borough shall charge a fee of $5 for a copy of the recording of the
meeting in a CD format.
K. Special requests. Whenever the nature, format, manner of collation,
or volume of a public record embodied in the form of printed matter
to be inspected, examined, or copied pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-2
and this article is such that the record cannot be reproduced by ordinary
document-copying equipment in ordinary business size or involves an
extraordinary expenditure of time and effort to accommodate the request,
the Borough may charge, in addition to the actual cost of duplicating
the record, a special service charge that shall be reasonable and
shall be based upon the actual direct cost of providing the copy or
copies. The person requesting the public record shall have the opportunity
to review and object to the charge prior to it being incurred.
L. Photographs. Fees for the purchase of police photographs will be
charged at the following rates:
(1) Up to the first 10 photographs: $5 per photograph.
(2) Each photograph thereafter: $3 per photograph.