Gloucester City Mayor & Council Waive CO, Rental Registration and UCC Fees for a Corporation but Charge Gloucester Town Senior Building Thousands in Fees every year.
The senior building could use that money to provide more services for the seniors that built this city.
Instead the Greedy Mayor and Council take from the old and frail and give to their friends (GCEDC).
Shame on you Mayor and Council
Are they making donations to every organization in need or just the ones that board members are involved in?????????????
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
CHAPTER 410, LAWS OF 1953
DESTRUCTION OF PUBLIC RECORDS ACT
UPDATE: I received a response from my OPRA request and it stated "we keep records indefinite"
This is a lie and I have personally seen the administrator filling a dumpster with records, when ask if that was legal she stated she didn't care.
They have been know to fill dumpsters with records.
An Act concerning the destruction and unlawful possession of public records, revising
chapter three of Title 47 of the Revised Statutes, and repealing certain statutes relating
thereto.
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. [C.47:3-15 SHORT TITLE]
This act shall be known and cited as "Destruction of Public Records Law (1953)."
2. [C.47:3-16 TERMS DEFINED]
As used in this act, except where the context indicates otherwise, the words "public
records" mean any paper, written or printed book, document or drawing, map or plan,
photograph, microfilm, sound-recording or similar device, or any copy thereof which
has been made or is required by law to be received for filing, indexing, or reproducing
by any officer, commission, agency or authority of the State or of any political
subdivision thereof, including subordinate boards thereof, or that has been received by
any such officer, commission, agency or authority of the State or of any political
subdivision thereof, including subordinate boards thereof, in connection with the
transaction of public business and has been retained by such recipient or its successor as
evidence of its activities or because of the information contained therein.
As used in this act the word "bureau" means the Bureau of Archives and History in the
Department of Education.
3. [C.47:3-17 APPROVAL OF BUREAU]
No Person shall destroy, sell or otherwise dispose of any public record, archives or
printed public documents which are under his control or in his care or custody, whether
or not they are in current use, without first having advised the Bureau of Archives and
History in the Department of Education of their nature, and obtained the written
consent of that bureau; which consent may be given by said bureau only if the same is
in conformance with regulations governing the granting thereof which shall be made
and promulgated by the State Records Committee established by section six of this act.
4. [C.47:3-18 CLASSIFICATIONS AND CATEGORIES]
The bureau may from time to time establish specific classifications and categories for
various types of the said "public records" and, in giving its consent as provided herein,
may do so in a general and continuing manner according to the said classifications and
categories.
5. [C.47:3-19 SCHEDULES OF SUBMISSION PREPARED]
The bureau, in cooperation with the several State departments, commissions and
agencies, shall make a study of the kind and character of public records in their control
or custody and shall prepare proposed schedules for submission to the State Records
Committee established by section six hereof for its approval and advise the said several
departments, commissions and agencies of all applicable operative schedules.
6. [C.47:3-20 APPROVAL OF SCHEDULE, POWERS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS]
No such schedule shall be operative unless approved by the State Records Committee
which is hereby established in the State Department of Education and which shall
consist of the State Treasurer, the Attorney General, the State Auditor, the Director of
the Division of Local Government in the Department of the Treasury, and the head of
the Bureau of Archives and History in the Department of Education. Each member of
the committee may designate in writing a representative to act in his place on said
committee.
The State Records Committee shall have the powers and duties prescribed for it herein
and shall make and promulgate such regulations, not inconsistent with law as may be
necessary to adequately effectuate such powers and duties.
7. [C.47:3-21 SCHEDULE FILED]
Whenever any such schedule is approved by the committee, a copy thereof shall be filed
with the State department, commission or agency involved and with the State Auditor,
and the original approval shall be retained by the Bureau of Archives and History in the
Department of Education. Thereupon, such schedule shall remain in force and effect
and may be acted upon by the said department, commission or agency until superseded
by a subsequent duly approved schedule.
8. [C. 47:3-22 NO LIABILITY]
No State official, or head of a State department, commission or other agency shall be
held liable on his official bond, or in the way of damages for loss, or in any other
manner, civil or criminal, because of the destruction of public records pursuant to the
provisions of this act or any other law authorizing such destruction.
9. [C.47:3-23 DESTRUCTION OR EVIDENCES OF INDEBTEDNESS AUTHORIZED]
Whenever, under the laws of this State, there shall have been issued and sold by the
State or by any municipality, county, or school district, bonds, coupons, or other
evidences of indebtedness and such bonds, coupons and other evidences of
indebtedness shall have been cancelled and redeemed by the State Treasurer, the State
House Commission, or by any agency or authorized official of the State, or by any
municipality, county, or school district issuing the same, it shall be lawful for the official
or officials in charge of the issuance, redemption and cancellation of such bonds,
coupons or other evidences of indebtedness to destroy the same upon the written
consent of the bureau, subject to regulations which shall be made and promulgated by
the State Records Committee established by section six thereof.
The said officials, in the same manner, may destroy any bonds, coupons or other
evidences of indebtedness which have been printed and which remain unused, or any
registered bonds which remain unused at the time the issue has completely matured.
