[Adopted 3-12-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-19]
In accordance with and pursuant to the authority of P.L. 1988, c. 44 (N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7.1), the Drug-Free Public Parks Zone Map produced on or about February 1, 2019, by David J. Maillet, City Engineer, is hereby approved and adopted as an official finding and record of the location and areas within the City of Vineland of real property comprising a public park which is owned by or leased to the City of Vineland and of the areas on or within 500 feet of such public park.
The Drug-Free Public Parks Zone Map approved and adopted pursuant to § 327-10 of this article shall continue to constitute an official finding and record as to the location and boundaries of the areas on or within 500 feet of property owned by or leased to the City which is used for public parks until such time, if any, as this article shall be amended to reflect any additions or deletions with respect to the location and boundaries of public parks and drug-free zones.
The Clerk of the City of Vineland is hereby directed to receive and to keep on file the original of the map approved and adopted pursuant to § 327-10 of 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 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 Cumberland County Clerk and to the office of the Cumberland 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 § 327-10 of this article was prepared and is intended to be used as evidence in prosecutions arising under the criminal laws of the State of New Jersey and that, pursuant to state law, such map shall constitute prima facie evidence of the following:
(1) 
The location of public parks within the municipality.
(2) 
The boundaries of the real property which is owned by or leased to the City comprising public parks.
(3) 
That such property is and continues to be used as a public park.
(4) 
The location and boundaries of areas which are on or within 500 feet of such public parks.
B. 
All of the property depicted on the map approved and adopted herein as public parks property was owned by the City of Vineland and was being used as a public park as of February 1, 2019.
C. 
Pursuant to the provision of P.L. 1988, c. 44, 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 a map or diagram other than the one approved and adopted pursuant to § 327-10 of this article. The failure of the map approved herein to depict the location and boundaries of any property which is, in fact, used as a public park and which is owned by or leased by the City, 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 by the City or that such property is not used as a public park.
D. 
All of the requirements set forth in P.L. 1988, c. 44, concerning the preparation, approval and adoption of a drug-free public park zone map have been complied with.