8. a. Whenever any municipality, pursuant to the authority granted in section 7 of this act, shall amend its charter to include an alternative permitted under its plan of government and included in Group B. of subsection b. of section 7 of this act, the terms of all council members, and directly elected mayor if affected, currently serving in the municipality on the date of the election at which the amendment was adopted, and of all affected officers elected at that election, shall terminate on June 30, or December 31, as appropriate to the election provisions of the amended charter, next following the date of the first election of officers under the amended charter. The nomination and election of those municipal officers as are required shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the amended charter and appropriate law for the election to be held on the second Tuesday in May next following the date of adoption, or on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November next following the date of adoption. If the amendment adopted to the charter shall provide for the division of the municipality into wards, or by its terms require an increase or decrease in the number of wards into which the municipality is divided, the ward boundaries required by the amended charter shall be fixed and determined pursuant to law within 90 days of the date of adoption.

If the municipality shall at the same time amend its charter to include an alternative permitted under its plan of government and included in Group A., Group C., Group D. or Group E. of subsection b. of section 7 of this act, the transitional provisions of this section shall apply and the provisions of all amendments shall take effect for the election to be held pursuant to this section.

b. In any municipality which has amended its charter with regard to the holding of elections according to the alternatives set forth in Group A of section 7 of P.L.1981, c.465 (C. 40:69A-25.1), where council members are elected for concurrent terms, the first election of council members following the referendum adopting the charter amendment shall take place at the next regular municipal election or general election, as appropriate to the election provisions of the amended charter, which shall occur in the final year of the terms of those council members serving at the time the referendum is adopted. Where council members are elected for staggered terms, except as provided below, each council member serving or elected at the time that the referendum adopting the charter amendment takes place, shall complete the term of office which he is currently serving, or to which he is elected at the time of the referendum. At the regular municipal election or general election, as appropriate to the election provisions of the amended charter, which shall occur in the final year of the term of each member, the office shall be filled according to the election provisions of the amended charter, and the term of the affected council member shall terminate on June 30 or December 31, as appropriate to the election provisions of the amended charter.

L.1981,c.465,s.8; amended 1991,c.430,s.4.