The Township Council makes the following findings and determinations:
A.
The contour and planimetric maps of the area of this Township prepared by Maps, Incorporated under a certain contract dated March 11, 1964, consisting of large-scale planimetric maps at scales of one inch equals 2,000 feet and one inch equals 1,000 feet, respectively, and a set of 210 topographic maps at a scale of one inch equals 100 feet with two-foot contours and a complete set of nine-by-nine-inch contact prints at a scale of one inch equals 500 feet of the flight photographs used for the preparation of the foregoing, constitute valuable irreplaceable property of this Township; and
B.
These maps and photographs constitute a valuable irreplaceable record of the physical condition of the surface of the land in the Township at the time of the flight photographs; and
C.
Careful supervision of the use and custody of the foregoing is necessary to prevent the loss of or damage to the foregoing maps, which have been prepared in reproducible form on Mylar; and
D.
The use of these maps to make copies by tracing on tracing paper and the unsupervised handling of these maps and photographs will accelerate the physical deterioration of the same and will expose the same to an unreasonable risk of damage, deterioration and destruction; and
E.
The Township has, in the office of the Township Engineer, facilities to make prompt, accurate copies, prints and sepias of these maps by reproduction methods which, if done by supervised personnel, will not expose these maps to any unreasonable risk of loss, damage, deterioration or destruction; and
F.
Centralization of responsibility for the care, custody, safety and use of these maps and photographs is desirable to ensure effective control, and since the information recorded on these maps and photographs is of an engineering nature and of primary interest to engineers, the Township Engineer is the municipal officer most qualified to assume this responsibility; and
G.
The cost of the preparation of these maps and photographs has been paid out of general taxation and the cost of supervision of the care and custody of the same and the cost of making prints and reproducible copies, such as sepias thereof, will be paid out of general taxation, and, accordingly, it is right and proper that fees for such prints and copies be established to recover these past and future costs in accordance with the value of the information and data that such copies have on an acreage basis.