Casamasino v. City of Jersey City

In this appeal, as in Kaman v. Montague Township Committee, 158 N.J. 371, 730 A.2d 309 (1999), also decided today, a municipal tax assessor in political disfavor with the governing body of the municipality was removed from office on the basis that his status as a “holdover” tax assessor, who was neither reappointéd nor replaced after the expiration of his four-year statutory term, rendered him removable at will. In both cases, the Court upholds the municipality’s removal of the assessor. I believe that the *356Court’s dispositions frustrate the Legislature’s clearly articulated objective,…