[Adopted 9-25-1975 by Ord. No. 762 (Ch.
127, Art. I, of the 1990 Code)]
[Amended 11-12-1981 by Ord. No. 1074; 12-9-1982 by Ord. No.
1114; 12-10-1992 by Ord. No. 1683; 11-9-1993 by Ord. No. 1801; 2-11-2003 by Ord. No. 3357; 9-28-2004 by Ord. 3485A; 2-14-2006 by Ord. No.
3592; 10-12-2010 by Ord. No. 3889A; 9-22-2020 by Ord. No. 4330-20]
A. The Township Clerk of the Township of Franklin shall
be authorized to charge for making available to the public the following
documents:
(1) Election Ward Map (large): $3.
(3) Off-Site Condition Disclosure Act (N.J.S.A. 46:3C-1
et seq.) maps and reports: $10.
(4) Retrieval of records stored off site:
(a)
Retrieval and delivery charge: $30.
[Added 2-16-1989 by Ord. No. 1455]
A. The Collector of Revenue of the Township of Franklin
shall be authorized to charge for making available to the public duplicate
tax bills as follows:
[Amended 6-13-1989 by Ord. No. 1489]
(2) Home/property owners: $1. (Note: Home/property owners
having attained the age of 65 years shall be exempt from the payment
of the fee of $1 for duplicate tax bills for property in their ownership.)
B. The Collector of Revenue of the Township of Franklin
shall be authorized to charge for the preparation of a certificate
for redemption of tax sale a fee of $10.
[Added 7-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1722]
C. The Collector
of Revenue of the Township of Franklin shall be authorized to charge
$100 for the issuance of a duplicate tax title certificate.
[Added 12-13-2022 by Ord. No. 4387-22]
[Amended 12-10-1991 by Ord. No. 1683]
The Township Engineer of the Township of Franklin
shall be authorized to charge for making available to the public the
following:
A. Floodplain certification letters: $15.
D. Site plan copies: $9 per sheet.
[Added 10-22-2002 by Ord. No. 3330;
amended 11-10-2020 by Ord. No. 4334-20]
E. Filed maps, size 30 inches by 42 inches or smaller:
$3 per sheet.
[Added 10-22-2002 by Ord. No. 3330]
F. Filed maps, larger than 30 inches by 42 inches: $9
per sheet.
[Added 10-22-2002 by Ord. No. 3330]
[Added 12-10-1991 by Ord. No. 1683; amended 10-22-2002 by Ord. No. 3330; 9-28-2004 by Ord. No. 3485A]
A. Unless fees are otherwise specified in this chapter
or state statute, all Township departments of the Township of Franklin
shall be authorized to charge for making available to the public copies
of all other public records at the following rate:
[Amended 12-14-2004 by Ord. No. 3506; 10-12-2010 by Ord. No. 3889A]
(1) Letter-sized
pages or smaller: $0.05 per page.
(2) Legal-sized
pages or larger: $0.07 per page.
(3) USB
flash drive: $10.
[Amended 9-22-2020 by Ord. No. 4330-20
(4) Computer-generated
picture (b/w or color): $0.05 per page for letter-sized pages or smaller;
$0.07 per page for legal-sized pages or larger.
(5) Film
developing: Actual cost of developing the film shall be charged.
(6) Duplicate
photographs: Actual cost of making the photographs shall be charged.
(7) On any
item that cannot be photocopied on the Township copy machine or not
otherwise provided for in this schedule, the actual cost incurred
in making the copy shall be charged.
B. Postage costs will be added to all requests for public
records required to be mailed and will be determined at time of request.
C. A special service charge of $45 per hour for supervisory
or programming services and $35 per hour for clerical services shall
be applied for any extensive use of information technology or for
the labor cost of personnel providing the service that is actually
incurred by the Township for the programming, clerical and supervisory
assistance required to provide a Township record in the following
circumstances:
(1) Whenever the nature, format, manner of collation or
volume of Township record embodied in a form of printed matter to
be inspected, examined or copied is such that the record cannot be
reproduced by ordinary business size or involves an extraordinary
expenditure of time and effort to accommodate the request.
(2) Whenever the material is requested in a medium not
routinely used by the Township, not routinely developed or maintained
by the Township or requires a substantial amount of manipulation or
programming of information technology and the Township must either
convert the record to the medium requested or provide a copy in some
other meaningful medium.