10. [C. 47 :3-24 CONSENT TO DESTRUCTION OF OTHER RECORDS]
The bureau, subject to regulations which shall be made and promulgated by the State
Records Committee established by section six hereof, may give its consent to the
immediate destruction or other disposition of bonds, coupons or other evidences of
indebtedness which have not been used, but shall not consent to the destruction or
other disposition of temporary bonds unless they have been replaced by definitive
bonds, and then, only after the expiration of a year from the date of such replacement,
or to the destruction or other disposition of bonds, coupons or other evidences of
indebtedness which have been issued, except after the expiration of a period of seven
years from their cancellation or maturity dates.
11. [C.47:3-25 CERTIFICATE OF DESTRUCTION, FILING]
Whenever bonds, coupons or other evidences of indebtedness are destroyed or
otherwise disposed of under the provisions of this section, a certificate of destruction
shall be prepared by the official having charge of such destruction or other disposition,
setting forth the dates of issuances, the series and serial numbers and the face amounts
of such bonds, coupons or other evidences of indebtedness.
Where the said certificates relate to State issues, they shall be filed in the office of the
Secretary of State and where they relate to county or municipal issues, they shall be
filed in the office of the chief financial officer of the county or municipality, as the case
may be. Any such certificate or certified copy thereof shall be receivable in evidence in
any court or proceeding as prima facie evidence of the destruction of such bonds,
coupons or other evidences of indebtedness.
12. [C. 47:3-26 Standards and procedures]
The Bureau of Archives and History in the Department of Education, with the approval
of The State Records Committee established by section six hereof, shall formulate
standards and procedures for the photographing, microphotographing and
microfilming of public records and for the preservation, examination and use of such
records, including the indexing and arrangement thereof, for convenient reference
purposes.
Whenever any officer, commission, agency or authority of the State or of any political
subdivision thereof, including subordinate boards thereof, shall have photographed,
microphotographed or microfilmed all or any part of the public records, kept or
required by law to be received and indexed in such manner as to conform with the
standards and procedures, and such photographs, microphotographs or microfilms
have been placed in conveniently accessible files and provisions shall have been made
for the preservation, examination and use of the same in conformity with the said
standards and procedures, the original records from which the photographs,
microphotographs or microfilms have been made, or any part thereof, may be
destroyed or the records therein otherwise effectively obliterated; provided, the said
bureau shall first have given its written consent to such destruction or other disposition.
In the event of any such destruction or other disposition of any public records under the
provisions of this section, the photograph, microphotograph or microfilm, or a certified
copy of said photograph, microphotograph or microfilm, shall be receivable in evidence
in any court or proceeding and shall have the same force and effect as though the
original public record had been there produced and proved.
13. [C.47:3-27 STATE RECORDS PRIVATELY HELD]
The bureau is empowered to demand and receive from any person any public record in
private possession belonging to this State, or to any county, municipality or school
district thereof.
14. [C. 47:3-28 DEMANDS FOR RECORDS]
Any person who is entitled by law to the custody of public records shall demand the
same from any person in whose possession they may be, and such records forthwith
shall be delivered to the officer charged by law with their custody.
15. [C. 47:3-29 HIGH MISDEMEANOR]
Any person who without the consent of the person authorized to have custody thereof,
removes an official record or paper from the files of any public agency or body, or who
alters any map, plat, or other paper signed and approved by a public official without
permission, or who alters, defaces, mutilates or destroys with malicious intent any
public record shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor.
16. [C. 47 :3-30 RULES AND REGULATIONS]
The bureau shall, with the approval of the State Records Committee established by
section six hereto, make and promulgate rules and regulations for the effective
administration of the laws relating to public records.
17. [C.47:3-31 REPEALER]
Sections 47:3-1 to 47:3-6 of the Revised Statutes and "An act concerning the destruction
of cancelled and redeemed acknowledgments of indebtedness, commonly known as
"scrip," which have been issued and sold by any municipality or county, and
supplementing chapter three of Title 47 of the Revised Statutes," approved June
fourteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, are repealed.18. [C. 47 :3-32 CONTROLLING ACTS]
In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this act and the provisions
of "An act concerning certain papers and records on file in the offices of the county
clerks and registers of deeds and mortgages, and supplementing chapter three of Title
47 : of the Revised Statutes," approved July twenty-fifth, one thousand ' nine hundred
and fifty-three (P.L. 1953, c. 269) or of "An act concerning the destruction or other
disposition of certain papers on file in the offices of the county clerks, pertaining to the
former courts of oyer and terminer, circuit courts, courts of common pleas, courts of
quarter sessions and courts of special sessions," approved July twenty-fifth, one
thousand nine hundred and fifty-three (P.L. 1953, c. 270), the provisions of such other
act shall prevail.
19. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved September 18, 1953.
Gloucester City Housing Authority Spends $11,287.96 on Outside Law Firm to Defend OPRA Lawsuit There own attorney Chuck Wigginton billed them for the same case
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