[Adopted 5-15-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-08]
In accordance with and pursuant to the authority of P.L. 1999,
c. 185,[1] the following is a list of school crossings which have
been so designated by the Borough of Spotswood:
A.
Manalapan Road at John Street.
B.
Main Street at Library.
C.
Main Street at DeVoe Avenue.
D.
Main Street at Vliet Street.
E.
DeVoe Avenue at Mundy Avenue.
F.
Vliet Street at Appleby School.
G.
Vliet Street at Sadowski Place.
H.
Main Street at Summerhill Road.
I.
Kane Avenue at Madie Avenue.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 2C:11-5.
The Drunk-Driving-Free School Zones Map produced on or about
May 1, 2000, by CME Associates, the Borough Engineer, is hereby approved
and adopted as an official finding and record of the location and
areas within the municipality of property used for school purposes
and owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary school on school
land and of the areas on or within 1,000 feet of such school property.
The Drunk-Driving-Free School Zones 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 on or within 1,000 feet of property owned by or
leased to any elementary or secondary school or school board 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 Drunk-Driving-Free
School Zones. The list of school crossings designated above by the
Borough Council shall continue to constitute an official finding and
record of the location of school crossing zones within the Borough
of Spotswood until such time, if any, that this article shall be amended
to reflect any additions or deletions with respect to school crossing
zones within the Borough.
The school board, or the 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 Borough Administrator,
the Borough Engineer and the Borough Attorney of any changes or contemplated
changes in the location and boundaries of any property owned by or
leased to any elementary or secondary school or school board and which
is used for school purposes or of any additions or deletions to school
crossings.
The Borough Clerk is hereby directed to receive and to keep
on file the original of the map approved and adopted pursuant to this
article and the list of school crossings 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 list and of this article shall be provided without cost
to the Middlesex County Clerk and to the office of the Middlesex County
Prosecutor.
The following additional matters are hereby determined, declared,
recited and stated: It is understood that the map and list approved
and adopted pursuant to this article was prepared and is intended
to be used as evidence in prosecutions arising under the criminal
and traffic laws of this state and that pursuant to state law, such
map and list shall constitute prima facie evidence of the following:
A.
The location of elementary and secondary schools within the municipality.
B.
The boundaries of the real property which is owned by or leased to
such schools or a school board.
C.
That such school property is and continues to be used for school
purposes.
D.
The location and boundaries of areas which are on or within 1,000
feet of such school property.
E.
The location of all school crossings in the Borough of Spotswood.
