N.J. Stat. § 30:9-25.2
Upon receipt from the Civil Service Commission of a list of the positions and employments so allocated to the classified service and their appropriate titles, the board of chosen freeholders of any county of the first class which has established a maternity hospital in accordance with the provisions of section 30:9-24 of the Revised Statutes shall certify to the Civil Service Commission within 30 days of receipt of such a list, the names of all those employees then employed in such county maternity hospital in such allocated positions and employments who have been employed for at least 1 year next preceding the effective date of this act. In lieu of such certification, the board of chosen freeholders, by resolution may authorize the certification to be made by the Board of Managers of such hospital. The employees so certified shall be recorded, under such titles, without examination, as having been permanently appointed in the classified service of Civil Service as of the date of their original appointment and shall thereafter be under and subject to the provisions of subtitle 3 of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes relating to the classified service.
N.J.S. § 30:9-25.2