[Ord. No. 88-37, § 1; Ord. No. 2002-24, § 1; Ord. No. 2010-9, § 1]
In accordance with and pursuant to the authority of N.J.S.A.
2C:35-7 and N.J.S.A. 2C:11-5, the drug-free and driving under the
influence of alcohol or drugs school zone map produced on February
1, 2010 by the Princeton Township Engineer, is hereby approved and
adopted as an official finding and record of the location 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 the areas on or within 1,000 feet of any such
school property.
The aforementioned drug-free and driving under the influence
of alcohol or drugs zone map shall be maintained on file in the office
of the Princeton Township Clerk. Certified copies of said zone map
and this chapter establishing drug-fee and driving under the influence
of alcohol or drugs school zones shall be furnished to the office
of the Mercer County Prosecutor.
[Ord. No. 88-37, § 2; Ord. No. 2002-24, § 2]
The drug-free and driving under the influence of alcohol or
drugs school zone map approved and adopted pursuant to section 17A-1
of 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 name and location of each
school property is as follows.
(g) Stuart County Day School.
(i) The Huns School of Princeton.
(j) The Princeton Charter School.
(l) American Boychoir School.
(n) Princeton Montessori School.
[Ord. No. 88-37, § 3]
The Princeton Regional 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 Princeton Township Engineer and the Princeton Township 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.
[Ord. No. 88-37, § 4]
The Princeton Township Clerk is hereby directed to receive and
to keep on file the original of the map approved and adopted pursuant
to section 17A-1 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 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 Mercer
County Clerk and to the Office of Mercer County Prosecutor.
[Ord. No. 88-37, § 5]
The following additional matters are hereby determined, declared,
recited and stated:
(a) It is understood that the map approved and adopted pursuant to section
17A-1 of 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; and
(4)
The location and boundaries of areas which are on or within
1,000 feet of such school property.
(b) 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 N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7.
(c) Pursuant to the provisions of 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 section 17A-1 of 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 concerning the
preparation, approval and adoption of a drugfree school zone map have
been complied with.