The Director and Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Office of Administrative Law shall:
Administrative law judges shall receive such salaries as provided by section 4 of P.L. 1978, c.67 (C.52:14F-4), as amended by P.L. 1999, c. 380, shall not engage in the practice of law and shall devote full time to their judicial duties.
Administrative law judges appointed after the effective date of this amendatory act shall have been attorneys-at-law of this State for a minimum of five years. An administrative law judge appointed prior to the effective date of this amendatory act shall not be required to be an attorney or, if an attorney, shall not be required to have been an attorney-at-law for five years in order to be reappointed;
N.J.S. § 52:14F-5