New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 43 - Pensions And Retirement And Unemployment Compensation

• Section 43:1-1 - Age As Bar To Eligibility For Pension Fund; Exceptions
  Any person of the age of 40 years or over, who accepts any employment in the State or any county or municipality thereof shall...
• Section 43:1-1.1 - Deduction Of Period Of Military, Naval Or Related Service In Determining
  When the qualifications for eligibility for membership in any existing pension fund or retirement system of this State or of any county, municipality, school...
• Section 43:1-2 - Suspension Of Right, Or Disqualification, During Confinement In Penal Institution
  No pension or subsidy shall be paid by this State or by any municipality or school district of this State to any person for...
• Section 43:1-3 - Receipt Of Pension, Retirement Benefits Conditioned Upon Honorable Service; Forfeiture Of Pension, Service Credit Due To Misconduct; Evaluation.
  1. a. The receipt of a public pension or retirement benefit is hereby expressly conditioned upon the rendering of honorable service by a public...
• Section 43:1-3.1 - Forfeiture Of Pension, Retirement Benefit For Conviction Of Certain Crimes; Definition, Certain.
  2. a. A person who holds or has held any public office, position, or employment, elective or appointive, under the government of this State...
• Section 43:1-3.2 - Subpoena Powers Of Board Of Trustees Of Pension Fund, Retirement System.
  3.The board of trustees of any State or locally-administered pension fund or retirement system created under the laws of this State may subpoena witnesses...
• Section 43:1-3.3 - Employer Responsibility For Reimbursement To Pension Fund, Retirement System, Certain.
  4.A State, county or local employer participating in a State or locally-administered pension fund or retirement system shall be responsible for reimbursement to the...
• Section 43:1-4 - Communication Of Prosecution Commencing, Conviction Entered
  2. A county or municipal prosecutor shall inform the Director of the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety...
• Section 43:1-5 - Notice Of Removal From Office, Employment
  3. Whenever any State or local public employer takes formal disciplinary action against an officer or employee who is a member of any State...
• Section 43:2-1 - Transfer Upon Certain Changes Of Office Or Employment
  Any officer or employee who is a member of and entitled to benefits in any retirement system or pension fund operated wholly or partly...
• Section 43:2-2 - Entry Into Other System Or Fund; Credits And Contributions
  When a member of any such retirement system or pension fund of this state changes his office or employment or is transferred in such...
• Section 43:2-3 - Expenses To Effectuate Chapter
  The board, body or person administering the second retirement system or pension fund may appropriate and expend any sum of money necessary to effectuate...
• Section 43:2-4 - School District Employees Taking Employment With Municipality Or County
  Any employee of any school district in this State, who was or is a member of the teachers' pension and annuity fund, and who...
• Section 43:2-5 - Notice Of Intention To Transfer Membership
  Said applicant shall notify the administrative head of the teachers' pension and annuity fund, at the time of his application to such retirement system...
• Section 43:2-6 - Credit
  Such applicant shall be entitled as a member of such retirement system or pension fund to such credit by way of pension and annuity...
• Section 43:2-7 - Law Secretary Or Secretary-stenographer Of Superior Court Judge; Transfer From County To State Retirement System
  In the event of a change or transfer of a Superior Court Judge assigned to the Law Division to another county, division of the...
• Section 43:3a-1 - Absence Of Two Months Under Circumstances Indicating Accidental Death In Performance Of Duties
  In case any person holding office, position or employment in the service of the State, and being a member, in good standing, of any...
• Section 43:3a-2 - Payment Of Pension To Dependents From Date Of Presumed Death
  The board of trustees of any such pension or retirement system or fund shall, after the receipt of such certificate, make payment of any...
• Section 43:3a-3 - Proof That Person Was Alive When Pension Was Paid To Dependents; Appropriation
  If, thereafter, it shall be proved that the said person was alive at any time when any sums were paid by way of pension...
• Section 43:3b-1 - Definitions; Short Title
  As used in this act: a. "Retirant" means any person who was employed by the State of New Jersey, any of its instrumentalities, any...
• Section 43:3b-2 - Adjustment Of Monthly Retirement Allowance, Pension Or Survivorship Benefit.
  2.The monthly retirement allowance or pension originally granted to any retirant and the pension or survivorship benefit originally granted to any beneficiary shall be...
• Section 43:3b-3 - Percentage Of Adjustment; Calculation
  For retirants and beneficiaries, the percentage of adjustment which shall apply to the retirement allowance, survivorship benefit or pension originally granted to a retirant...
• Section 43:3b-4 - Certification, Appropriation And Payment Of Cost Of Adjustment By Employer; Employer's Failure To Pay; Penalty; Collection
  Except in the case of retirants and beneficiaries of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, each employer shall bear the cost of the adjustment...
• Section 43:3b-4a - Pension Adjustment Benefits Paid By Retirement System
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L. 1969, c. 169 (C. 43:3B-1 et seq.), pension adjustment benefits provided under the act for...
• Section 43:3b-4.1 - Failure To Appropriate Money For Increases; Effect
  If, in any year, the State does not appropriate the amount required under section 4 of P.L.1958, c. 143 (C. 43:3B-4), no adjustments in...
• Section 43:3b-4.2 - Benefits Under "Pension Adjustment Act"; Funding
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L.1969, c.169 (C.43:3B-1 et seq.), pension adjustment benefits provided for under the act for members and...
• Section 43:3b-4.3 - Pension Adjustment Benefits To Be Paid By Pers
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L.1958, c.143 (C.43:3B-1 et seq.), pension adjustment benefits provided under that act for members and beneficiaries...
• Section 43:3b-4.4 - Payment Of Benefits By Judicial Retirement System
  11. Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Pension Adjustment Act, P.L.1958, c.143 (C.43:3B-1 et seq.), pension adjustment benefits provided under that act for members of...
• Section 43:3b-4.5 - Payment Of Benefits By Retirement System
  31. Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L.1958, c.143 (C.43:3B-1 et seq.), pension adjustment benefits provided under that act for members and...
• Section 43:3b-5 - Commencement Of Adjustment Of Retirement Allowance, Pension Or Survivorship Benefit Payments; Duration
  The adjustment in retirement allowances, pensions and survivorship benefits provided for under this act and under section 6 of P.L.1969, c. 169 (C. 43:3B-6)...
• Section 43:3b-6 - Waiver Of Right To Increased Retirement Allowance, Survivorship Benefit Or Pension
  Any person who is eligible to receive the increased retirement allowance, survivorship benefit or pension under the provisions of this act may, at any...
• Section 43:3b-7 - Review Of Index; Determination Of Percentum Of Change; Retirant Defined
  a. On or before October 1, 1977 and by the same date in each subsequent year, the Director of the Division of Pensions shall...
• Section 43:3b-8 - Blanket Increase; Termination Of Other Increases; Review Of Amounts
  If legislation is adopted providing for a blanket increase in original retirement allowances, survivorship benefits or pensions or for minimum allowances, benefits or pensions...
• Section 43:3b-8.1 - Calculation Of Annual Adjustment
  The provisions of section 7 of P.L. 1969, c. 169 (C. 43:3B-8) shall not apply to section 26 of P.L. 1967, c. 250 (C....
• Section 43:3b-8.2 - Cost Of Living Adjustment
  The provisions of section 7 of P.L. 1969, c. 169 (C. 43:3B-8) shall not apply to R.S. 43:16-3, R.S. 43:16-4 and section 10 of...
• Section 43:3b-8.3 - Applicability Of Cola
  2. The provisions of section 7 of P.L.1969, c.169 (C.43:3B-8) shall not apply to section 14 of P.L.1965, c.89 (C.53:5A-14), as amended by section...
• Section 43:3b-8.4 - Calculation Of Annual Adjustment
  2. The provisions of section 7 of P.L.1969, c.169 (C.43:3B-8) shall not apply to section 26 of P.L.1967, c.250 (C.43:16A-12.1) as amended by this...
• Section 43:3b-8.5 - Nonapplicability Of C.43:3b-8 To P. L.1997, C.281
  3.The provisions of section 7 of P.L.1969, c.169 (C.43:3B-8) shall not apply to section 7 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-7), as amended by this act,...
• Section 43:3b-8.6 - Inapplicability Of C.43:3b-8 To P. L.2001, C.4
  6.The provisions of section 7 of P.L.1969, c.169 (C.43:3B-8) shall not apply to R.S.43:16-1 or section 16 of P.L.1964, c.241 (C.43:16A-11.1) as amended by...
• Section 43:3b-9 - Rules And Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Pensions shall promulgate such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as he shall...
• Section 43:3b-10 - Increase In Expenditures Required By Act; Mandated Costs Not Subject To Expenditure Limitations
  Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1976, c. 68 (C. 40A:4-45.1 et seq.) or rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, any increase in expenditure required as...
• Section 43:3c-1 - Pensioners In Public Employment
  1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, if a former member of any pension fund or retirement system, contributory or noncontributory, established under...
• Section 43:3c-2 - Repeal
  Chapter 3 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, and all amendments and supplements thereto, is repealed. L.1968, c. 23, s. 2, eff. April...
• Section 43:3c-3 - Reemployment In Elected Public Office; Option For Benefits
  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, if a former member of any pension fund or retirement system, contributory or noncontributory, established under any...
• Section 43:3c-4 - Depository Institution Defined
  As used in this act, "depository institution" means a banking institution as defined in section 1 of "The Banking Act of 1948," P.L.1948, c....
• Section 43:3c-5 - Agreement For Direct Deposit Of Monthly Payment For Retirant Or Beneficiary
  Any law, rule or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, the Division of Pensions shall honor an agreement executed between a retirant or beneficiary of...
• Section 43:3c-6 - Retirant, Defined
  As used in this act, "retirant" means any person who was employed by the State of New Jersey, any of its instrumentalities, any of...
• Section 43:3c-7 - Minimum Retirement Allowance
  A retirant shall receive a minimum retirement allowance of $6,000.00 per year from the Division of Pensions in the Department of the Treasury. L.1984,...
• Section 43:3c-8 - Rules And Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Pensions shall promulgate those rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C....
• Section 43:3c-9 - Employer Pickup Of Employee Contributions.
  1.The mandatory contributions by members or participants to the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund required by N.J.S.18A:66-31, to alternate benefit providers under the alternate...
• Section 43:3c-9.2 - Limitations On Contributions, Benefits.
  2.Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the contributions to and benefits payable under the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Judicial...
• Section 43:3c-9.3 - Tpaf, Jrs, Pers, Pfrs, Sprs Compensation Limitation Not To Be Exceeded
  3. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, for members of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Judicial Retirement System, the...
• Section 43:3c-9.4 - Alternate Benefit Program, Defined Contribution Retirement Program, Compensation Limitation Not To Be Exceeded.
  4. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, for members of the Alternate Benefit Program, the amount of compensation which may...
• Section 43:3c-9.5 - "Non-forfeitable Right To Receive Benefits."
  5. a. For purposes of this section, a "non-forfeitable right to receive benefits" means that the benefits program, for any employee for whom the...
• Section 43:3c-9.6 - Accrued Benefits, Rights Of Members.
  41. a. Upon the termination of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Judicial Retirement System, the Police and...
• Section 43:3c-10 - Approval Of Change In Retirement Or Deferred Compensation Plan By State Treasurer
  A State autonomous authority may not establish or change a retirement or deferred compensation plan which provides for the payment of funds of the...
• Section 43:3c-11 - Benefits Of Present, Future Retirees Unaffected
  38. No present or future retirees of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Judicial Retirement System, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Consolidated...
• Section 43:3c-12 - Investigation Of Certain Increases In Annual Compensation For Members Of Retirement Systems.
  21. a. With respect to all claims for benefits under the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Judicial Retirement...
• Section 43:3c-13 - Use Of Actuarial Standards For Retirement Systems; Disclosure, Certain.
  28.The Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Judicial Retirement System, the Prison Officers' Pension Fund, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Consolidated Police and...
• Section 43:3c-14 - State Contributions.
  38. Commencing July 1, 2011 and thereafter, the contribution required, by law, to be made by the State to the Teachers' Pension and Annuity...
• Section 43:3c-15 - State-administered Pension Systems, Requirements For Employers.
  1.The boards of trustees of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, established pursuant to N.J.S.18A:66-1 et seq., the Public Employees' Retirement System, established pursuant...
• Section 43:3c-16 - "Target Funded Ratio."
  27.For the purpose of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, established pursuant to N.J.S.18A:66-1 et seq., the Judicial Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1973,...
• Section 43:3c-17 - Utilization Of Super Conciliator.
  33.Whenever a committee of the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, or the State...
• Section 43:3c-18 - Qualified Governmental Defined Benefit Plans.
  60. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, established pursuant to N.J.S.18A:66-1 et seq., the...
• Section 43:3c-19 - Member Fully Vested In Accumulated Contributions.
  61. a. A member shall be fully vested in his or her accumulated contributions at all times. b.A member shall be fully vested in...
• Section 43:3c-20 - Administration In Accordance With Rollover Requirements.
  62.Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Judicial Retirement System, the Prison Officers' Pension Fund,...
• Section 43:3c-21 - Qualified Military Service.
  63.Effective December 12, 1994, notwithstanding any other provision of the retirement system law, contributions, benefits and service credit with respect to qualified military service...
• Section 43:3c-22 - Prohibited Transactions.
  64.Effective as of July 1, 1989, a retirement board, or a member of such board, shall not engage in a transaction prohibited by section...
• Section 43:3c-23 - Participation In Qualified Group Trust.
  65.Each retirement system may participate under Section 401(a)(24) of the federal Internal Revenue Code in a qualified group trust that meets the requirements of...
• Section 43:3c-24 - Funding, Payment Of Other Post-employment Benefits.
  66. a. Post-employment benefits other than pensions under the State Health Benefits Program, P.L.1961, c.49 (C.52:14-17.25 et seq.), for retired employees, and their dependents,...
• Section 43:4-1 - Applies To Veterans
  43:4-1. This chapter shall apply to and include persons serving in and honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States,...
• Section 43:3c-25 - Notification Of Change In Beneficiary.
  1.The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall provide for the prompt notification in writing of any member or...
• Section 43:4-1.1 - Veterans Eligible For Pension Under This Article
  War veterans employed in positions covered by any county or city public employee retirement system, established pursuant to chapter 160 of the laws of...
• Section 43:4-1.2 - Withdrawal From Public Employees' Retirement System
  Any such war veteran who enrolled in the Public Employees' Retirement System of New Jersey shall be permitted to withdraw therefrom upon the filing...
• Section 43:4-2 - Retirement Of Veterans; Pension To Widow
  43:4-2. When an honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine or an honorably discharged member of the American Merchant Marine who served during World War...
• Section 43:4-3 - Amount Of Pension; Pensions Under Other Laws
  A person so retired shall be entitled, for and during his natural life, to receive by way of pension, one-half of the compensation then...
• Section 43:4-3.1 - Increase Of Pension
  Effective January 1, 1968 the pension payable by any county, municipality or school district to any veteran retired on pension prior to January 1,...
• Section 43:4-3.2 - Pension Increase Table
  The first $900.00 of the annual pension or the full amount of the pension, if the same is less than $900.00 per year, shall...
• Section 43:4-3.3 - Appropriations To Pay Increases
  Funds to pay the increases provided in this act shall be provided in the budgets of the county, municipality or school district from whose...
• Section 43:4-3.4 - Waiver Of Increase; Written Request
  Any increase in pension, or a portion thereof, authorized by this act, may be waived upon written request of the person entitled thereto. L.1967,...
• Section 43:4-4 - Provision For Pension; Effect Of Abolition Of Office
  Provisions for all pensions arising under this article shall be made in the appropriation or tax levy for the department of the public service...
• Section 43:4-5 - Effect Of Article On Beneficiaries Under Repealed Acts
  This article shall not affect beneficiaries who were drawing pensions on March nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, whether or not the acts...
• Section 43:4-6 - Certain Veterans Employed As Court Reporters
  L.1921, c. 200, p. 623 (1924 Suppl. s.s. 50-149 to 50-155), entitled "An act to provide for the retirement and pensioning of any honorably...
• Section 43:4-7 - Waiver Of Portion Of Pension
  Any person who has retired or shall retire pursuant to any pension act or retirement system established pursuant to law may, upon written request,...
• Section 43:4-8 - Payments In Reduced Amounts After Waiver
  Upon receipt of such a waiver, and until the same is withdrawn or altered by a subsequent request, the department of the public service...
• Section 43:4a-1 - Time Off With Pay To Attend Meetings
  Any person who is an elected member of any board of trustees or commission established under chapter 13 of Title 18 of the Revised...
• Section 43:4b-1 - Retirement Systems Actuary Selection Committee.
  19.There is hereby established the Retirement Systems Actuary Selection Committee which shall consist of the State Treasurer, and the directors of the Divisions of...
• Section 43:4b-2 - Information Available To, Provided To Pension Boards
  20. The Director of the Division of Pensions shall annually communicate to the board of each pension system the relevant factors used in calculating...
• Section 43:4c-1 - Waiver Of Noncontributory Insurance
  17. Notwithstanding the provisions of the laws governing the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Public Employees' Retirement System, Alternate Benefit Programs, the Judicial...
• Section 43:5-1 - Application Of Chapter
  This chapter shall apply to all persons in the State service, prior to January 1, 1922, qualifying hereunder. It shall not apply to any...
• Section 43:5-2 - Retirement On Age And Service For Disability
  A person not having a fixed term of office who has been continuously in the employ of the state for a period of twenty-five...
• Section 43:5-3 - Notice Of Disability; Examination; Approval Of Report By State House Commission
  When it is made to appear not only that such physical or other disability exists, but that it will, in all reasonable probability, continue...
• Section 43:5-4 - Amount Of Pension
  An employee so retiring shall, during his disability and for his natural life, be paid an annual salary or compensation, commencing with the date...
• Section 43:5-5 - Payment Of Benefits Upon Death Of Certain State Employees Or Retired State Employees
  Upon the receipt of proper proof (1) of the death of any officer or employee in State service, who, had he lived and had...
• Section 43:5a-1 - Definitions
  For the purposes of this act: a. "final compensation" means either (1) the average annual compensation of an employee during the last 60 months...
• Section 43:5a-2 - Persons Eligible For Retirement And Pension
  Any person may be retired and granted a pension under this act who a. has been continuously employed by the State for at least...
• Section 43:5a-2.1 - State Employee Eligibility
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of P.L. 1954, c. 84 (C. 43:15A-7), as amended by P.L. 1985, c. 121, or any other law...
• Section 43:5a-3 - Amount Of Pension
  The amount of annual pension granted to a State employee retired under this act shall be equal to 1% of his final compensation multiplied...
• Section 43:5a-4 - Application For Retirement; Acceptance; Certification; Annual Examination Of Disability Retirees For Continuation Of Eligibility; Forced Retirement At 70; Payment Of Pensions
  a. An employee who has reached 65 years of age and is eligible for a pension under this act may retire and receive said...
• Section 43:6-6.30 - Retirement Of Certain Justices Or Judges Under Different Laws; Same Pension Payments
  Any Chief Justice or associate justice of the new Supreme Court or judge of the Superior Court, who hereafter retires under the provisions of...
• Section 43:6-6.31 - Prohibition Against Practice Of Law By Certain Retired Justices Or Judges
  A Chief Justice of the new Supreme Court, associate justice of the new Supreme Court, or judge of the Superior Court who has heretofore...
• Section 43:6-6.32 - Effect Of Act Upon Previously Retired Justices Or Judges
  This act shall not increase the pension of any Chief Justice, justice or judge who has heretofore retired or the pension of any widow...
• Section 43:6-6.33 - Social Security Coverage For Members Of Supreme Court And Judges Of Superior Court; Referendum
  The State Treasurer, as the State Agency for Social Security, is directed to conduct a referendum on the question of whether the service performed...
• Section 43:6-6.34 - Securing Coverage Following Approval By Referendum
  The State Treasurer is further directed to secure social security coverage for such members of the Supreme Court and judges of the Superior Court...
• Section 43:6-6.35 - Retroactive Coverage
  The State Treasurer is also directed to obtain social security coverage for such judges on a retroactive basis, to the extent that retroactivity is...
• Section 43:6-6.36 - Applicability Of Act To Members Of Other Pension Programs
  The provisions of chapter 169 of the laws of 1956 shall not apply to the members of the Supreme Court and judges of the...
• Section 43:6a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Judicial Retirement System Act." L.1973, c. 140, s. 1, eff. May 22, 1973.
• Section 43:6a-2 - Severability
  If any provision, section, or part of any section of this act is declared to be unconstitutional, the same shall not be held to...
• Section 43:6a-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: a."Accumulated deductions" means the sum of all amounts, deducted from the compensation of a member or contributed by him...
• Section 43:6a-3.1 - Final Salary; Retirement After January 1, 1982
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the final salary of any member who retires after January 1, 1982...
• Section 43:6a-4 - Establishment; Powers And Privileges; Purpose
  There is hereby established the "Judicial Retirement System of New Jersey" in the Division of Pensions of the Department of the Treasury. It shall...
• Section 43:6a-5 - Membership
  5. The membership of the retirement system shall include: a. The Chief Justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court. b. Any judge...
• Section 43:6a-6 - Computation Of Years Of Service
  Not more than 1 year shall be credited for all service in a calendar year. In computing years of service, any service for which...
• Section 43:6a-7 - Mandatory Age Of Retirement; Early Retirement; Application
  Any member of the retirement system who has reached the age of 70 years shall be retired forthwith. Any other eligible member of the...
• Section 43:6a-8 - Eligibility For Retirement; 10 Years Or More Of Service; Amount Of Pension
  a. Any member who shall have served at least 10 years as a judge of the several courts and having attained the age of...
• Section 43:6a-9 - Eligibility For Retirement; 5 Years Or More Of Service With Additional Public Service; Amount Of Pension
  a. Any judge of the several courts, who shall have served at least 5 years successively as such judge and shall have attained the...
• Section 43:6a-9.1 - Five Years As Judge With 15 Years Additional Public Service At Age 60
  Any judge of the several courts who shall have attained the age of 60 years or more and who shall have served at least...
• Section 43:6a-9.2 - Judge Serving At Age 60
  Any judge of the several courts who shall have attained the age of 60 years or more while serving as such judge may retire;...
• Section 43:6a-9.3 - Judges Of County Court; Entitlement To Qualify For Maximum Pension If Entitled To Maximum Pension Under Prior Law
  Any judge of the county court who was entitled to qualify for the maximum pension of 50% of his final salary under an act...
• Section 43:6a-9.4 - Judge's Widow; Pension
  Upon receipt of the proper proofs of death of a judge who has retired under the provisions of this supplementary act, there shall be...
• Section 43:6a-9.5 - Inapplicability Of Act To Judge Or Surviving Widow; Retirement Prior To July 1, 1976
  The provisions of this act shall not apply to any judge or the surviving widow of any judge who has retired prior to the...
• Section 43:6a-9.6 - Eligibility For Retirement; Age 70 With 25 Years Of Public Service
  Any judge of the several courts who shall have served at least 4 years successively as such judge and shall have served at least...
• Section 43:6a-10 - Early Retirement; 5 Or More Years Of Service With Additional Public Service Of 20 Or More Years; Amount Of Pension
  Should any member resign, or fail of reappointment who shall have served at least 5 years successively as a judge of the several courts...
• Section 43:6a-11 - Resignation Or Failure Of Reappointment After 5 Successive Years And 10 Years In Aggregate; Election Of Benefit
  Should any member resign, or fail of reappointment who shall have served at least 5 years successively as a judge of the several courts...
• Section 43:6a-12 - Disability Retirement
  Whenever the Supreme Court shall certify to the Governor, any member who shall have served as a judge of the several courts, may be...
• Section 43:6a-13 - Retired Judge Not To Engage In Practice Of Law; Assignment To Sit In Court
  a. No member of the retirement system shall, while receiving a pension or retirement allowance pursuant to this act, engage in the practice of...
• Section 43:6a-14 - Membership In Other Retirement System Under State Law
  a. Any judge who is required to be a member of the retirement system established by this act and who holds membership in a...
• Section 43:6a-14.1 - Election To Terminate Membership In Other Retirement System Or Waiver Of Joinder In Judicial Retirement System; Credit For Public Service
  a. Any judge who is required to be a member of the retirement system and who is receiving a retirement allowance or pension from...
• Section 43:6a-14.2 - Credit For Previous Service In Office, Position Or Employment Of State Or Governmental Entity; Application; Purchase; Employer's Accrued Liability Obligation
  a. Following the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, any judge who shall be appointed to sit on any of the several...
• Section 43:6a-15 - Veterans; Ineligibility For Retirement Benefits As Public Employee
  No public employee veteran eligible for membership in the retirement system established by this act shall be eligible for, or receive, retirement benefits under...
• Section 43:6a-16 - Pensions And Retirement Allowances In Monthly Installments
  16. All pensions or retirement allowances granted under the provisions of this act shall be effective on the first day following retirement, shall be...
• Section 43:6a-16.1 - Options For Payment Of Survivor Benefits In Judicial Retirement System
  1.At the time of retirement, a member of the Judicial Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1973, c.140 (C.43:6A-1 et seq.), shall receive benefits in...
• Section 43:6a-16.2 - Form Required When Member Chooses Certain Option; Notification To Spouse
  2.Whenever a member of the Judicial Retirement System elects a retirement allowance which is payable for the life of the member only and terminating...
• Section 43:6a-17 - Death In Active Service; Payments To Beneficiaries
  a. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death in active service of a member of the retirement system, there shall be paid...
• Section 43:6a-17.1 - Additional Death Benefit For Members Of Judicial Retirement System.
  1. a. Each member of the retirement system on the effective date of any insurance contract or program approved by the State House Commission...
• Section 43:6a-18 - Death After Retirement; Payments To Beneficiaries
  Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death after retirement of a member of the retirement system, there shall be paid to his...
• Section 43:6a-19 - Death Of Retirant On Pension Or Retirement Allowance Based On Age And Service Or Early Retirement; Payments To Beneficiary
  Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who has retired on a pension or retirement allowance based on age...
• Section 43:6a-20 - Death Of Disability Retirant; Payments To Beneficiary
  Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who has retired on a disability pension or retirement allowance, there shall...
• Section 43:6a-21 - Group Life Insurance Coverage; Authorization To Purchase; Benefits In Lieu Of Death Benefits
  The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and permitted to purchase from one or more life insurance companies, as determined by him, group life insurance...
• Section 43:6a-22 - Qualifications For Life Insurance Company
  Any life insurance company must meet the following requirements in order to qualify under section 21: a. be licensed under the laws of the...
• Section 43:6a-23 - Option On Purchase Of Group Life Insurance Coverage For Death Benefit Provisions
  The State Treasurer may, in his discretion, determine to purchase group life insurance coverage for the death benefit provisions as provided in sections 17...
• Section 43:6a-24 - Group Life Insurance Coverage; Payment Of Premiums; Group Insurance Premium Fund
  In the event the State Treasurer shall determine to purchase group insurance coverage for the death benefits, premiums for the same shall be paid...
• Section 43:6a-25 - Terms Of Policy
  Any such group policy or policies shall include, with respect to any insurance terminating or reducing because an insured person has ceased to be...
• Section 43:6a-26 - Payment Of Benefits
  Benefits under such group policy or policies shall be paid by the insurance company to such person, if living, as the insured person shall...
• Section 43:6a-27 - Settlement Options
  Any such group policy or policies shall provide that payment of any death benefits which are payable by the insurance company may be made...
• Section 43:6a-28 - Reduction Of Premiums For Non Payment Of Commissions; Authorization
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any insurance company or companies issuing such policy or policies may credit the policyholder, in the form of...
• Section 43:6a-29 - State House Commission, Operation Of System.
  29. a. Subject to the provisions of P.L.1955, c.70 (C.52:18A-95 to 52:18A-104), the general responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system is...
• Section 43:6a-30 - Trustee Of Funds; Custodian Of Funds; Administration Of Program
  30.a. The State House Commission shall be and is hereby constituted the trustee of all the various funds established by this act except the...
• Section 43:6a-31 - Actuarial Investigation And Valuation; Adoption Of Tables For Mortality, Service, Etc.
  The actuary shall recommend such data as shall be necessary for actuarial valuation of the various funds created by this act. Once in every...
