New Jersey Statutes Title 44. Poor 44 § 8-135

If any municipality, in which public assistance is being administered by the commissioner in any year, shall give notice in writing to the commissioner, before the first day of January of the next year, of its election to administer its own public assistance in such next year, such municipality shall thereafter, beginning with said first day of January, administer its own public assistance and be entitled to receive State aid in accordance with the formula set forth in section twenty-three of this act,  1 but such municipality may in any succeeding year make application to the commissioner, as provided in this act, to administer its public assistance.