OPEN PUBLIC
RECORDS ACT (OPRA)
BOROUGH OF RINGWOOD
Municipal Building
60 Margaret King Avenue
Ringwood, NJ 07456
Telephone: (973) 962-7037
Facsimile: (973) 962-1594
A request for a copy
of Public Records should be submitted on this form, which has been adopted by
the Municipal Clerk as the Custodian of Records. Most records will be made available during normal business
hours. Some records requested have
specific fees or other response times established by statute. There is no fee involved in inspecting a
document during normal business hours.
The term “public
records” includes those records determined to be public in accordance with N.J.S.A.
47:1A-1. The term does not include
employee personnel files, police investigation records, public assistance files
or other matters in which there is a right of privacy or confidentiality or
which is specifically exempted by law.
In General:
·
Immediate access is ordinarily available for
budgets, bills, vouchers, contracts, including collective negotiations agreements,
individual employment contracts, public employee salary and overtime
information. Minutes of public meetings
will be generally available immediately after the minutes have been approved.
·
Records which are not readily available or which
will require a search of records will be made available as soon as possible and
you will be provided with a interim report within seven (7) business days
indicating the time which will be required to provide the records.
·
Except as otherwise provided by law or regulation,
the fee assessed for the duplication of a printed record shall be $0.10 per
page.
·
Where a request is for a copy in a format other
than a photocopy, reasonable efforts will be made to provide the information in
the format requested. The cost will be
based on the costs of producing the format requested.
·
Where a legal determination must be made as to
whether records are “public records” as provided by law, the request will be
reviewed by the Municipal Attorney.
·
The attached may be downloaded electronically
and faxed, mailed or brought to the Clerk’s Office.
Municipal Building
60 Margaret King Avenue
Ringwood, NJ 07456
Telephone: (973) 962-7037
Facsimile: (973) 962-1594
Name: ________________________________________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Telephone (Day): ________________________________________________________________________
Information Requested:
[___] Copy of Minutes (specify board or entity, date, topic or
other identifying information)
_______________________________________________________________________________
[___] Copy
of Ordinance or Resolution (specify
date, number, or other identifying information)
_______________________________________________________________________________
[___] Police
Accident Report Fee:
________________________
Date and Location of Accident
______________________________________________________
[___] Other
(specify)_________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
[___] License
Information
(specify)_____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Information
on a Specific Property Address ___________________________________________
Block __________ Lot __________
[___] Municipal
Lien Search Fee: $10.00
Municipal
Lien Searches are provided by the designated search officer and will be
provided within 15 days after the request is received and the fee paid, as
provided in N.J.S.A. 54:5-11, et seq.
[___] List of Property Owners
within 200’ Fee:
_______
As provided in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-12, the
fee is the greater of $.25 per name or $10.00
***FOR MUNICIPAL USE ONLY***
The
information requested will be ready on
________________________________________________________
Estimated
Number of Pages___________ Estimated Cost ____________________________________
Deposit __________________________________
(required
where the anticipated cost of reproduction exceeds $5.00)
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Applicant hereby
acknowledges receipt of a copy of this form with the date on which the
information is expected to be available and the estimated cost. The applicant hereby certifies that he or
she has not been convicted of any indictable offense under the laws of this
State, any other state or the United States and is not seeking government
records containing personal information pertaining to the victim or the
victim’s family as provided by N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq.
I hereby acknowledge
that I have received the document(s) requested except for any document(s)
specifically listed on the Public Records Request Response Form.
__________________________________________ ___________________________________________
Applicant Custodian of Records
Date: ____________________________________ Date: _____________________________________
GOVERNMENT
RECORDS REQUEST RESPONSE
TO :
________________________________________________________________
DATE :
________________________________________________________________
For the following reason(s), the document(s)
listed below and requested by you are not being provided because the
document(s) are not public records as provided by law:
OPRA was intended to
provide access to government records that have been specifically identified and
requested. The requestor needs to
identify the record that is being requested and the Custodian needs to provide
access to that specific record, unless exempted under the provisions of the
law.
Your requests asks for
a list of all OPRA requests submitted to the Borough since January 1, 2007
including the requestor’s name and phone number, the request date and the
disposition of each request. Your
request does not ask for a specific record but rather the Custodian to compile
a list. There is no such responsive
record for your request.
Your request does not
identify a specific record and is therefore invalid. OPRA request forms are public record, kept in a binder by year in
alphabetical order and can be inspected Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm.
You have a right to
appeal the decision that the document(s) are not public records. You may take your appeal to the New Jersey
Superior Court or Government Records Council, as provided by N.J.S.A.
47:1A-1 et seq. If your request has
been denied, a statement of the procedures for the appeal will be attached to
this notification.
___________________________________________
Custodian
of Records
Date:
_____________________________________