• Section 43:6a-32 - Contingent Reserve, Annuity Savings And Retirement Reserve Funds; Establishment
  Under this act there shall be established a contingent reserve fund, an annuity savings fund, and a retirement reserve fund. L.1973, c. 140, s....
• Section 43:6a-33 - Computation Of Contributions; Valuation Of Assets; Contingent Reserve Fund.
  33. a. Upon the basis of the tables recommended by the actuary which the commission adopts and regular interest, the actuary shall compute annually,...
• Section 43:6a-33.1 - Payment Of Pension Adjustment Benefits, Funding
  10. Pension adjustment benefits for members and beneficiaries of the Judicial Retirement System provided by the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L.1958, c.143 (C.43:3B-1 et seq.)...
• Section 43:6a-34 - Retirement Reserve Fund; Source Of Funds For Payment Of Pensions
  The retirement reserve fund shall be the fund from which all pensions and retirement allowances shall be paid. Upon the retirement of the member...
• Section 43:6a-34.1 - Annuity Savings Fund, Payroll Deductions.
  26. a. The annuity savings fund shall be the fund to which shall be credited aggregate contributions made by members or on their behalf...
• Section 43:6a-34.2 - State House Commission; Interest On Balance In Annuity Savings, Contingent Reserve And Retirement Reserve Funds
  The State House Commission at the end of each fiscal year shall allow interest on the balance of the annuity savings fund, contingent reserve...
• Section 43:6a-34.3 - Borrowing By Members From Retirement System, Interest Rates.
  1.Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, any member who has at least three years of service to the member's credit for which the member...
• Section 43:6a-34.4 - Repayment Of Loans After Retirement Of Members Of Jrs.
  2.In the case of any member who retires without repaying the full amount so borrowed, the Division of Pensions and Benefits shall deduct from...
• Section 43:6a-35 - Retirement System; Interest On Balance In Contingent Reserve, Annuity Savings And Retirement Reserve Funds
  The retirement system at the end of each fiscal year shall allow interest on the balance of the contingent reserve fund, the annuity savings...
• Section 43:6a-36 - Obligations Of Act As Obligations Of State; Budget And Appropriation Of Amounts To Meet Obligations
  Regular interest charges payable, the creation and maintenance of reserves in the contingent reserve fund, the maintenance of retirement reserves as provided for in...
• Section 43:6a-37 - Inapplicability Of Other Laws On Pensions Or Retirement Benefits To Members Or Beneficiaries; Nonliability Of System It Reserves Nonexistent
  a. No other provisions of the law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State of New...
• Section 43:6a-38 - Error In Records; Correction
  Should any change or error in the records of this retirement system result in any member or person receiving from the retirement system more...
• Section 43:6a-39 - Waiver Of Payment Of Portion Of Payment Of Pension, Retirement Allowance Or Benefit
  Any member or any beneficiary who has been or, in the future, may be retired, or receive a pension, retirement allowance or benefit pursuant...
• Section 43:6a-40 - Deductions To Pay Premiums; Authorization By Written Request
  If possible, whenever any retirant or beneficiary shall, in writing, request the Division of Pensions to make deductions from his pension or retirement allowance...
• Section 43:6a-41 - Right To Pension, Retirement Allowance Or Benefit And Moneys In Various Funds; Exemption From Taxes And Legal Process; Unassignability
  The right of a person to a pension, retirement allowance or any benefit or right accrued or accruing to a person under the provisions...
• Section 43:6a-42 - Designation Of Beneficiary; Writing; Filing; Change; Rights Of Beneficiaries; Election Of Payment Of Death Benefits
  The designation of beneficiary by a member or retirant shall be made in writing on a form satisfactory to the retirement system, and filed...
• Section 43:6a-43 - Active Membership While On Official Leave Of Absence; Qualifications For Payment Of Death Benefit
  For the purposes of section 17b. a member shall be deemed to be an active member for a period of no more than 93...
• Section 43:6a-44 - Ineligibility For Death Benefits For Retirant With Less Than 10 Years Of Service Credit; Minimum Amount Of Benefit To Qualify
  Any other provision of this act notwithstanding, (a) no beneficiary of a retirant who retired for any reason other than disability shall be entitled...
• Section 43:6a-45 - Repeals
  The following acts and parts of acts, and all amendments thereof, are repealed: a. P.L.1948, c. 391 (C. 43:6-6.4 to 43:6-6.10) b. P.L.1949, c....
• Section 43:6a-46 - Provisos To Repeals
  The repeal of the foregoing laws is subject to the following provisos: a. Any person retired under any of the provisions of said acts...
• Section 43:6a-47 - Provisos Applicable To L.1981, C. 470
  This amendatory and supplementary act is subject to the following provisos: a. Any person who has retired on or before the effective date of...
• Section 43:7-7 - Retirement Of Certain Prison Officers; Amount
  a. Hereafter, any such prison officer, as hereinafter set forth, who shall have served in the employ of the State of New Jersey continuously,...
• Section 43:7-7.1 - Special Retirement After 25 Years Of Creditable Service
  Should a prison officer member resign after having established 25 years of creditable service, he may elect "special retirement," provided, that such election is...
• Section 43:7-8 - Definitions
  For the purpose of this act, the words "prison officer" mean and include any prison officer, reformatory officer, farmer guard, disciplinarian, identification prison officer,...
• Section 43:7-9 - Widow, Children Or Dependent Parents; Pension To.
  3. a. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who shall have lost his life, there shall be paid...
• Section 43:7-10.1 - Death Before Retirement; Payment Of Member's Contributions
  In the event of death before retirement and no benefits are payable under any provision of this act or the act to which this...
• Section 43:7-11 - Pension Commission To Allow Pensions
  All such retirements are to be made and pensions allowed by the pension commission hereinafter created. L.1941, c. 220, p. 631, s. 5.
• Section 43:7-11.1 - Payment Of Pensions
  A pension granted under the provisions of the act to which this act is amendatory and supplementary, shall be effective only on the first...
• Section 43:7-12 - Permanent Disability
  Any such prison officer who shall have received permanent disability as a direct result of a traumatic event occurring while performing his regular or...
• Section 43:7-13 - Creation Of Pension Fund
  7. For the purpose of paying the pensions, a fund shall be created as follows: (a) There shall be deducted from every payment of...
• Section 43:7-14 - Death Within Five Years After Passage Of Act
  If any such prison officer shall die within five years from the passage of this act and his widow, minor children or dependent parents,...
• Section 43:7-15 - Suspension Or Discharge
  If any such prison officer shall be suspended, resigned, dropped or discharged from his employment after having paid the aforesaid assessments for a period...
• Section 43:7-15.1 - Prison Officers' Pension Fund; Withdrawal By Veterans
  Any employee of the State, who is a veteran of any war and who has joined the prison officers' pension fund, may, at any...
• Section 43:7-15.2 - Withdrawal By Veterans Hereafter Joining Fund
  Any such employee, who is such veteran and who shall hereafter join said fund and who shall have been a member of said fund...
• Section 43:7-15.3 - Withdrawal Application; Notice; Refund Of Payments
  Upon his making application, of which ten days' notice shall be given, he shall receive, upon demand, the amount of his payments, without prejudice...
• Section 43:7-16 - Other Pensions
  No person who shall receive any pension under any other law of this State shall be entitled to receive the benefits of this act....
• Section 43:7-17 - Refusal To Accept Provisions Of Act; Notice
  If any prison officer of this State shall decline to accept the provisions of this act, he shall, within thirty days after the passage...
• Section 43:7-18.1 - Responsibility For Operation Of Pension Fund.
  4.The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall have the general responsibility for the proper operation of the pension...
• Section 43:7-19 - Control, Management Of Fund.
  13.The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall have control and management of said fund subject to the provisions...
• Section 43:7-19.1 - Medical Board
  The State Treasurer shall designate a medical board after consultation with the Director of the Division of Pensions, subject to veto by the commission...
• Section 43:7-20 - Deposit And Investment Of Fund
  Said pension commission shall deposit such fund in any of the banks or trust companies of the State, and shall invest the same in...
• Section 43:7-21 - Execution Of Releases, Acquittances, Receipts, Discharges.
  15.The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall, on behalf of the said pension fund, execute any and all...
• Section 43:7-22 - Annual Report.
  16.The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall make an annual report of the conditions of such fund and...
• Section 43:7-23 - Unlawful Acts, Incapacitation Or Death While Performing
  If any pension officer shall become incapacitated from or shall lose his life in the performance or commission of any unlawful act which would...
• Section 43:7-24 - Effect Of Act
  This article shall not be construed to effect in any manner any pension fund organized on or created under any law prior on July...
• Section 43:7-25 - Members Of State Employees' Retirement System; Right To Accumulated Deductions With Interest
  Any employee of the State, eligible for membership in the prison officers pension fund, who, at the time of joining said prison officers pension...
• Section 43:7-26 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July fourth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one. L.1941, c. 220, p. 636, s. 21.
• Section 43:7-27 - Benefit Payments Based On Temporary Service; Continuation
  Any prison officer or his beneficiary presently receiving benefits under the act to which this act is a supplement shall continue to receive such...
• Section 43:8a-1 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases as used in this act unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context shall have the following...
• Section 43:8a-2 - Alcoholic Beverage Law Enforcement Officers Pension Fund
  A pension fund is hereby created for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits for law enforcement officers under the provisions of...
• Section 43:8a-3 - Persons Entitled To Become Members Of Pension Fund; Transfer Of Contributions; Termination Of Membership
  (1) On or after the date of the establishment of this pension fund any person becoming permanently appointed as a law enforcement officer or...
• Section 43:8a-4 - Service Of Law Enforcement Officer Considered Creditable
  Only service as a law enforcement officer which was rendered by a member before the date of the establishment of this pension fund, or...
• Section 43:8a-5 - Supervision Of Operation Of Retirement System; Board Of Trustees; Powers And Duties; Legal Adviser; Supervision Of Funds
  (1) The general supervision of the operation of the retirement system is hereby vested in a board of trustees which shall be organized immediately...
• Section 43:8a-6 - Retirement Of New Entrant Member On Service Retirement Allowance
  (1) Any new entrant member in service who attains age 55 years may retire on a service retirement allowance upon written and duly executed...
• Section 43:8a-7 - Retirement Of Present Entrant Member On Service Retirement Allowance; Death Benefit
  (1) Any present entrant member in service who has attained or who attains age 55 may retire on a service retirement allowance upon written...
• Section 43:8a-8 - Ordinary Disability Retirement Allowance; Death Benefit
  (1) Upon the written application of a member in service or of his employer, any member who has had five or more years of...
• Section 43:8a-8.1 - Purchase Of Annuity Credits For Periods Prior To Membership In Fund
  Any present entrant member of the alcoholic beverage control law enforcement officers pension fund shall be permitted, under such rules and regulations as the...
• Section 43:8a-9 - Accidental Disability Retirement Allowance; Death Benefit
  (1) Upon the written application of a member or of his employer any member may be retired by the board of trustees, not less...
• Section 43:8a-10 - Application For Disability Retirement Allowance; Medical Examinations Of Persons Retired On Disability Retirement Allowance
  (1) Upon the receipt by the board of trustees of a written application for a disability retirement allowance, the board shall refer the application...
• Section 43:8a-11 - Death Benefit Upon Death Of Member In Service
  (1) Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member in service on account of which no accidental death benefit is...
• Section 43:8a-12 - Accidental Death Of Member Before Retirement; Death Benefit
  (1) Upon the accidental death of a member before retirement, provided that evidence shall be submitted to the board of trustees justifying the determination...
• Section 43:8a-13 - Additional Death Benefit Coverage; Additional Contributions Not Returnable
  (1) Within 6 months after January 1, 1954 or after the effective date of membership, whichever date is later, each member shall have the...
• Section 43:8a-14 - Termination Of Service As State Law Enforcement Officer; Refund Or Transfer Of Contributions
  If after two years of membership in the pension fund a member should cease to be a State law enforcement officer, he shall be...
• Section 43:8a-15 - Beneficiaries Ineligible For Benefits Under Sections 43:4-1 To 43:4-3
  From and after the date of becoming a beneficiary of this pension fund no member shall be eligible for, or receive, retirement benefits under...
• Section 43:8a-16 - Election To Convert Retirement Allowance Otherwise Payable; Optional Forms
  Until the first payment on account of a retirement allowance becomes normally due, any member may elect to convert the retirement allowance otherwise payable...
• Section 43:8a-17 - Investment Of Moneys Of Pension Fund; Custodian; Payments; Interest In Profits And Use Of Funds By Trustees Or Employees Forbidden; Endorser Or Surety
  (1) The Director of the Division of Investment in the Department of the Treasury shall have control over the investment of the moneys of...
• Section 43:8a-18 - Contributions; Deductions From Salaries; Expenses Of Administration
  (1) The contributions required for the support of the pension fund shall be made by members and their employers except for the expenses of...
• Section 43:8a-19 - Funds To Which Assets To Be Credited
  (1) All of the assets of the pension fund shall be credited according to the purpose for which they are held to one of...
• Section 43:8a-20 - Exemption From Taxation And From Garnishment Or Other Process; Assignment
  The right of a person to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance, to the return of contributions, any benefit or right accrued...
• Section 43:8a-21 - False Statements; Fraud; Correction Of Errors; Adjustment Of Payments
  Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of the pension...
• Section 43:8a-22 - Administrative Positions; Determination And Certification
  The Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control shall determine and certify to the board of trustees which positions, if any, held by...
• Section 43:8a-23 - Filing Of Request Naming Payee Of Death Benefit; Request As To Manner Of Payment
  Any member may file, and alter from time to time during his lifetime, as desired, a request with the board of trustees naming the...
• Section 43:8a-24 - Other Laws Inapplicable To Members Or Beneficiaries Of Pension Fund
  No other provision of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State of New Jersey or...
• Section 43:8a-25 - Appropriation
  (1) There is hereby appropriated a sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for the administration of the pension fund established by this act for...
• Section 43:8b-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: (a) "Employee" means any person holding office, position, or employment in any county, municipality, or school district in the...
• Section 43:8b-2 - Employees Entitled To Pension
  Any employee who is not a member of and was not required by law at the time of appointment or employment, or at any...
• Section 43:8b-3 - Budget Provisions For Payment
  The payment of pensions granted pursuant to this act shall be provided for in the budget of the employer. L.1955, c. 263, p. 981,...
• Section 43:8b-4 - Eligibility
  In order to be eligible for a pension under the provisions of this act, an employee must be at least 65 years of age,...
• Section 43:8b-4.1 - Local Employee Eligibility
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of P.L. 1954, c. 84 (C. 43:15A-7), as amended by P.L. 1985, c. 121, or any other law...
• Section 43:8b-5 - Maximum Pensions
  The amount of pension granted under this act shall be fixed by the employer according to uniform percentages of final average salary applicable generally...
• Section 43:8b-6 - Repeals
  The following acts and parts of acts are hereby repealed: Sections 18:6-29; 18:6-36; 18:6-43; 18:6-44; 18:14-62 to 18:14-64, both inclusive; 40:37-149; 40:37-150; 43:6-8 to...
• Section 43:8b-7 - Pensions Granted Under Other Sections; Effect Of Repeal
  No pensions may be granted under the provisions of any statute repealed by section 6 of this act after the date this act becomes...
• Section 43:8b-8 - Citation
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "General Noncontributory Pension Act." L.1955, c. 263, p. 983, s. 8.
• Section 43:8b-9 - Definitions
  As used in this act "retirant" means any former employee who is receiving a pension from his former employer under the provisions of the...
• Section 43:8b-10 - Increase In Pensions
  The monthly pension originally granted to any retirant shall be increased in accordance with the provisions of this act. Pension increases shall not be...
• Section 43:8b-11 - Ratio Of Increase
  The "ratio of increase" which shall apply to the pension originally granted to a retirant shall be calculated in accordance with the following percentages...
• Section 43:8b-12 - Cost Of Increase Payable By Employer
  The employer shall bear the cost of the increase in the pensions payable to retirants who retired from the employ of such employer. The...
• Section 43:8b-13 - Annual Review Of And Determination Of Percentum Of Change In Index
  On or before October 1, 1970 and by the same date in each subsequent year, the Director of the Division of Pensions of the...
• Section 43:8b-14 - Effect Of Blanket Increase Or Provision For Minimum Pension On Benefits Provided By This Act
  If legislation is adopted providing for a blanket increase in the original pensions or for minimum pensions to any group of retirants eligible for...
• Section 43:8b-15 - Rules And Regulations; Annual Report
  The Director of the Division of Pensions of the State Department of the Treasury shall promulgate such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the...
• Section 43:8c-1 - Definitions Relative To Incentive Programs For Retirement, Termination Of Certain Employees.
  1.As used in this act, unless the context indicates otherwise: "Chief executive officer" means the mayor of a municipality, the elected county executive of...
• Section 43:8c-2 - Implementation Of Incentive Program.
  2.A local unit entering into an interlocal services contract or a joint services contract or becoming a part of a consolidated municipality may offer...
• Section 43:8c-2.1 - Incentive Program To Encourage Retirement, Termination Of Employment Of County Employees.
  44.Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1999, c.59 (C.43:8C-2) to the contrary, but subject to the other provisions of that law, a county...
• Section 43:8c-3 - Submission Of Detailed Information Concerning Incentive Program.
  3. a. No later than six months prior to the date on which a proposed incentive program is to begin, the local unit shall...
• Section 43:8c-4 - Additional Service Credits, Pfrs, Pers; Conditions.
  4. a. For employees who are members of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey, pursuant to P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.),...
• Section 43:8c-5 - Consultation With Representative Of Bargaining Unit.
  5.Prior to the beginning date of the incentive program, appropriate representatives of the governing body of a local unit which implements an incentive program...
• Section 43:8c-6 - Employment Level Of Affected Local Unit.
  6. a. For a period of five years after the last date for retirement or termination of employment under an incentive program implemented pursuant...
• Section 43:8c-7 - Rules By Director Of Division Of Local Government Services.
  7.The director may adopt rules to effectuate the purposes of this act in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410...
• Section 43:8c-8 - Rules By Director Of Division Of Pensions And Benefits.
  8.The Director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury may adopt rules to effectuate the purposes of this...
• Section 43:8c-9 - Incentive Program For Employees Of Merging School Districts, Conditions.
  9.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, if a school district merges with one or more other school districts due solely...
• Section 43:9-6.1 - Withdrawal By War Veteran; Payments Received With Interest
  1. An employee of any county, who is a veteran of any war, or who was a member of the American Merchant Marine during...
• Section 43:9-36 - Borough Solicitor, Assistant City Solicitor, Assistant County Prosecutor, Juvenile And Domestic Relations Court Judge; Widow's Pension
  If any public employee, heretofore having served at least 7 years as a borough solicitor, at least 3 years as an assistant city solicitor,...
• Section 43:9-37 - Pension In Lieu Of Benefits Under Retirement System Established By State Or Political Subdivisions
  Any pension payable under this act to a widow shall be in lieu of the pension and insurance benefits which would accrue to the...
• Section 43:9-38 - Payment; Contributions To Other Retirement Systems
  The payment of pensions granted pursuant to this act shall be provided for in the budget of the employer granting the pension. If the...
• Section 43:9-39 - Public Employee Defined
  For the purposes of this act, the term "public employee" shall be deemed to mean and include a person who has held an office,...
• Section 43:9-40 - County Clerk; Thirty Years Service; Widow's Pension
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county of the second class may, in its discretion, adopt a resolution providing for the payment of...
• Section 43:9-41 - Application For Pension; Proof; Amount; Effective Date
  A widow entitled to a pension under this act may apply therefor to the board of chosen freeholders of the county. Upon proof satisfactory...
• Section 43:9a-1 - Clerks Of District Courts In First Class Counties Over 800,000
  When the clerk or deputy clerk of any district court of a county of the first class, having a population of over eight hundred...
• Section 43:9a-2 - Retirement For Incapacity; Examination By Physician
  Any clerk or deputy clerk of a county district court of a county of the first class, having a population of over eight hundred...
• Section 43:9a-3 - Amount And Payment Of Pension; Widow's Pension
  A person so retired shall be entitled to receive, for and during his natural life, a pension of such sum as the board of...
• Section 43:9a-4 - Determination Of Years Of Service
  In determining the years of service of any such clerk or deputy clerk for the purpose of this act, the years of service of...
• Section 43:9a-5 - County To Provide For Pension; Reimbursement By Municipality
  Provision for all pensions arising under this act shall be made in the appropriation or tax levy of the county in which such person...
• Section 43:9a-6 - Deductions From Salary
  Any person who desires to take advantage of the benefits of this act shall file with the county treasurer, upon his appointment as clerk...
• Section 43:9a-7 - Abolition Of Office; Change In Title
  No pension shall cease or become invalid by reason of the abolition of the office in which such person had previously served or any...
• Section 43:9a-8 - When Effective And Operative
  This act shall take effect immediately, but shall remain inoperative until the first day of July succeeding the date of its enactment. L.1945, c....
• Section 43:10-1 - Definitions; Persons Under Forty-five Eligible
  "Be retired on half pay" means retired on a pension equal to one-half of the average annual salary during any 3 fiscal years, of...
• Section 43:10-1.1 - Ineligible Laborer Made Eligible By Amendment To Law; Option To Become Member; Procedure
  Any county laborer now employed in any such county, who, prior to the adoption of this act, was ineligible to the benefits of the...
• Section 43:10-1.2 - Persons Who Were Between 45 And 50 When Employed May Become Members
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 43:1-1 of the Revised Statutes, any county employee as defined in the article to which this is a supplement...
• Section 43:10-1.3 - First Class Counties Under 800,000; Persons Who Were Between 45 And 50 When Employed May Become Members
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 43:1-1 of the Revised Statutes, any county employee of a first class county having a population of less than...
• Section 43:10-1.4 - First Class Counties Under 800,000; Persons Who Were Between 45 And 55 When Employed May Become Members
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 43:1-1 of the Revised Statutes and of the article to which this act is supplementary, any county employee of...
• Section 43:10-1.5 - Counties Under 800,000; Membership Of Employees In Public Employees' Retirement System
  Any person employed by a county of the first class having a population of less than 800,000 which heretofore adopted the provisions of article...
• Section 43:10-1.6 - Credit For Period Of Other Governmental Service
  Any employee, who at the time of his entry into a county pension fund established pursuant to article 1 of chapter 10 of Title...
• Section 43:10-1.7 - County Under 800,000; State Employees; Reemployment
  a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law with respect to reinstatement to a county pension fund of State employees paid by counties of the...
• Section 43:10-2 - Retirement Of County Employees
  43:10-2. An employee of a county of the first class who shall have served in the county's employ for a period of 20 years...
• Section 43:10-2.1 - County Pensions, Certain, Option To Enhance For Members Having More Than 25 Years' Service.
  1. a. A county liable to pay the pension benefits to members of the pension fund pursuant to the provisions of article 1 of...
• Section 43:10-5.1 - Pension To Permanently And Totally Disabled Employee With 10 Years Of Service
  9. Subject to the other provisions of this amendatory and supplementary act and of article 1 of chapter 10 of Title 43 of the...
• Section 43:10-5.2 - Retirement Of Employee Permanently And Totally Disabled In Course Of Employment; Determination Of Disability
  10. Subject to the other provisions of this amendatory and supplementary act and article 1 of chapter 10 of Title 43 of the Revised...
• Section 43:10-5.3 - Employee With One Year Of Service; Death Benefits; Deferred Pension; Payment
  11. If any member of the pension fund who shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his or her assessments or...
• Section 43:10-5.4 - Member Retired For Disability Under 60; Annual Medical Examination; Alteration Of Pension
  Once each year the pension commission may, and upon his application, shall, require any member retired for disability who is under the age of...
• Section 43:10-5.5 - Definitions Relative To Certain County Pension Funds
  1.As used in this act: "Beneficiary" means any person who, as a result of the death of an active or retired member, has or...
• Section 43:10-5.6 - Election For Adjustment Of Pension Benefits
  2. a. A county that is paying pension benefits to retirants or their surviving beneficiaries pursuant to the provisions of article 1 of chapter...
• Section 43:10-5.7 - Determination Of Change In Pension
  3. a. If the board of chosen freeholders has adopted a resolution pursuant to section 2 of this act to adjust the amounts of...
• Section 43:10-5.8 - Waiver Of Right To Pension Adjustment
  4.Any retirant or beneficiary who is eligible to receive an adjustment to a pension under the provisions of this act may, at any time,...
• Section 43:10-5.9 - Conditions For Termination Of Adjustment
  5.If legislation is adopted providing for a blanket increase in original pensions or minimum pensions to any group of retirants or beneficiaries eligible for...
• Section 43:10-5.10 - Rules, Regulations
  6.The Director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits of the Department of the Treasury shall promulgate such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with...
• Section 43:10-6 - Payment To Dependent Children
  If an employee or pensioner dies leaving dependent children under 18 years of age and he or she is, at death, a widower or...
• Section 43:10-7 - Pension Fund
  A fund to pay pensions under this article shall be created as follows: a. The county treasurer shall deduct from every payment of salary...
• Section 43:10-7.1 - Deductions From Retirement Allowance For Payment Of Hospital And Medical Surgical Insurance Premiums
  Whenever any member of the pension fund established under article 1, chapter 10 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes who has retired or...
• Section 43:10-7.2 - Actuary; Designation; Duties; Tables; Adoption; Employer Contribution; Annual Certification By Commissioner
  a. The actuary of the system shall be designated by the county executive after consultation with the president of the pension commission and subject...
• Section 43:10-8 - Withdrawal From Fund; Employee Without Widow, Widower Or Dependent Children Under 18; Repayment Of Deductions
  Any employee entering the fund may at any time thereafter withdraw therefrom and shall be entitled to a refund of the moneys theretofore deducted...
• Section 43:10-8.1 - Credit Upon Reentry And Payment Of Contributions After Withdrawal
  Any employee, who has heretofore withdrawn his contributions, pursuant to R.S. 43:10-8, from a county pension fund established pursuant to article 1 of chapter...
• Section 43:10-9 - Employment By Two Counties
  This article shall affect and include county employees, as herein described, jointly employed by two or more counties, on intercounty bridges. Each such employee's...
• Section 43:10-10 - Pension Commission
  There shall be in each county of the first class a pension commission of five members, consisting of the executive officer of the county...
• Section 43:10-11 - Powers And Duties Of Commission; Moneys Belonging To Fund
  The pension commission shall have control and management of the funds and of the retirement of the county employees, and may make all necessary...
• Section 43:10-12 - Deposit Of Funds; Investments
  The pension commission shall deposit the funds in any of the banks or trust companies of the county. All moneys not needed for the...
• Section 43:10-13 - Annual Report
  The pension commission shall report annually on the condition of the fund and the manner in which it is invested. The report shall be...
• Section 43:10-14 - Pension Exempt From Tax, Attachment, Etc.
  All pensions granted under this article shall be exempt from any state or municipal tax, levy and sale, garnishment or attachment, or any other...
• Section 43:10-15 - Effect Of Article On Other Pension Funds Or Associations
  This article shall not be construed to affect in any manner any pension fund organized or created under any law existing prior to April...
• Section 43:10-17 - Notice By Employee Of Desire Not To Join; Effect; Right To Become Member
  Any employee in the service of a county of the first class who has heretofore, in accordance with law, notified, or, at his option,...
• Section 43:10-18 - Merger Of Independent Pension Groups With County Employees' Pension Fund
  Any independent pension fund group, composed of state, county or city employees, in any county of the first class, may, by a vote of...
• Section 43:10-18.1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Service" shall always, unless otherwise stated, be considered as continuous or in the aggregate. "Salary" or "compensation" when used...
• Section 43:10-18.2 - Employees' Pension Fund In Counties Over 800,000 Created
  In each county of this State having a population of more than eight hundred thousand inhabitants a county employees' pension fund shall be created,...
• Section 43:10-18.3 - County Pension Commission
  There shall be authorized to carry out the provisions of this act and charged with the duty of administering the pension fund herein provided...
• Section 43:10-18.4 - Moneys Belonging To Retirement System; Disposition
  All moneys belonging to the retirement system shall be received and paid over to the treasurer of the retirement system whose official bond as...
