§ 9:3A-9 — Functions, powers, duties of Office of Children's Services transferred to department.

9. All of the functions, powers, and duties of the Office of Children's Services in the Department of Human Services, and the power to receive, allocate, expend, and authorize the expenditure of federal moneys available for children and families are hereby transferred and assigned to, assumed by, and devolved upon the Department of Children and Families. To effectuate such transfer there shall also be transferred such officers and employees as are necessary, all appropriations or reappropriations, to the extent of remaining unexpended or unencumbered balances thereof, whether allocated or unallocated and whether obligated or unobligated, and all necessary books, papers, records and property. All rules, regulations, acts, determinations, and decisions in force at the time of such transfer and proceedings or other such matters undertaken, commenced, or pending by or before the Office of Children's Services at the time of such transfer shall continue in force and effect until duly modified, abrogated or completed by the Department of Children and Families. As used in this section, the Office of Children's Services includes, but is not limited to, the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, the Division of Children's System of Care, the Division of Family and Community Partnerships, and the New Jersey Child Welfare Training Academy in the Department of Human Services. L.2006, c.47, s.9; amended 2012, c.16, s.19.