[Adopted 7-27-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-11]
All public records which are required by law to be made, maintained or kept on file by the Borough shall be available to every citizen during regular business hours to copy such records by hand, and they shall have the right to purchase copies of such records, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-2.[1] Copies of records shall be made available upon the payment of the following fees, which shall be based on the total number of pages, or parts thereof, to be purchased at a price of:
A. 
$0.75 per page for the first 10 pages.
B. 
$0.50 per page for the next 10 pages.
C. 
$0.25 per page thereafter.
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Editor's Note: N.J.S.A. 47:1A-2 was repealed by P.L. 2001, c. 404, § 17, approved 1-8-2002. See now N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5.
In the event said public records are requested and necessitate the location and mailing of same to the party requesting said public records, then the additional fees therefor shall be as follows:
A. 
Mailing charge: actual postage, plus $0.25 for stationery-related expenses.
A. 
Fees for the purchase of police video recordings and/or audio recordings will be charged at the flat rate of $1 each per video and/or audio recording.
B. 
An additional cost of mailing any video and/or audio recordings via certified mail will be at a flat rate of $6.
When the Borough does not have the ability to reproduce a document for a person requesting such document, the exact reproduction cost charged to the Borough will be passed on to the requestor with no other administrative charges added in.
In the event the police accident reports are not requested in person and not part of Municipal Court discovery, copies of the reports shall be made available upon the payment of the following fees:
A. 
$5 when not in person.
B. 
$0.75 per page when in person.
Whenever the nature, format, manner of collation, or volume of a public record embodied in the form of printed matter to be inspected, examined, or copied pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-2 and this article is such that the record cannot be reproduced by ordinary document-copying equipment in ordinary business size or involves an extraordinary expenditure of time and effort to accommodate the request, the Borough may charge, in addition to the actual cost of duplicating the record, a special service charge that shall be reasonable and shall be based upon the actual direct cost of providing the copy or copies. The person requesting the public record shall have the opportunity to review and object to the charge prior to it being incurred.
Fees for the purchase of police photographs will be charged at the following rates:
A. 
Up to the first 10 photographs: $5 per photograph.
B. 
Each photograph thereafter: $3 per photograph.