2022 CAI-NJ September LAC Issue

Updates to New Jersey’s Municipal Services Act – A3959 and S2935 By Roslyn Brodsky, Concordia Homeowners Association and Larry Thomas, PCAM, Taylor Management Company, AAMC, AMO

N ew Jersey’s Municipal Services Act requires that every municipality provide private communities with certain municipal services relating to roads and streets, including snow and ice removal, collection of leaves, trash, recyclables (if the municipality provides trash and recyclables) and the cost of electricity for the lighting of roads and streets. As a proposed extension of services provided under the Municipal Services Act, Assemblywoman Annette Quijano

is sponsoring Assembly Bill A3959, which would require certain local author ities to inspect, maintain and repair fire hydrants in planned real estate developments in the same manner and to the same

“Although the Municipal Services Act has been in effect for almost thirty years, many qualified community

extent as fire hydrants that are located in other areas within the municipality. Senator Linda Greenstein intro duced S2935, sim ilar legislation that would require that every munici associations are unaware of the law...”

pal authority in the interest of public safety assume the same responsibility for the inspection, maintenance and repair of fire hydrants located on private streets and roads in planned real estate developments, regardless of whether those roads are dedicated to the municipality in which the real estate development is located. Although the Municipal Services Act has been in effect for almost thirty years, many qualified community associations are unaware of the law and its pending updates. It is up to boards and managers to track these developments to make sure their community is receiving the benefits provided by the Municipal Services Act. n

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