In accordance with and pursuant to the authority
of L. 1986, c. 280, Section 6, the Drug-Free School Zone Map 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 of the areas on or within 1,000 feet of
such school property.
The Drug-Free School Zone Map approved and adopted pursuant to §
77-1 of this chapter 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 chapter 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 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 appropriate officials 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.
The Clerk of the municipality is hereby directed to receive and to keep on file the original of the map approved and adopted pursuant to §
77-1 of this chapter and to provide at a reasonable cost a true copy thereof to any person, agency or court which from time to time requests 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 chapter shall be provided without cost to the County Clerk and to the office of the Madison County District Attorney.
The following additional matters are hereby
determined, declared, recited and stated:
A. It is understood that the map adopted pursuant to §
77-1 of this chapter 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
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. Except as is otherwise expressly noted on the face
of the approved and adopted map, all of the property depicted on the
map approved and adopted herein as school property was owned or leased
to a school or school board and was being used for school purposes
as of the year 1931, that being the effective date of L. 1986, c. 280, § 6.
Appropriate signs shall be posted to advise
of the drug-free school zones.