• Section 43:10-18.5 - Deposit Of Funds; Investments
  The pension commission shall deposit the funds in any of the banks or trust companies in the county. All moneys not needed for immediate...
• Section 43:10-18.6 - Members; Certain Conditions; Prior Services; Deductions; Transfer; Service Credit
  The members and certain conditions of membership in the retirement system created by this act shall be as follows: (a) All persons, employed by...
• Section 43:10-18.6a - Membership As Condition Of Employment; Resolution Of Board Of Freeholders
  Any person employed by a county of the first class after the effective date of this act having a population of over 800,000 shall...
• Section 43:10-18.6b - Employees Age 70; Immediate Retirement; Year-to-year Extension Of Employment
  Any employee who is a member of the retirement system, and who shall have attained the age of 70 years, shall be retired immediately,...
• Section 43:10-18.7 - Retirement System Provided For Supersedes Other Systems In Effect July 1, 1943; Transfer Of Assets; Pending Claims
  It is the intention of this act that the retirement system herein provided for shall on July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three,...
• Section 43:10-18.8 - Members Of Certain Existing Retirement Systems In Certain Counties, Retirement For Disability; Survivors' Pensions, Deductions Where Less Than 20 Years Service
  The widow, so long as she remains unmarried, or widower, so long as he remains unmarried, or minor children up to eighteen years of...
• Section 43:10-18.9 - Retirement On Half Pay; Pensions To Surviving Widow Or Children; Retirement After Completion Of 15 Years Of Service
  (a) Subject to the other provisions of this act, any county employee: (1) who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in...
• Section 43:10-18.10 - Disability Not Resulting From Employment; Pensions To Employee And Survivors
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, any county employee who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in the employ...
• Section 43:10-18.11 - Disability Resulting From Employment; Pensions To Employee And Survivors
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, any county employee who shall become permanently and totally disabled as a result of injury, accident...
• Section 43:10-18.12 - Medical Examinations Of Persons Retired For Disability; Modification Of Pensions
  Once each year the pension commission may, and upon his application, shall, require any member retired for disability who is under the age of...
• Section 43:10-18.13 - Survivors' Benefits
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, upon and after the death of any county employee who shall have served or who shall...
• Section 43:10-18.14 - Death Of Employee Or Pensioner Who Is Widow Or Widower Leaving Dependent Children; Benefits To Children Until 18
  If an employee or pensioner dies leaving dependent children under eighteen years of age and he or she is, at death, a widower or...
• Section 43:10-18.15 - Mandatory Provisions
  The following provisions shall apply to all members of the retirement system: (a) No pension shall be paid to the surviving husband of a...
• Section 43:10-18.15g - Supplemental Definitions
  As used in this act "retirant" means any former employee included in the membership of the retirement system established under the act to which...
• Section 43:10-18.15h - Increase In Monthly Pension
  The monthly pension originally granted to any retirant shall be increased in accordance with the provisions of this act. Pension increases shall not be...
• Section 43:10-18.15i - Ratio Of Increase; Calculation
  The "ratio of increase" which shall apply to the pension originally granted to a retirant shall be calculated in accordance with the following percentages...
• Section 43:10-18.15j - Payment Of Costs By Employer; Commencement Of Payments; Discontinuance
  The employer shall bear the cost of the increase in the pensions payable to retirants who retired from the employ of such employer. The...
• Section 43:10-18.15k - Waiver; Withdrawal
  Any person who is eligible to receive the increased pension under the provisions of this act may, at any time, waive his right thereto...
• Section 43:10-18.15l - . Determination Of Change In Index; Adjustment In Pensions; Retirant Defined
  On or before October 1, 1969 and by the same date in each subsequent year, the Director of the Division of Pensions of the...
• Section 43:10-18.15m - Termination Of Increases; Blanket Increases Or Minimum Pensions; Exception
  If legislation is adopted providing for a blanket increase in the original pensions or for minimum pensions to any group of retirants eligible for...
• Section 43:10-18.15n - Rules And Regulations By Director Of The Division Of Pensions; Reports
  The Director of the Division of Pensions of the State Department of the Treasury shall promulgate such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the...
• Section 43:10-18.16 - Pension Fund; Deductions And Contributions; Annual Contribution By County; Donations; Tax Levy; Reimbursement For Excess Expenditures
  A fund to pay pensions under this act shall be created as follows: (a) The county treasurer shall deduct from every payment of salary...
• Section 43:10-18.16a - Permissible Agreements
  Notwithstanding any other provision in this act to the contrary, the pension commission and the county may upon the unanimous vote of the members...
• Section 43:10-18.17 - Administrative Expenses
  The pension commission shall estimate and certify, annually, to the board of chosen freeholders of the county, a reasonable amount required to defray the...
• Section 43:10-18.17a - Actuarial Valuation Of Fund; Adoption Of Tables; Changes In Rates; Certification Of Rate; Classification Of Members
  The actuary appointed by the commission shall recommend and the board shall keep in convenient form, such data as shall be necessary for actuarial...
• Section 43:10-18.18 - Withdrawal From Retirement System; Separation From Service; Retirement On Pension; Death Without Surviving Spouse Or Children
  From and after July 1, 1943, any employee who is or becomes a member of this retirement system may not withdraw therefrom and shall...
• Section 43:10-18.18a - Periodic Increases
  Notwithstanding any other provision in P.L. 1943, c. 160 (C. 43:10-18.1 et seq.) and P.L. 1971, c. 102 (C. 43:10-18.15g et seq.), in the...
• Section 43:10-18.19 - Reentry Into Service Of County After Separation From Service; Payments Required
  (A) Whenever a member of this retirement system becomes separated from the county service because of a lay-off or leave of absence without pay...
• Section 43:10-18.20 - Military Or Naval Services, Women's Service Organizations Or Foreign Red Cross Service, Entry Into; Death Or Disability
  Any member of this retirement system or of any county retirement system referred to in section seven of this act and merged into this...
• Section 43:10-18.21 - Annual Reports
  The pension commission shall report annually on the condition of the retirement system and the manner in which its funds are invested. The report...
• Section 43:10-18.22 - Exemptions Of Funds And Pensions; Assignment
  All funds created under this act and all pensions granted under this act shall be exempt from any State, county, or municipal tax, levy...
• Section 43:10-18.23 - Fraud; Mistakes
  Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement...
• Section 43:10-18.24 - Partial Invalidity
  In case for any reason any section or part of any section or any provision of this act shall be questioned in any court...
• Section 43:10-18.25 - Effective Date; Repeal Of Conflicting Laws
  This act shall take effect immediately and all acts or parts of acts insofar as they conflict with this act, are hereby repealed. L.1943,...
• Section 43:10-18.26 - Court Attendants, Guards, Keepers, Nurses And Other Employees Caring For Prisoners; Retirement; Employment After 65
  The board of chosen freeholders in any county of this State having a population of more than eight hundred thousand inhabitants may retire any...
• Section 43:10-18.27 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect six months after the same shall have been adopted. L.1947, c. 367, p. 1181, s. 2.
• Section 43:10-18.28 - Employees In First-class Counties Under 800,000 Ineligible Because Of Beginning Age; Prior Service
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 43:1-1 of the Revised Statutes, any county employee of a first-class county having a population of less than 800,000...
• Section 43:10-18.29 - Credit For Prior Service; Payment Of Arrears; Deductions And Benefits
  Where any such employee has had prior elective or appointive service in any State or municipal office or position, such employee shall be given...
• Section 43:10-18.50 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Service" shall always, unless otherwise stated, be considered as continuous or in the aggregate. "Salary" or "compensation" when used...
• Section 43:10-18.51 - Employees' Pension Fund In Counties Of 300,000 To 325,000
  In each county of this State having a population of from three hundred thousand to three hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants a county employees' pension...
• Section 43:10-18.52 - Pension Commission
  3. There shall be authorized to carry out the provisions of this act and charged with the duty of administering the pension fund herein...
• Section 43:10-18.53 - Receipt And Disposition Of Moneys
  All moneys belonging to the retirement system shall be received and paid over to the treasurer of the retirement system whose official bond as...
• Section 43:10-18.54 - Deposits; Investments
  The pension commission shall deposit the funds in any of the banks or trust companies in the county. All moneys not needed for immediate...
• Section 43:10-18.55 - Membership In County Employees' Retirement System; Prior Service
  The members and certain conditions of membership in the retirement system created by this act shall be as follows: (a) All persons who shall...
• Section 43:10-18.56 - Other County Retirement Systems Superseded; Transfer Of Moneys And Assets
  It is the intention of this act that the retirement system herein provided for shall on January first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine,...
• Section 43:10-18.57 - Claims Pending On January 1, 1949; Widows, Widowers And Minor Children
  All claims for pensions or other benefits from such other county retirement systems which are pending or ungranted on January 1, 1949, shall be...
• Section 43:10-18.58 - Retirement On Half Pay
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, any county employee who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in the employ...
• Section 43:10-18.58a - Resignation Of Member After Completion Of 20 Or 30 Years Of Service Before Age 55; Death
  (a) Should a member resign after having completed 30 years of service for which credit has been established in the pension fund, before reaching...
• Section 43:10-18.58c - Additional Pension; Retiree Over 55 With 25 Years Or More Service
  Any employee retiring after the effective date of this act who has 25 years of service and who has attained 55 years of age,...
• Section 43:10-18.59 - Disabled Persons Employed One Year Or More; Pension; Amount
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, any county employee who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in the employ...
• Section 43:10-18.60 - Disabled Persons; Retirement On Half Pay
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, any county employee who shall become permanently and totally disabled as a result of injury, accident...
• Section 43:10-18.61 - Medical Examination Of Persons Retired For Disability
  Once each year the pension commission may, and upon his application, shall, require any member retired for disability who is under the age of...
• Section 43:10-18.62 - Death Of Employee After One Year's Employment; Benefits To Survivors
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, upon and after the death of any county employee who shall have served or who shall...
• Section 43:10-18.63 - Surviving Children, Pensions To
  If an employee or pensioner dies leaving dependent children under 18 years of age and he or she is, at death, a widower or...
• Section 43:10-18.64 - Election Between Pensions; Workmen's Compensation; Conviction; Time Of Payments; Eligibility Of Widows Or Widowers
  The following provisions shall apply to all members of the retirement system: (a) (Deleted by amendment; P.L.1978, c. 127.) (b) Where a husband and...
• Section 43:10-18.64a - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Retirant" means any former employee included in the membership of the pension fund established under the act to...
• Section 43:10-18.64b - Adjustment In Pensions; Employer To Bear Cost; Date Of Commencement
  The employer shall bear the cost of the adjustment in the pensions payable to retirants who retired from the employ of such employer and...
• Section 43:10-18.64c - Amount Of Adjustment; Determination; Certification; Notice
  On or before the 30th day following the effective date of this act and on or before October 1, 1978 and by the same...
• Section 43:10-18.64d - Waiver Of Right To Adjusted Pension; Withdrawal
  Any retirant or beneficiary who is eligible to receive an adjusted pension under the provisions of this supplementary act may, at any time, waive...
• Section 43:10-18.64e - Legislation Providing Blanket Increases To Retirants Or Beneficiaries Eligible For Benefits Under This Act After 1977; Termination Of Increases; Exception
  If legislation is adopted providing for a blanket increase in original pensions or minimum pensions to any group of retirants or beneficiaries eligible for...
• Section 43:10-18.64f - Rules And Regulations; Annual Report
  The Director of the Division of Pensions of the State Department of the Treasury shall promulgate such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the...
• Section 43:10-18.65 - Deductions From Salary; Contributions By County; Donations; Interest; Taxation; Investigation By Actuary
  A fund to pay pensions under this act shall be created as follows: (a) The county treasurer shall deduct from every payment of salary...
• Section 43:10-18.66 - Administrative Expenses
  The pension commission shall estimate and certify, annually, to the board of chosen freeholders of the county, a reasonable amount required to defray the...
• Section 43:10-18.67 - Withdrawal; Separation From Service; Death
  From and after January 1, 1949, any employee who is or becomes a member of this retirement system may not withdraw therefrom and shall...
• Section 43:10-18.68 - Re-entry Of Service After Involuntary Separation From Service Or Leave Of Absence
  (A) Whenever a member of this retirement system becomes separated from the county service because of a lay-off or leave of absence without pay...
• Section 43:10-18.69 - Entry Into Military Service Or Red Cross
  Any member of this retirement system or of any county retirement system referred to in section seven of this act and merged into this...
• Section 43:10-18.70 - Annual Reports
  The pension commission shall report annually on the condition of the retirement system and the manner in which its funds are invested. The report...
• Section 43:10-18.71 - Exemptions
  All funds created under this act and all pensions granted under this act shall be exempt from any State, county, or municipal tax, levy...
• Section 43:10-18.72 - False Statements Or Records; Mistakes
  Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement...
• Section 43:10-18.73 - Partial Invalidity
  In case for any reason any section or part of any section or any provision of this act shall be questioned in any court...
• Section 43:10-18.74 - Effective Date; Repeal
  This act shall take effect immediately and all acts or parts of acts insofar as they conflict with this act are hereby repealed. L.1948,...
• Section 43:10-18.75 - Member Having Annual Salary Of More Than $5,000; Application For Credit In System; Payments
  Any employee who, on the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, is a member of this retirement system and whose then annual...
• Section 43:10-18.76 - Increase In Pension; Formula; Waiver
  (a) Subject, however, to the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, the pension being received by any retired member shall be increased in...
• Section 43:10-18.77 - Increase Of County Contributions
  In addition to the contributions of the county prescribed in the act to which this act is amendatory and supplementary, in fiscal year 1967...
• Section 43:10-18.78 - Retirement Upon Attainment Of Age 70
  All members of the pension fund shall be required to retire upon the attainment of age 70 or 2 years following the effective date...
• Section 43:10-18.79 - Status Of Member Taking Approved Leave Of Absence To Accept Appointive, Administrative Or Elective County Position
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, when a member takes an approved leave of absence to accept an appointive, administrative or elective position...
• Section 43:10-18.80 - Adoption Of Chapter 310 Of Laws 1948 By County With 400,000 To 425,000 Inhabitants; Membership As Condition Of Employment
  Any person employed by or elected or re-elected as a public official of a county having a population of 400,000 to 425,000 inhabitants which...
• Section 43:10-18.81 - Effective Date; Operative Upon Resolution By County
  This act shall take effect immediately but shall not be operative in any county unless and until the board of chosen freeholders shall adopt...
• Section 43:10-19 - "County Detectives" Defined
  The words, "county detectives" , as used in this article, shall mean and include persons appointed by the prosecutors of the pleas as special...
• Section 43:10-20 - Retirement For Service And Age
  In first, second, third and fifth class counties of this State, now or hereafter having county detectives, any county detective who shall have served...
• Section 43:10-21 - Amount Of Pension
  The words "be retired upon one-half pay" , as used in this article, shall be construed to mean, retired upon a pension equal to...
• Section 43:10-22 - Retirement By Reason Of Unfitness
  Any county detective who shall have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years, whether he has reached the age of sixty...
• Section 43:10-23 - Retirement For Disability Incurred In Service
  Any county detective who shall have received a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness, incurred at any time in the service,...
• Section 43:10-24 - Medical Examination To Determine Disability
  Physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any county detective shall, for all purposes of this article, be established and determined by a...
• Section 43:10-25 - Pension To Widow And Children
  The widow of any county detective who shall die from any cause shall receive a pension so long as she shall remain unmarried, equal...
• Section 43:10-26 - Pension To Widow When Death Occurs After Retirement
  If any county detective, after having been retired on one-half pay, shall die, or having made application for retirement, shall die pending the completion...
• Section 43:10-27 - Payment Of Pensions
  Persons who may become entitled to pensions under this article shall be paid such pensions in the same manner and at the same time...
• Section 43:10-28 - Pension Fund Created; Sources
  A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying such pensions, to wit: There shall be deducted from every...
• Section 43:10-29 - Management Of Fund; Investments
  The board of chosen freeholders of said county shall have the management and control of said fund and is hereby empowered to make all...
• Section 43:10-29.1 - Persons Eligible Under State Retirement System; Resolution Excluding
  The board of chosen freeholders may adopt a resolution directing that this article shall not apply to any person becoming a county detective subsequent...
• Section 43:10-29.2 - Effect Of Resolution
  The adoption of a resolution pursuant to this act shall not impair the pension rights of any county detective theretofore employed, nor shall it...
• Section 43:10-29.3 - Counties Of 300,000 To 500,000; County Detectives Desiring To Become Members Of Pension Fund
  Any county detective employed in the office of the prosecutor of the pleas, of any county now or hereafter having a population of more...
• Section 43:10-29.4 - Counties Of Second Class; Adjustments In Amount Of Pension Benefits; Resolution Or Ordinance
  Any county of the second class which is paying pensions to retirants pursuant to the provisions of article 2 of chapter 10 of Title...
• Section 43:10-29.5 - Limitations On Adjustment
  No adjustment shall be made beyond those permitted to be made for pensioners in State administered retirement systems, as promulgated by the Director of...
• Section 43:10-29.6 - Appropriations Necessary For Continuation Of Adjustments
  Adjustments hereunder shall continue to be made as long as the employer appropriates the amount necessary to make such additional payments and provided further...
• Section 43:10-30 - Retirement For Service, Age And Disability
  In all counties of the first class of this state which have police officers for the supervision and regulation of traffic on county roads...
• Section 43:10-31 - Retirement On Application For Age And Service
  A member of such police traffic force who shall have attained the age of fifty years and shall have honorably served on the force...
• Section 43:10-32 - Retirement For Disability
  A member of such police force who shall have sustained a permanent disability by reason of an accident incurred at any time in the...
• Section 43:10-33 - Pension To Widow And Children
  The widow or children of any member of such police force who shall have lost his life in the performance of his duty, shall,...
• Section 43:10-34 - Pension Fund
  For the purpose of paying the pensions a fund shall be created as follows: a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary...
• Section 43:10-35 - Management Of Fund
  The board of chosen freeholders of the county shall have the management and control of the fund and may make all necessary rules and...
• Section 43:10-36 - "County Police Officer" Defined
  As used in this article, "county police officer" means and includes all uniformed members, whether officers or patrolmen, of the county force.
• Section 43:10-36.1 - Article Inapplicable To Certain Persons
  This article shall not apply to any person becoming a member of such police department after this supplement takes effect who, at the time...
• Section 43:10-37 - Retirement For Service And Age
  Any county police officer who has honorably served for a period of twenty years in a duly organized county police department of any county...
• Section 43:10-37.1 - Increase In Amount Of Service Retirement Pension
  The amount of the service retirement pension of any member of such police department, who has served for more than 25 years and who...
• Section 43:10-38 - Pension To Widow, Children Or Parent Of Deceased Member
  The widow, children or sole dependent parent of a member of the county police department, who shall have served therein for a period of...
• Section 43:10-39 - Pension To Widow, Children Or Parent Of Deceased Retired Member
  The widow of any retired member of such police department, who was married to her deceased husband before the date of his retirement and...
• Section 43:10-40 - Retirement For Disability; Application For Retirement
  A member of the county police department who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty shall, upon the certificate of...
• Section 43:10-41 - Pension Fund
  For the purpose of paying the pensions, a fund shall be created in the respective counties, as follows: a. If a member of the...
• Section 43:10-42 - Pension Commission
  In all counties in which this article takes effect there shall be established a pension commission of five members, consisting of the director of...
• Section 43:10-43 - Control Of Fund And Retirement
  The pension commission shall have control and management of the fund and of the retirement of members of the departments, and may make all...
• Section 43:10-44 - Adoption Of Article
  This article shall not be operative in any county until the board of chosen freeholders thereof shall have determined, by resolution, to adopt its...
• Section 43:10-45 - Citation Of Article
  This article may be cited as "An act providing for the pensioning of county probation officers in certain counties of this state."
• Section 43:10-46 - "County Probation Officers" Defined
  43:10-46. The words "county probation officers" as used in this article shall mean and include the chief probation officer; and persons permanently appointed to...
• Section 43:10-47 - "Be Retired Upon One-half Pay" Defined
  The words "be retired upon one-half pay" , as used in this article, shall be construed to mean, retired upon a pension equal to...
• Section 43:10-48 - Retirement For Service And Age
  43:10-48. The county probation officers in the counties of this State now or hereafter having within their territorial limits a population of over eighty-three...
• Section 43:10-49 - Retirement For Disability Regardless Of Service Or Age
  Any county probation officer who shall at any time receive a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness, physical or mental, which...
• Section 43:10-50 - Retirement When Physically Or Mentally Unfit
  43:10-50. Any county probation officer who shall have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years, whether he has reached the age...
• Section 43:10-51 - Determination Of Permanent Incapacity
  43:10-51. Permanent incapacity for further duty of any county probation officer shall, for all purposes of this article, be established and determined by a...
• Section 43:10-52 - Pension To Widow And Children
  The widow of any county probation officer, who shall die from any cause while in the service, whether such county probation officer shall have...
• Section 43:10-53 - Pension To Dependent Widower And Children
  The widower of any county probation officer who shall die from any cause while in the service, whether such county probation officer shall have...
• Section 43:10-54 - Death After Retirement; Pension To Widow And Children
  If any county probation officer, after having been retired on one-half pay, shall die, leaving him surviving a widow, who was his wife at...
• Section 43:10-55 - Death After Retirement; Pension To Dependent Widower And Children
  If any county probation officer, after having been retired on one-half pay, shall die, leaving her surviving a widower, who was her husband at...
• Section 43:10-56 - Payment Of Pensions
  Persons who may become entitled to pensions under this article shall be paid such pensions in the same manner and at the same time...
• Section 43:10-57 - Source Of Pension Fund; Right Of Withdrawal; Exemptions
  A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying such pensions, to wit: There shall be deducted from every...
• Section 43:10-57.1 - Probation Officers In Counties Of 275,000 To 400,000; Pensions; Conditions
  Any probation officer of any county now or hereafter having a population of more than two hundred seventy-five thousand and not more than four...
• Section 43:10-58 - Management Of Fund; Investments
  The board of chosen freeholders of said county shall have the management and control of such fund and is hereby empowered to make all...
• Section 43:10-59 - Other Pension Funds And Associations Not Affected
  This article shall not be construed to affect in any manner any other pension fund organized or created under any law existing on May...
• Section 43:10-59.1 - Persons Eligible Under State Retirement System; Resolution Excluding
  The board of chosen freeholders may adopt a resolution directing that this article shall not apply to any person becoming a probation officer subsequent...
• Section 43:10-59.2 - Effect Of Resolution
  The adoption of a resolution pursuant to this act shall not impair the pension rights of any probation officer theretofore employed, nor shall it...
• Section 43:10-59.3 - Termination Of Pension Fund Established For Certain County Probation Officers
  1. Any pension fund established for county probation officers under this article (R.S.43:10-45 et seq.) in a county having a population of at least...
• Section 43:10-59.4 - County Probation Officers Permitted Enrollment In Pers
  2. A county probation officer of the county who, on the effective date of this act, is in active service and eligible to retire...
• Section 43:10-60 - "Sheriff's Employees" Defined
  The words "sheriff's employees" , as used in this article, shall mean and include court attendants and all other persons appointed by the sheriffs...
• Section 43:10-61 - Sheriff's Employee's Pension
  a. In any first or second class county of this State any sheriff's employee who shall now or hereafter have served as such for...
• Section 43:10-62 - Amount Of Pension
  The words "be retired upon half pay" , as used in this article, shall be construed to mean retired upon a pension equal to...
• Section 43:10-63 - Retirement For Disability
  Any sheriff's employee who shall have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years, whether he has reached the age of sixty...
• Section 43:10-64 - Retirement For Disability Incurred In Service
  Any sheriff's employee who shall have received a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness, incurred at any time in the service,...
• Section 43:10-65 - Medical Examination To Determine Disability
  Physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any sheriff's employee shall, for all purposes of this article, be established and determined by a...
• Section 43:10-66 - Pension Of Employee's Spouse
  The widow of any sheriff's employee who shall die from any cause shall receive a pension so long as she shall remain unmarried, equal...
• Section 43:10-67 - Pension Of Retiree's Spouse
  If any sheriff's employee, after having been retired on half pay, shall die leaving his surviving widow who was his wife at the time...
• Section 43:10-68 - Payment Of Pensions
  Persons who may become entitled to pension under this article shall be paid such pensions in the same manner and at the same time...
• Section 43:10-69 - Creation Of Pension Fund; Contributions
  A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying such pensions, to wit: There shall be deducted from every...
• Section 43:10-69.1 - Withdrawal From Service
  Any member of the pension fund created pursuant to R.S. 43:10-69, who withdraws from service or ceases to be an employee for any cause...
• Section 43:10-70 - Management Of Pension Fund; Investments
  The board of chosen freeholders of said county shall have the management and control of such fund and is hereby empowered to make all...
• Section 43:10-71 - Transfer Of Court Attendants' Pension Fund To Credit Of Sheriff's Employees' Pension Fund
  All moneys remaining on June fifth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, in the possession of any board of chosen freeholders of any county...
• Section 43:10-72 - Withdrawal By Veterans From Former Fund For Court Attendants; Payments Returned With Interest
  L.1933, c. 429, p. 1152, entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act providing for the retirement and pensioning of court attendants in...
• Section 43:10-72.1 - Sheriff's Employees In Counties Of 275,000 To 400,000
  Any sheriff's employee of any county now or hereafter having a population of more than two hundred seventy-five thousand and not more than four...
• Section 43:10-72.2 - Persons Eligible Under State Retirement System; Resolution Excluding
  The board of chosen freeholders may adopt a resolution directing that this article shall not apply to any person becoming a sheriff's employee subsequent...
• Section 43:10-72.3 - Effect Of Resolution
  The adoption of a resolution pursuant to this act shall not impair the pension rights of any sheriff's employee theretofore employed, nor shall it...
• Section 43:10-72.4 - Counties Of Second Class; Adjustments In Amounts; Ordinance Or Resolution
  Any county of the second class which is paying pensions to retirants pursuant to the provisions of article 6 of chapter 10 of Title...
• Section 43:10-72.5 - Limitation On Adjustments
  No adjustments shall be made beyond those permitted to be made for pensioners in State administered retirement systems, as promulgated by the Director of...
• Section 43:10-73 - "Sergeants-at-arms" And "Court Criers" Defined
  The words sergeant-at-arms and court crier as used in this article shall mean and include sergeants-at-arms and court criers assigned to the Superior Court...
• Section 43:10-74 - Retirement For Service And Age
  In any first class county of this state any person who shall now or hereafter have served as sergeant at arms or court crier...
• Section 43:10-75 - Amount Of Pension
  The words "be retired upon half pay" as used in this article shall be construed to mean retired upon a pension equal to one-half...
• Section 43:10-76 - Retirement For Disability
  Any sergeant at arms or court crier who shall have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years, whether he has reached...
• Section 43:10-77 - Retirement For Disability Incurred In Service
  Any sergeant at arms or court crier who shall have received a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness incurred at any...
• Section 43:10-78 - Medical Examination To Determine Disability
  Physical unfitness or incapacitation for further duty of any sergeant at arms or court crier shall for all purposes of this article be established...
• Section 43:10-79 - Pension To Widow When Death Occurs During Service
  The widow of any sergeant at arms or court crier who shall lose his life in the performance of his duty or who shall...
• Section 43:10-80 - Pension To Widow When Death Occurs After Retirement
  If any sergeant at arms or court crier, after having been retired upon one-half pay, shall die, or having made application for retirement shall...
• Section 43:10-81 - Payment Of Pensions
  Persons who may become entitled to pension under this article shall be paid such pension in the same manner and at the same time...
• Section 43:10-82 - Creation Of Pension Fund; Contributions
  A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying such pensions, to wit: There shall be deducted from every...
• Section 43:10-83 - Management Of Pension Fund; Investments
  The board of chosen freeholders of said county shall have the management and control of such fund and is hereby empowered to make all...
• Section 43:10-84 - Retirement For Service And Age
  In any first class county of this state any county clerk's employee who shall now or hereafter have served as such for a continuous...
• Section 43:10-85 - Amount Of Pension
  The words "be retired upon half pay" as used in this article, shall be construed to mean retired upon a pension equal to one-half...
