The Department of Community Affairs published the final  rules governing the mandatory training of Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment members. They appear in the New Jersey Register July 17, 2006 edition. The rules discuss eligibility, mandated curriculum and testing, time frames and more. 

Mandatory education for board members was signed into law in July 2005.  See the full content of the statute, CHAPTER 133: an Act concerning members of planning boards and zoning boards of adjustment and amending and supplementing chapter 55D of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes.