OPRA Request
Dear Livingston Township,
I am requesting the below information for all the properties with a date range of 6 months from today.
1. All Code Violations
2. All Tax Delinquents/Liens
3. All Vacant/Abandoned Properties
4. All Utility Delinquents/Liens (if applicable)
Yours faithfully,
Randy Kuhn
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 Randy Kuhn,
This comes in response to your OPRA Request for:
" I am requesting the below information for all the properties with a date
range of 6 months from today.
1. All Code Violations
2. All Tax Delinquents/Liens
3. All Vacant/Abandoned Properties
4. All Utility Delinquents/Liens (if applicable) "
1. There are no documents responsive to your 1st request. . The Township
does not make, maintain or keep on file a list of properties with code
violations.
2. Please find attached the reports of Properites Having Non-Zero
Delinquent Balances Starting in 1 QTR 2021 as of 041421.PDF as of
04/14/21 and Livingston Township Tax Properties with Open OTS Liens as of
041421.PDF. The Township has an accelerated tax sale each year and
therefore only the delinquent taxes for the most recent quarter are
listed. Any delinquent accounts were sold and now have liens.
Also, the Balance owed, Owner's Name and the Tax Block and Lot are
shown on this report, but the owner's address and property address is not.
You may wish to go to
[1]http://tax1.co.monmouth.nj.us/cgi-bin/pr...
look up the block and lot numbers to determine the name and address of the
property owner and the location address of the property.
1. Please find attached the list of all Properties Having Non-Zero
(Delinquent) Balances Starting in Quarter 1, 2021. The Township has an
accelerated tax sale each year and therefore only the delinquent taxes for
the most recent quarter are listed. Any delinquent accounts were sold and
now have liens. We do not have the ability to break them out by vacant
land, single family and multifamily properties only, so all delinquent
properties are listed on this report. Also, the Balance owed, Owner's
Name and the Block and lot are shown on this report, but the owner's
address and property address is not. You may wish to go to
[2]http://tax1.co.monmouth.nj.us/cgi-bin/pr...
look up the block and lot numbers to determine the name and address of the
property owner and the location address of the property.
3. There are no documents responsive to your 3rd request. The Township
does not make, maintain or keep on file a list of properties flagged as
vacant or abandoned.
4. The Tax Collector's office has provided the attached Delinquent
Utility Properties Report as of 041421.PDF responsive to your fourth
request. See the reference for item 1 to identify the property address
and owner address.
As these documents are being emailed to you there is no cost for
duplication pursuant to the Open Public Records Act.
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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