54:3-5.1 Reports to the director.

19. a. The president of each county board of taxation shall annually on or before August 15 report to the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury, except that the president of a county board of taxation participating in the demonstration program established in section 4 of P.L.2013, c.15 (C.54:1-104), the president of a county board of taxation in a county operating under the "Property Tax Assessment Reform Act," P.L.2009, c.118 (C.54:1-86 et seq.), and the president of a county board of taxation of a county that has adopted, by resolution, the provisions of section 1 of P.L.2018, c.94 (C.54:1-105), shall make this required report to the director annually on or before June 1. Such report shall be in such form as shall be prescribed by the director and shall contain such information and statistics as may be appropriate to demonstrate for the immediately preceding 3-month period during which tax appeals were heard by the county board: the total number of appeals filed with the county board; the disposition of the various appeals disposed of during that period; the character of appeals filed with regard to the classification of properties appealed; the total amount of assessments involved in those appeals; the number of appeals filed in each filing fee category during that period; and, the total amount of reductions and increases of assessed valuation granted by the board during that period.

b. The Director of the Division of Taxation shall annually review the reports required under subsection a. of this section, and shall include a summary of the information contained therein in the division's annual report.

L.1979, c.499, s.19; amended 2013, c.15, s.6; 2017, c.306, s.1; 2018, c.94, s.2.