OPRA Request—Certificates
Dear Scotch Plains Township,
*This request is intended for the Building Department or the appropriate custodian of the requested records. If you are not the correct recipient, please forward this request to the appropriate department or individual that holds these records.
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:
*Certificates of Occupancy
*Certificates of Continued Occupancy
*Certificates of Approval
*Certificates of Compliance
*Please provide records for all submissions made within the last 60 days, limited to commercial properties or spaces, in a spreadsheet or CSV format.
You are the best.
Yours faithfully,
Salem
M. Salem:
The Township of Scotch Plains received your Open Public Records Act (OPRA)
request on May 21, 2025. However, your OPRA cannot be completed until the
below certification is received.
On June 5, 2024, Governor Murphy signed into law significant OPRA reform
legislation [P.L. 2024, c. 16] The law became effective September 3,
2024.
Part of the new law requires that OPRA requests sent by email-without the
official form- must contain all the elements of the official form.
As a courtesy, we are asking you to complete the three certification
questions below, in order to make your email OPRA request a valid OPRA
request. Please reply to this email with the completed certification
questions,
OR You can also use the attached revised OPRA request form and resubmit
your OPRA requests.
Under penalty of NJSA 2C:28-3, I certify that:
1. I HAVE/HAVE NOT been convicted of any indictable offense under the
laws of New Jersey, any other state, or the United States.
2. I, or another person, WILL/WILL NOT use the requested government
records for a commercial purpose.
[If your request for records are for sales, commercial solicitation,
rents/leases, services, or any other activity that may result in a
profit—you must confirm this option]
3. I AM/AM NOT seeking records in connection with legal proceedings.
[Note: If you confirmed above that the records sought in connection with
a legal proceeding, identification of that proceeding is required.]
Thank you.
Maryann Matteo
OPRA Compliance Clerk
Township of Scotch Plains
430 Park Avenue
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
908.322.6700 (office) ext. 213
908.322.1663 (fax)
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Dear Maryann Matteo,
Good morning, and thank you for your response.
I have not been convicted of any indictable offense under the laws of New Jersey, any other state, or the United States.
I intend to use the requested government records for a commercial purpose.
I am not seeking these records in connection with a legal proceeding.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Yours sincerely,
Salem
M. Salem:
The Township of Scotch Plains received your Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request on May 21, 2025. As such, the fourteen (14) business day deadline to respond to your request is June 20, 2025; because you are seeking records for a "commercial purpose" as defined in N.J.S.A. 47:1a-1.1.
Thank you.
Maryann Matteo
OPRA Compliance Clerk
Township of Scotch Plains
430 Park Avenue
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
908.322.6700 (office) ext. 213
908.322.1663 (fax)
[Scotch Plains Township request email]
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M. Salem:
The Township of Scotch Plains received your Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request on May 21, 2025. As such, the fourteen (14) business day deadline to respond to your request is June 12, 2025; because you are seeking records for a "commercial purpose" as defined in N.J.S.A. 47:1a-1.1.
This response to your request is being provided to you on the same business day after the custodian’s receipt of said request.
Request: For Certificates of Occupancy; Certificates of Continued Occupancy; Certificates of Approval; and Certificates of Compliance submitted within the last 60 days, limited to Commercial Properties or Spaces: See attached OPRA Request Email.
Response: NO RESPONSIVE RECORD EXISTS for these documents. Included in attached pdf entitled “OPRA – M.Salem 5.21.25 - Commercial Property Certificates” please find documents provided as responsive to your request.
END OF REQUESTED ITEMS
By this letter of response, the Township of Scotch Plains will consider your OPRA request received on May 21, 2025, complete unless otherwise informed.
If you have any questions, please contact Bob LaCosta, Construction Official, in the Building Department at 908-322-6700, ext. 308.
Thank you.
Maryann Matteo
OPRA Compliance Clerk
Township of Scotch Plains
430 Park Avenue
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
908.322.6700 (office) ext. 213
908.322.1663 (fax)
[Scotch Plains Township request email]
NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY
This message, including any prior messages and attachments, may contain advisory, consultative and/or deliberative material, confidential information or privileged communications of the Township of Scotch Plains. Access to this message by anyone other than the sender and the intended recipient(s) is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or not taken in reliance on it, without the expressed written consent of the sender is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should not save, scan, transmit, print, use or disseminate this message or any information contained in this message in any way and you should promptly delete or destroy this message and all copies of it. Please notify the sender by return e-mail if you have received this message in error.