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Township of Plainsboro, NJ
Middlesex County
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[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Plainsboro 4-10-1989 as Ord. No. 0-89-7; amended in its entirety 11-10-2021 by Ord. No. 21-13. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Once a homeowners' association is represented by a majority of homeowners or an association board, that board may make application to the Township Committee to be included in the Township Reimbursement Program. Reimbursements for snow removal, collection of leaves and streetlighting are applicable only to residential collector/loop roads. The following criteria shall apply to all homeowners' associations that wish to participate in the Township's Reimbursement Program.
HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION
An organization of homeowners in a residential community with the responsibility of ownership and maintenance of common areas within that residential community.
RESIDENTIAL COLLECTOR/LOOP ROAD
Conducts and distributes traffic between local residential streets and arterials. Since its function is to promote free traffic flow, access to homes and parking is not encouraged. Examples of residential collector roads include Aspen Drive, Sayre Drive and Hampshire Drive and Thoreau Drive.
RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY
A group of homes or housing units for living purposes only.
A. 
Snow removal.
(1) 
Reimbursement for snow removal will only be effective if at least three inches of snow fall in a twenty-four-hour period. Thereafter, each additional increment of 1 1/2 inches of snow in a twenty-four-hour period will constitute an additional reimbursement. (Example: six inches of snow in a twenty-four-hour period shall be three times the designated rate.)
(2) 
The reimbursement rate is calculated on the amount of time it would take the Township of Plainsboro to plow the snow times Plainsboro's contract rate.
(3) 
The designated amount of snow will be determined by the official weather reporting service of the Township.
(4) 
Reimbursement will be made in December of each year.
B. 
Streetlighting. The Township will reimburse the homeowners' association for the cost of streetlighting.
(1) 
Streetlighting is based on the actual cost of electricity to streetlights (cost will exclude common area facilities, such as pool heating, breezeway lighting, sidewalk illumination by mushroom lights and other nonrelated common area electrical costs); bill, minus those common area costs, if applicable.
(2) 
Reimbursement will be quarterly and based on actual bills, minus those common area costs, if applicable.
C. 
Collection of leaves. The Township will reimburse the homeowners' association for the cost of the collection of leaves.
(1) 
The reimbursement rate is calculated on the amount of time it would take the Township of Plainsboro to collect and remove leaves one time from residential collector/loop roads.
(2) 
Reimbursement will be paid once, annually.
Immediately upon adoption of this chapter, the Municipal Clerk shall file a copy of this chapter with the Middlesex County Planning Board as required by law.