N.J. Stat. § 40A:7-14: Law applicable; copy of ordinance filed

Upon the ordinance becoming effective, the land described in the petition shall become a part of the municipality to which it is annexed, and all laws affecting the municipality to which it is annexed, and the ordinances and regulations of said municipality, shall extend to and have the same effect within the territory so annexed as they shall have theretofore had within the original limits of the annexing municipality, but no vested rights shall be changed or abrogated by such annexation.

Upon the annexation of any land the clerk of the municipality to which the land is annexed, shall immediately thereafter file in the office of the clerk of the county in which the land is situated, and in the office of the Secretary of State, a certified copy of the ordinance.

L.1979, c. 181, s. 2, eff. Aug. 29, 1979.