New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 54 § 6-5(52)

2. I [In] case any town, township, borough or other municipality of this state shall have heretofore instituted and commenced proceedings under the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement, and shall have heretofore undergone a transition and risen from a lower to a higher grade of municipality and become incorporated as a township, borough, city or other municipality, and shall have after such transition and incorporation continued such proceedings under the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement, any and all proceedings so had between such transition and incorporation and the passage of this supplement are hereby validated and confirmed, and shall be as effective as if such town, township, borough or other municipality had continued such proceedings without undergoing such transition, arising from a lower to a higher grade of municipality and becoming incorporated as a township, borough, city or other municipality.