New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 18 - TREASURY - TAXATION
Chapter 17 - ASSESSOR QUALIFICATION LAW
Subchapter 1 - EXAMINATIONS
Section 18:17-1.6 - Preservation of confidential records

(a) The Director preserves the applications, confidential test papers, and other work, except such as is returned to the applicant, and keeps a record of the results of the examinations and the date of issuance of tax assessor certificates for a period of five years from the date of the exam. After which such records may, at the discretion of the Director, be destroyed. All tax assessor certificates issued after July 1, 2000, are dated uniformly in order to facilitate the administration of assessor continuing education requirements as follows: January 1 of the year following all September examinations; and July 1 in the same calendar year following all March examinations.

(b) The Director, at his or her discretion, may issue a tax assessor certificate at any time. Such circumstances include where an examinee passed the exam and has an offer for employment prior to the ordinary certificate issue date that requires the individual to have a tax assessor certificate or where the certificate was lost due to unforeseen natural causes and the assessor remains in good standing.