New Jersey Statutes Title 40. Municipalities and Counties 40 § 68A-33

b. (1) Whenever the governing body of the municipality which established the municipal port authority has adopted the provisions of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes,  1 all positions and employments of the municipal port authority shall be subject to the provisions of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes, and shall be allocated to appropriate titles by the Civil Service Commission.

(2) The Civil Service Commission shall provide the municipal port authority with a list of the positions and employments allocated to the classified service and the appropriate titles. Within 30 days of the receipt of the list, the municipal port authority shall certify to the Civil Service Commission the names of all those persons employed with the municipal port authority in the allocated positions and employments on the effective date of this act. After passing a qualifying examination, the employees so certified shall be recorded, under the appropriate titles, as having been permanently appointed in the classified service of civil service as of the dates of their original appointments. Thereafter, the employees shall be under and subject to the provisions of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes.

Persons appointed and employed by the municipal port authority after the effective date of this act shall be subject to the civil service examination and appointment procedures of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes.