Mr. Duncan, a founder of Americans for Safe Access, a medical marijuana advocacy group, said he was meeting with officials at City Hall at the time of the raid, trying to work out a local ordinance under Proposition 215, which allows the medical use of marijuana.
They said Mr. Gulotta vetoed the entire tax ordinance they had passed, leaving the county with no law under which to collect taxes.
Among the petitions filed with the courts are several that seek to annul the National Reconciliation Ordinance under which the former president allowed exiled political leaders like Benazir Bhutto to return to Pakistan to contest elections eventually held in February 2008.
Mr. Halbert's dispensary will have to close under the ordinance, which caps the number of dispensaries at 70.
Under the ordinance, which had been in effect since at least the 1970's, many laborers were given summonses and fined.
Under the ordinance, which is expected to take effect in Princeton and Princeton Township in 30 days, smoking indoors will be limited to cigar shops and homes.
Prisoners with no assets will not have to pay, but the county has the ability to garnish wages and place liens on homes under the ordinance, which goes into effect this week.
A U.P.S. spokeswoman, Kristen Petrella, said the company had not removed its barbed wire because it believes the fence is permitted under the ordinance, which refers at one point to "sharp projections facing outward".
But under the new ordinance, which goes into effect next week, taco carts would be required to change location every hour, with violators facing fines, misdemeanor charges and, possibly, jail time.
