ASSEMBLY AGRICULTURE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

 

STATEMENT TO

 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1975

 

with committee amendments

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

DATED: SEPTEMBER 19, 1996

 

 

      The Assembly Agriculture and Waste Management Committee favorably reports Assembly Bill No. 1975 with committee amendments.

      Assembly Bill No. 1975 expands and clarifies certain provisions in the "Map Filing Law," N.J.S.A.46:23-9.9 et seq., to reflect changes in practice since the enactment of the law.

      Section 1 of the bill expands the definition of the term "map" to include subdivision plats, condominium plats and right of way parcel maps. The bill also defines "right of way parcel maps." The introduction of condominium maps and the use of highway parcel right of way maps to define road acquisitions necessitated this change in the definitional section. The introduction of condominium maps and the use of highway parcel right of way maps to define road acquisitions necessitated this change in the definitional section.

      Section 2 of the bill clarifies that provision in the law dealing with approval requirements. Specifically, the type, design and identification of monuments required by the act have been expanded to address the changing technology and identification requirements now in place. In addition under the provisions of the bill, survey detail requirements are now included in the act.

      The bill also has expanded the requirements provisions of the act to clarify the required monumentation of critical points within subdivisions and to add a requirement that the outside lines of a property be monumented.

      Assembly Committee amendments make several changes of a technical nature.