E-16 - Real Estate Assessment Act

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45. The Gouvernement shall appoint the members of the Board, designate its chairman and vice-chairman who are chosen from among the members who are advocates or notaries, and determine their salaries, their terms of office and their other conditions of employment.
Those members may be permanent or special and work on a full-time or part-time basis. A permanent member working on a full-time basis shall not hold any other public office or deal with matters other than those of his office.
Before coming into office they shall swear or solemnly promise to perform well their duties.
Members of the Board have the powers and immunities provided for in sections 9, 10, 11, 12 and 16 of the Act respecting public inquiry commissions (chapter C-37).
The chairman and vice-chairman of the Board shall respectively act as chairman of the sections determined by the Gouvernement.
The mayors, councillors, officers, assessors, legal counsel or other professionals of a municipal corporation whose territory is under the jurisdiction of the Board shall not be members thereof. This prohibition shall extend to the associates and staff of the assessors, legal advisors and other professionals.
1971, c. 50, s. 45; 1973, c. 31, s. 21; 1975, c. 68, s. 19.