199. No officer or employee of a local municipality or municipal body responsible for assessment who devotes his working time exclusively to a matter contemplated in any of sections 195 to 196.1 may be dismissed for the sole reason that the exercise of jurisdiction has been delegated under that section.
1979, c. 72, s. 199; 1991, c. 32, s. 96; 1996, c. 67, s. 46.