• Section 43:10-86 - Retirement For Disability
  Any county clerk's employee who shall have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years, whether he has reached the age of...
• Section 43:10-87 - Retirement For Disability Incurred In Service
  Any county clerk's employee who shall have received a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness, incurred at any time in the...
• Section 43:10-88 - Medical Examination To Determine Disability
  Physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any county clerk's employee shall, for all purposes of this article, be established and determined by...
• Section 43:10-89 - Pension To Widow
  If any county clerk's employee, after having been retired on half pay, shall die leaving him surviving a widow who was his wife at...
• Section 43:10-90 - Payment Of Pension
  Persons who may become entitled to pension under this article shall be paid such pensions in the same manner and at the same time...
• Section 43:10-91 - Creation Of Pension Fund; Contributions
  A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying such pensions, to wit: There shall be deducted from every...
• Section 43:10-92 - Management Of Pension Fund; Investments
  The board of chosen freeholders of said county shall have the management and control of such fund and is hereby empowered to make all...
• Section 43:10-93 - Definition Of "Court Interpreter"
  The words "court interpreter," as used in this act, shall mean and include persons appointed by the judge or judges of the County Court...
• Section 43:10-94 - Retirement For Service And Age
  2. In second-class counties of this State, now or hereafter having court interpreters, any court interpreter who shall have served as such for a...
• Section 43:10-95 - Amount Of Pension
  The words "be retired upon one-half pay," as used in this act, shall be construed to mean, retired upon a pension equal to one-half...
• Section 43:10-96 - Retirement When Physically Unfit
  4. Any court interpreter who shall have served as such for a continuous period of thirty years, whether he has reached the age of...
• Section 43:10-97 - Retirement For Permanent Disability
  Any court interpreter who shall have received permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness, incurred at any time in the service, which...
• Section 43:10-98 - Determination Of Physical Unfitness
  6. Physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any court interpreter shall, for all purposes of this act, be established and determined by...
• Section 43:10-99 - Pension To Widow Of Court Interpreter Dying While In Service
  The widow of any court interpreter, who shall die from any cause while in the service, whether the said court interpreter shall have served...
• Section 43:10-100 - Pension To Widow Who Was Wife At Time Of Retirement
  If any court interpreter, after having been retired on one-half pay, shall die, leaving him surviving a widow who was his wife at the...
• Section 43:10-101 - Time And Manner Of Payment Of Pensions
  Persons who may become entitled to pensions under this act shall be paid such pensions in the same manner and at the same time...
• Section 43:10-102 - Pension Fund
  A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying such pensions, to wit: There shall be deducted from every...
• Section 43:10-103 - Tax Levy To Meet Requirements When Fund Deficient; Contributions When Fund Exceeds Adequate Amount
  In case, at any time there shall not be sufficient money in such pension fund to pay such pensions, the board of chosen freeholders...
• Section 43:10-104 - Management And Control Of Fund; Investment
  The board of chosen freeholders of said county shall have the management and control of said fund and is hereby empowered to make all...
• Section 43:10-105 - Exemption From Taxation And Process
  All pensions granted under this act shall be exempt from any State or municipal tax, levy, and sale, garnishment or attachment or any other...
• Section 43:10-105.1 - Partial Invalidity
  If any section, subdivision, or clause of this act shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, said decision shall not affect the validity...
• Section 43:10-105.2 - Persons Eligible Under State Retirement System; Resolution Excluding
  The Board of Chosen Freeholders may adopt a resolution directing that the act to which this act is a supplement shall not apply to...
• Section 43:10-105.3 - Effect Of Resolution
  The adoption of a resolution pursuant to this act shall not impair the pension rights of any court interpreter theretofore employed, nor shall it...
• Section 43:10-106 - Retirement For Service And Age
  In any county of this State the county superintendent of weights and measures and the assistant county superintendents of weights and measures, where such...
• Section 43:10-107 - Retirement For Disability
  Any county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendents of weights and measures who shall have served as such for a continuous...
• Section 43:10-108 - Retirement For Permanent Disability Because Of Injury, Accident Or Sickness Incurred In Service
  Any county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures who shall have received a permanent disability by reason...
• Section 43:10-109 - Pension To Widow Or Children Or Sole Dependent Parent
  The widow or children or sole dependent parent of any superintendent or assistant superintendent of the county department of weights and measures, having paid...
• Section 43:10-110 - Payment Of Pensions; Pension Fund; Tax Levy
  Persons who may become entitled to pensions under this act shall be paid such pensions monthly. A fund shall be created in the following...
• Section 43:10-111 - Management And Control Of Fund; Investment Of Moneys
  The governing body of such county shall have the management and control of said fund and is hereby empowered to make all necessary rules...
• Section 43:10-113 - Persons Eligible Under State Retirement System; Resolution Excluding
  The board of chosen freeholders may adopt a resolution directing that the act to which this act is a supplement shall not apply to...
• Section 43:10-114 - Effect Of Resolution
  The adoption of a resolution pursuant to this act shall not impair the pension rights of any county superintendent of weights and measures or...
• Section 43:11-1 - Violation Of Rules And Regulations Of Police Or Fire Department; Effect On Pension
  No member of the police or fire department of any municipality who shall have served honorably in either department for the required number of...
• Section 43:11-2 - Time Between Removal And Reinstatement Of Policemen Allowed In Certain Cases
  When a member of the police department in any municipality has been removed from employment therein without charges being preferred against him, or has...
• Section 43:11-4 - Transfer To Position In Another Branch Of Service Of Municipality
  Any person who, while holding any office, position or employment in any municipality of this State and while a member of and entitled to...
• Section 43:11-5 - Persons Heretofore Transferred To Position In Another Branch Of Service Of Municipality
  Any person who, while holding any office, position or employment in any municipality of this State and while a member of and entitled to...
• Section 43:11-6 - Act Inapplicable To Uniformed Policemen Or Firemen
  This act shall not apply to any member of any uniformed police or fire department. L.1941, c. 335, p. 893, s. 3.
• Section 43:11a-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act, the following terms shall mean: (a) "Air terminal" shall mean an air terminal as defined in chapter forty-three, laws...
• Section 43:11a-2 - Payment Of Pension To Former Municipal Employee On Retirement From Port Authority Service; Computation Of Pension
  Upon his retirement from Port Authority service, a former municipal employee shall be paid a New Jersey pension under, pursuant to and in accordance...
• Section 43:11a-3 - Contributions By Employee To Cease On Termination Of Municipal Employment; Refunds On Termination Of Employment Before Retirement
  Any contribution required to be made by an employee under an applicable New Jersey pension act shall cease upon the termination of his municipal...
• Section 43:11a-4 - Dependents, Rights To Benefits
  Any benefit which would have been payable under an applicable New Jersey pension act to the dependents of a former municipal employee upon his...
• Section 43:12-1.12 - Public Employees Who Served As Members Of General Assembly, County Prosecutor And Elected Or Appointed City Official; Widows
  Any public employee who is at least 70 years of age and who has served as a member of the General Assembly and as...
• Section 43:12-1.13 - Manner Of Payment; Contributions
  The payment of pensions granted pursuant to this act shall be provided for in the budget of the employer granting the pension. If the...
• Section 43:12-1.14 - "Public Employee" Defined
  For the purposes of this act, the term "public employee" shall be deemed to mean and include a person who holds or has held...
• Section 43:12-28.1 - Pension For Survivors Of Certain Emergency Services Workers; Terms Defined.
  1.The governing body of any municipality served by a volunteer fire company or first aid or rescue squad shall, by resolution, determine the eligibility...
• Section 43:12-28.2 - Amount Of Pension.
  2.A survivor's pension granted under section 1 of P.L.1957, c.168 (C.43:12-28.1) shall be for the sum of(a)$15,000 annually and shall be paid to the...
• Section 43:12-28.3 - Manner Of Payment Of Pension.
  3.With regard to any pension granted by a municipality pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1957, c.168 (C.43:12-28.1) prior to the effective date of P.L.2002,...
• Section 43:12-28.4 - Overseers Of Poor Or Deputy Overseers Of Poor; Application; Amount
  Upon written application, the governing body of any municipality may grant, by resolution, an annual pension in an amount not exceeding $1,000.00 per annum...
• Section 43:12-28.5 - Limitations; Manner Of Payment
  Any person eligible for a pension under the provisions of this act shall apply therefor to the municipality in which he was formerly employed...
• Section 43:13-1 - Filling Vacancies In Trustees Of Certain Trust Funds; Resignation Of Trustees
  When a trust fund has been or shall be created by public subscription for the benefit of the widow and children of any deceased...
• Section 43:13-1.1 - Cities Of First Class; Acceptance Of Employment After Age 40 But Prior To Age 55; Eligibility For Membership
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 43:1-1 of the Revised Statutes, any employee of a city of the first class as defined in the article...
• Section 43:13-1.2 - Credit For Prior Service; Payment Of Arrears
  Where any such employee has had prior elective or appointive service in any State or county office or position such employee shall be given...
• Section 43:13-1.3 - Employees Deemed Permanent
  Where any such employee was in the employ of said city on or before January 1, 1950, and has remained continuously in the employ...
• Section 43:13-2 - "Municipal Employee" Or "Employee" Defined
  For the purposes of this article the words "municipal employee" or "employee" mean and include any employee of a city of the first class...
• Section 43:13-3 - Retirement For Service And Age
  Subject to the provisions of section 43:13-21 of this title, any municipal employee who shall have served in the employ of a city of...
• Section 43:13-4 - Payments To Certain Dependents
  The widow, dependent husband, children under the age of sixteen years or dependent parents, as the case may be, of a municipal employee who...
• Section 43:13-5 - Payments To Dependents Of Employee Who Served Five Years Or More
  If a municipal employee, who was not previously retired or pensioned, who has paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments...
• Section 43:13-6 - Dependency Condition Of Payment; Determination Of
  No pension shall be paid to the surviving husband of a deceased employee unless he shall be and shall continue to remain dependent upon...
• Section 43:13-7 - Retirement For Disability
  Any municipal employee of any city of the first class who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty, or shall...
• Section 43:13-8 - Examinations Of Employee Of First-class City After Retirement
  An employee of a city of the first class who is retired because of permanent disability received in the performance of his duty, or...
• Section 43:13-9 - Pension Fund; Exemption From Taxation And Process
  For the purpose of paying the pensions a fund shall be created in each city where this article takes effect, as follows: a. There...
• Section 43:13-9.1 - Deduction Of Premiums For Group Hospitalization And Medical-surgical Insurance
  In connection with the deduction of premiums for group hospitalization and medical-surgical insurance, as provided in section 43:13-9 of the Revised Statutes, the commission,...
• Section 43:13-10 - Sums Paid Into Pension Fund Returned In Certain Cases
  If any municipal employee shall be suspended, dropped or discharged from his employment after having paid his assessments for a period over one year...
• Section 43:13-11 - Beneficiaries Under Other Laws Excepted From This Article
  No person who shall receive a pension under any other law of this state shall be entitled to receive the benefits of this article.
• Section 43:13-12 - Refusal Of Membership In Fund
  If any municipal employee shall decline to accept the provisions of this article he shall notify the pension commission in writing of the fact...
• Section 43:13-13 - Pension Commission In Cities Of The First Class
  There shall be a pension commission in every city of the first class which shall consist of the following members: a. The mayor or...
• Section 43:13-15 - Management Of Fund; Receipts And Payments
  The pension commission shall have control and management of the fund and of the retirement of the municipal employees and may make all necessary...
• Section 43:13-16 - Deposit And Investment Of Fund; Income
  The pension commission shall deposit the fund in any of the banks or trust companies of the city, and shall invest the fund in...
• Section 43:13-17 - Execution Of Releases, Receipts Or Discharges
  The president and secretary shall, on behalf of the pension commission, execute any release, acquittance, receipt or discharge of any and all written evidence...
• Section 43:13-18 - Annual Report
  The pension commission shall make an annual report of the condition of the fund and the manner in which the same is invested.
• Section 43:13-19 - When Payments Begin
  No pension shall be paid out of a fund created under this article until five years after the organization of the pension commission.
• Section 43:13-20 - Unlawful Action A Bar To Pension
  If any municipal employee shall become incapacitated from or shall lose his life in the performance or commission of any unlawful act which would...
• Section 43:13-21 - Physical Examination Of Employee Of City Of The First Class
  Any municipal employee applying for membership after July first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, in the pension fund created in such city under...
• Section 43:13-21.1 - First Class City Pension Fund Members Becoming Officers Or Employees Of School District
  Whenever a municipal employee of a city of the first class has become a member of the pension fund established for employees of said...
• Section 43:13-22 - Existing Funds And Pension Associations Not Affected
  This article shall not be construed to affect in any manner any pension fund organized on or created under any law prior to July...
• Section 43:13-22.1 - Employees Who May Become Members Of Pension Fund On Payment Of Arrears
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 43:1-1 of the Revised Statutes, any employee of a city of the first class as defined in the article...
• Section 43:13-22.2 - First Class Cities; Employees Who May Become Members Of Pension Fund On Payment Of Arrears
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 43:1-1 of the Revised Statutes, any employee of a city of the first class as defined in the article...
• Section 43:13-22.3 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Service" shall always, unless otherwise stated, be considered as in the aggregate. "Salary" or "compensation," when used solely for...
• Section 43:13-22.4 - Employees' Retirement Systems Created In First Class Cities Over 400,000
  In each city, as defined by this act, an employees' retirement system shall be and is hereby created, set apart, maintained and administered in...
• Section 43:13-22.5 - Pension Commission; Membership; Vacancies; Elections
  There is hereby authorized to carry out the provisions of this act, and charged with the duty of administering the retirement system provided for...
• Section 43:13-22.6 - Vacancy Of Elected Member Of Pension Commission
  In case of vacancy of an elected member for any cause, the commission shall, by a majority vote, appoint a person possessed of the...
• Section 43:13-22.7 - Annual Meeting Of Commission; Officers; Duties; Attorney; Actuary
  The commission shall hold its annual meeting in the month of January in each year and elect its chairman and such other officers as...
• Section 43:13-22.8 - Employees
  The first secretary and treasurer appointed shall be bona fide civil service employees and members of 1 of the 3 funds consolidated by the...
• Section 43:13-22.9 - Control And Management Of Funds; Rules And Regulations; Information
  The commission shall have control and management of the funds and of the retirement of employees who are members of the fund. The commission...
• Section 43:13-22.10 - Statements Of Employees
  The commission may require each employee of the city to file a statement or statements, in such form as said commission shall direct, concerning...
• Section 43:13-22.11 - Power Of Subpoena, Witness Fees, Administering Oaths, Contempt
  9. The commission shall have the power to issue subpoenas to compel witnesses to attend and testify before it upon any matter concerning the...
• Section 43:13-22.12 - Name Of Pension Commission
  The commission shall be known as the "pension commission of the employees' retirement system of (name of city)." L.1954, c. 218, p. 813, s.
• Section 43:13-22.13 - Treasurer; Bond; Receipt And Disbursement Of Moneys
  All moneys, the property of the retirement system, shall be received and paid to the treasurer of the retirement system who shall be bonded...
• Section 43:13-22.14 - Deposit Of Funds; Investment
  The commission shall deposit the funds of the system in any depositories lawful for the deposit of municipal funds. All moneys not needed for...
• Section 43:13-22.15 - Members And Conditions Of Membership In Retirement System
  The members and conditions of membership in the retirement system created by this act shall be as follows: (a) All persons who shall hereafter...
• Section 43:13-22.15a - Time For Making Application For Membership Upon Written Declaration Of Intention
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement limiting the time within which applications for membership in the retirement...
• Section 43:13-22.15b - Revision Of Agreements For Payment Of Arrears In Installments
  Any existing agreement for the payment of arrears in installments, in effect upon the adoption of this act, may be revised to provide for...
• Section 43:13-22.15c - Payment In Full Of Assessments For Arrears And Interest Prior To Retirement Of Member For Disability
  No employee member of the retirement system shall be retired on pension except as hereinafter provided until he shall have paid in full the...
• Section 43:13-22.15d - Declaration Of Intention To Become A Member; Credit; Eligibility For Retirement Or Disability Pension
  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the act to which this act is amendatory and supplementary limiting the time within which application for membership...
• Section 43:13-22.16 - Credits; Prior Agreements
  All employee members of the existing pension funds aforesaid, who become members of the city employees' retirement system provided by this act, shall be...
• Section 43:13-22.16a - Credit For Active Service In United States Armed Forces; Payments To Fund
  Any employee member, or eligible employee upon becoming a member of a retirement system, established pursuant to the act to which this act is...
• Section 43:13-22.16b - Application For Purchase Of Credit; Manner And Time Of Filing
  Applications for purchase of prior service credit pursuant to this act shall be filed with the pension commission, in a manner to be by...
• Section 43:13-22.16c - Amount Payable By City
  Upon approval of an application for the purchase of prior service credit pursuant to this act and calculation of the amount due the fund...
• Section 43:13-22.16d - Rules And Regulations
  The pension commission may adopt rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this act. L.1963, c. 151, s. 4.
• Section 43:13-22.16f - Applications For Purchase Of Prior Credit
  Any employee member of the city employees' retirement system may upon application to the pension commission purchase prior service credit for full-time service as...
• Section 43:13-22.16g - Purchase Of Prior Service Credit By Members Of The Board Of Education, Housing Authority, Police Or Fire Departments
  Any employee member of the city employees' retirement system may upon application to the pension commission purchase prior service credit for full-time service as...
• Section 43:13-22.17 - Retirement System Hereunder Supersedes Existing Pension Funds; Exceptions
  It is the intention of this act that the retirement system herein provided for shall, on and after the effective date of this act,...
• Section 43:13-22.18 - Merger Of Pension Funds Into Retirement System
  All of the aforesaid pension funds shall be and are hereby merged into and become part of the retirement system created by this act....
• Section 43:13-22.19 - Retirement For Age And Service; Maximum Pensions
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, any employee member who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in the employ...
• Section 43:13-22.19a - Pensions For Members Voluntarily Or Involuntarily Separated From Service
  (a) Should an employee member, after having completed at least 25 years of service for credit has been established in the pension fund, be...
• Section 43:13-22.20 - Pension To Dependents Of Employee Or Pensioner After Death
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, upon and after the death of such employee member or pensioner member, said retirement pension shall...
• Section 43:13-22.21 - Disability Not Arising Out Of Employment; Retirement Pension; Pension To Dependents After Death
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, any member employee who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in the employ...
• Section 43:13-22.22 - Disability Arising Out Of Employment; Retirement Pension
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, any city employee who shall become permanently or totally disabled as a result of injury or...
• Section 43:13-22.23 - Determination Of Permanent Disability And Whether Disability Or Death Arose Out Of Employment
  The commission shall have the power to determine whether or not any member is permanently and totally disabled, and whether or not the disability...
• Section 43:13-22.24 - Medical Examination Yearly Of Persons Retired For Disability
  Once each year the commission may require any member retired for disability, who is under the age of 60 years to undergo medical examination...
• Section 43:13-22.25 - Death Benefits To Widow Or Dependents
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, upon the death of any employee member who shall have served or who shall hereafter have...
• Section 43:13-22.26 - Manner Of Priority Payments To Survivors
  Subject to the other provisions of this act, upon and after the death of any employee member, pensioner member, or beneficiary, the benefits herein...
• Section 43:13-22.28 - Dependency Of Surviving Spouse; No Beneficiary; Election Between Two Pensions; Workmen's Compensation; Persons Convicted; Payments; Eligibility Of Widow Or Widower
  The following provisions shall apply to all members of the retirement system; (a) The commission shall determine the question of the dependency of the...
• Section 43:13-22.29 - Creation And Maintenance Of Fund
  A fund to pay pensions under this act shall be created and maintained as follows: (A) The financial officer of the city shall deduct...
• Section 43:13-22.29a - Increased Contributions By City
  In addition to the contributions of the city prescribed in the act to which this act is supplementary, in fiscal year 1967 the city...
• Section 43:13-22.29b - Newark City Employees Retirement System--actuarial Investigation And Report
  Each year the actuary of the Newark City Employees Retirement System shall make an actuarial investigation into the mortality service, and compensation or salary...
• Section 43:13-22.30 - Administrative Expenses
  The commission shall estimate and certify annually to the governing body a reasonable amount required to defray the administrative expenses in the retirement system...
• Section 43:13-22.31 - Withdrawal Not Allowed; Separation From Service; Refunds
  From and after the adoption of this act any employee who is or becomes a member of the retirement system created hereby may not...
• Section 43:13-22.32 - Widow Of Employee
  When a member of the retirement system is separated from service or is absent on leave for a period in excess of 1 year,...
• Section 43:13-22.33 - Transfer Of Membership From Existing Funds
  Upon the adoption of this act, the transfer of membership from any of the existing funds organized under the provisions of article 2, chapter...
• Section 43:13-22.34 - Annual Reports; Exemptions; Assignments
  The commission shall report annually the condition of the retirement system and the manner in which its funds are invested. The report shall be...
• Section 43:13-22.35 - Fraud; Errors
  Any person who shall knowingly make any false statements or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of the retirement...
• Section 43:13-22.36 - Yearly Payments By City Of $100,000 Raised By Taxation
  To provide for the solvency of the retirement system in addition to and separate and distinct from any obligation heretofore placed upon the city...
• Section 43:13-22.37 - New Members; Retirement For Age And Service
  Any person who, after the enactment of this act, becomes a permanent employee of the city and becomes a member of this retirement system...
• Section 43:13-22.38 - Affiliation With Similar Organizations
  The commission shall be empowered to affiliate with similar State and national organizations. L.1954, c. 218, p. 831, s. 36.
• Section 43:13-22.39 - Partial Invalidity
  If for any reason any section or part of any section or any provisions of this act shall be questioned in any court, and...
• Section 43:13-22.40 - Affidavits As To Status
  The commission may require all pensioners and beneficiaries annually and at such other times as it may be deemed necessary to file an affidavit...
• Section 43:13-22.41 - Laws Not Affected By This Act
  Nothing in this act shall affect, modify or repeal any of the provisions of chapter 119 of the laws of 1941 or of chapter...
• Section 43:13-22.42 - Definitions
  As used in this act "retirant" means any former employee included in the membership of the retirement system established under the act to which...
• Section 43:13-22.43 - Increase In Pension
  The monthly pension originally granted to any retirant shall be increased in accordance with the provisions of this act. Pension increases shall not be...
• Section 43:13-22.44 - Ratio Of Increase
  The "ratio of increase" which shall apply to the pension originally granted to a retirant shall be calculated in accordance with the following percentages...
• Section 43:13-22.45 - Payment Of Cost Of Increase By Employer; Appropriation Of Amounts Certified; Necessity
  The employer shall bear the cost of the increase in the pensions payable to retirants who retired from the employ of such employer. The...
• Section 43:13-22.46 - Waiver; Withdrawal
  Any person who is eligible to receive the increased pension under the provisions of this act may, at any time, waive his right thereto...
• Section 43:13-22.47 - Annual Adjustment In Pensions Pursuant To Percentum Of Change In Index
  On or before October 1, 1969 and by the same date in each subsequent year, the Director of the Division of Pensions of the...
• Section 43:13-22.48 - Blanket Increase In Original Or Minimum Pensions; Adjustment Of Payments Under This Act
  If legislation is adopted providing for a blanket increase in the original pensions or for minimum pensions to any group of retirants eligible for...
• Section 43:13-22.49 - Director Of Division Of Pensions; Rules And Regulations; Reports
  The Director of the Division of Pensions of the State Department of the Treasury shall promulgate such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the...
• Section 43:13-22.49a - Elected Officials; Special Retirement Benefits; Ordinance
  Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1954, c. 218 (C. 43:13-22.3 et seq.) or any other law, the governing body of a city, as defined by...
• Section 43:13-22.49b - Separate Account For Each Elected Official; Credits; Contributions
  A separate account shall be established in the pension fund created pursuant to section 27 of P.L.1954, c. 218 (C. 43:13-22.29) for each elected...
• Section 43:13-22.49c - Credit For Prior Service; Purchase
  Notwithstanding any other law regarding the purchase of service credit, an elected official of the city may purchase credit for all previous service as...
• Section 43:13-22.49d - Member Of Pers; Remittance And Adjustment Of Accumulated Deductions And Employer's Obligation To Retirement System Of City
  In the case of an elected official who is a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to section 75 of P.L.1954, c....
• Section 43:13-22.49e - Retirement After 60; Benefits
  a. A member who shall have attained 60 years, upon retirement from service as an elected official of the city, shall receive a pension...
• Section 43:13-22.49f - Termination Of Service As Elected Official After 10 Years Before Age 60 And All Other Public Service; Benefits
  A member who shall have served as an elected official of the city for at least 10 years and having made contributions therefor to...
• Section 43:13-22.49g - Termination Of Service As Elected Official; Ineligibility For Special Benefits; Refund Or Credit Of Contributions; Election Of Pensions; Dual Pensions; Prohibition
  a. A member making contributions pursuant to the provisions of this supplementary act who is not eligible for any benefits hereunder may, upon termination...
• Section 43:13-22.49h - Repeal Of Ordinance; Disposition Of Contributions And Effect On Benefits
  a. If the governing body of the city later repeals the ordinance which it enacted pursuant to section 1 of this supplementary act, a...
• Section 43:13-22.49i - Repeal Of Ordinance; Receipt Of Refund Of Contributions; Membership In Pers And Purchase Of Prior Service Credits
  Upon the repeal of the ordinance by the governing body of the city, any elected official of the city who receives a refund of...
• Section 43:13-22.49j - Enactment Or Repeal Of Ordinance; Forwarding Copy To Division Of Pensions
  Upon the adoption of an ordinance pursuant to section 1 of this supplementary act or the repeal of such an ordinance, the governing body...
• Section 43:13-22.50 - Definitions.
  1.As used in this act: (a) (1) "Final salary" when used solely for the purpose of fixing benefits under this act, shall mean the...
• Section 43:13-22.51 - Retirement System
  In each city, as defined in this act, an employees' retirement system shall be and is hereby created, set apart, maintained and administered in...
• Section 43:13-22.52 - Members And Conditions For Membership.
  3.The members and conditions of membership in the retirement system created by this act shall be as follows: (a)Any person who shall become an...
• Section 43:13-22.52a - Temporary Employees; Membership As Condition Of Employment
  Any temporary employee included by this act in the definition of "employee" set forth in section one of P.L.1964, c. 275 (C. 43:13-22.50), shall,...
• Section 43:13-22.53 - Retirement For Age And Service.
  4. (a) Any member who shall have established 20 or more years of creditable service in the retirement system and who shall have attained...
• Section 43:13-22.54a - Retirement; Benefits Survivors' Benefits.
  1. (a) A member who resigns after having completed 25 years of service for which credit has been established in the pension fund and...
• Section 43:13-22.54b - Increases In Pension
  Every person who is a retirant from a retirement system created pursuant to P.L.1964, c. 275 (C. 43:13-22.50 et seq.) or from a retirement...
• Section 43:13-22.54c - Liability For Payment Of Increase By Employer
  The employer shall bear the cost of the increase in the pensions payable to retirants pursuant to this act. The employer shall appropriate the...
• Section 43:13-22.54d - Rules And Regulations.
  3.The pension commission shall promulgate rules and regulations which it shall deem necessary for the effective operation of P.L.1964, c.275 (C.43:13-22.50 et seq.), any...
• Section 43:13-22.55 - Retirement For Disability
  (a) Any member having five or more years of creditable service in the retirement system who shall have become permanently disabled for the further...
• Section 43:13-22.56 - Death Benefits.
  7.Death benefits. (a)Upon the death of a member in service who shall have paid into the fund the full amount of contributions due and...
• Section 43:13-22.56a - Widow's Pension
  Any pensioner receiving a pension as a result of the prior service by a deceased spouse to a city, whose spouse died prior to...
• Section 43:13-22.57 - Priority Of Payments To Survivors
  Upon and after the death of a member or survivor, the benefits herein provided for the remaining survivors shall be paid in the following...
• Section 43:13-22.58 - Refund Of Contributions
  Upon the separation from service with the city of any member who is not entitled to receive any other benefits from the system, the...
