The Board of Adjustment shall elect a Chairman and Vice Chairman
from its members and shall also select a Secretary who may be either
a Board member or another municipal employee.
There is hereby created the office of Attorney to the Zoning
Board of Adjustment. The Zoning Board of Adjustment shall annually
appoint or contract for and fix the compensation of the Zoning Board
of Adjustment Attorney, who shall be an attorney other than the Municipal
Attorney.
The Zoning Board of Adjustment may also employ or contract for
and fix the compensation of such experts and other staff and services
as it may deem necessary. The Board shall not authorize expenditures
which exceed, exclusive of gifts or grants, the amount appropriated
by the governing body for its use.
The Board shall adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary
to carry into effect the provisions and purposes of this chapter.
In the issuance of subpoenas, administration of oaths and taking of
testimony, the provisions of the County and Municipal Investigations
Law of 1953 (N.J.R.S. 2A:67A-1 et seq.) shall apply.
In exercising the above-mentioned power, the Board of Adjustment
may, in conformity with the provisions of the Municipal Land Use Law,
or amendments thereto or subsequent statutes applying, reverse or
affirm, wholly or partly, or modify the order, requirement, decision
or determination appealed from and make sure other requirement, decision
or determination as ought to be made and to that end have all the
powers of the administrative officer from whom the appeal was taken.
Any variance from the terms of this chapter hereafter granted
by the Zoning Board of Adjustment permitting the erection or alteration
of any structure or structures or permitting a specified use of any
premises shall expire by limitation unless such construction or alteration
shall have been actually commenced on each and every structure permitted
by said variance, or unless such permitted use has actually been commenced,
within 18 months from the date of entry of the judgment or determination
of the Board of Adjustment; except, however, that the running of the
period of limitation herein provided shall be tolled from the date
of filing an appeal from the decision of the Board of Adjustment to
the governing body or to a court of competent jurisdiction, until
the termination in any manner of such appeal or proceeding.