40:63-119 - Commissioners; oath and duties; assessment proportionate to benefits; excess apportioned between municipalities - New Jersey Statutes

40:63-119.  Commissioners;  oath and duties;  assessment proportionate to benefits;  excess apportioned between municipalities    The commissioners before they enter upon the execution of their duties shall  severally take and subscribe an oath that they will make such assessment fairly  and impartially, according to the best of their skill and judgment, and  thereupon shall at once proceed to perform the duties hereby imposed upon them.   They shall, within sixty days, unless the court shall, before or after its  expiration, extend the time, make a just and equitable assessment of the costs,  damages and expenses of the improvements, or any part thereof, upon the lands  and real estate located in any of the territory of such municipality fronting  on the improvement or works which are peculiarly benefited thereby, in  proportion to and not in excess of the advantage each shall be deemed to  acquire.

    If the costs, damages, and expenses shall exceed the amount of the benefits,  the excess shall be assessed upon and paid by the municipalities respectively  so jointly contracting in accordance with the provisions in the joint contract  for the apportionment or percentages of costs, damages and expenses among the  jointly contracting municipalities.

     Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 723, s. 228, eff. March 19, 1953.