• Section 43:13-22.59 - Fund And Contributions Thereto
  Fund and contributions thereto. For the purpose of paying pensions pursuant to this act, a trust fund shall be and is hereby created and...
• Section 43:13-22.59a - Temporary Employees; Previous Service Credit
  Any person required to become a member of the retirement system pursuant to section 2 of this act shall receive credit for all of...
• Section 43:13-22.59b - Filing Of Detailed Statement Of Public Employment.
  7.A member may file a detailed statement of public employment with a public employer in this State which was eligible for credit in a...
• Section 43:13-22.59c - Additional Payment To Retirement System.
  11.At the time it makes its annual normal contribution to the retirement system, the employer shall pay to the retirement system an additional amount...
• Section 43:13-22.60 - Exemption Of Fund From Taxation And Process
  All pensions granted under this act shall be exempt from any State or municipal tax, levy and sale, garnishment or attachment or any other...
• Section 43:13-22.61 - Existing Pension Fund Superseded By And Merged Into Retirement System
  It is the intention of this act that the retirement system herein provided for shall, on and after the effective date of this act,...
• Section 43:13-22.62 - Pension Commission
  A pension commission shall be created in every city of the first class, as defined in this act, which shall consist of the following...
• Section 43:13-22.63 - Powers And Duties Of Pension Commission
  All retirements shall be made and pensions allowed under this act by the commission. The commission shall have control and management of the fund...
• Section 43:13-22.64 - Appointment Of Attorney, Physician And Actuary
  The commission shall appoint an attorney and shall secure the services of such physician or physicians as shall be necessary to make the medical...
• Section 43:13-22.65 - Unlawful Action--bar To Pension
  If any member shall become incapacitated from or shall lose his life in the performance or commission of any unlawful act which would warrant...
• Section 43:13-22.67 - Loans From Retirement System.
  1.Any member who has at least three years of service credit for which contributions have been made as a member may borrow from the...
• Section 43:13-22.68 - Repayment.
  2. a. Notwithstanding any other law affecting the salary or compensation of a borrowing member to the contrary, including any law restricting the amount...
• Section 43:13-22.69 - Terms Defined
  As used in sections 7 through 13 of this act: "Retirant" means any former employee included in the membership of the pension fund established...
• Section 43:13-22.70 - Adjustment To Monthly Retirement Allowance Or Pension
  The monthly retirement allowance or pension originally granted to any retirant and the pension or survivorship benefit originally granted to any beneficiary shall be...
• Section 43:13-22.71 - Adjustment Cost To Employer; Appropriation To Be Made
  The employer shall bear the cost of the adjustment in the retirement allowances or pensions payable to retirants who retired from the employ of...
• Section 43:13-22.72 - Written Notice Of Waiver
  Any person who is eligible to receive the increased retirement allowance, pension or survivorship benefit under the provisions of this act may, at any...
• Section 43:13-22.73 - Calculation Of Pension Adjustment.
  11.On or before October 1, 1996 and by the same date in each subsequent year, the Director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits...
• Section 43:13-22.74 - Termination Of Increases If Blanket Increase In Benefits Adopted
  If legislation is adopted providing for a blanket increase in the original retirement allowances, pensions or survivorship benefits or for minimum allowances, pensions or...
• Section 43:13-22.75 - Rules, Regulations
  The Director of the Division of Pensions of the Department of the Treasury shall promulgate such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions...
• Section 43:13-23 - Definitions
  As used in this article, "a year of service" shall consist of such part of the calendar year as the life guard force is...
• Section 43:13-24 - Retirement For Service And Age
  In all cities of the fourth class any member of the life guard force, whether employed as an officer or a guard, who has...
• Section 43:13-25 - Retirement For Disability
  An officer or member of the life guard force who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty shall, upon the...
• Section 43:13-26 - Widow's, Children's Or Dependent's Pension
  The widow of a life guard, officer or member of the life guard force who loses his life in the performance of his duty,...
• Section 43:13-27 - Pension Fund
  For the purpose of paying the pensions hereunder, a fund shall be created as follows: a. There shall be deducted from every payment of...
• Section 43:13-28 - Pension Commission
  The mayor or chief executive officer shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the governing body of the city, a life guard pension...
• Section 43:13-29 - Management And Control Of Fund; Treasurer; Investments; Payments
  The life guard pension commission shall have the management and control of the fund and may make all necessary rules and regulations not inconsistent...
• Section 43:13-30 - Retirement For Service And Age
  Any employee of the water department of any municipality, including any employee having supervision or regulation of the water department, who shall have served...
• Section 43:13-31 - Retirement For Disability
  Any employee of the water department who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty, shall, upon certificate of the surgeon...
• Section 43:13-32 - Widow Of Employee
  The widow of an employee of the water department, who shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or...
• Section 43:13-33 - Widow Of Retired Employee
  If any retired employee of the water department, who, while an employee of the department shall have paid into the fund the full amount...
• Section 43:13-34 - Pension Fund
  For the purpose of paying the pensions a fund shall be created as follows: a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary...
• Section 43:13-35 - Pension Commission; Organization
  There shall be established in all municipalities in which this article takes effect a pension commission of five members consisting of the mayor or...
• Section 43:13-36 - Rules And Regulations; Treasurer; Payments
  The pension commission shall have control and management of the fund and of the retirement of the employees of the water department and may...
• Section 43:13-37 - Referendum
  The question of the adoption of this article shall be submitted to the voters of any municipality by the governing body at any general...
• Section 43:13-37.1 - Pension Fund In Certain Towns In Counties Of First Class; Pension Fund Commission; Membership; Meetings
  There shall be established, in all towns in counties of the first class of this State whose charter was granted between the years one...
• Section 43:13-37.2 - Powers And Duties Of Pension Fund Commission
  The said pension fund commission shall have control and management of the pension fund hereafter referred to and they are hereby empowered to make...
• Section 43:13-37.3 - Execution Of Releases, Acquittances Or Discharges Of Indebtedness; Deposits; Interest And Income
  The president and secretary shall, on behalf of the said pension fund commission, execute any and all releases, acquittances, receipts or discharges of any...
• Section 43:13-37.4 - Annual Reports
  The pension fund commission shall make an annual report of the conditions of such fund and the manner in which the fund is invested...
• Section 43:13-37.5 - Fund Created; Deductions From Compensation; Contributions By Town; Temporary Loans Where Funds Inadequate; Exemption Of Pensions; No Refunds
  A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying the benefits provided by this act, to wit: There shall...
• Section 43:13-37.6 - "Town Employee" And "Employee" Defined; Persons Entitled To Participate In Benefits
  The words "town employee" or "employee" as used in this act shall mean and include all employees and officers now or hereafter in service...
• Section 43:13-37.7 - Persons Not Entitled To Receive Benefits Of Act
  No one who is receiving or is or shall hereafter be entitled to receive any benefits under any other law of this State providing...
• Section 43:13-37.8 - Retirement On Half Pay; Dependents After Death
  Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, any town employee who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in the employ of such...
• Section 43:13-37.9 - Death Of Employee After 20 Years Of Service; Pensions To Dependents
  In the event that any such town employee entitled to the benefits of this act, who having had deducted from his salary or compensation...
• Section 43:13-37.10 - Death Of Employee After 5 Years Of Service; Pensions To Dependents
  Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, in the event of the death of any such town employee who shall die from causes other than...
• Section 43:13-37.11 - Maximum Pensions; Maximum Deductions
  The pension of any town employee under the provisions of this act shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum...
• Section 43:13-37.12 - Death Of Employee Leaving No Widow; Benefits To Dependent Children
  In the event that any such town employee shall die leaving no widow, but shall leave a dependent child or children under the age...
• Section 43:13-37.13 - Disability From Illness Or Injury Resulting From Employment; Retirement On Pension; Determination Of Disability; Death; Benefits To Dependents
  In the event that any such town employee entitled to the benefits of this act, who having had deducted from his salary or compensation...
• Section 43:13-37.14 - Disability From Injury, Accident Or Sickness Incurred At Any Time After Employment For 5 Years; Retirement On Pension; Death; Benefits To Dependents
  Any town employee who shall receive a permanent total disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness incurred at any time, who having had...
• Section 43:13-37.15 - Certain Widows Not Covered By Act
  The provisions of this act shall not extend to the widow of any town employees who shall hereafter marry any such town employee after...
• Section 43:13-37.16 - "Beneficiaries" Defined
  Where the word "beneficiaries" is used in this act it shall refer to a town employee as defined in this act and his dependent...
• Section 43:13-37.17 - "His" Defined
  Where the word "his" is used in this act, it shall be construed to refer to both sexes. L.1943, c. 189, p. 530, s.
• Section 43:13-37.18 - Partial Invalidity; Repeal
  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and they are hereby repealed; provided, that if any paragraph or section of...
• Section 43:13-38 - "Municipal Employee" And "Employee Or Officer" Defined
  For the purposes of this article, the words "municipal employee" or "employee or officer" mean and include all employees in the competitive class of...
• Section 43:13-38.1 - "Salary" And "Half Pay" Defined; Maximum Pension
  The word "salary," as used in this article, shall mean the average annual salary paid during the last five years of a member's service,...
• Section 43:13-39 - Retirement For Service And Age
  Any municipal employee who shall have served either in the employ of a village in a county of the first class continuously or in...
• Section 43:13-40 - Payments To Certain Dependents
  The widow, dependent husband, children under the age of sixteen years or dependent parents, as the case may be, of a municipal employee or...
• Section 43:13-41 - Payments To Dependents Of Employee Or Officer Who Served Five Years Or More
  If a municipal employee or officer, who was not previously retired or pensioned, who has paid into the fund the full amount of his...
• Section 43:13-42 - Dependency Condition Of Payment; Determination Of
  No pension shall be paid to the surviving husband of a deceased employee or officer unless he shall be and shall continue to remain...
• Section 43:13-43 - Retirement For Disability
  Any municipal employee or officer of any village in any county of the first class who shall have received permanent disability in the performance...
• Section 43:13-44 - Pension Fund; Exemption From Taxation And Process
  For the purpose of paying the pensions a fund shall be created in each village where this article takes effect, as follows: a. There...
• Section 43:13-45 - Sums Paid Into Pension Fund Returned In Certain Cases
  If any municipal employee or officer shall resign, be dismissed or discharged from his or her employment, the moneys he or she shall have...
• Section 43:13-46 - Beneficiaries Under Other Pension Laws Excepted; Workmen's Compensation To Be Deducted
  No person who shall receive any pension under any other law of this State shall be entitled to receive the benefits of this article....
• Section 43:13-47 - Refusal Of Membership In Fund
  If any municipal employee or officer shall decline to accept the provisions of this article he shall notify the pension commission in writing of...
• Section 43:13-48 - Pension Commission In Villages In Counties Of The First Class
  In every village in counties of the first class, there shall be a pension commission of five members consisting of the mayor or other...
• Section 43:13-49 - Management Of Fund; Receipts And Payments
  The pension commission shall have control and management of the fund and of the retirement of the municipal employees or officers and may make...
• Section 43:13-50 - Deposit And Investment Of Fund; Income
  The pension commission shall deposit the fund in any of the banks or trust companies of the village, and shall invest the fund in...
• Section 43:13-51 - Execution Of Releases, Receipts Or Discharges
  The president and secretary shall, on behalf of the pension commission, execute any release, acquittance, receipt or discharge of any and all written evidence...
• Section 43:13-52 - Annual Report
  The pension commission shall make an annual report of the condition of the fund and the manner in which it is invested.
• Section 43:13-53 - When Payments Begin
  No pension shall be paid out of a fund created under this article until five years after the organization of the pension commission except...
• Section 43:13-54 - Unlawful Action A Bar To Pension
  If any municipal employee or officer shall become incapacitated from or loses his life in the performance or commission of any unlawful act which...
• Section 43:15a-1 - Extension To Governmental Units Having No Retirement System
  The State agency, established under chapter 253, laws of 1951, as amended, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed to...
• Section 43:15a-2 - Extension To Employers Of Former Members Of State Employees' Retirement System
  The State agency, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized and directed to enter on behalf of the State into an agreement...
• Section 43:15a-3 - Effective Date Of Agreements
  The effective date of the Social Security agreements under the provisions of sections 1 and 2 above shall be January 1, 1955. L.1954, c....
• Section 43:15a-4 - Repeal Of Acts Establishing State Employees' Retirement System
  Chapters 14 and 15 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes and all amendments and supplements thereto, designated as the "State Employees' Retirement System...
• Section 43:15a-5 - Disposition Of Funds, Benefits, Etc.
  The repeal of chapters 14 and 15 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes of the State of New Jersey and all amendments and...
• Section 43:15a-6 - Definitions.
  6.As used in this act: a."Accumulated deductions" means the sum of all the amounts, deducted from the compensation of a member or contributed by...
• Section 43:15a-6.1 - Veteran Status Determined For Retirement Allowance.
  5.The Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall be responsible for determining whether any person seeking to be considered a...
• Section 43:15a-7 - Public Employees' Retirement System, Established; Membership.
  7.There is hereby established the Public Employees' Retirement System of New Jersey in the Division of Pensions and Benefits of the Department of the...
• Section 43:15a-7.1 - Delinquent Enrollment For Compulsory Membership; Payment By Employee And Employer.
  48. a. In the case of any person who was required to become a member of the retirement system as a condition of employment,...
• Section 43:15a-7.2 - Ineligibility For Pers Under Professional Services Contract.
  20. a. A person who performs professional services for a political subdivision of this State or a board of education, or any agency, authority...
• Section 43:15a-7.3 - Appeal For Person Denied Membership In Pers.
  14.An appeal by any person who is denied membership in the Public Employees' Retirement System shall be transmitted as a contested case, along with...
• Section 43:15a-7.4 - Inapplicability Of Certain Statutes Relative To Certain Transferred Service Credits.
  35. The provisions of section 6 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-6), section 38 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-38), section 41 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-41), section 48...
• Section 43:15a-8 - Restoration Of Members Discontinued From Service; Conditions
  a. If a member of the retirement system has been discontinued from service without personal fault or through leave of absence granted by an...
• Section 43:15a-9 - Nonmember State Employee May Join At Any Time; Option
  Any person other than a veteran who was in the employ of the State prior to January 2, 1955, and who did not join...
• Section 43:15a-10 - State Employees Inducted Into Military Or Naval Service Before Applying For Enrollment
  Any employee, eligible for membership, who had entered or shall hereafter enter into the active air, military or naval service of the United States...
• Section 43:15a-11 - Contributions Covering Temporary Service
  Any person employed temporarily by an employer whose temporary employment resulted, without interruption, in permanent employment may purchase credit for that temporary service. The...
• Section 43:15a-12.1 - State Police; Service Credit For Military Duty
  Any public employee veteran member who terminated service with the State Police to enter service in the active military or naval service of the...
• Section 43:15a-13 - Special Benefits Continued
  The special benefits payable under the former "State Employees' Retirement System" under acts repealed by this act as they were in effect on June...
• Section 43:15a-14 - Transfer Or Purchase Of Credit For Service In Other Systems.
  14. a. A member who is a member of another State-administered retirement system or pension fund at the time of enrollment in the Public...
• Section 43:15a-15 - Information Required From Department Heads
  The head of a department or branch of the State service not included in a department employing a member shall submit to the retirement...
• Section 43:15a-16 - Classification Of Members
  The retirement system shall classify the members in such groups by age as it may determine for actuarial purposes. The system shall further classify...
• Section 43:15a-16.1 - Increase In Pers Retirement Allowance.
  16.The retirement allowance of each retiree under section 38, subsection b. of section 41, section 48, and subsection d. of section 61 of P.L.1954,...
• Section 43:15a-17 - Board Of Trustees, Committees.
  17. a. (1) Subject to the provisions of P.L.1955, c.70 the general responsibility for the proper operation of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall...
• Section 43:15a-18 - Officers, Actuary, Legal Adviser, Secretary.
  18.The board shall elect annually from its membership a chairman and may also elect a vice-chairman, who shall have all the power and authority...
• Section 43:15a-19 - Actuarial Information And Investigation; Tables; Rates Of Contribution
  The actuary shall recommend, and the Division of Pensions shall keep in convenient form, such data as shall be necessary for actuarial valuation of...
• Section 43:15a-19.1 - Annuity Values; Determination Without Reference To Sex
  Annuity values, including actuarial equivalents under optional selections, for all members of the Public Employees Retirement System shall be determined without reference to sex;...
• Section 43:15a-20 - Powers Of Public Corporation; Status Of Realty
  The retirement system shall, for the purposes of this act, possess the powers and privileges of a public corporation, and any real property held...
• Section 43:15a-21 - Annual Report
  The retirement system shall publish annually a report showing a valuation of the assets and liabilities of the funds created by this act, certifying...
• Section 43:15a-22 - Funds.
  22.Under this act there shall be the contingent reserve fund, annuity savings fund, retirement reserve fund, benefit enhancement fund and the special reserve fund....
• Section 43:15a-23 - Expense Fund
  The expenses of administration of the retirement system on behalf of State employee members shall be paid by the State of New Jersey. The...
• Section 43:15a-24 - Contingent Reserve Fund.
  24.The contingent reserve fund shall be the fund in which shall be credited contributions made by the State and other employers. a.Upon the basis...
• Section 43:15a-24a - State Liable For Increased Cost To Government Employers For Veterans Of Lebanon Crisis
  4.The State shall be liable for any increased cost to local government employers participating in the Public Employees' Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1954,...
• Section 43:15a-24b - State Liable For Increased Cost To Government Employers For Veterans Of Operations Restore Hope, Joint Endeavor And Joint Guard
  3.The State shall be liable for any increased cost to local government employers participating in the Public Employees' Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1954,...
• Section 43:15a-24.1 - Payment Of Pension Adjustment Benefits.
  2.Pension adjustment benefits for members and beneficiaries of the Public Employees' Retirement System provided by the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L.1958, c.143 (C.43:3B-1 et seq.),...
• Section 43:15a-24.2 - Refunding Bonds Of Public Agency, Instrumentality Relative To Early Retirement Incentives.
  13.A public agency or instrumentality that has the power pursuant to P.L.2002, c.42 to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion for...
• Section 43:15a-25 - Annuity Savings Fund, Members' Contributions.
  25. a. The annuity savings fund shall be the fund in which shall be credited accumulated deductions and contributions by members or on their...
• Section 43:15a-25.1 - Periodic Benefits Payable Under Workers' Compensation Law; Salary Deductions Paid By Employer; Retirement Benefits Application
  28. a. If any member of the retirement system receives periodic benefits payable under the Workers' Compensation Law during the course of his active...
• Section 43:15a-25.2 - Pers Members, Eligibility Based On One Position.
  28. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.1, a person who is or becomes...
• Section 43:15a-26 - Excess Refundable; Shortage Deducted
  Any contributions made by a member of the former "State Employees' Retirement System" prior to June 30, 1953, which are in excess of those...
• Section 43:15a-27 - Retirement Reserve Fund
  The retirement reserve fund shall be the fund from which all retirement allowances shall be paid. Upon the retirement of a member his accumulated...
• Section 43:15a-28 - Special Reserve Fund
  The special reserve fund shall be the fund to which any earnings in excess of the amounts annually allowed under the provisions of section...
• Section 43:15a-29 - Relation Of New Employees To Fund
  Upon the employment of a person to whom this act may apply, his employer shall inform him of his duties and obligations under this...
• Section 43:15a-30 - Deductions Certified To Fund
  In accordance with the rate of contribution and the extra salary deductions certified by the retirement system, each department and each branch of State...
• Section 43:15a-31 - Records Kept By State Departments
  Each State department and branch of the state service not included in a department shall keep such records and, from time to time, furnish...
• Section 43:15a-32 - Management Of Funds.
  32.The board of trustees shall be and are hereby constituted trustees of the various funds and accounts established by this act; provided, however, that...
• Section 43:15a-33 - Interest On Fund Balances.
  33.The board of trustees at the end of each fiscal year shall allow interest on the balance of the annuity savings fund, contingent reserve...
• Section 43:15a-33.1 - Investment In New Jersey Realty; Erection Of Buildings And Structures; Lease Or Sale To State
  The Director of the Division of Investment in the Department of the Treasury, in addition to other investments authorized by law, shall have authority,...
• Section 43:15a-33.2 - Total Authorized Investment
  The total investment authorized pursuant to this act shall not exceed 5% of the book value of the total investments of such fund at...
• Section 43:15a-33.3 - Investment As Asset Of Fund
  Any real estate investment made pursuant to this act shall at all times during its ownership by the fund be carried as an asset...
• Section 43:15a-33.4 - Rental Or Lease Terms; Purpose Of Section
  If the property is rented or leased to the State, it shall be on terms calling for level periodic rental payments, not more than...
• Section 43:15a-33.5 - Sale Of Realty To State During Occupancy As Tenant; Purchase Price; Credits
  Should such real estate investment be sold to the State during its occupancy as tenant, the board of trustees of the fund shall accept,...
• Section 43:15a-33.6 - Payment Of Costs And Expenses By State For Operation, Maintenance, Repair, Etc.; Capital Improvements
  Any rental arrangement or lease to the State for the use of such real property shall provide that all costs and expenses for the...
• Section 43:15a-33.7 - Authority To Execute And Deliver Leases, Contracts Or Agreements
  The board of trustees is authorized to execute and deliver to the appropriate State officers or agencies such leases, contracts or agreements, which may...
• Section 43:15a-33.8 - Construction Of Buildings On State Lands And Transfer Of Title To Public Employees' Retirement System
  In order to carry out the purposes of this act, the rental arrangement or lease referred to in section 4 of this act may...
• Section 43:15a-33.9 - Responsibility For Selection Of Site, Planning Of Building, Etc.; Co-ordination Of Location And Plans With Master Plans
  The Director of the Division of Purchase and Property, subject to the approval of the State House Commission, shall be responsible for the selection...
• Section 43:15a-33.10 - Partial Invalidity
  If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph, section or part of this act be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be ineffective, such...
• Section 43:15a-34 - Borrowing From Fund By Members, Interest Rates.
  34.Any member who has at least 3 years of service to his credit for which he has contributed as a member may borrow from...
• Section 43:15a-34.1 - Repayment Of Loans After Retirement Of Members Of Pers.
  2.In the case of any member who retires without repaying the full amount so borrowed, the Division of Pensions and Benefits shall deduct from...
• Section 43:15a-35 - Custodian Of Fund; Payments; Vouchers
  The State Treasurer shall be the custodian of the funds created by this act, shall select all depositories and custodians and shall negotiate and...
• Section 43:15a-36 - Interest In Fund By Trustee Or Employee Prohibited
  Except as otherwise herein provided, no trustee and no employee of the board of trustees shall have any direct interest in the gains or...
• Section 43:15a-37 - Obligations Of State; Basis Of State's Appropriation
  Regular interest charges payable, the creation and maintenance of reserves in the contingent reserve fund, the maintenance of retirement reserves as provided for in...
• Section 43:15a-38 - Vesting Of Pers Members.
  38.Should a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System, after having completed 10 years of service, be separated voluntarily or involuntarily from the service,...
• Section 43:15a-39 - Computing Service.
  39. In computing for retirement purposes the total service of a member about to be retired, the retirement system shall credit the member with...
• Section 43:15a-39.1 - Credit In Retirement System For Members On Approved Leave Of Absence.
  3.Any member who serves, while on an approved leave of absence from regular duties, as an officer or representative of a local, county or...
• Section 43:15a-41 - Withdrawal From Service; Early Retirement; Death Benefits.
  41. a. A member who withdraws from service or ceases to be an employee for any cause other than death or retirement shall, upon...
• Section 43:15a-41.1 - Eligibility For Death Benefit; Evidence Of Insurability
  a. Any person entitled to become a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall not be allowed any of the death benefits established...
• Section 43:15a-42 - Ordinary Disability Retirement.
  42.A member, under 60 years of age, who has 10 or more years of credit for New Jersey service, shall, upon the application of...
• Section 43:15a-42.1 - Disability Insurance For Certain Pers Members; "Public Employees Group Disability Insurance Premium Fund."
  11. a. A person who becomes a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System of New Jersey, P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 et seq.), on or...
• Section 43:15a-42.2 - Inapplicability Relative To Certain Transferred Service Credit.
  12. The provisions of section 42 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-42) and section 43 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-43) as amended by P.L.2010, c.3, and section...
• Section 43:15a-43 - Public Employees' Disability Retirement.
  43.A member who has not attained age 65 shall, upon the application of the head of the department in which he is employed or...
• Section 43:15a-44 - Annual Examination Of Disability Beneficiary; Alteration Of Pension; Refusal To Be Examined; Reemployment; Subsequent Retirement
  a. Once each year the retirement system may, and upon his application shall, require any disability beneficiary who is under the age of 60...
• Section 43:15a-45 - Allowance For Ordinary Disability Retirement.
  45.A member upon retirement for ordinary disability shall receive a retirement allowance, which shall consist of: a.An annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent...
• Section 43:15a-45.1 - Increase In Retirement Allowance Under C.43:15a-45 And C.43:15a-50.
  10.The retirement allowance of each retiree under section 45 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-45), or the retiree's beneficiary pursuant to section 50 of P.L.1954, c.84...
• Section 43:15a-46 - Allowance For Retirement For Accidental Disability.
  46.A member under 65 years of age upon retirement for accidental disability shall receive a retirement allowance which shall consist of: a.An annuity which...
• Section 43:15a-46.1 - Increase In Retirement Allowance Under C.43:15a-46 And C.43:15a-50.
  12.The retirement allowance of each retiree under section 46 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-46), or the retiree's beneficiary pursuant to section 50 of P.L.1954, c.84...
• Section 43:15a-46.2 - Payment Of Normal Contribution For Increased Benefits For Active Members Under C.43:15a-45 And C.43:15a-46.
  13.The normal contribution for the increased benefits for active members under sections 45 and 46 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-45 and 43:15A-46) as amended by...
• Section 43:15a-47 - Retirement Based On Age.
  47. a. A person who was a member before the effective date of P.L.2008, c.89 and has attained 60 years of age may retire...
• Section 43:15a-48 - Retirement Allowance For Service.
  48.A member, upon retirement for service, shall receive a retirement allowance consisting of: a.An annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of his accumulated...
• Section 43:15a-49 - Accidental Death Benefit.
  49. a. Upon the death of a member in active service as a result of: (1)an accident met in the actual performance of duty...
• Section 43:15a-50 - Public Employee Pension Options
  50. At the time of retirement, a member shall receive benefits in a retirement allowance payable throughout life, or the member may, on retirement,...
• Section 43:15a-50a - Public Employee's Election Of Lifetime Pension
  Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L. 1954, c. 84 (C. 43:15A-1 et seq.) or any other law to the contrary, whenever a member of the...
• Section 43:15a-50.1 - Member Over 70 With 50 Years Of Service; Death Prior To Approval Of Application For Retirement; Retirement Allowance
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 50 of P.L.1954, c. 84 (C. 43:15A-50) or any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a member...
• Section 43:15a-50.2 - Applicability Of C.43:15a-50
  4.Section 50 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-50) as amended by section 2 of P.L.1995, c.221 shall apply to a filing for retirement received by the...
• Section 43:15a-51 - Monthly Payments
  51. A pension, an annuity or a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this act shall be effective only on the first day...
• Section 43:15a-53 - Benefits Under Chapter Exempt From Taxation And Process; Exception; Assignment Of Group Insurance Policy Rights And Benefits
  The right of a person to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance, to the return of contributions, any benefit or right accrued...
• Section 43:15a-54 - Correction Of Errors; Approval Of Application For Prior Service Credit Or Credit For All Previous Service
  If any change or error results in an employee or beneficiary receiving from the retirement system more or less than he would have been...
• Section 43:15a-55 - Fraud Against System A Misdemeanor
  A person who knowingly makes a false statement, or falsifies or permits to be falsified any record of this retirement system, in an attempt...
• Section 43:15a-56 - Ineligibility Of Veterans For Certain Retirement Benefits
  No public employee veteran eligible for membership in the Public Employees' Retirement System shall be eligible for, or receive, retirement benefits under R.S. 43:4-1,...
• Section 43:15a-57 - Additional Death Benefit Coverage
  a. Each member who is a member on December 1, 1956 and each person who thereafter becomes a member prior to the effective date...
