[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Washington
10-17-1988 by Ord. No. 31-88 (Sec. 6-16 of the Revised General Ordinances);
amended in its entirety 7-20-1998 by Ord. No. 26-98. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning — See Ch. 217.
In accordance with and pursuant to the authority of P.L. 1988, Chapter 44 (N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7) and P.L. 1997, Chapter 327 (N.J.S.A. 2C:35-7.), the Drug-Free Zone Maps dated April 24, 1998, prepared by Carl E. Denzier, P.E., the Township Engineer, are hereby approved and adopted as an official finding and record of the location and areas within the Township of Washington of property which is owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary school or school board and the areas on or within 1,000 feet of such properties and property used for a public park, public building or public housing facility as those facilities are defined in the above-referenced statute and of the areas on or within 500 feet of such properties.
The Drug-Free Zone Maps approved and adopted pursuant to § 79-1 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 and on or within 500 feet of such property owned by or leased to a public entity which is used for a public park, public building or public housing facility 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 such properties and the Drug Free Zones.
The school board, or the chief administrative officer in the case of
any private or parochial school, and the municipal governing body, or the
entity responsible for the operation of any public park, public building or
public housing facility are hereby directed and shall have the continuing
obligation to promptly notify the Township Engineer and the Township Attorney
of any changes or contemplated changes in the location and boundaries of any
property owned by or leased to any elementary or secondary school board and
which is used for school purposes and of any public areas designated on said
maps.
The Township Clerk is hereby directed to receive and to keep on file the original of the maps approved and adopted pursuant to § 79-1 of this chapter, and to provide at a reasonable cost a true copy thereof to any person, agency or court which may from time to time request such a copy, along with a certification that such copy is a true copy of the maps approved and adopted herein and kept on file. It is hereby further directed that a true copy, of such maps and of this chapter shall be provided without cost to the County Clerk and to the Office of the Morris County Prosecutor.
The following additional matters are hereby determined, declared, recited
and stated:
A.
It is understood that the maps approved and adopted pursuant to § 79-1 of this chapter were prepared and are intended to be used as evidence in prosecutions arising under the criminal laws of this state, and that pursuant to state law, such maps shall constitute prima facie evidence of the following:
(1)
The location of elementary and secondary schools and
of public parks, public buildings and public housing facilities within the
Township of Washington.
(2)
The boundaries of the real property which is owned by
or leased to such schools or a school board or to a public entity.
(3)
That such property is and continues to be used for school
purposes or public purposes.
(4)
The location and boundaries of areas which are on or
within 1,000 feet of such school property or on or within 500 feet of such
public property.
B.
Except as otherwise expressly noted on the face of the approved and adopted maps, all of the property depicted on the maps approved and adopted herein as school property was owned by or leased to a school or school board and all of the property depicted on the maps approved and adopted herein as public areas was owned by or leased to a public entity and was being used for public purposes as of the effective date of P.L. 1988, Chapter 44 with respect to school property and as of the effective date of P.L. 1997, Chapter 327 with respect to public areas.
C.
Pursuant to the provisions of P.L. 1988, Chapter 44, and P.L. 1997, Chapter 327, a prosecutor is not precluded from introducing or relying upon any other evidence or testimony to establish a violation of the offenses defined in those statutes, including use of a map or diagram other than the ones approved and adopted pursuant to § 79-1 of this chapter. The failure of the maps approved herein to depict the location and boundaries of any property which is, in fact, used for school purposes and which is owned or leased to any elementary or secondary school or school board, or used for a public park, public building or public housing facility and which is owned by or leased to any public entity, whether the absence of such depiction is the result of inadvertent omission or the result of any changes in the location and boundaries of such property which have not yet been incorporated into a revised approved map, shall not be deemed to be an official finding and record that such property is not owned by or leased to a public entity, or that such property is not used for public purposes.
