B.Â
Before recording of final subdivision plats or as
a condition to the issuance of a zoning permit pursuant to N.J.S.A.
40:55D-65d, the approving authority may require and shall accept for
the purpose of assuring the installation and maintenance of on tract
improvements:
(1)Â
The furnishing of a performance guaranty in favor
of the municipality in an amount not to exceed 120% of the cost of
installation for improvements it may deem necessary or appropriate.
Ten percent of the amount of the performance guaranty shall be cash.
Improvements shall include streets, grading, pavement, gutters, curbs,
sidewalks, streetlighting, shade trees, surveyor's monuments, as shown
on the final map and required by the Map Filing Law, P.L. 1960, c.
141 (N.J.S.A. 46:26B-1 et seq.), water mains, culverts, storm sewers,
sanitary sewers or other means of sewage disposal, drainage structures,
erosion control and sedimentation control devices, public improvements
of open space and, in the case of site plans only, other on-site improvements
and landscaping.
(2)Â
Provision for a maintenance guaranty to be posted
with the governing body for a period not to exceed two years after
final acceptance of the improvement, in an amount not to exceed 15%
of the cost of the improvement. In the event that other governmental
agencies or public utilities automatically will own the utilities
to be installed or the improvements are covered by a performance or
maintenance guaranty to another governmental agency, no performance
or maintenance guaranty, as the case may be, shall be required by
the municipality for such utilities or improvements.
C.Â
The amount of any performance guaranty may be reduced
by the governing body, by resolution, when portions of the improvements
have been certified by the Municipal Engineer to have been completed.
The time allowed for installation of the improvements for which the
performance guaranty has been provided may be extended by said body
by resolution.
D.Â
If the required improvements are not completed or
corrected in accordance with the performance guaranty, the obligor
and surety, if any, shall be liable thereon to the municipality for
the reasonable cost of the improvements not completed or corrected,
and the municipality may, either prior to or after the receipt of
the proceeds thereof, complete such improvements.
E.Â
When all of the required improvements have been completed,
the obligor shall notify the governing body, in writing, by certified
mail addressed in care of the Municipal Clerk, of the completion of
said improvements and shall send a copy thereof to the Municipal Engineer.
Thereupon the Municipal Engineer shall inspect all of the improvements
and shall file a detailed report, in writing, with the governing body,
indicating higher approval, partial approval or rejection of the improvements,
with a statement of reasons for any rejection. If partial approval
is indicated, the cost of the improvements rejected shall be set forth.
F.Â
The governing body shall either approve, partially
approve or reject the improvements, on the basis of the report of
the Municipal Engineer, and shall notify the obligor in writing, by
certified mail, of the contents of said report and the action of said
approving authority with relation thereto, not later than 65 days
after receipt of the notice from the obligor of the completion of
the improvements. Where partial approval is granted, the obligor shall
be released from all liability pursuant to its performance guaranty,
except for that portion adequately sufficient to secure provision
of the improvements not yet approved. Failure of the governing body
to send or provide such notification to the obligor within 65 days
shall be deemed to constitute approval of the improvements, and the
obligor and surety, if any, shall be released from all liability pursuant
to such performance guaranty.
G.Â
If any portion of the required improvements is rejected,
the approving authority may require the obligor to complete such improvements,
and upon completion the same procedure of notification as set forth
in this section shall be followed.
H.Â
Nothing herein, however, shall be construed to limit
the right of the obligor to contest by legal proceedings any determination
of the governing body or the Municipal Engineer.
I.Â
The obligor shall reimburse the municipality for all
reasonable inspection fees paid to the Municipal Engineer for the
foregoing inspection of improvements.
J.Â
The Municipal Engineer shall maintain an inspector
on the job on a continuing basis during the construction of the entire
project.
[Amended 11-2-1987 by Ord. No. 5-10-1987]
