N.J. Stat. § 1:3-3.1: Numbering of laws; first and second annual session

Every bill and joint resolution enacted into law during the first annual session of a Legislature shall be numbered and printed as a public law of that legislative year. Every bill and joint resolution introduced in the first annual session of a Legislature and enacted into law after the convening of the second annual session of the same Legislature shall be numbered and printed as a public law of the legislative year of the second annual session.

L.1970, c. 1, s. 1, eff. Jan. 26, 1970.