• Section 43:15a-57.1 - Designation Of Beneficiary; Form; Filing; Failure To Designate; Payment
  The designation of beneficiary by a member or retirant shall be made in writing on a form satisfactory to the retirement system, and filed...
• Section 43:15a-57.2 - Reemployment Of Retired Former Member.
  27. a. Except as provided in subsections b., c., and d. of this section, if a former member of the State Employees' Retirement System...
• Section 43:15a-57.3 - Reactivation Of Retirement System Account
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 27 of P.L. 1966, c. 217 (C. 43:15A-57.2) or any other law to the contrary, the retirement system shall...
• Section 43:15a-59.5 - Repeals; Effect
  The following acts and parts of acts are repealed, effective July 1, 1966: P.L.1954, c. 84, s. 59; P.L.1956, c. 219; P.L.1960, c. 124;...
• Section 43:15a-60 - Contributions And Credits Of Veteran Members
  60. a. Each public employee veteran member shall have returned to him his accumulated deductions as of January 2, 1955. All service rendered in...
• Section 43:15a-60.2 - Permission For Member To Cancel Purchase Of Credit
  6.If, following application by a member of the retirement system to purchase credit therein under any provision of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 et seq.), as...
• Section 43:15a-61 - Public Employee Veterans' Pensions.
  61. a. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1995, c.332.) b.Any public employee veteran member in office, position or employment of this State or of a county,...
• Section 43:15a-61.1 - Veterans' Retirement Allowance
  5. a. A retiree of the system who meets the definition of a veteran pursuant to this act, or the surviving spouse of a...
• Section 43:15a-61.2 - Increase Of Retirement Allowance Under Subsection B. Of C.43:15a-61 And C.43:15a-50.
  15.The retirement allowance of each retiree under subsection b. of section 61 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-61), or the retiree's beneficiary pursuant to section 50...
• Section 43:15a-61.3 - Payment Of Normal Contribution For Increased Benefits For Active Members Under C.43:15a-61.
  16.The normal contribution for the increased benefits resulting from the increase in the percentage of compensation for active members under section 61 of P.L.1954,...
• Section 43:15a-62 - Effect Upon Political Subdivisions Previously Under State Employees' Retirement System
  Where any county, municipality or public agency of the State has previously been covered by the former "State Employees' Retirement System," such county, municipality...
• Section 43:15a-63 - Membership Of Certain Veteran Public Employees
  Any veteran in office, position or employment of this State or of a county, municipality, school district or public agency who on January 2,...
• Section 43:15a-64 - Effect Of Lack Of Social Security Coverage And Insufficient Service Credit
  Any other provision of this act notwithstanding (a) any member of the retirement system who is not covered under the old-age and survivor's insurance...
• Section 43:15a-65 - State Employee Membership.
  65. (a) All employees of any public agency or organization of this State, which employs persons engaged in service to the public, shall be...
• Section 43:15a-66 - Effective Date Of Participation
  (a) If the employer shall so consent to the enrollment of its employees and the board of trustees shall so approve, participation in the...
• Section 43:15a-67 - Duties Of Employer's Chief Fiscal Officer
  The chief fiscal officer of the employer shall submit to the retirement system such information and shall cause to be performed in respect to...
• Section 43:15a-68 - Information Certified To Chief Fiscal Officer; Payment Of Charge And Contributions
  68. The Public Employees' Retirement System shall certify to the chief fiscal officer of the employer the rates of contributions payable by members. The...
• Section 43:15a-68.1 - Accrued Liability Contribution Of Public Employer Adopting System After July 1, 1971; Payment
  The accrued liability contribution of any public employer adopting the retirement system after July 1, 1971 for the purpose of providing prior service credit...
• Section 43:15a-69 - Member Of Any Other Governmental Retirement System May Not Participate; Default Of Employer; Discontinuance Of Membership; Application Of Reserve
  An employee of such employer who, by reason of his service, is a member of any other governmental retirement system shall not participate in...
• Section 43:15a-70 - Limitation On Liability Of Retirement System
  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the retirement system shall not be liable for the payment of any pensions or other benefits on account of...
• Section 43:15a-71 - "Public Agency Or Organization" Defined
  The words "public agency or organization" as used in this act shall be construed to mean and include any agency or organization which operates...
• Section 43:15a-72 - Deductions From Retirement Allowance For Pers Members.
  72.If possible, whenever any beneficiary of the Public Employees' Retirement System of New Jersey shall, in writing, request the Division of Pensions and Benefits...
• Section 43:15a-73 - Eligible Employees Of Certain Governmental Entities, Enrollment In Public Employees' Retirement System.
• Section 43:15a-73.1 - Credit For Employment In Other States, Federal Government Or Military Service; Limitation; Payments; Pro Rata Credit Upon Retirement.
  2.A member may file a detailed statement of public employment in other states or with the United States Government which would be eligible for...
• Section 43:15a-73.2 - Participation Of State Autonomous Authority In Pers
  a. For the purposes of sections 2 through 4 of this amendatory and supplementary act, P.L.1990, c.25 (C.43:15A-73.2 et al.), "State autonomous authority" means...
• Section 43:15a-73.3 - Purchase Of Credit For Prior Service
  a. The employees of a State autonomous authority approved for participation in the retirement system pursuant to subsection b. of section 2 of this...
• Section 43:15a-73.4 - Purchase Of Credit For Service In A Local System
  1. A member who had established service credit in a municipal or county retirement system or pension fund in this State and who is...
• Section 43:15a-74 - Extension Of Act To Employees Of County, Board Of Education Or Municipality Not Previously Under State Employees' Retirement System; Referendum; Prior Service
  Except as otherwise provided in the case of public employee veterans or in subsection b. of section 75 of this act, this act shall...
• Section 43:15a-75 - Local Employee Membership.
  75. (a) If this act is so adopted it shall become effective in the county or municipality adopting it on June 30 of the...
• Section 43:15a-75.1 - Municipal Or County Member With Prior Service In County Or Other County; Prior Service Credit; Purchase
  Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System who is in the service of a municipality and...
• Section 43:15a-75.2 - Pers Member, Purchase Of Credit For Temporary Service; Permitted
  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System who is employed by a county hospital in a...
• Section 43:15a-76 - County Or Municipal Employees Entering Air, Military Or Naval Service Before Applying For Enrollment
  Any employee of any county, municipality or public agency which has adopted or shall hereafter adopt the retirement system as provided in this act,...
• Section 43:15a-77 - Employees Of School District Coterminous With Municipality Adopting Law In First-class Counties
  Every employee of any school district including school districts in counties of the first class the boundaries of which are coterminous with those of...
• Section 43:15a-79 - State Employees Paid By County Or Municipality; Membership In Public Employees' Retirement System
  (a) All employees of the State whose compensation is paid in whole or in part by any county or municipality in which chapter 15...
• Section 43:15a-80 - Information Required
  The chief fiscal officer of the county or municipality or the secretary of the board of education of the school district shall submit to...
• Section 43:15a-81 - Rates Of Contributions; Budget Requirements; Payments To State Treasurer
  81. The Public Employees' Retirement System shall certify to each employer the rates of contributions payable by members who are county, municipal or school...
• Section 43:15a-82 - Benefits
  Public employees of the counties or municipalities on behalf of whom contributions are so paid, shall be entitled to benefits under the Public Employees'...
• Section 43:15a-83 - Other Pension Laws Not Affected
  Nothing contained in this act shall affect any policeman, fireman or county or municipal employee contributing to any pension fund operating under any other...
• Section 43:15a-84 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Public Employees' Retirement System Act." L.1954, c. 84, p. 525, s. 84. Amended...
• Section 43:15a-85 - Effect Of Invalidity
  If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this act and...
• Section 43:15a-86 - Effective Dates
  This section and sections 1, 2 and 3 of this act shall take effect immediately. Sections 4 and 5 of this act shall take...
• Section 43:15a-88 - Authorization To Purchase Group Life Insurance
  The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and permitted to purchase from one or more life insurance companies, as determined by him, a policy or...
• Section 43:15a-89 - Requirements Of Insurance Company
  Any life insurance company must meet the following requirements in order to qualify under section 1 of this act; (a) be licensed under the...
• Section 43:15a-90 - Purchase Of Coverage In Discretion Of State Treasurer And Board
  The State Treasurer may, in his discretion, determine to purchase group insurance coverage for the noncontributory death benefit provisions as provided in chapter 84...
• Section 43:15a-91 - Noncontributory Death Benefits; Optional Contributory Death Benefits; Payment Of Premiums
  In the event the State Treasurer shall determine to purchase group insurance coverage for the noncontributory death benefits, premiums for the same shall be...
• Section 43:15a-92 - Additional Death Benefits; Contributions; Adjustment
  In the event that the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall determine to purchase group insurance coverage for the additional...
• Section 43:15a-93 - Conversion Privilege
  Any such group policy or policies shall include, with respect to any insurance terminating or reducing because the member ceases to be eligible for...
• Section 43:15a-94 - Payment Of Benefits; Payees
  Benefits under such group policy or policies shall be paid by the company to such person, if living, as the member shall have nominated...
• Section 43:15a-95 - Lump Sum Or Installment Payments
  Any such group policy or policies shall provide that payment of any death benefits which are payable by the insurance company may be made...
• Section 43:15a-96 - Reduced Premiums In Lieu Of Brokerage Commissions
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any insurance company or companies issuing such policy or policies may credit the policyholder, in the form of...
• Section 43:15a-97 - "Law Enforcement Officer" Definition
  "Law enforcement officer" shall mean any permanent and full-time employee of the State of New Jersey holding one of the following titles: motor vehicles...
• Section 43:15a-98 - Law Enforcement Officers Within Division Of Motor Vehicles; Membership In System; Waiver Of Credits
  (a) Any person holding a permanent appointment as a law enforcement officer within the Division of Motor Vehicles on February 1, 1956 shall be...
• Section 43:15a-99 - Retirement
  A member who has attained the age of 55 and who immediately prior to retirement has 20 years of creditable service as a law...
• Section 43:15a-100 - Amount Of Retirement Allowance For Law Enforcement Officer.
  4.Upon service retirement as a law enforcement officer a member shall receive a service retirement allowance consisting of: a.An annuity which shall be the...
• Section 43:15a-100.1 - Supplementary "Special" Retirement Allowance To Certain Retired Law Enforcement Officers
  4. a. Should a law enforcement officer member retire after having established 25 years of creditable service, the member shall receive, in addition to...
• Section 43:15a-101 - Retirement Allowance For Certain Members Not Qualifying For Retirement As Law Enforcement Officers
  Subject to the provisions of section 59 of the act to which this act is a supplement, a member who has 10 or more...
• Section 43:15a-102 - Ordinary Disability Retirement; Eligibility
  Any member who shall have been a law enforcement officer for 5 years immediately preceding his retirement shall have full rights to, and shall...
• Section 43:15a-103 - Payment Upon Death Of Member Who Had Retired On Accidental Disability Retirement Allowance
  Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who at the time of retirement was a law enforcement officer and...
• Section 43:15a-104 - Contribution Rate.
  8.The percentage contribution rate of each member who is a law enforcement officer shall be fixed according to his age at the time of...
• Section 43:15a-105 - Contributions By Veterans; Withdrawal
  In the event that a veteran member shall have made contributions to the retirement system for credit for service as a law enforcement officer...
• Section 43:15a-106 - Applicability Of Act To Members Of Other Pensions
  This act shall apply to State law enforcement officers as herein defined who are members of any contributory pension fund supported in whole or...
• Section 43:15a-107 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect February 1, 1956. L.1955, c. 257, p. 944, s. 11.
• Section 43:15a-108 - Persons Considered Active Members While Disabled Or On Leave Of Absence; Contributions; Death Benefits
  a. For the purpose of sections 41(c), 49(e) and section 57 of chapter 84 of the public laws of 1954, a member of the...
• Section 43:15a-110 - Transfer Of Fund C To Retirement Reserve Fund; Transfer Of Authority To Retirement System
  The accumulated reserves which have been designated as Fund C by section 5(k) of chapter 84 of the public laws of 1954 shall be...
• Section 43:15a-111 - Extension Of Public Employees' Retirement System To Members Of Another Pension; Date Operative.
  1.This act shall become operative with regard to a pension fund, other than the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund,...
• Section 43:15a-112 - Termination Of Fund; Transfer Of Securities, Assets And Records
  When this act becomes operative with regard to a pension fund, such pension fund shall terminate. Upon the termination of such pension fund, all...
• Section 43:15a-112.1 - Pension, Two Divisions
  2. If a referendum is held pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1955, c.38 (C.43:22-12) and if a majority of the members of a county...
• Section 43:15a-113 - Membership In Public Employees Retirement System; Credits
  At the time of termination of a pension fund pursuant to the provisions of this act, the members of such terminated pension fund shall...
• Section 43:15a-114 - Other Employees Not In Positions Covered By A Pension Fund; Membership
  Upon the extension of the Public Employees' Retirement System to members of another pension fund, as set forth in this act, other employees of...
• Section 43:15a-115 - Persons Becoming Employees After Termination; Membership As Condition Of Employment
  Any person becoming an employee of any such employer after the date of termination who is not in a position covered by any other...
• Section 43:15a-116 - Rate Of Member Contribution
  Upon the transfer of membership to the Public Employees' Retirement System under the provisions of this act, the rate of contribution of such a...
• Section 43:15a-117 - Previously Granted Pensions Or Benefits Continued
  Any pension or other benefit granted from such terminated pension fund prior to termination shall be continued by the board of trustees of the...
• Section 43:15a-118 - Employer Liability
  The actuary of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall calculate the liability of each employer of persons becoming members or retirants of the Public...
• Section 43:15a-119 - Certification Of Obligations
  Upon certification by the board of trustees each employer shall make such contributions as are required in order to meet his financial obligations in...
• Section 43:15a-127 - Repeals
  Sections 43:6-1 to 43:6-7, both inclusive, of the Revised Statutes, and "An act concerning the retirement upon pension of certain judicial officers, and supplementing...
• Section 43:15a-129 - Enrollment Of Veterans And Nonveterans Who Elected Not To Enroll In 1955; Purchase Of Credit
  a. Any veteran who was in the employ of the State, or of a county, municipality, public agency, school district or board of education...
• Section 43:15a-130 - Retirement Of Member Holding Multiple Positions In Public Employment
  Any member who held multiple positions in public employment covered by the retirement system, and who retired from one of these positions prior to...
• Section 43:15a-131 - National Guard Technicians; Participation In System; Election
  Within 90 days following the effective date of this legislation, but not later than January 1, 1969, each present member of the Public Employees'...
• Section 43:15a-132 - Continuation In System; Effect
  In the case of those persons who elect to continue as members of the State retirement system and thereby waive their rights for participation...
• Section 43:15a-133 - Termination Of Membership In System; Effect
  In the case of those persons who elect to terminate their membership in the Public Employees' Retirement System of New Jersey and to enroll...
• Section 43:15a-134 - Appointment Of Retirement System Member To Judiciary; Options
  50. a. As stipulated in subsections b., c. and d. of this section, eligibility of a member of the Judiciary for the retirement benefits...
• Section 43:15a-135 - Members Of Legislature; Membership In Retirement System, Service Dates.
  1.Members of the Legislature commencing service on or after the effective date of sections 1 through 19 of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 through C.43:15C-15, C.43:3C-9,...
• Section 43:15a-136 - Accounts In Annuity Savings Fund; Contributions.
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of section 25 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-25), (a) a separate account shall be established in the annuity savings fund for each...
• Section 43:15a-137 - Purchase Of Service Credit; Adjustment Of Contributions.
  3.Notwithstanding any other law regarding the purchase of service credit in the retirement system, a member of the Legislature may purchase credit for all...
• Section 43:15a-138 - Age Of Retirement; Retirement Allowance
  A member, who shall have attained the age of 60 years, upon retirement on the basis of legislative service, shall receive a retirement allowance...
• Section 43:15a-139 - Member Of Legislature For 8 Years Or More But Not At Age 60; Retirement Allowances And Other Benefits
  A member, who shall have served as a member of the Legislature for at least 8 years and having made contributions therefor to the...
• Section 43:15a-140 - Return Of Contributions; Election To Maximize Benefits; Ineligibility For Retirement Allowance Under Other State Law
  a. A member making contributions pursuant to the provisions of this supplementary act and who is not eligible for any benefits hereunder, may, upon...
• Section 43:15a-141 - Death Benefits For Legislators
  A member of the Legislature shall be entitled to the noncontributory and contributory death benefits under the retirement system without proof of insurability. If...
• Section 43:15a-142 - Definitions Relative To Retirement Benefits For Workers Compensation Judges.
  1.As used in this act, P.L.2001, c.259 (C.43:15A-142 et seq.): "Aggregate public service" includes service as a workers compensation judge and in an office,...
• Section 43:15a-143 - Membership In Workers Compensation Judges Part; Service Dates.
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, workers compensation judges shall be members of the Workers Compensation Judges Part, established pursuant to this act,...
• Section 43:15a-144 - Separate Accounts, Contributions.
  3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 25 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-25) to the contrary, a separate account shall be established in the annuity...
• Section 43:15a-145 - Date Of Retirement; Continued Service Permitted, Certain Circumstances
  4. a. Any workers compensation judge who has reached the age of 70 years shall be retired forthwith on the first day of the...
• Section 43:15a-146 - Conditions For Receipt Of Retirement Allowance Of Three-quarters Of Final Salary
  5.Any workers compensation judge who has served at least 10 years as a judge of compensation and attained the age of 70 years shall...
• Section 43:15a-147 - Conditions For Receipt Of One-half Of Final Salary
  6.Any workers compensation judge who has: a.served at least five years successively as a judge of compensation and attained the age of 65 years...
• Section 43:15a-148 - "Early" Retirement; Formula, Conditions
  7.Any workers compensation judge who has served at least five years successively as a judge of compensation and at least 25 years of aggregate...
• Section 43:15a-149 - Deferred Retirement; Formula, Conditions
  8.Any workers compensation judge who has served at least five years successively as a judge of compensation and at least 10 years of aggregate...
• Section 43:15a-150 - Benefits To Survivors Of Judges On Active Service
  9. a. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death in active service of a workers compensation judge member of the retirement system,...
• Section 43:15a-151 - Benefits To Survivors Of Retired Judges
  10. a. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a workers compensation judge who has retired on a pension or retirement...
• Section 43:15a-152 - Credit For Previous Service; Purchase, Conditions
  11. a. Any workers compensation judge who wishes to receive credit for previous service as a judge of compensation or in an office, position,...
• Section 43:15a-153 - Return Of Accumulated Contributions; Election Of Retirement Allowance
  12. a. A workers compensation judge making contributions pursuant to the provisions of this act, P.L.2001, c.259 (C.43:15A-142 et seq.), and who is not...
• Section 43:15a-154 - Determination Of Unfunded Accrued Liability
  13. The actuary for the Public Employees' Retirement System shall determine the unfunded accrued liability for the Workers Compensation Judges Part of the retirement...
• Section 43:15a-155 - Definitions Relative To Prosecutors Part In Pers
  1.As used in this act, P.L.2001, c.366 (C.43:15A-155 et seq.): "Service" includes service as (1) a county prosecutor, first assistant prosecutor or assistant prosecutor...
• Section 43:15a-156 - Prosecutors, Membership In Prosecutors Part, Pers Credit.
  2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, prosecutors shall be members of the Prosecutors Part, established pursuant to P.L.2001, c.366 (C.43:15A-155 et...
• Section 43:15a-157 - Separate Account For Each Prosecutor, Rate.
  3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 25 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-25) to the contrary, a separate account shall be established in the annuity...
• Section 43:15a-158 - Retirement On Service Retirement Allowance, Formula
  4. a. Any member of the Prosecutors Part who has attained age 55 years may retire on a service retirement allowance by filing with...
• Section 43:15a-159 - "Special Retirement" After 25 Years Of Creditable Service. Formula
  5.Should a member of the Prosecutors Part resign after having established 25 years of creditable service, the prosecutor may elect "special retirement," provided, that...
• Section 43:15a-160 - Payments For Separation After 10 Years Of Service Before Age 55; Deferred Retirement
  6.Should a prosecutor, after having established 10 years of creditable service, be separated voluntarily or involuntarily from the service, before reaching age 55, and...
• Section 43:15a-161 - State Liability For Increased County Pension Costs
  7.The State shall be liable for any increased pension costs to a county as a result of the enrollment of prosecutors, first assistant prosecutors...
• Section 43:15b-1 - Deferred Compensation Plan, Length Of Service Award Program.
  1.Any municipality, county, or an authority created by one or more counties or municipalities (hereinafter "employer") may establish a deferred compensation plan (hereinafter "plan"),...
• Section 43:15b-2 - Amounts; Determination By Agreement
  The amounts of any such deferred salary shall be determined by agreement between the employer and the employee, subject to any limitations which the...
• Section 43:15b-3 - Provisions Of Plan
  3. a. The plan shall provide that all money not needed for the immediate payment of benefits shall be invested by the employer in...
• Section 43:15b-4 - Plan To Be In Addition To Obligation Under Any Other Retirement System Or Benefit Plan
  Any deferred compensation plan shall be in addition to the obligation of the employee under any other retirement system or benefit plan established pursuant...
• Section 43:15b-5 - Investment Of Deferred, Deducted Moneys; Assets Held In Trust
  5. a. All moneys which are deferred and deducted in accordance with the provisions of this act and the plan shall be invested in...
• Section 43:15b-6 - Unassignability Of Payments And Rights
  No participating employee or beneficiary thereof shall have the right to commute, sell, assign or otherwise transfer or convey the rights to receive any...
• Section 43:15b-7 - Exclusion Of Deferred And Deducted Amount From Computation Of Federal Withholding Taxes
  Any amount of the employee's salary that is deferred and deducted under this act and the plan shall continue to be included as regular...
• Section 43:15b-8 - Transfer Of Credits From Employment By Different Employer
  Any employee who made contributions to a similar plan while employed in a state other than New Jersey or by an employer in New...
• Section 43:15b-9 - Transfer Of Credit From Plan To Similar Plan Of Participant's New Employer
  Any participant who changes jobs may transfer his credit from the plan pursuant to authorizing provisions which may be contained in the plan, provided...
• Section 43:15b-10 - Consistency Of Plan With Requirements Of Federal Internal Revenue Code
  10. No agreement may be entered into between the employer and any employee for the deferral and deduction of any portion of current salary,...
• Section 43:15c-1 - Defined Contribution Retirement Program; Rules, Regulations; Terms Defined.
  1.There is hereby established in the Department of the Treasury a Defined Contribution Retirement Program. The program design shall be one that is permitted...
• Section 43:15c-2 - Eligibility For Participation In The Defined Contribution Retirement Program.
  2. a. The following persons shall be eligible and shall participate in the Defined Contribution Retirement Program: (1)A person who commences service on or...
• Section 43:15c-3 - Employee, Employer Contribution.
  3. a. The employer shall reduce the compensation of each participant in the Defined Contribution Retirement Program and pay over to the plan provider...
• Section 43:15c-4 - Defined Contribution Retirement Program Board.
  4.There is established in, but not of, the Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury the Defined Contribution Retirement Program...
• Section 43:15c-5 - Allocation Of Contributions By Participants.
  5.Participants in the Defined Contribution Retirement Program shall be allowed to allocate their own contributions and the contributions of their employer into investment alternatives...
• Section 43:15c-6 - Provision Of Insurance By Retirement Program.
  6. a. The retirement program shall, under a group contract or contracts, provide life insurance and provide the option of obtaining disability insurance benefits...
• Section 43:15c-7 - Insurance Benefits Under Group Contract.
  7.The benefit under a group contract or contracts providing life insurance shall be in an amount equal to one and one-half the base annual...
• Section 43:15c-8 - Conversion Privilege Provided Through Group Life Insurance Policies.
  8.Any group life insurance policy or policies shall include, with respect to any insurance terminating or reducing because the participant has ceased to be...
• Section 43:15c-9 - Payment Of Death Benefits.
  9.Death benefits under the group life insurance policy or policies shall be paid by the insurance company to such person, if living, as the...
• Section 43:15c-10 - Method Of Payment Of Death Benefits.
  10.Any group life insurance policy or policies shall provide that payment of any death benefits payable by the insurance company may be made in...
• Section 43:15c-11 - Facts Requiring Evidence Of Insurability.
  11.Any person entitled to become a participant in the retirement program shall not be allowed any of the group life insurance and disability benefits...
• Section 43:15c-12 - Designation Of Death Benefit Beneficiary.
  12.The designation of a death benefit beneficiary by a participant or retiree shall be made in writing on a form satisfactory to the Division...
• Section 43:15c-13 - Disability Benefit Coverage.
  13. The disability benefit coverage provided under a group policy or policies shall provide a monthly income if the participant becomes totally disabled from...
• Section 43:15c-14 - Amount Of Disability Benefits; "Defined Contribution Retirement Program Disability Premium Fund."
  14.The disability benefit provided under a group policy or policies shall be in an amount equal to 60% of the participant's base monthly salary,...
• Section 43:15c-15 - Credit Offered To Policyholder By Insurance Company; Additional Coverage; Health Care Coverage.
  15.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an insurance company or companies issuing such policy or policies may credit the policyholder either directly or in...
• Section 43:16-1 - Retirement For Age And Service
  43:16-1. a. In all municipalities any active member of a police department or of a paid or part-paid fire department or of a county...
• Section 43:16-1.1 - Executive Officers; Retention In Service Until 70 Years Old
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 43:16-1 of the Revised Statutes, any member who holds office, position, or employment as chief of a police department...
• Section 43:16-1.2 - Effective Date And Payment Of Pension
  5.A pension granted under the provisions of the act, to which this act is amendatory and supplementary, shall be effective only on the first...
• Section 43:16-2 - Retirement For Disability
  Any member of such police or paid or part-paid fire department who shall have received permanent disability as a direct result of a traumatic...
• Section 43:16-2.1 - Applicability Of Increases
  The increases under this act shall apply only to pensions payable on account of retirements or deaths occurring after January 11, 1956; provided, however,...
• Section 43:16-3 - Pension To Dependents
  (a) Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who shall not have died while on duty, there shall be...
• Section 43:16-4 - Pension To Dependents For Loss Of Life While On Duty
  (a) Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who shall have lost his life while on duty, there shall...
• Section 43:16-4c - Pension To Widow Who Married Member After 50 Years Of Age
  The widow of any member who died prior to June 15, 1965, shall receive a pension in the amount prescribed by the act to...
• Section 43:16-5 - Consolidated Police And Firemen's Pension Fund
  43:16-5. For the purpose of paying the pensions provided by this chapter, all pension funds heretofore created and in existence pursuant to the provisions...
• Section 43:16-6.2 - Actuarial Evaluation Of Fund, Legal Advice.
  7.The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall keep, in convenient form, such data as may be necessary for...
• Section 43:16-7 - Division Designated Trustee Of Funds.
  43:16-7. The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall be the trustee of all the funds established by this...
• Section 43:16-7.1 - Local Commissions To Transfer Money And Assets To State Commission
  Promptly after it has organized, the commission shall give notice in writing not later than September first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, to...
• Section 43:16-7.2 - Effective Date
  This section and section five of this act shall take effect immediately. Sections one, seven and eight shall take effect July first, one thousand...
• Section 43:16-8 - Existing Boards Vacated; Fund Placed Under This Subtitle
  When there is established in any municipality a fund for the retiring and pensioning of members of the police or fire departments thereof, all...
• Section 43:16-9 - State Firemen's Fund And Association Unaffected
  The state firemen's relief fund and the state firemen's association and the laws by virtue of which they exist and operate shall not be...
• Section 43:16-10 - Effective Date
  This subtitle shall be effective in every municipality in which, on April fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, a fund for the retirement...
• Section 43:16-12 - Determining Years Of Service For Firemen As Members Of Pension Fund
  In any municipality in which this subtitle has taken effect under section 43:16-10 of this title, if before this subtitle became effective a paid...
• Section 43:16-13 - Member With Twenty Years' Service Not To Be Deprived Of Pension Privileges; Fine, Reprimand Or Discharge
  No member of the police or fire department in any municipality or county in this State who shall have served honorably in any such...
• Section 43:16-17 - Definitions.
