Borough of Englishtown

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Request for Government Records A request for access to or for a copy of Government Records should be submitted on the form below, which has been adopted by the Municipal Clerk as the Custodian of Records. Some records will be immediately available during normal business hours. Some records will require time to compile and to make the copies requested, but will normally be available during normal business hours and within seven (7) business days. If any document or copy which has been requested is not a public record or cannot be provided within the seven (7) business days, you will be provided with a response with that information within the seven (7) business days. Some records requested have specific fees or other response times established by statute. There is no fee involved in simply inspecting a document during normal business hours which are Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm. In general: - Immediate access is ordinarily available for budgets, bills, vouchers, contracts, including collective negotiations agreements and individual employment contracts, and 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 the applicant will be provided with an 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 first page to tenth page, $0.75 per page; eleventh page to twentieth page, $0.50 per page; all pages after twenty, $0.25 per page; for a police accident report there is an additional fee when the request is not made in person of $5.00 for the first 3 pages and $1.00 for each additional page, as provided by N.J.S.A. 39:4-131. - 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

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