a. The Lake Musconetcong Regional Planning Board may employ, contract for and fix the compensation of legal counsel, other than an attorney for a constituent municipality or county, and experts and other staff and services as it may deem necessary, provided, however, that such amounts may not exceed amounts appropriated for its use by the constituent municipalities and counties after their review and approval of the Board's annual budget.

b. The apportionment of costs and expenses of the Board shall be based upon the constituent municipalities' respective proportionate share of shoreline and specific percentages attributed to the constituent counties, as follows:

Borough of Netcong 18.7 percent

Borough of Stanhope 32.7 percent

County of Morris 12.5 percent

Township of Byram 3.5 percent

Township of Roxbury 20.1 percent

County of Sussex 12.5 percent

The State of New Jersey shall contribute towards the expenses of the Lake Musconetcong Regional Planning Board through the provision of professional services to the Board.