Haus v. Mayor

The opinion of the court was delivered by

BRODY, J.A.D.

This appeal requires us to interpret that portion of N.J.S.A. 40A:9-165 which protects a municipal tax assessor, municipal tax collector and municipal clerk (protected officers) from being denied “without good cause an increase in salary given to all other municipal officers and employees____” In the only reported opinion on the subject, Judge Rimm found that the statute protected a municipal tax assessor whom the governing body obviously had singled out for a token raise as a political reprisal. Mun. Assessors of N.J. v. Mullica Tp., 225…