New Jersey Statutes Title 40. Municipalities and Counties 40 § 69A-25.3

a. If the amended charter shall provide for the election of all council members for concurrent terms in a municipality where prior to the amendment council members were elected for staggered terms, at the next election at which municipal officers are elected, and at each succeeding municipal election thereafter until such time as it shall occur that all council members shall be elected at the same election, council members elected at that election shall serve for a term equal in years to the number which the council member currently serving and having the greatest number of years remaining of his term has yet to serve of his term. At the election that it shall occur that all council members shall be elected at the same time, each council member shall be elected for the term of years provided in the amended charter.

b. If the amended charter shall provide for the election of council members for staggered terms in a municipality where prior to the amendment council members were elected for concurrent terms, the amendment to the charter shall take effect for the next election at which municipal officers are elected in the municipality.