  12.The following words and phrases as used in this act, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following...
• Section 43:16-17.2 - Service In Administrative Or Supervisory Capacity; Service As An Active Member
  Service with a municipal police or fire department in an appointive administrative or supervisory capacity or any combination thereof by any person who immediately...
• Section 43:16-18 - Effective Date Of Act
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four. L.1944, c. 253, p. 833, s. 14.
• Section 43:16-19 - Waiver Of Payment.
  1.Any member or any beneficiary who has been or, in the future, may be retired, or receive a pension, benefit, or retirement allowance, including...
• Section 43:16-20 - Reduced Payments.
  2.Upon the receipt of such a waiver, and until the same is withdrawn, altered, or revoked by a subsequent written request, similarly filed, the...
• Section 43:16-21 - No Refund Or Credit Of Waived Moneys
  Upon withdrawal, alteration, or revocation of such a waiver the member or beneficiary shall not be entitled to a refund or credit for such...
• Section 43:16a-1 - Definitions Relative To Police And Firemen's Retirement System.
  1.As used in this act: (1)"Retirement system" or "system" shall mean the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey as defined in section...
• Section 43:16a-1.1 - Reclassified Members
  Any member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey who holds one of the titles set forth in section 1 of...
• Section 43:16a-1.2 - Review Of Positions Of All Members; Eligibility, Enrollment
  a. The Director of the Division of Pensions shall review the positions of all members of the retirement system on the effective date of...
• Section 43:16a-1.3 - Report On Titles Covered, Number Of Members Affected, Actuarial Status
  On or before the 90th day after enactment of this amendatory and supplementary act, P.L.1989, c.204 (C.43:16A-15.6 et al.), the Director of the Division...
• Section 43:16a-1.4 - Enrollment Of Parole Officers.
  3.If the Board of Trustees of the Police and Fireman's Retirement System of New Jersey makes a determination, pursuant to section 9 of P.L.1989,...
• Section 43:16a-1.5 - Membership In Pfrs For Certain Jail Wardens.
  1. a. As used in this act, "jail warden" means any paid, permanent, uniformed, full-time employee of a county correctional facility who is engaged...
• Section 43:16a-1.6 - Inapplicability Of C.43:16a-1.
  36. The provisions of section 1 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1) as amended by P.L.2010, c.1 concerning persons who become members of the retirement system...
• Section 43:16a-2 - Retirement System Established
  A retirement system is hereby established in the Division of Pensions of the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of providing retirement allowances...
• Section 43:16a-3 - Membership; Termination; Return Of Contributions; Continuance On Return
  (1) After the date of the establishment of this retirement system, any person becoming a full-time policeman or fireman in a county or municipality...
• Section 43:16a-3.1 - Service Defined
  1.Service with a law enforcement unit or firefighting unit to which the provisions of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.) apply in an appointive capacity...
• Section 43:16a-3.2 - Purchase Of Prior Service Credit
  2. Any such person presently serving in any of said capacities may purchase prior service credit for the period of time he has so...
• Section 43:16a-3.3 - Payment By Employer
  The employer of any such person purchasing prior service credit as provided by this act shall pay to the retirement system the employer's accrued...
• Section 43:16a-3.4 - Election To Public Office; Contributions
  a. Any member elected to public office may continue to be a member during the time he remains in such public office. The member's...
• Section 43:16a-3.5 - Member Who Becomes Sheriff Or Undersheriff; Election To Remain Member
  Any member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey who has been or shall be elected to the position of sheriff...
• Section 43:16a-3.6 - County Sheriff; Ineligibility For Benefits Of L.1983, C. 439, If 37 Or Older
  No county sheriff shall qualify for membership in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey pursuant to this amendatory and supplementary act...
• Section 43:16a-3.7 - County Sheriff Enrolled In Public Employees' Retirement System Or County Pension Fund; Transfer And Membership On Payments
  Any officer eligible to become a member pursuant to the amendatory provisions of this act who is enrolled in the Public Employees' Retirement System...
• Section 43:16a-3.8 - Eligibility For Membership In Pfrs, Transfers From Pers
  1. a. The following are eligible, regardless of age, to become members of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey (PFRS) as...
• Section 43:16a-3.9 - Enrollment Required
  2. A policeman or fireman employed after the effective date of this supplementary act by a municipality, which was not required to participate in...
• Section 43:16a-3.10 - Credit For Transferred Service
  3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1 of this supplementary act, a policeman or fireman who is eligible pursuant to paragraph (1) or...
• Section 43:16a-3.11 - Liability Of State, Municipality For Certain Employer Contributions
  4. a. The State shall be liable, during their membership following transfer from PERS to PFRS, for the difference between what the employer would...
• Section 43:16a-3.12 - Noneligibility For Additional Benefits
  5. A person transferring to PFRS under this supplementary act shall not be eligible to receive any benefit provided under P.L.1993, c.99 unless the...
• Section 43:16a-3.13 - Liability Of State For Contributions On Members For Pfrs Adopted After 1991 And Before August 9, 1993
  6. For municipalities in which the provisions of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.) took effect on or after January 1, 1992 and prior to...
• Section 43:16a-3.14 - Full Credit Toward Pfrs Benefits For Transferred Pers Service
  1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1993, c.247 (C.43:16A-3.8 et seq.) to the contrary, a member or retiree of the Police and Firemen's Retirement...
• Section 43:16a-3.15 - Certain Firemen Eligible For Enrollment In Pfrs; Credit For Pers Service, Certain.
  1. a. Upon the approval by the municipal governing body, any fireman employed by a municipality on the effective date of this act who...
• Section 43:16a-4 - Creditable Service Within Act.
  4. a. Only service as a policeman or fireman paid for by an employer, which was rendered by a member since that member's enrollment,...
• Section 43:16a-4.1 - Borough Of Barrington; Contributions
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of P.L.1944, c. 255 (C. 43:16A-4) all persons presently employed as policemen by a borough having a population...
• Section 43:16a-4.2 - Policeman Member Of Retirement System; Credit For Service As Chanceman Application
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of P.L.1944, c. 255 (C. 43:16A-4), any person who on the effective date of this act and as...
• Section 43:16a-4.3 - Disposition Of Application By Board; Credit For Service; Liability Of Employer
  The board shall, upon receiving such application and such evidence, advise the employer of the submission of such application and request the employer to...
• Section 43:16a-5 - Members 55 Years Old; 65 Years Old; 68 Years Old, Certain; Allowance; Death Benefits.
  5. (1) Any member in service who has attained age 55 years may retire on a service retirement allowance upon filing a written and...
• Section 43:16a-6 - Members With Four Years Of Service, Ordinary Disability Allowance, Death Benefits.
  6. (1) Upon the written application by a member in service, by one acting in his behalf or by his employer, any member, under...
• Section 43:16a-6.1 - Special Disability Retirement Allowance
  a. Upon the written application by a member in service, by one acting in behalf of the member or by the employer of the...
• Section 43:16a-7 - Retirement For Accidental Disability; Allowance; Death Benefits
  7. (1) Upon the written application by a member in service, by one acting in his behalf or by his employer any member may...
• Section 43:16a-7.1 - Applicability Of Increases
  The increases under this act shall apply only to retirement allowances payable on account of retirements or deaths occurring after January 11, 1956; provided,...
• Section 43:16a-7.2 - Benefits Provided To Police Officer Who Performs Duties In Another Department
  Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a member who is employed by a municipal police department and who is assigned...
• Section 43:16a-7.3 - Applicability Of Increased Accidental Disability Retirement.
  2.Any increased pension benefits payable under this act, P.L.1997, c.281 (C.43:16A-7.3 et al.), shall apply to the benefits received by any member who retired...
• Section 43:16a-8 - Medical Exam; Report Of Medical Board; Restoration To Active Service.
  8. (1) Upon the receipt by the retirement system of a written application for a disability retirement allowance, the system shall refer the application...
• Section 43:16a-9 - Death Of Member In Active Service.
  9. (1) Upon the receipt of proper proof of the death of a member in active service on account of which no accidental death...
• Section 43:16a-9.4 - Deeming Of Retirement Before Death Of Terminally Ill Member
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection b. of section 9 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-9) to the contrary, a member of the Police and Firemen's...
• Section 43:16a-9.5 - Certain Pfrs Members Deemed Retirees At Time Of Death
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph b. of subsection (2) of section 9 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-9) to the contrary, a member of the...
• Section 43:16a-9.6 - Pfrs Members, Certain, Deemed Retired, Certain Circumstances
  1.Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph b. of subsection (2) of section 9 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-9) to the contrary, a member of the Police...
• Section 43:16a-10 - Accidental Death Benefits.
  10. (1) Upon the death of a member in active service as a result of: (a)an accident met in the actual performance of duty...
• Section 43:16a-11 - Members Ceasing To Be Firemen Or Policemen Otherwise Than By Death Or Retirement; Payment
  If a member should cease to be a fireman or policeman, except by death or retirement as provided in this act, he shall be...
• Section 43:16a-11.1 - Special Retirement; Allowance; Death Benefits.
  16. a. Should a member resign after having established 25 years of creditable service, he may elect "special retirement," provided, that such election is...
• Section 43:16a-11.2 - Separation From Service Before 55 With 10 Years Of Creditable Service; Election Of Retirement Allowance, Restoration To Service.
  17.Should a member, after having established 10 years of creditable service, be separated voluntarily or involuntarily from the service, before reaching age 55, and...
• Section 43:16a-11.3 - Members Of Police And Firemen's Retirement System; Coverage Of Death Benefits; Evidence Of Insurability
  a. Any person entitled to become a member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System shall not be allowed any of the death benefits...
• Section 43:16a-11.4 - Reenrollment; Purchase Of Credit For Previous Membership Service
  If an employee who has withdrawn the accumulated member's contributions from the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, as provided by section 11 of P.L.1944,...
• Section 43:16a-11.5 - Application Of Act
  This act shall apply to any such employee reenrolled prior to or after the effective date of this act. L.1973, c. 63, s. 2,...
• Section 43:16a-11.6 - Transfer Or Purchase Of Credit For Service In Other Systems
  A member who is a member of another State-administered retirement system or pension fund at the time of enrollment in the Police and Firemen's...
• Section 43:16a-11.7 - Definition Of Veteran.
  1.For purposes of this act "veteran" means any honorably discharged officer, soldier, sailor, airman, marine or nurse who served in any Army, Air Force...
• Section 43:16a-11.7a - Veteran Status Determined For Military Service Credit.
  6.The Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs shall be responsible for determining whether any person seeking to be considered a...
• Section 43:16a-11.9 - Purchase Of Retirement System Credit
  Any member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey who has at least 20 years of creditable service in the retirement...
• Section 43:16a-11.10 - Purchase Of Credit During Official Leave Without Pay
  14. A member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System may purchase credit for time during which the member shall have been absent on...
• Section 43:16a-11.11 - Members Of Police And Firemen's Retirement System May Purchase Credit
  A member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System may file a detailed statement of public employment in other states or with the United...
• Section 43:16a-11.12 - Service Credit In Pfrs For Local Service; Purchase
  1. A member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System who had established service credit in a municipal or county retirement system or pension...
• Section 43:16a-11.13 - Purchase Of Credit In Pfrs
  1.Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-4), any member who is separated involuntarily from the police service covered by the retirement...
• Section 43:16a-11.14 - Purchase Of Credit In Pfrs After Member Is Laid Off Then Rehired
  1.Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-4), any member who is separated involuntarily from firefighting service covered by the retirement system,...
• Section 43:16a-12.1 - Survivors' Benefits.
  26. a. Upon the death after retirement of any member of the retirement system there shall be paid to the member's widow or widower...
• Section 43:16a-12.2 - Pension, Annuity Or Retirement Allowance Effective Date; Amount Limitations; Payment Of Unpaid Benefits Upon Death Of Retirant
  27. A pension, an annuity or a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this act shall be effective only on the first day...
• Section 43:16a-12.3 - Designation Of Beneficiary; Payment Of Benefits
  The designation of beneficiary by a member or retirant shall be made in writing on a form satisfactory to the retirement system, and filed...
• Section 43:16a-12.4 - Requirements For Receipt Of Death Benefits; Minimum Amount Of Benefit Payable
  Any other provision of this act notwithstanding, (a) no beneficiary of a pensioner who enrolled as a member on or after July 1, 1971...
• Section 43:16a-13 - Police And Firemen's Retirement System, Trustees, Committees.
  13. a. (1) Subject to the provisions of P.L.1955, c.70 (C.52:18A-95 et seq.), the general responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system...
• Section 43:16a-13.1 - Deputy State Treasurer; Sitting As Member Of Board
  The Deputy State Treasurer, when designated for that purpose by the State Treasurer, may sit as a member of the board of trustees constituted...
• Section 43:16a-14 - Management Of Funds.
  14. (1) The board of trustees shall be and are hereby constituted trustees of the various funds and accounts established by this act; provided,...
• Section 43:16a-15 - Contributions, Expenses Of Administration.
  15. (1) The contributions required for the support of the retirement system shall be made by members and their employers. (2) The uniform percentage...
• Section 43:16a-15a - State Liable For Increased Cost To Government Employers For Veterans Of Operations Restore Hope, Joint Endeavor And Joint Guard
  5.The State shall be liable for any increased cost to local government employers participating in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, established pursuant to...
• Section 43:16a-15.1 - Compulsory Enrollment In Retirement System; Purchase Of Membership Credit; Contributions
  a. In the case of any person who (1) was required to become a member of the retirement system as a condition of employment,...
• Section 43:16a-15.2 - Periodic Benefits Payable Under Workers' Compensation Law; Salary Deductions Paid By Employer; Retirement Benefits Application
  30. a. If any member of the retirement system receives periodic benefits payable under the Workers' Compensation Law during the course of his active...
• Section 43:16a-15.3 - Reemployment Of Retiree; Cancellation Of Benefits; Reenrollment.
  20. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, if a former member of the retirement system who has been granted a...
• Section 43:16a-15.4 - Accrued Liability Contribution Of Employer; Payment
  The accrued liability contribution of any employer adopting the retirement system after July 1, 1988 for the purpose of providing prior service credit, shall...
• Section 43:16a-15.6 - Pension Adjustment Benefits; Funding
  7. Pension adjustment benefits for members and beneficiaries of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey as provided by P.L.1958, c.143 (C.43:3B-1...
• Section 43:16a-15.7 - Liability For Increased Pension And Adjustments
  3. The actuary for the Police and Firemen's Retirement System shall determine for the valuation period of the retirement system in which this act...
• Section 43:16a-16 - Funds To Be Established.
  16. (1) All the assets of the retirement system shall be credited according to the purpose for which they are held to one of...
• Section 43:16a-16.1 - Loan To Members, Interest Rates, Repayment.
  18.Any member who has at least 3 years of service to his credit for which he has contributed as a member may borrow from...
• Section 43:16a-16.2 - Repayment Of Loans After Retirement Of Member Of Pfrs.
  2.In the case of any member who retires without repaying the full amount so borrowed, the Division of Pensions and Benefits shall deduct from...
• Section 43:16a-16.9 - Definitions
  2. As used in this act: "Mortgage loan" means any indebtedness secured by a mortgage on a residential property, which mortgage shall constitute a...
• Section 43:16a-16.10 - Authority Of Director Of The Division Of Investment
  3. The Director of the Division of Investment shall at all times have authority to invest and reinvest the monies in, and to acquire...
• Section 43:16a-16.11 - Eligibility For Mortgage Loans, Conditions Of Repayment.
  4. a. In addition to any loan for which he may be eligible pursuant to the provisions of section 18 of P.L.1964, c.241 (C.43:16A-16.1)...
• Section 43:16a-16.12 - Administration Of Mortgage Loan Program
  5. The State Treasurer shall delegate the administration of this mortgage loan program to the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency established under...
• Section 43:16a-16.13 - Mortgage Loan Standards, Guidelines
  6. The State Treasurer, with the advice of the State Investment Council, the Board of Trustees of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, and...
• Section 43:16a-16.14 - Loan Recipients To Occupy Residence
  7. Any member receiving a mortgage loan pursuant to the provisions of this act shall, within 120 days of the date on which the...
• Section 43:16a-16.15 - Availability Of Funds For Mortgage Loans
  8. a. Upon application of a member for a mortgage loan the director shall, within 90 days, make available to the New Jersey Housing...
• Section 43:16a-16.16 - Rules, Regulations
  9. The State Treasurer shall, with the advice of the State Investment Council, the Director of the Division of Pensions and the Executive Director...
• Section 43:16a-17 - Exemption From Taxes, Garnishment, Etc.; Assignment Of Group Insurance Policy Rights And Benefits
  The right of a person to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance, to the return of contributions, any benefit or right accrued...
• Section 43:16a-17.1 - Deductions For Group Health Insurance Plan Or State Health Benefits Program
  If possible, whenever any beneficiary shall, in writing, request the Division of Pensions to make deductions from his retirement allowance or pension for the...
• Section 43:16a-18 - False Statements Or Records; Punishment; Correction Of Errors
  Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement...
• Section 43:16a-19 - Other Laws Inapplicable
  No other provision of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State of New Jersey or...
• Section 43:16a-20 - Application Of Act
  The provisions of this act shall apply in such municipalities as at the effective date of this act there shall have been established a...
• Section 43:16a-22 - Other Laws Not Affected
  The State Firemen's Relief Fund and the State Firemen's Association and the laws by virtue of which they exist and operate shall not be...
• Section 43:16a-23 - Violation Of Departmental Regulations; Convictions
  No member who shall have served honorably in any such police or fire department for a period of twenty-five years and attained age fifty-five...
• Section 43:16a-24 - Partial Invalidity
  If any provision, section or part of any section of this act is declared to be unconstitutional, the same shall not be held to...
• Section 43:16a-25 - Effective Date Of Act
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four. L.1944, c. 255, p. 857, s. 25.
• Section 43:16a-26 - Referendum; Notice Of Adoption
  Upon the filing of a petition signed by at least ten per centum (10%) of the legal voters of any county, municipality or political...
• Section 43:16a-27 - Duties Of Chief Financial Officer And Of Board Of Trustees As To Referendum; Fiscal Statement
  Whenever the question of the adoption of the act of which this act is an amendment and supplement is to be submitted to the...
• Section 43:16a-28 - Publication Of Fiscal Statement; Notice; Hearing; Resolution As To Method Of Payment
  The governing body shall publish on or before September fifteenth of said year, in at least one newspaper having general circulation in such county,...
• Section 43:16a-29 - Election To Become Member; Prior Service Certificate
  Any policeman or fireman in service in any county, municipality or political subdivision thereof prior to the date upon which this act becomes effective...
• Section 43:16a-30 - Costs For Accrued Liability On Prior Service Certificates
  The county, municipality or political subdivision thereof shall be liable to the board of trustees for the whole costs for the accrued liability on...
• Section 43:16a-31 - Certification Of Normal Contribution And Contribution For Accrued Liability For Prior Service Credits
  The board of trustees shall certify to the chief financial officer of the county, municipality or political subdivision thereof, adopting the act, on or...
• Section 43:16a-32 - Information Transmitted To Board
  The chief financial officer of each county, municipality or political subdivision having employees who are members of this fund shall transmit to the board...
• Section 43:16a-33 - County Police Departments; Application For Membership
  The board of chosen freeholders of any county maintaining a county police department may pass a resolution requesting the board of trustees to permit...
• Section 43:16a-34 - Fiscal Statement; Publication; Hearing On Application
  The board of chosen freeholders shall thereupon within thirty days after receipt of such fiscal statement publish the same in at least one newspaper...
• Section 43:16a-35 - Election To Become Member; Statement And Certificate Of Prior Service
  Any member of such county police department may become a member by filing with the board of trustees his election in writing to become...
• Section 43:16a-36 - Liability Of County On Prior Service Certificates
  The county shall be liable to the board of trustees for the whole costs for the accrued liability on account of service credited on...
• Section 43:16a-37 - Contributions Certified To County
  The board of trustees shall certify to the chief financial officer of the county on or before the first day of February following, for...
• Section 43:16a-38 - Chief Financial Officer Of County; Information To Board Of Trustees
  The chief financial officer of each county having employees who are members of this fund shall transmit to the board of trustees such information...
• Section 43:16a-39 - First Or Second Class Counties--police Employees Of County Park Commission; Admission
  The board of trustees may by resolution admit as members into the retirement system the police employees of any county park commission in counties...
• Section 43:16a-40 - First Or Second Class Counties Over 300,000; Admission Of Park Police As Members; Fiscal Statement
  The park commission in any county of the first class or county of the second class having a population not in excess of 300,000...
• Section 43:16a-41 - Publication Of Fiscal Statement; Hearing
  Such county park commission shall thereupon within thirty days after the receipt of such fiscal statement publish the same in at least one newspaper...
• Section 43:16a-42 - Election To Become Member; Statement; Prior Service Certificate
  Any police employee of any such county park commission may become a member by filing with the board of trustees his election in writing...
• Section 43:16a-43 - Accrued Liability For Service Credited On Prior Service Certificates, Costs For
  The county park commission shall be liable to the board of trustees for the whole costs for the accrued liability on account of service...
• Section 43:16a-44 - Certification To Secretary Of Park Commission Of Its Contributions
  The board of trustees shall certify to the secretary of any such county park commission on or before the first day of February following,...
• Section 43:16a-45 - Information, Secretary To Transmit
  The secretary of each county park commission having employees who are members of the State fund shall transmit to the board of trustees such...
• Section 43:16a-46 - Transfer From State Employees' Retirement System To Police And Firemen's Retirement System In Certain Counties
  Any employee of any county or municipality which has adopted, or shall adopt, the State Employees' Retirement System existing under the provisions of chapter...
• Section 43:16a-47 - Adoption Of Act By County Or Municipality; Notice To Boards Of Trustees; Certification Of Names Of Persons To Be Transferred
  The clerk of said county or municipality shall, promptly after the effective date of this act or after said chapter two hundred fifty-five of...
• Section 43:16a-47.1 - Retirement System For Fire Fighters
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the governing body of a township having a population of at least 65,000 and not greater...
• Section 43:16a-48 - Procedure To Effect Transfer Of Membership; Accumulated Deductions; Deductions Thereafter
  On January first following the receipt of said notification and certification, the board of trustees of the State Employees' Retirement System shall relinquish jurisdiction...
• Section 43:16a-48.1 - Officers Of County Police Department, County Park Police Department, Or County Park Commission; Membership
  Eligibility for membership in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey shall be extended to all active, permanent and full-time, uniformed officers...
• Section 43:16a-48.2 - Transfer Or Retention Of Membership; Waiver Of Rights And Benefits; Filing Of Forms; New Officers; Officers With Pensions Under Other Plans
  a. An eligible officer who is a member of a pension fund established by a county or a county park commission or of the...
• Section 43:16a-48.3 - Remission Of Prior Credits To Police And Firemen's Retirement System By Former Funds; Credits To Employee And Employer
  Within 120 days following the effective date of this act the county or county park commission pension funds and the Public Employees' Retirement System...
• Section 43:16a-48.4 - Transferred Employees; Deduction; Contributions; Rate; Rights And Benefits; Credits
  The transferred employees thereby affected shall be members of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System and deductions from their salaries and contributions on their...
• Section 43:16a-48.5 - Transferred Employees; Group Life Insurance Benefits; Qualifications
  a. Any person becoming a member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System pursuant to the provisions of this act shall not be allowed...
• Section 43:16a-48.6 - Liability Of Employers; Calculation; Certification; Contributions
  The actuary of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System shall calculate the liability of each employer of employees becoming members of the system under...
• Section 43:16a-48.7 - Transmittal Of Information By Fiscal Officers Of Each Employer
  The chief fiscal officer of each employer shall transmit to the retirement system such information as the system shall require in order for the...
• Section 43:16a-48.8 - Police Officers In Municipalities Establishing Police Departments; Transfer Of Membership And Contributions In Retirement Systems
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law regarding the Police and Firemen's Retirement System or the Public Employees' Retirement System, when any police officer member...
• Section 43:16a-48.9 - Police Officers In Municipalities Establishing Police Departments; Contributions, Credits, Rights And Benefits
  When a police officer transfers back to the Police and Firemen's Retirement System under the circumstances set forth in section 1 of this act,...
• Section 43:16a-50 - Waiver Of Portion Of Benefits By Written Request
  Any member or any beneficiary who has been or, in the future, may be retired, or receive a pension, benefit or retirement allowance, including...
• Section 43:16a-51 - Payment Of Reduced Benefits Until Waiver Withdrawn Or Revoked By Subsequent Request
  Upon the receipt of such waiver, and until the same is withdrawn, altered or revoked by a subsequent written request, similarly filed, the board...
• Section 43:16a-52 - No Refund Or Credit Of Waived Moneys
  Upon withdrawal, alteration, or revocation of such a waiver the member or beneficiary shall not be entitled to a refund, or credit, for such...
• Section 43:16a-53 - Purchase Of Group Life Insurance Coverage By State Treasurer To Provide For Death Benefits
  The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and permitted to purchase from one or more life insurance companies, as determined by him, a group life...
• Section 43:16a-54 - Qualifications Of Life Insurance Companies
  Any life insurance company must meet the following requirements in order to qualify under section 1 of this act: (1) Be licensed under the...
• Section 43:16a-55 - Purchase By State Treasurer Of Group Insurance For Death Benefits
  The State Treasurer may, in his discretion, determine to purchase group insurance coverage for the death benefit provisions as provided in sections 5, 6,...
• Section 43:16a-56 - Group Insurance Premium Fund
  In the event the State Treasurer shall determine to purchase group insurance coverage for the death benefits, premiums for the same shall be paid...
• Section 43:16a-57 - Transfer Of Reserves And Moneys Held By Insurance Carrier Under Group Life Insurance Contracts
  All reserves and moneys held by the insurance carrier under group life insurance contracts providing for employee contributions pursuant to the provisions of chapter...
• Section 43:16a-58 - Group Policies; Conversion Privileges
  Any such group policy or policies shall include, with respect to any insurance terminating or reducing because the member has ceased to be in...
• Section 43:16a-59 - Payment Of Benefits Under Group Policies
  Benefits under such group policy or policies shall be paid by the insurance company to such person, if living, as the member shall have...
• Section 43:16a-60 - Settlement Arrangements
  Any such group policy or policies shall provide that payment of any death benefits which are payable by the insurance company may be made...
• Section 43:16a-61 - Credits For Savings By Companies
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any insurance company or companies issuing such policy or policies may credit the policyholder, in the form of...
• Section 43:16a-62 - State Firemen And Police; Membership
  Eligibility for membership in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey shall be extended to all active, permanent and full-time officer employees...
• Section 43:16a-62.1 - Industrial Trade Instructors And Identification Officers; Essex County; Transfer Of Membership; Membership As Requirement For Employment
  a. Any officer eligible to become a member pursuant to the amendatory provisions of this act who is enrolled in the Public Employees' Retirement...
• Section 43:16a-62.2 - Transfer To Police And Firemen's Retirement System; Employment Requirement Of New Officer
  a. Any officer eligible to become a member pursuant to the amendatory provisions of this act who is enrolled in the Public Employees' Retirement...
• Section 43:16a-62.3 - County Approval; Transfer Procedure
  a. Either the transfer to or the initial enrollment in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of chief investigators, assistant chief investigators, senior investigators...
• Section 43:16a-63 - Transfer From Or Continuation In Public Employees' Retirement System Or County Pension Fund; Membership Of New Employees
  a. An eligible officer who is a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System or of a county pension fund created under P.L.1943, c....
• Section 43:16a-64 - Transfer Of Funds And Credits From Public Employees' Retirement System Or County Pension Fund
  Within 120 days following the effective date of this 1975 amendatory and supplementary act the Public Employees' Retirement System or a county pension fund...
• Section 43:16a-65 - Deductions; Contributions; Credits
  The transferred employees thereby affected shall be members of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System and deductions from their salaries and contributions on their...
• Section 43:16a-66 - Group Life Insurance Benefits For Employee Over 55
  a. Any person becoming a member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System pursuant to the provisions of this 1975 amendatory and supplementary act...
• Section 43:16a-67 - Liability Of Employer; Computation; Contributions
  The actuary of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System shall calculate the liability of the employer of employees becoming members of the system under...
