The Board of Adjustment shall elect a Chairman
and Vice Chairman from its members and shall also select a Secretary
who may or may not be a member of the Board or a municipal employee.
When any member of the Zoning Board of Adjustment
has been absent for one or more of the meetings at which a hearing
was held, he shall be eligible to vote on the matter upon which the
hearing was conducted, notwithstanding his absence from one or more
of the meetings; provided, however, that such Board member has available
to him the transcript or recording of all of the hearing from which
he was absent and certifies in writing to the Board that he has read
such transcript or listened to such recording.
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.
In accordance with the provisions set forth
in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-74 or amendments thereto, the Board of Adjustment
has the power to reverse or affirm wholly or partly or may modify
the action, order, requirement, decision, interpretation or determination
appealed from and make such other requirements, 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.
[Amended 10-5-1995 by Ord. No. 942-95]
Any variance from the terms of the Site Plan
or Zoning Ordinance hereafter granted by the Board of Adjustment or the Planning
Board to permit the construction, alteration, conversion or use of
any premises shall expire unless such construction, alteration, conversion
or use shall have been actually and actively commenced, within three
years from the date of Publication of Notice of the decision by the
Zoning Board of Adjustment or Planning Board unless said three-year
period of approval has been otherwise extended by statute, Court proceeding
or Board action. Any such request for extension of the variance approval
time shall require formal application, public notice as required in
the case of variance application and a public hearing before the Board
which previously granted the variance in question.