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NJ Planning Exam 2
NJ Professional Planners-State Board & Open Public Meetings Act-Deena
Question | Answer |
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What year did the legislature create the NJ Board of Professional Planners? | 1962 |
Administratively, where is the NJ Board of Professional Planners contained? | Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety |
The Board consists of this many members who are licensed professional planners, each appointed by the Governor (and confirmed by the Senate) for a five-year term? | 5 members-2 consumer members (non-planners), also appointed by the Gov, and a rep from the NJ Dept of Community Affairs also serve on the board |
What are the primary duties of the board? | review planning curricula, license PPs & PITs, annually published roster of licensed PPs, and provide licensing seal |
Only individuals may be licensed. True or False? | True-any business terms or derivatives of "planners" or "planning" must have an executive officer of the corporation or member of the firm, partnership, or assoc, who is a licensed planner |
Reference the act that explains that State, county, and municipal agencies and regulatory bodies are prohibited from employing any person as a professional planner unless that person is licensed? | NJSA 45-14A-17 and 18 |
A potential candidate for licensure, a graduate of an approved planning curriculum of 4+years from an accredited planning school, or 4+years of experience in approved planning work and passed an exam in the fundamental planning subjects? | A Planner-in-Trainer Certificate |
As originally enacted in 1962, the act provided that these NJ licensed professionals need not have either the education or professional planning experience required of planners, but may become licensed upon application & payment of the required fee? | engineers, land surveyors, architects (NJSA 45:14A-11)-this changed in 1990 |
After 1990, what requirement was added for NJ licensed professional engineers, land surveyors, and architects to become licensed planners? | a passing grade of the PP exam (but not the AICP exam)-in 1991 certified landscape architects were added to the single test exception |
How long is a certification as a planner-in-training valid? | 10 years |
During the preparation of site plans this professional is responsible for survey showing existing conditions and exact locations of physical features, including metes and bounds, drainage, waterways, specific utility locations, and easements? | Surveyor |
During the preparation of site plans these professionals can be responisible for vegetation, general floodplain determination, or general location of utilities, buildings, or structures? | Planner, Engineer, Surveyor, Architect, or Landscape Architect |
During the preparation of site plans these professionals can be responsible for location of proposed buildings and their relationship to the site and the immediate environs? | Engineer or Architect |
During the preparation of site plans these professionals can be responisible for location of drives, parking layout, pedestrian circulation, and means of ingress and egress? | Planner, Engineer, or Architect |
During the preparation of site plans this professional is responsible for drainage facilities, for site plans of 10 or more acres, or involving stormwater detention facilities, or traversed by a water course? | Engineer |
During the preparation of site plans these professionals can be responisible for drainage facilities, other than those for site plans of 10 or more acres, or involving stormwater detention facilities, or traversed by a water course? | Engineer or Architect |
During the preparation of site plans these professionals can be responisible for utility connections and on-tract extensions? | Engineer or Architect |
During the preparation of site plans this professional is responsible for off-tract utility extensions? | Engineer |
During the preparation of site plans this professional is responsible for onsite sewage disposal or flow-equalization facilities? | Engineer |
During the preparation of site plans this professional is responsible for preliminary floor plans and elevation views of buildings illustrating the architectural design of a project? | Architect |
During the preparation of site plans these professionals can be responsible for preliminary floor plans and elevation views of buildings illustrating the architectural design of a project where the building is part of an engineering or industrial project? | Engineer or Architect |
During the preparation of site plans these professionals can be responsible for landscaping, signs, lighting, screening, or other information? | Planner, Engineer, Architect, or Landscape Architect |
During the preparation of site plans these professionals can be responsible for general layout of a preliminary site plan for a multiple building project, showing the development elements, including their relationship to the site and immediate environs? | Planner, Engineer, or Architect |
During the preparation of major subdivision plans these professionals can be responsible for general location of facilities, site improvements, and lot layouts? | Planner, Engineer, Surveyor, or Architect |
During the preparation of major subdivision plans this professional is responsible for design and construction details of all public improvements, including street pavements, curbs, sidewalks, sanitary sewage, and storm-drain facilities? | Engineer |
During the preparation of major subdivision plans this professional is responsible for final subdivision map with metes and bounds? | Surveyor |
Does the Board of Professional Planners prohibit affixing the licensee's seal to any documents which were not prepared by the licensee or by employees or subordinates under the licensee's supervision? | yes |
The professional planner's seal must be placed on the first page of any report and on each map or drawing if submitted separately. However, these maps and drawings need not be sealed? | maps and drawings of existing conditions (e.g., land use maps) |
In general, enforcement of the licensing act is handled by the Division of Consumer Affairs. What office is charged with investigating and prosecuting any charges of misconduct? | The office of the Attorney General |
The Open Public Meetings Act was enacted in its current form in 1975 as NJSA 10:4-6 et seq. and was effective on January 19, 1976. It is sometimes called this? | the Sunshine Law |
What gatherings do not count as "meetings?" | "Meeting" does not include gatherings attended by or open to less than the effective majority of the body, nor meetings attended by or open to all of the members of three or more such bodies (NJSA 10:4-8b) |
Can certain business be conducted in "closed" meetings? | Yes-see page 19-1 of the Complete Guide for the list of nine categories for which business may be discussed in closed meetings. |
What is required to hold a special or "urgent" public meeting to conduct specific matters where delay in conducting the meeting could harm the public interest? | An affirmative vote of three-quarters of the members present and public notice given asap by posting and press notification in the usual manner (NJSA 10:4-9) |