[Amended 3-26-1991 by Ord. No. 91-04]
The Borough Government shall, in addition to the Mayor and Council, consist of the following offices, departments, boards, and appointive positions and employments:
A. 
Offices:
(1) 
Office of Borough Clerk.
(2) 
Office of Borough Collector.
(3) 
Office of Borough Treasurer.
(4) 
Office of Borough Chief Financial Officer.
(5) 
Office of Borough Attorney.
(6) 
Office of Borough Construction Official.
(7) 
Office of Superintendent of Public Works.
(8) 
Office of Borough Engineer.
(9) 
Office of Borough Tax Assessor.
(10) 
Office of Business Administrator.
[Added 11-22-2005 by Ord. No. 05-24]
B. 
Departments:
(1) 
Fire Department.
(2) 
Department of Public Works.
(3) 
Department of Police and Public Safety.
C. 
Boards and Commissions:
(1) 
(Reserved)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection C(1), Board of Adjustment, was repealed 12-10-2002 by Ord. No. 02-28.
(2) 
Local Assistance Board.
(3) 
Board of Health.
(4) 
Library Board.
(5) 
(Reserved)[2]
[2]
Former Subsection C(5), Shade Tree Commission, was repealed 3-25-2003 by Ord. No. 03-04.
(6) 
(Reserved)[3]
[3]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection C(6), Recreation Commission, was repealed 12-12-2019 by Ord. No. 19-19.
(7) 
Such other boards, bodies, concessions, or agencies of local government as are required by statute or otherwise authorized by law or municipal ordinance or resolution.
D. 
Positions and employments. Such appointive positions and employments as are provided for by this chapter and otherwise required or authorized pursuant to statute or in the other ordinances of the Borough.
The Borough offices shall be open for business from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, and other days designated by the Mayor and Council.
All moneys, including money collected from taxation and from fees prescribed by ordinances, received from any source by or on behalf of the Borough shall be paid to the Borough Treasurer in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40A:5-15.
[Added 7-9-2002 by Ord. No. 02-18; amended 8-24-2010 by Ord. No. 10-13; 12-14-2010 by Ord. No. 10-18]
Except as otherwise provided by law or regulation, where any person or entity requests a copy of a government record, said person or entity shall pay a fee as follows:
A. 
Per letter-size page or smaller: $0.05.
B. 
Per legal-size page or larger: $0.07.
C. 
Access to electronic records and nonprinted materials shall be provided free of charge, but the custodian shall charge for the actual costs of any needed supplies such as computer discs.
[Added 7-9-2002 by Ord. No. 02-18; amended 8-24-2010 by Ord. No. 10-13]
Whenever the nature, format, manner of collation, or volume of a government record embodied in the form of printed matter to be inspected, examined or copied pursuant to law respecting public access to government records 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, which determination shall be made in the discretion of the Borough Clerk, a special service charge shall be imposed, which shall be the actual direct cost of providing the copy or copies. The requestor shall have the opportunity to review and object to the charge prior to it being incurred.
[Added 7-9-2002 by Ord. No. 02-18]
Where the fee for copying is estimated to be in excess of $5, the requestor shall deposit the estimated cost prior to the making of copies.
[Added 7-8-2008 by Ord. No. 08-14]
The Mayor of the Borough of Garwood is authorized, but not required, to solemnize marriages and civil unions when requested to do so. The fee for the solemnization of marriages and civil unions shall be $175, which shall be payable to the Borough of Garwood and shall be deposited by the Borough Treasurer in the Municipal Current Fund.
[Added 6-28-1988 by Ord. No. 88-13]
Whenever payment of any moneys shall be made by any person or entity by check or other draft, and said check or other draft shall be returned unpaid for any reason, including insufficient funds, the drawer of the draft or check shall be liable for and shall pay to the Borough a fee in the sum of $20 which shall be due and payable in addition to the moneys originally due and payable.
[Added 5-14-1991 by Ord. No. 91-08; amended 8-24-2010 by Ord. No. 10-13]
Whenever the issuance of a duplicate tax bill shall be requested by a mortgagee, servicing organization or property tax processing organization as defined in L. 1990 c. 69, same shall be issued by the Borough Tax Collector only upon the payment of a fee in the sum of $5 for the first request in a fiscal year and $25 for each subsequent request in the same fiscal year, as per N.J.S.A. 54:4-64(d).
[Added 5-25-1993 by Ord. No. 93-16; amended 8-24-2010 by Ord. No. 10-13]
Whenever the issuance of a certification of the payment of taxes shall be requested by any person or entity, same shall be prepared and issued by the Borough Tax Collector only upon the payment of a fee in the sum of $10, as per N.J.S.A. 54:5-14.
[Amended 12-10-2002 by Ord. No. 02-28]
The Borough Clerk, Treasurer, Tax Collector, and Judge of the Municipal Court and the Municipal Court Administrator, before entering upon the duties of the respective office, or any other officers who are required to give bonds, shall execute and deliver to the Borough Council a bond in such form, for such sum and with such surety as the governing body of the local unit shall, by resolution direct.
Each and every person in the employ of this Borough shall be paid once every two weeks.
[Added 6-12-2001 by Ord. No. 01-15]
Officers of the Borough of Garwood are exempt from residency requirements pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:60-6(b)(3).