[Adopted 2-9-2006 as Secs. 14-1 to 14-5 of the 2006 Code of the Borough of
High Bridge]
In accordance with and pursuant to the authority of L. 1988,
c. 44 (N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7), the Drug-Free School Zone Map produced as
set forth below is hereby approved and adopted as official findings
and records of the locations and areas within the municipality of
property which is used for school purposes and which is owned by or
leased to any elementary or secondary school or school board, and
of the areas on or within 1,000 feet of such school property. A copy
of said map is on file in the Borough of High Bridge Municipal Clerk's
Office. Said map was originally prepared by H. Clay McEldowney, Borough
Engineer, December 2005
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Map
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School Name
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Exhibit A
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High Bridge Elementary School
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Exhibit B
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High Bridge Middle School
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The Drug-Free School Zone Map approved and adopted pursuant
to this article shall continue to constitute an official finding and
record as to the location and boundaries of areas on or within 1,000
feet of property owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary
school or school board which is used for school purposes until such
time, if any, that this article shall be amended to reflect any additions
or deletions with respect to the location and boundaries of school
property and drug-free school zones.
The school board or chief administrative officer, in the case
of any private or parochial school, is hereby directed and shall have
the continuing obligation to promptly notify the Municipal Engineer
and the Municipal Attorney of any changes or contemplated changes
in the location and boundaries of any property owned or leased to
any elementary or secondary school or school board and which is used
for school purposes.
The Clerk of the Municipality is hereby directed to receive
and to keep on file the original of the map approved and adopted pursuant
to this article and to provide at a reasonable cost a true copy thereof
to any person, agency or court which may from time to time request
such a copy, along with a certification that such copy is a true copy
of the map approved and adopted herein and kept on file. It is hereby
further directed that a true copy of such map and of this article
shall be provided without cost to the County Clerk and to the office
of the Hunterdon County Prosecutor.
The following additional matters are hereby determined, declared,
recited and stated:
A.
It is understood that the map approved and adopted pursuant to this
article was prepared and is intended to be used as evidence in prosecutions
arising under the criminal laws of this state and that, pursuant to
state law, such map shall constitute prima facie evidence of the following:
(1)
The location of elementary and secondary schools within the municipality;
(2)
The boundaries of the real property which is owned by or leased to
such schools or a school board;
(3)
That such school property is and continues to be used for school
purposes;
(4)
The location and boundaries of areas which are on or within 1,000
feet of such school property.
B.
Except as is otherwise expressly noted on the face of the approved
and adopted map, all of the property depicted on the map approved
and adopted herein as school property was owned by, or leased to,
a school or school board and was being used for school purposes as
of July 9, 1987, that being the effective date of L. 1987, c. 101
(N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7).
C.
Pursuant to the provisions of L. 1988, c. 44 (N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7 et
seq.), a prosecutor is not precluded from introducing or relying upon
any other evidence or testimony to establish a violation of the offense
defined in that statute, including use of the map or diagram other
than the one approved and adopted pursuant to this article. The failure
of the map approved herein to depict the location and boundaries of
any property which is, in fact, used for school purposes and which
is owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary school or school
board, whether the absence of such depiction is the result of inadvertent
omission or the result of any changes in the location and boundaries
of such property which have not yet been incorporated into a revised,
approved map, shall not be deemed to be an official finding and record
that such property is not owned by or leased to a school or school
board or that such property is not used for school purposes.
D.
All of the requirements set forth in L. 1988, c. 44 (N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7
et seq.), concerning the preparation, approval and adoption of a Drug-Free
School Zone Map have been satisfied.
