Veterans, active military personel and their immediate families can now access Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park in Long Branch for free, accoridng to the Asbury Park Press.
Daily beach badges used to cost $7 per day and $25-$65 for season passes, but members of Disabled American Veterans’ Chapter 29 in Tinton Falls were able to lobby county officials make them free.
Michael Palutis, a spokesman for the veterans’ group, told the Asbury Park Press that a number of county legislators sponsored a law that was enacted in 2011 to allow discounted or free beach access to military personnel, veterans and their families, but that the county still did not offer any discounts to its own beach.
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Livingstone said active military personnel and veterans, and their dependents, can present either an active duty military identification card, a retired military identification card or a Monmouth County veterans identification card to gain free access to the beach this summer, according to the report.
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