There is hereby created within the General Treasury a Revenue Sharing Fund of $50 million of the net revenues from the New Jersey Gross Income Tax Act.
Distribution of the revenue from the fund shall be made annually to all municipalities with an effective tax rate in excess of $1.00 per $100.00 of true valuation in the proportion which the population of the qualifying municipality bears to the total population of all qualifying municipalities of the State according to the most recent State population estimates published by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry, except that in the year of promulgation of a Federal decennial census, the census figures shall be used.
N.J.S. § 54A:10-4