... Terminal Leave Benefits Pursuant to Public Law 2010, Chapter 46, N.J.S.A. 40A:4-53" (Emergency Resolution) on August 10, 2010. The Emergency Resolution abolished ... annual installments over a period of five years pursuant to [ N.J.S.A. 40A:4-53(h)]." When mediation did not result in agreement on a ... preempted by subsection (h) of the Special Emergency Appropriations law, N.J.S.A. 40A:4-53, 3 which in relevant part read: A local unit may ... annual installments over a period not to exceed five years. [ N.J.S.A. 40A:4-53(h).] Both parties moved for summary judgment, contending that no ... note as well that [Regional] has exercised its option under N.J.S.A. 40A:4-53(h) to authorize 'special emergency appropriations' to fund 'contractually required ... s argument that it did not have to negotiate because N.J.S.A. 40A:4-53(h) referred to the employer's "sole discretion" in ...