The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-20

An Act i'll relation to the appointment OF
members of the boards of assessment
and revision of taxes in the cities or
this state and fixing the salary of the
same.
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and GEN
eral Assembly of the State of New Jersey {,
That where in any of the cities of this
state boards exist having the control of
the assessment and revision of taxes, and
the duties OF assessment and revision are
imposed upon the same board or body,
the members of such board may, at the
discretion of the mayor and common
council or other governing body of such
city, be hereafter selected and appointed
as foflows.-atsthe expiration of the term
of office OF any member or members Of
such board, the mayor of such city may
nominate and, by and with the advice
and consent of the said council or
other governing body, appoint one or
more members to fill the vacancy or va
cancies so occasioned, and continue to SO
nominate ana appoint until all the mem
bers of the said boards are In this man
ner chosen and appointed; and the term
of office OF the persons so appointed shall
be so arranged that the term of one mem
Der shall expire eachiyeur, and thereafter
the term of Office of each member SO APP
pointed shall be five years; and the
annual salaries of such officers
shall be the sum of twenty
five hundred dollars, payable in equal
monthly installments: provided, that this
act shall not apply to any city that by
popular vote has accepted the provisions
of the act approved April sixth, one thou
sand eight hundred and eighty-nine. en-
titled IAN act concerning the govern
ment of cities of this state.
2. Ard be it enacted That the qualifi-
cations, powers and duties of the said
board and the members thereof so APP
Ifl.,
required from. conferred or imposed on
boards for the assessment and revision of
taxes and the members thereof in the
city or cities in and for which the mem
bers of said boards are or may be so APP
pointed.
8. And be 1t enacted, That in nominat-
ing and appointing the members of the
said boards under the authority Of this
act, the appointment so made shall be
made, as near as may be, both as to num-
Der ana term of service, from the two po-
litical parties casting the largest number
of votes at the last preceding municipal
election.
a. And be it enacted, That vacancies
which may happen for any cause during
the term of any member so appointed
may be filed in the manner herein pro-
vided, for the unexpired term, and the
members SO appointed to I'LL any such
vacancy shall have the same qualifica-
lions and be selected from the same party
rs the member for whose nnexpired term
he is appointed.
5. And be it enacted, That If for any
cause vacancy may happen in the term
or terms of any member or members of
the said board now IN office, such vacancy
or vancies may be filed in the manner
herein provided. and in every such case
the appointment so made shall be deemed
and taken as an original appointment
under this act to the same extent as if
the appointment had been made at the
expiration OF the term or terms of office
of the member or members SO appointed
g. And be it enacted, That where
in any city members of the
said board are or may be appoint
ed in the manner herein provided, no
other method of appointment or selection
shall be lawful there in, and that all acts
and parts Of acts inconsistent with this
be ana they are hereby repealed, and that
this act shall take effect Immediately.
Passed March 81, 1890