The grant of powers under this amendatory and supplementary act is intended to be as broad as is consistent with the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and with general law relating to local government. The grant of powers shall be construed as liberally as possible in regard to the county’s right to reorganize its structure and to alter or abolish its agencies, subject to the general mandate of performing services, whether they be performed by the agency previously established or by a new agency or another department of county government. All county offices, boards, commissions, and authorities authorized or established by statute, other than those boards and offices which are subject to the provisions of subsection b. of section 4 of this amendatory and supplementary act, and other than educational institutions authorized or established pursuant to Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes, shall be considered to be county agencies for the purposes of this section.

L. 1987, c. 236, s. 3.