Piscataway Apartment Ass'n v. Township of Piscataway

This case comes to us on our grant of certification, 65 N. J. 299 (1974), of a reversal by the Appellate Division, 131 N. J. Super. 83 (1974), of a determination by the Law Division that sewerage rates being charged the apartment house owners belonging to plaintiff association by the defendant township were illegal, unreasonable and excessive.

The essentials of the complaint were: (1) apartment houses are charged annual rates on a flat fee basis per dwelling unit — the same rate which owners of smaller multiple family dwellings and of single-family dwellings pay — not withstanding the asserted…