A controversial ordinance intended to punish employers and landlords who hire or house illegal immigrants would be too expensive to defend, Riverside officials said in voting to rescind the year-old law.
The ordinance had never been enforced, and Monday night's 3-1 vote by the Riverside Township Committee put an end to it.
Township officials said they could not afford the legal bills that would come with defending the law in court. Riverside already faces one lawsuit over the anti-illegal immigration ordinance, and a federal judge earlier this year found a similar ordinance in Hazleton, Pa., unconstitutional.
Officials estimated that nearly half the town's population of around 8,000 were illegal immigrants, and officials said the numbers were putting a strain on public services and already scarce parking spaces.
The law set fines of $1,000 on first-time offenders who knowingly hired or rented to illegal immigrants. That sparked protests, counterprotests and a lawsuit.