Buonviaggio v. Hillsborough Township Committee

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

O’HERN, J.

This appeal requires us to resolve a controversy about application of the one-year time bar set forth in the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act (the Act), which requires that claims against the Spill Fund be filed not later than one year after the date of “discovery of damage.” N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.-11k. The case arises in the context of the pollution of a farmer’s well by a distant chemical spill. The legal principles are familiar. We accept a recent Appellate Division statement of them:

Neither the legislative history nor any…