Each board of managers and each division chief shall, at such time as shall be fixed by the state board, file with the commissioner a written report concerning the conduct of the institution or the phase of work or agency intrusted to it during the preceding year, which report shall contain such detail of information as the commissioner shall prescribe, including estimates for the conduct of the institution or agency during the coming year. From these reports, with such other matter regarding the continuous development of the charitable, hospital, relief and training institutions and correctional institutions and noninstitutional agencies of this state or matters allied thereto as the state board or commissioner shall see fit to include, the report of the state board shall be compiled and filed with the governor at such time as may be provided by law. Such report shall set forth the true condition of each and every such institution and noninstitutional agency, with such recommendations with reference thereto, or the extension and development thereof, as the state board may determine. The state board shall make the requisition for the annual state appropriation to be made in behalf of the department, in such form and at such time as may be prescribed under the present or any future budget system of this state.
N.J.S. § 30:4-126