[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Dunellen 9-29-1977. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. 
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.
B. 
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.
C. 
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.
D. 
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.
E. 
There shall be submitted with the request for such certification a fee of $10 which shall be paid into the Borough treasury.
A. 
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.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 217, Property Maintenance.
B. 
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.
C. 
The Borough of Dunellen and the Municipal Clerk shall have no liability beyond the terms of the information supplied.