New Jersey Statutes Title 40. Municipalities and Counties 40 § 56A-12

If any municipality which has heretofore established an environmental commission under the act to which this act is a supplement shall enter into participation in a joint environmental commission, such environmental commission heretofore established shall be abolished upon the taking effect of the ordinance establishing the joint environmental commission, and the terms of the members of such abolished environmental commission shall immediately cease and terminate. Except as may otherwise be provided in the ordinance establishing such joint commission, all employees of such abolished environmental commission and all the records, property and funds in its possession or under its control shall be transferred to the joint environmental commission, and all its debts and other financial obligations shall be assumed by the joint environmental commission.