[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Ridgefield 11-6-1974 by Ord. No. 992 as Ch. 12 of the 1967 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 17 of Article XX of Chapter 152 of the Laws of 1917,[1] there is hereby created a general board to make all assessments for benefits accruing from local improvements and to perform such other duties as are provided for by law. Such Board shall consist of three (3) members, to be appointed by the Mayor with the consent of the Borough Council. Such Board shall be known as "Commissioners of Assessment of the Borough of Ridgefield." Every member of such Board shall be a resident, citizen and freeholder of the Borough of Ridgefield, and upon any member ceasing to be either a resident, citizen or freeholder of the Borough of Ridgefield, his office shall become vacant.
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Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 40:56-21 et seq.
The term of office of each member of such Board shall be three (3) years from the first day of January in the year in which such appointment is made, provided that the members appointed after the passage of this chapter shall be appointed for terms of one (1), two (2) and three (3) years, respectively, from the first day of January 1922. All vacancies shall be filled.
In case any member of the Board hereby created shall be personally interested in any assessment or award to be made by such Board, then in such case the Mayor and Council shall appoint a substitute, who shall be a resident, citizen and freeholder of the borough, to act in the place and stead of such interested member in connection with such assessment or award.
Each person appointed pursuant to this chapter, either as a member of the Board of Commissioners or as a substitute for a member thereof as herein provided, shall, within ten (10) days after such appointment is made and confirmed, take and subscribe an oath or confirmation that he will faithfully and impartially discharge all his duties as Commissioner of Assessment of the Borough of Ridgefield to the best of his skill and ability, which said oath shall be filed with the Borough Clerk, who shall preserve the same as a public record.
A. 
Said Commissioners shall receive no salary, but shall be paid at the following rates:
(1) 
A minimum fee of one hundred dollars ($100.).
(2) 
A fee of two per centum (2%) on the total cost of any improvement where the total cost of said improvement does not exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000.).
(3) 
Where the total cost of any improvement exceeds the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.) but does not exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.), a fee of one and one-half per centum (1 1/2%) on the excess.
(4) 
Where the total cost of any improvement exceeds the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20.000.), a fee of one per centum (1%) on the excess.
B. 
Said fees shall be equally divided among said Commissioners.