New Jersey § acts:saved-54 - (32)

§ acts:saved-54. (32)

1. In case any commissioners of adjustment that have heretofore been appointed under

the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, shall not have entered upon

the discharge of their duties, and shall have failed to take and file with the clerk

of the town, township, borough or other municipality for which they were appointed,

the oath of office required to be taken by the officers of the town, township, borough

or other municipality for which they were appointed, within thirty days after their

appointment, which oath is provided for by the act to which this is a supplement,

and shall have failed within thirty days after their appointment to cause a notice

signed by themselves to be published in at least one newspaper printed and circulating

in the town, township, borough or other municipality for which they were appointed,

making known thereby that the said commissioners will meet at a time and place to

be therein designated, not more than forty or less than thirty days from the date

of the first publication of the notice, to hear all persons interested in the reassessment

of [or] adjustment under the act to which this is a supplement, of the taxes, assessments

or water rates in arrears in the said town, township, borough or other municipality,

or such part thereof as the said commissioners shall designate in the notice, which

notice is provided for by the said act to which this is a supplement, it shall be

lawful for the said commissioners to hereafter take and file the said oath, and within

thirty days after they shall have taken and filed the said oath with the said clerk,

to give and publish the said notice in the said newspaper or newspapers, for the time

aforesaid; and the taking and filing of the said oath and the giving and publishing

of the said notice in the manner aforesaid, shall to all intents and purposes be as

lawful as if the said oath had been taken and filed, and the said notice given and

published within thirty days after the appointment of the said commissioners of adjustment;

provided, that the said commissioners of adjustment shall take and file the said oath

before entering upon the discharge of any of the duties of their office.