New Jersey Statutes Title 52. State Government, Departments and Officers 52 § 9R-4

The committee shall be entitled to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of the employees of the Law Revision and Legislative Services Commission, as well as employees of any other State, county or municipal department, board, bureau, commission or agency as it may require and as may be available to it for said purpose, and to employ such professional, stenographic and clerical assistants and incur such traveling and other miscellaneous expenses as it may deem necessary, in order to perform its duties, and as may be within the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to it for said purposes.  The committee shall have all the powers of a joint committee of the Legislature under the provisions of chapter 13 of Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.  1