The Municipal Clerk is hereby authorized to receive
and to process requests for certification as to whether or not a given
property in the Borough of Dunellen is within the flood hazard area.
Each such request shall be accompanied by a description
of the property, giving tax lot and block number or other information
sufficient to identify the property. Said request shall also contain
the name of the current owner or owners of said property. The Clerk
may return any request where the description is not sufficient to
determine the property in question.
The Municipal Clerk shall ascertain whether or not
such property is within the flood hazard area as delineated by the
Division of Water Resources, Department of Environmental Protection,
or such other regulations of the government of the State of New Jersey
or the United States and shall certify whether or not such property
is shown within such flood hazard area as provided by said regulations.
The certificate shall be limited to certification
as to whether or not the property, or any part thereof, is within
the area as so designated in said report. The certification is not
whether or not the property is subject to flooding, and such certificate
shall in no way be taken as a representation by the Borough or its
Clerk that said property is or is not subject to flooding, and neither
the Borough nor its Clerk shall be in any way liable for any damages
to any property by flooding as a result of the issuance of any such
certificate.
The Municipal Clerk is authorized to answer other
inquiries from lending institutions, attorneys, real estate brokers
and the like for statements not covered by any other law. By way of
illustration and not by way of limitation, such information may include
whether or not the Borough has a Property Maintenance Code[1] or requires a new certificate of occupancy each time there
is a change in residential tenancy.
The Municipal Clerk may establish requirements for
information required in order to answer such requests, may establish
office procedures for processing same and may establish fees for supplying
such information, which fees, when collected, shall be paid into the
Borough treasury.