N.J.S.A. § 54:1-2.
Department; powers and duties
The department shall exercise exclusively all the powers and perform all the duties formerly exercised or performed by or conferred and imposed upon the state board of taxes and assessment, except those relating to the review, hearing and determination of appeals concerning the assessment, collection, apportionment or equalization of taxes, and shall have such other and further powers and perform such other and further duties in connection with the assessment, collection, apportionment and equalization of taxes and the administration of the tax laws, as may from time to time be conferred or imposed upon it.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 54:1-1. · State tax department continued; "department" defined
- 54:1-2. · Department; powers and duties
- 54:1-2.1 · Property Taxpayer Bill of Rights
- 54:1-6. · Commissioner to replace former board; exception
- 54:1-7. · Official seal; form
- 54:1-8. · Assistants; employment, duties and compensation
- 54:1-11. · Special deputy; powers continue until revoked; salary and…
- 54:1-12. · Commissioner may reorganize department; abolish positions
- 54:1-13. · Annual report to legislature; recommendations
- 54:1-14. · Books, records and documents; custody
- 54:1-15. · Municipal maps for tax purposes; preparation; authority of…
- 54:1-16. · Commissioner may issue subpoenas to witnesses
- 54:1-17. · Oaths administered; order compelling person to submit to…
- 54:1-18. · Investigation of irregularity or inequality of assessments
- 54:1-19. · Examination of assessors and other witnesses; view premises
- 54:1-20. · Increase of assessments to equalize valuations
- 54:1-21. · Decrease and equalization of assessments
- 54:1-22. · Notice to assessor and owner before change
- 54:1-23. · Notice and publication; service
- 54:1-24. · Taxes to conform to corrected valuation
- 54:1-25. · Investigation of method of local assessors
- 54:1-26. · Authority of director to reassess property
- 54:1-27. · Order for reassessment; failure of assessor to comply;…
- 54:1-28. · Notice of investigation; publication; mailing
- 54:1-29. · Completion of reassessments; correction of duplicates;…
- 54:1-30. · Investigation for securing true valuation every five years
- 54:1-33. · State equalization table prepared; copies to county boards…
- 54:1-34. · Equalization of assessments between counties; annual hearing
- 54:1-35. · Preparation of abstract of total ratables
- 54:1-35.1. · Table of equalized valuations; promulgation; place to be…
- 54:1-35.2. · Form and contents of table
- 54:1-35.25. · Examinations; applications; qualifications; fee
- 54:1-35.25a. · Dispensation with 4-year college requirement; duration
- 54:1-35.25b · Continuing education, training requirements for certified…
- 54:1-35.26. · Tax assessor certificate; fee
- 54:1-35.27. · Preservation of applications, test papers, etc.; records;…
- 54:1-35.28. · Certificate issued without examination; fee
- 54:1-35.29 · Revocation, suspension of tax assessor certificate
- 54:1-35.3. · True value; determination of ratio of aggregate assessed…
- 54:1-35.30. · Certificate necessary for appointment or reappointment