The Township of Livingston’s Municipal Clerk's Department has reopened to the public and will respond to your email as soon as possible. However, if submitting an OPRA request or inquiring about a previously submitted OPRA request, please realize that pursuant to P.L. 2020 Ch 10, OPRA deadlines are inapplicable during a State of Emergency and that record custodians ”must make a reasonable effort, as the circumstances permit to respond to a request for a government record within 7 business days or as soon as possible."

Dear Arnold Budin, 
This comes in response to your OPRA Request for: 
"Records requested: All open and clsoed building permits and violations
for 258 E. Northfield Road" 
The Open Public Records Act deals with requests for readily identifiable
public records,  The Custodian of Records is not supposed to perform
research to determine which documents exist, rather to make available to a
requestor specific records that have been identified by the requestor.  
Your Requests are too broad and would require the Custodian of Records to
perform research to determine records that exist.  Please identify the
documents you are seeking including the permit numbers or application
numbers.  Do you need a list of Building Permits?  Copies of the "Issued
Building Permit Form?" or copies of the Building Permit Application
folder?   
If you just need lists of open and closed building permits, the Building
Department keeps track of building permits in three systems.  The
"Construction Permit Summary Report" from our current building permit
tracking software SDL shows the building permits listed only under the
current block and lot number.  It will also show any construction code
violations, zoning violations, or code enforcement violations    The "List
of Applications" is from our former software, Mitchell Humphreys
Construction Project Manager and shows the permits from 1997-June 2013. 
Any permits that were closed out after June 2013 will be closed in SDL and
will show up on this report as open.  The third report is the "Extract of
Permits" which is a listing of all building permits by street from
1946-1996. These 3 reports will show if a permit was issued for the
installation, removal or remediation of an oil tank.
If you are seeking other records, please clarify your request to identify
which specific documents you are seeking. 
In the future please be sure to request the proper name of the document(s)
 you are seeking when you submit an OPRA Request or your request will be
denied.  If you are looking for lists of permits, it is suggested you use
the names that are in bold and in quotes in the paragraph above.   
Sincerely,
Renee Resky
Township Clerk's Office
Township of Livingston
357 S Livingston Ave
Livingston, NJ  07039
phone (973) 992-5000 ext 5405
fax (973) 535-7967
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:14 AM Arnold Budin
<[1][OPRA #19157 email]> wrote:

Dear Livingston Township,

This is a request for public records made under OPRA and the common law
right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form. Please
acknowledge receipt of this message.
  Records requested: All open and clsoed building permits and violations
for 258 E. Northfield Road

Yours faithfully,
Arnold Budin,Esq.

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