N.J. Stat. § 43:17-4
Any association organized prior to March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, for the purposes intended by this article, whether incorporated or not, shall be reorganized and incorporated or reincorporated under this article, except corporations which have been created or continued by special act of the legislature. A corporation incorporated by special act may, if it sees fit, be reorganized and reincorporated under this article. In case of incorporation or reincorporation, the president and secretary shall sign, record and file a certificate as provided in R.S. 43:17-2. Thereupon the association or corporation shall be a corporation under this article and shall have all the powers and privileges conferred by this article on corporations formed under it, and no other powers or privileges. A corporation reorganized and reincorporated under this article shall succeed to and be seized of all the right, title and interest in any property belonging to it under its former organization. The representatives, trustees and other officers of any association or corporation reorganized and incorporated or reincorporated under this article, shall continue to serve as such until the election following the reorganization, and until their successors are respectively elected, and not thereafter, and the membership thereof shall be subject to the same conditions and have the same rights as provided in R.S. 43:17-9. If any such association or corporation shall not have been reorganized and incorporated or reincorporated under this article within one year after March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, it shall be deemed to have forfeited its charter.
N.J.S. § 43:17-4