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2016 Delaware Code
Title 9 - Counties
CHAPTER 13. COUNTY DEPARTMENTS
Subchapter I Department of Land Use
§ 1319. Appointment and duties of additional Board members and referees.

Universal Citation:
9 DE Code § 1319 (2016)
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(a) The County Council may by ordinance expand the Board of Assessment Review by adding 6 additional members who shall serve for a term of 1 year. The County Council shall appoint 1 member from each of council districts not represented on the Board pursuant to § 1317 of this title who shall be residents and freeholders of the districts from which appointed. No member shall forfeit his or her office by virtue of lack of continued residence in the district from which appointed if the potential disqualification shall arise solely from a change in the boundaries of a council district.

(b) The County Council may by ordinance authorize appointment of referees to hear appeals of property assessments. The general manager of the Department of Land Use shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the County Council, such referees as are authorized by ordinance. Referees appointed hereunder shall be members of the Bar of the State.

(c) Appeals may be heard by panels of 3 or more members of the Board or by the referees individually when the referees are so authorized pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. The panel or the referee shall submit a recommendation to the Board which shall determine whether the assessment is correct based upon the record of the appeal hearing and the recommendation of the panel or the referee.

(d) Referees shall be paid as provided by the County Council.

9 Del. C. 1953, § 1307A; 58 Del. Laws, c. 559, § 1; 60 Del. Laws, c. 45, §§ 1, 2; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 401, § 59; 78 Del. Laws, c. 33, § 2.;

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