40:3-8 - Commissioners not to receive compensation; bonds; secretary and assistants
40:3-8. Commissioners not to receive compensation; bonds; secretary and assistants
The members of the sinking fund commission shall receive no compensation, and shall give bond with corporate security to the municipality, county, or school district, as the case may be, for the faithful performance of their duties, in such sum as shall from time to time be fixed by the governing body of the municipality, county or school district.
When authorized by the governing body the sinking fund commission may employ a secretary and other assistants at such salary as the governing body may fix, or may appoint one of its members as secretary, and one as treasurer, or one of its members to fill both offices, and allow such appointee or appointees such compensation as may be fixed by the governing body.
All surety bond premiums, compensations and all expenses necessarily incurred by the sinking fund commission in the discharge of its duties shall be paid from general funds, and not from the sinking fund accounts.