• Section 43:16a-68 - Transmittal Of Information By Employer To Retirement System
  The chief fiscal officer of the employer shall transmit to the retirement system such information as the system shall require in order for the...
• Section 43:17-1 - Incorporation
  43:17-1. In any municipality or fire district in this State in which there is organized for doing public fire duty, including nonprofit corporations or...
• Section 43:17-2 - Incorporation Certificate; Filing; Powers.
  43:17-2. The president and secretary of the corporation, when elected as hereinafter provided, shall forthwith sign a certificate and cause it to be recorded...
• Section 43:17-3 - Objects Of Association.
  43:17-3. a. The object of associations incorporated under this article shall be to establish, provide for and maintain a fund for the relief, support...
• Section 43:17-4 - Reorganization, Reincorporation Of Associations Existing Prior To March 25, 1885
  43:17-4. Any association organized prior to March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, for the purposes intended by this article, whether incorporated or...
• Section 43:17-5 - Certificate Of Incorporation Of Certain Associations
  In case of the reorganization and incorporation under this article of a firemen's relief association not incorporated before March twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred...
• Section 43:17-6 - Corrected Certificates Of Incorporation Or Reincorporation
  If an error has been or may hereafter be made in the certificate of incorporation or reincorporation of a firemen's relief association, the president...
• Section 43:17-7 - Number Of Associations, Limited; Municipal Consolidation
  43:17-7. There shall not be organized in any municipality or fire district having a fire department, company or association more than one relief association...
• Section 43:17-8 - Transfer Of Money, Etc. To New Associations
  43:17-8. If any such association forfeits its charter, or the charter is repealed or expires by limitation or the association is dissolved, or if...
• Section 43:17-9 - Membership Qualifications.
  43:17-9. The membership of such corporation shall consist, without any formal election thereto, of the officers and members of such fire engine, hook and...
• Section 43:17-10 - Adoption Of Constitution, By-laws, Rules
  43:17-10. A corporation, incorporated or reincorporated under this article may, through its representatives, make, adopt and use, and from time to time alter, amend...
• Section 43:17-11 - Board Of Representatives
  43:17-11. On or before the second Monday in December, in every year, each fire engine, hook and ladder, hose or supply company, and the...
• Section 43:17-12 - Rotation Of Terms Of Members Of Board
  43:17-12. If the by-laws of any firemen's relief association provide for the election, by each of the several companies, associations, or boards of which...
• Section 43:17-13 - Officers, Trustees, Election
  43:17-13. The board of representatives shall, on or before the third Monday in December in every year, elect by ballot from among their own...
• Section 43:17-14 - Oath Of Officers
  43:17-14. The officers shall, upon their election, take an oath of office for the faithful performance of their duties. Amended 1996, c.151, s.12.
• Section 43:17-15 - Bond Of Treasurer, Officers; Custodian
  43:17-15. The treasurer and officers of every firemen's relief association, organized or working under this article, shall in each year, upon assuming their office,...
• Section 43:17-16 - Failure To Hold Required Elections At Times Specified; Effect
  If any of the aforesaid elections are not held at the time or times hereinbefore provided, they shall be held thereafter as soon as...
• Section 43:17-17 - Quorum
  43:17-17. A majority of the board of representatives or of the board of trustees, as the case may be, shall constitute a quorum at...
• Section 43:17-18 - Simultaneous Service Prohibited.
  43:17-18. No person shall at one time serve on the board of representatives and the board of trustees. If elected to both he shall...
• Section 43:17-19 - Annual Election Of Chair, Secretary
  43:17-19. The board of trustees shall once in each year, immediately after the election of the new members thereof, elect, by ballot, a chairperson...
• Section 43:17-20 - Meetings
  43:17-20. The board of representatives shall be convened by its president at least five times a year and when the president thinks proper or...
• Section 43:17-21 - Office Of Representative, Filling Vacancies
  43:17-21. If a vacancy occurs in the office of representative, it shall be filled forthwith by the company, association or board by which the...
• Section 43:17-22 - Other Officers, Filling Vacancies
  43:17-22. If a vacancy occurs in the office of president, vice president, treasurer, secretary or trustee, it shall be filled forthwith for the remainder...
• Section 43:17-23 - Secretary, Treasurer; Reports.
  43:17-23. The secretary and treasurer shall report to the board of representatives at all meetings and upon request. Amended 1996, c.151, s.20; 2005, c.39,
• Section 43:17-24 - Assistance Applications
  43:17-24. All applications for assistance shall be referred to the trustees for their investigation and approval or disapproval. The trustees shall report their findings...
• Section 43:17-25 - Management Of Business, Affairs
  43:17-25. The management of the business and affairs, the custody of the property and the disposal of the funds and property of the corporation...
• Section 43:17-26 - Inquiry Of Applications; Control Of Funds; Violations
  43:17-26. The board of representatives may, at any meeting thereof, inquire into the applications for relief or payment thereof, the funds from which relief...
• Section 43:17-27 - Violations, Proceedings
  43:17-27. If any member of the board of representatives, or trustee or any officer is charged with misconduct or malfeasance in office or charged...
• Section 43:17-28 - Funds Not To Be Used For Banking Purposes
  No part of the funds of the corporation shall be used for banking purposes or in any manner except as provided in this article...
• Section 43:17-29 - Convention Of State Association; Attendance, Expenses
  43:17-29. Each firemen's relief association may pay to the delegates, life members and chief or the next highest ranking officer as shall attend and...
• Section 43:17-30 - Certain Papers Filed With Secretary Of State Association; Approval By Executive Committee
  Each local firemen's relief association, except those incorporated by special act, shall file a copy of its constitution, by-laws and certificate of incorporation with...
• Section 43:17-31 - Annual Statements; Filing, Examination.
  43:17-31. On or before February 20th in every year, each local firemen's relief association, however incorporated, shall file a financial report with the field...
• Section 43:17-33 - Investment Of Funds.
  43:17-33. No firemen's relief association, however incorporated, shall invest its moneys in any manner, except as follows: a.In stocks or bonds or interest-bearing notes...
• Section 43:17-34 - Unlawful Investments; Crime Of Fourth Degree
  43:17-34. A violation of any provision of R.S.43:17-33, by any or either of the members of the boards of officers or representatives, or other...
• Section 43:17-35 - Use Of Funds
  43:17-35. Any funds heretofore or hereafter received and held by a relief association organized and existing under this article, from any source, may be...
• Section 43:17-36 - Paid Firemen Participating In Relief Association Organized By Volunteers
  When, in any municipality where there is a volunteer department doing public fire duty, which has a relief association organized by it and acting...
• Section 43:17-37 - Local Association, Dissolution
  43:17-37. A local firemen's relief association, incorporated or reincorporated under this article may be dissolved at any meeting thereof by a vote, by written...
• Section 43:17-38 - Power To Alter, Suspend Or Repeal Charters Of Associations
  The legislature may, at any time, alter, modify or repeal this chapter and may alter, suspend or repeal the charter of any firemen's relief...
• Section 43:17-39 - Associations Unaffected
  43:17-39. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to repeal the charter of any incorporated association, or to dissolve any voluntary association, organized,...
• Section 43:17-40 - "Local Firemen's Relief Associations" Defined
  As used in this article, "local firemen's relief association" includes all incorporated local exempt firemen's associations in this state, and the rules and regulations...
• Section 43:17-41 - State Association Continued; Conduct Of Affairs; Expenses
  43:17-41. The New Jersey State Firemen's Association organized pursuant to an act entitled "An act concerning firemen's relief associations," approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand...
• Section 43:17-42 - Delegates, Representatives Of Local Firemen's Relief Associations.
  43:17-42. On or before May 1st in each year, the board of representatives of each duly incorporated local firemen's relief association in this State...
• Section 43:17-43 - Delegates Of Exempt Firemen's Association.
  43:17-43. On or before May 1st in every year, each duly incorporated exempt firemen's association shall choose, by ballot, one delegate and one alternate...
• Section 43:17-44 - Annual Convention; Election Of Officers
  43:17-44. At each annual convention of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association, there shall be elected, by ballot, a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer,...
• Section 43:17-45 - Executive Committee Powers; Annual Report
  43:17-45. The executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall have the supervision and power of control of the funds and other...
• Section 43:17-46 - Field Examiner, Examination Of Books
  43:17-46. For the purpose of proper supervision and control of the funds and property of the local firemen's relief associations, the executive committee may,...
• Section 43:17-47 - Annual Certificate, Filing; Share In Relief Fund
  43:17-47. On or before June 1st in each year, the field examiner of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall file in the Office...
• Section 43:18-1 - Incorporation; Purpose
  The employees of the local board or department of health heretofore or hereafter established in any city may form a corporation for the purpose...
• Section 43:18-2 - Procedure
  For the purpose of forming such a corporation, the health officer or other chief officer or person in charge of such employees, shall notify...
• Section 43:18-3 - Trustees; Filling Vacancy Of Trustee Or Officer; Bond Of Trustee Or Officer
  The first board of trustees, selected as provided in section 43:18-2 of this title, shall serve until the month of January following the incorporation...
• Section 43:18-4 - Organization
  The board of trustees shall, at the first annual meeting thereof, and at each annual meeting thereafter, elect a chairman, secretary, treasurer and any...
• Section 43:18-5 - Payments; Deposits; Investments
  All moneys paid out of the pension fund shall be paid by the treasurer of the corporation upon warrants signed by the chairman of...
• Section 43:18-6 - Reports
  The board of trustees shall make a semiannual report of the condition of the fund and the manner in which it is invested to...
• Section 43:18-7 - Membership
  Except as hereinafter in this section provided the employees of any such local board or department of health who shall be entitled to accept...
• Section 43:18-8 - Perjury
  A person who shall willfully or knowingly swear falsely in an oath for the purpose of obtaining or procuring a pension or the payment...
• Section 43:18-9 - Application For Membership
  Any employee of the board or department of health hereinbefore mentioned may avail himself of the benefits of the pension fund by applying in...
• Section 43:18-10 - Physical Examination As Prerequisite To Membership
  Any employee applying for membership in a corporation created under this chapter and the benefits thereof, must have passed, at the time he entered...
• Section 43:18-11 - Pension Fund
  The pension fund shall be created and sustained as follows: a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to each employee not...
• Section 43:18-12 - Pension Exempt From Legal Process
  All pensions created under this chapter shall be exempt from execution, attachment or other legal process.
• Section 43:18-13 - Refunding Dues Paid Upon Death Within Five Years, Resignation Or Dismissal
  On or after June fifth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, if any person then a member, or thereafter or hereafter becoming a member...
• Section 43:18-14 - Application For Retirement
  An applicant for retirement shall apply therefor in writing to the board of trustees of the pension fund. The application shall be granted if...
• Section 43:18-15 - Payment Of Pensions; Retirement; Death; Incapacity
  Pensions shall be paid from such fund in following manner: I. In all cities of this state in which this chapter is or shall...
• Section 43:18-15.1 - Pensions To Widows In Certain Cases
  The widow of any member of any pension fund corporation existing under the provisions of the chapter to which this act is a supplement...
• Section 43:18-16 - Dishonesty To Bar Benefit Hereunder
  Any employee of the board or department of health, included in the provisions of this chapter, who unlawfully retains any of the moneys, funds,...
• Section 43:18-17 - Change In Form Of Government Not To Affect Corporation
  In the event of a change in the method of government heretofore or hereafter adopted in any city in which a pension corporation has...
• Section 43:19-1 - Incorporation; Purpose
  In any city of the first class which has or may hereafter have a board of street and water commissioners, the employees of such...
• Section 43:19-2 - Procedure
  For the purpose of forming the corporation the chief engineer or other chief officer or person in charge of the employees of such board...
• Section 43:19-3 - Board Of Trustees
  The first board of trustees selected as provided in section 43:19-2 of this title shall serve until the month of January following the incorporation...
• Section 43:19-4 - Organization; Officers' Compensation
  The board of trustees shall, at its first meeting and at each annual meeting thereafter, elect a chairman, secretary and treasurer and any other...
• Section 43:19-5 - Bonds Of Trustees And Officers
  The trustees and all officers of the corporation shall give bonds with a duly authorized surety company as surety thereon, for the faithful performance...
• Section 43:19-6 - Payments; Deposits; Investments
  All moneys paid out of the pension fund shall be paid by the treasurer of the corporation upon warrants signed by the chairman of...
• Section 43:19-7 - Semiannual Report
  The board of trustees shall make to the pension corporation a semiannual report of the condition of the fund and the manner in which...
• Section 43:19-8 - Pension Fund
  The pension fund shall be provided and sustained as follows: a. By all rewards, fees, gifts or emoluments paid or given for extraordinary services...
• Section 43:19-9 - Payments From Fund
  Pensions shall be paid from the fund as follows: a. In any city of the first class in which this chapter becomes operative, all...
• Section 43:19-10 - Membership; Eligibility
  Persons employed by the board of street and water commissioners at the time of the creation of the pension corporation in accordance with this...
• Section 43:19-11 - Perjury
  A person who shall willfully or knowingly swear falsely in an oath for the purpose of obtaining or procuring a pension or the payment...
• Section 43:19-12 - Application For Membership; Automatic Membership
  Any employee of the board of street and water commissioners who entered such employ prior to July first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five,...
• Section 43:19-13 - Dishonesty A Bar To Benefit Hereunder
  Any employee of the board of street and water commissioners included in the provisions of this chapter who unlawfully retains any of the moneys,...
• Section 43:19-14 - Payments To Dependents
  If any member of the pension corporation who shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions dies...
• Section 43:19-15 - Death Of Member After Five Years' Service; Payments
  In case any such member dies from causes other than injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duties and he...
• Section 43:19-16 - Dependency Condition To Payment Of Certain Pensions
  No pension shall be paid to the surviving husband of a deceased member of the pension corporation unless he is and continues to remain...
• Section 43:19-17 - Pension Exempt From Legal Process
  All pensions granted under this chapter shall be exempt from execution, attachment or other legal process.
• Section 43:19-18 - Provision In Case Method Of City Government Changed
  In case of a change in the method of government of any city of the first class in which a pension corporation has been...
• Section 43:21-1 - Short Title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "unemployment compensation law" .
• Section 43:21-2 - Declaration Of State Public Policy
  As a guide to the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of this state is declared to be as follows: economic...
• Section 43:21-3 - Benefits.
  43:21-3. Benefits. (a)Payment of benefits. All benefits shall be promptly paid from the fund in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed hereunder....
• Section 43:21-3.1 - Supplemental Unemployment Benefits For Certain Ex-service Members.
  1.Any individual who is eligible for, and receives, benefits under the unemployment compensation law, R.S.43:21-1 et seq., which are based on wages assigned to...
• Section 43:21-4 - Benefit Eligibility Conditions.
  43:21-4. Benefit eligibility conditions. An unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week eligible only if: (a)The individual has...
• Section 43:21-4.1 - Worker Profiling System; Notice To Applicant Of Benefits, Services Available
  2. a. There is established a worker profiling system for the purpose of determining which new claimants for regular benefits are likely to exhaust...
• Section 43:21-4.2 - Notification Of Availability Of Earned Income Tax Credit, Recipients Of Unemployment Compensation.
  1.The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall notify in writing any person who received unemployment compensation pursuant to R.S.43:21-1 et seq. of the...
• Section 43:21-4.3 - Pre-notification Of Exhaustion Of Ui Benefits.
  1.The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall give written notification to any individual receiving unemployment compensation pursuant to R.S.43:21-1 et seq., including any...
• Section 43:21-5 - Disqualification For Benefits.
  43:21-5. An individual shall be disqualified for benefits: (a)For the week in which the individual has left work voluntarily without good cause attributable to...
• Section 43:21-5a - Reduction By Pension Amount; Rollover, Certain; No Reduction.
  1.The amount of benefits payable to an individual for any week which begins in a period with respect to which such individual is receiving...
• Section 43:21-5.2 - Agreement With United States Secretary Of Labor Authorized
  The Division of Employment Security is authorized to enter into an agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor under Title XV of the...
• Section 43:21-6 - Claims For Benefits.
  43:21-6. (a) Filing. (1) Claims for benefits shall be made in accordance with such regulations as the Director of the Division of Unemployment and...
• Section 43:21-6.1 - Child Support Obligations; Withholding From Unemployment Compensation Payments; Distribution
  a. An individual filing a new claim for unemployment compensation with an effective date on or after October 1, 1982 shall, at the time...
• Section 43:21-6.2 - Registration Of Authorized Agent.
  3. a. An authorized agent who represents parties for a fee shall not represent any party after December 1, 2010 in any procedure with...
• Section 43:21-6.3 - Responsibilities Of Authorized Agent To Client.
  4. a. An authorized agent shall keep any party that is a client of the agent reasonably informed about the status of any matter...
• Section 43:21-6.4 - Postponement Request.
  5. a. If an authorized agent believes that a critical witness will not be available for a scheduled hearing and requests a postponement in...
• Section 43:21-6.5 - Representation Provided By Authorized Agent.
  6. a. An authorized agent shall provide competent representation to each party that is a client of the agent. The authorized agent shall explain...
• Section 43:21-6.6 - Production Of Evidence, Witnesses At Hearing.
  7.An authorized agent shall be prepared to produce all necessary evidence and witnesses at the time the hearing is scheduled to commence and provide,...
• Section 43:21-6.7 - Violations Committed By Authorized Agent.
  8. a. If the commissioner determines that an authorized agent has exhibited a pattern of repeated violations of the provisions of sections 3 through...
• Section 43:21-6.8 - Definitions Relative To C.43:21-6.2 et Seq.
  9.For the purposes of sections 3 through 9 of this act: "Authorized agent" means an individual, organization or business that, for a fee, provides...
• Section 43:21-7 - Contributions.
  43:21-7. Contributions. Employers other than governmental entities, whose benefit financing provisions are set forth in section 4 of P.L.1971, c.346 (C.43:21-7.3), and those nonprofit...
• Section 43:21-7a - Definitions
  28. As used in sections 28 through 34 of this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor or his designee. "Department" means the Department...
• Section 43:21-7b - Contributions To Health Care Subsidy Fund.
  29. a. Beginning January 1, 1993 until December 31, 1995, except as provided pursuant to subsection b. of this section, each employee shall, in...
• Section 43:21-7c - Employer Obligations
  30. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, each employer shall: withhold in trust the amount of all workers' contributions from...
• Section 43:21-7d - Failure To Make Report
  31. If an employer fails to make any report or permit any inspection required by the commissioner to implement the provisions of this act,...
• Section 43:21-7e - Entitlement To Refund Or Tax Credit
  32. a. If an employee receives wages from more than one employer during any calendar year, and the sum of the employee's contributions deposited...
• Section 43:21-7f - Schedule Of Fines
  33. A schedule of fines, with no fine exceeding $1,000 for a single offense, shall be established by the commissioner for any of the...
• Section 43:21-7g - Rules, Regulations
  34. The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions...
• Section 43:21-7.2 - Nonprofit Organizations
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Unemployment Compensation Law, for payments of contributions by employers, benefits paid to individuals in the employ of...
• Section 43:21-7.3 - Governmental Entities
  4. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the "unemployment compensation law" for the payment of contributions, benefits paid to individuals based upon wages earned...
• Section 43:21-7.4 - Application Of Exemptions From Taxation To Contributions
  No exemption from taxation granted under any other law of the State shall be construed to apply to the payment of contributions under the...
• Section 43:21-7.5 - Contribution Rate Calculated Upon Benefit Experience; Increase If Low Balance In Unemployment Trust Fund
  Notwithstanding any provisions of R.S. 43:21-7(c)(5)(A) to the contrary, if the balance in the unemployment trust fund on March 31, 1972 is less than...
• Section 43:21-7.6 - Inapplicability Of Expenditure Limitations Of Public School Education Act Of 1975
  Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1975, c. 212 (C. 18A:7A-3 and 18A:7A-25) or rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, any increase in expenditure required as...
• Section 43:21-7.7 - Reduced New Employer Contribution Rate
  1. a. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the "unemployment compensation law," R.S.43:21-1 et seq., for the payment of contributions, an employer who transfers all...
• Section 43:21-7.8 - Responsibilities Of Employee Leasing Company.
  3. a. For purposes of the "unemployment compensation law," R.S.43:21-1 et seq., a covered employee is an employee of the employee leasing company. An...
• Section 43:21-8 - Period, Election, And Termination Of Employer's Coverage
  (a) Any employing unit which is or becomes an employer subject to this chapter (R.S. 43:21-1 et seq.) within any calendar year shall be...
• Section 43:21-9 - Unemployment Compensation Fund
  (a) Establishment and control. There is hereby established as a special fund, separate and apart from all public moneys or funds of this State,...
• Section 43:21-9.1 - Cancellation Of Record Of Checks Not Presented For Payment Within 6 Years
  The State Treasurer, as treasurer and custodian of the unemployment compensation and State disability benefits funds, is hereby authorized and directed to cancel of...
• Section 43:21-10 - Unemployment Compensation Commission
  (a) Organization. There is hereby created a commission to be known as the Unemployment Compensation Commission of New Jersey. It shall consist of seven...
• Section 43:21-11 - Administration.
  43:21-11. (a) Duties and powers of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The department shall have power and authority to adopt, amend, or...
• Section 43:21-11.1 - Administration; Agricultural Workers
  The Department of Labor shall take any actions as the commissioner deems necessary to improve the administration of the unemployment compensation program as it...
• Section 43:21-11.2 - Notice Posting; Penalties For Violation
  a. An employer or contracting agent of an employer who employs any employee covered by subparagraph (I) of paragraph (1) of subsection (i) of...
• Section 43:21-11.3 - Returns For Domestic Service Filed On Calendar Year Basis; Exceptions.
  2. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of R.S.43:21-14 and subparagraph (E) of paragraph (1) of subsection (d) of R.S.43:21-7 to the contrary,...
• Section 43:21-11.4 - Establishment Of System Of Annual Filings.
  3. a. The Commissioner of Labor shall establish a system of annual filings to meet the alternative system requirements of paragraph (3) of subsection...
• Section 43:21-12 - Employment Service
  (a) State employment service. The employment bureau of the New Jersey Department of Labor and its present personnel, including those employed by the New...
• Section 43:21-12.3 - Civil Service, Pension And Other Rights Of Employees Not Affected During Period Of Service To Federal Government
  No civil service, pension or other rights, including rights to promotion and to increase in remuneration, of any individual whose services were made available...
• Section 43:21-12.4 - Commission May Arrange With Federal Agencies For Jobs For Veterans; Expenses
  The Unemployment Compensation Commission is authorized to enter into arrangements or agreements with any administrator, agent, agency, board or body designated and established under...
• Section 43:21-12.4a - Agreement With United States Secretary Of Labor Regarding Payment Of Unemployment Compensation To Veterans
  The Division of Employment Security is authorized to enter into an agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor under Title IV of the...
• Section 43:21-12.4b - Actions Taken By Division Of Employment Security Ratified
  All acts and actions heretofore taken by the Division of Employment Security or any of its representatives in co-operating with the Federal authorities in...
• Section 43:21-12.5 - Civil Service Employees Of Employment Service Division Remitted To State Service; Survey Of Personnel, Duties And Compensation
  The permanent civil service employees of the Employment Service Division whose services were made available to the Federal Government under the act to which...
• Section 43:21-12.6 - Adjustments Of Compensation
  Adjustments of compensation after the allocation of positions under the new compensation plan resulting from the above classification survey shall be made as follows:...
• Section 43:21-12.7 - Administration By Civil Service Commission
  This act shall be administered by the Civil Service Commission in accordance with the provisions of section 11:5-1 of the Revised Statutes. L.1948, c....
• Section 43:21-12.8 - Reconversion Unemployment Benefits For Seamen; Arrangements With Federal Officials
  The Unemployment Compensation Commission is authorized to enter into arrangements or agreements with the Federal Security Administrator or with any administrator, agent, agency, board...
• Section 43:21-13 - Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund
  (a) Administration fund. There is hereby created in the State treasury a special fund to be known as the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund. All...
• Section 43:21-14 - Periodic Contribution Reports.
  43:21-14. (a) (1) In addition to such reports as may be required under the provisions of subsection (g) of R.S.43:21-11, every employer shall file...
• Section 43:21-14a - Zip Code Reporting
  In addition to the information required to be reported pursuant to the provisions of subsection (2)(A) of R.S. 43:21-14, every employer shall, in accordance...
• Section 43:21-14b - Information To Transportation Commissioner
  The Commissioner of Labor shall transmit the information received from employers as provided in section 1 of this act to the Commissioner of Transportation,...
• Section 43:21-14.1 - Refund Of Contributions; Claim
  1. Any employee who is paid wages by two or more employers aggregating more than the amount of "wages" determined in accordance with the...
• Section 43:21-14.2 - Termination Of Lien For Contributions For Certain Years
  The lien provided for by paragraph (b) of section 43:21-14 of the Revised Statutes as originally enacted, upon the property of any subject employer...
• Section 43:21-14.3 - Unemployment Compensation Interest Repayment Fund; Deposits, Administration And Disbursement; Special Assessment Against Employers; Exceptions
  a. The Unemployment Compensation Interest Repayment Fund is established in the Department of Labor and shall be used solely for the purpose of paying...
• Section 43:21-14.4 - Withholding Of Payments To Vendors For Certain Delinquent Payments; Administrative Fees.
  1.Upon a determination by the controller, made pursuant to the procedures provided by R.S.43:21-14 or R.S.43:21-16, that an employer has failed to pay any...
• Section 43:21-15 - Waiver Of Rights Void
  43:21-15. (a) Waiver of rights void. Any agreement by an individual to waive, release, or commute his rights to benefits or any other rights...
• Section 43:21-16 - Unemployment Compensation Offenses And Penalties.
  43:21-16. (a) (1) Whoever makes a false statement or representation, knowing it to be false, or knowingly fails to disclose a material fact, to...
• Section 43:21-17 - Representation In Court Or Administrative Proceeding
  (a) In any civil action to enforce the provisions of this chapter, the Commissioner of Labor and the State may be represented by any...
• Section 43:21-18 - Nonliability Of State
  Benefits shall be deemed to be due and payable under this chapter only to the extent provided in this chapter and to the extent...
• Section 43:21-19 - Definitions.
  43:21-19. Definitions. As used in this chapter (R.S.43:21-1 et seq.), unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (a) (1) "Annual payroll" means the total amount...
• Section 43:21-19.2 - Effective Date And Application Of Act
  This act shall take effect and become operative immediately, and shall apply to all benefits payable with respect to benefit years beginning on or...
• Section 43:21-19.3 - Provisions Dealing With Exclusion Of Certain Agents Retroactive
  Notwithstanding the provisions of this act as to its effective date in other respects, subsection (i)(7)(J) of section 43:21-19, dealing with exclusion of certain...
• Section 43:21-19.4 - Gratuities Or Tips; Remuneration In Lieu Of
  Whenever payments are made to workers pursuant to an agreement entered into by their employer providing for a service charge measured by (a) a...
• Section 43:21-19.6 - South Jersey Port Commission Considered Employer
  With respect to service performed in the employ of the South Jersey Port Commission which is not excluded from the definition of "employment" by...
• Section 43:21-20.1 - Individuals Employed Part Time; Eligibility For Benefits
  1.Notwithstanding any other provision of R.S.43:21-1 et seq. to the contrary, no individual, who is otherwise eligible, shall be deemed unavailable for work or...
• Section 43:21-20.2 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. L.1952, c. 282, p. 968, s. 2.
• Section 43:21-20.3 - Definitions Relative To Unemployment Insurance Benefits.
  1.For the purposes of this act: "Affected unit" means a specified plant or other facility, department, shift or other definable unit which includes two...
• Section 43:21-20.4 - Application To Provide Shared Work Program.
  2.An employer who has not less than 10 employees may apply to the division for approval to provide a shared work program, the purpose...
• Section 43:21-20.5 - Revocation Of Approval.
  3. a. The division, on its own initiative or upon request of the affected unit's employees, may revoke approval of an employer's application previously...
• Section 43:21-20.6 - Eligibility For Short-time Benefits.
  4.An individual who is employed by an employer with a shared work program approved by the division shall be eligible for short-time benefits during...
• Section 43:21-20.7 - Amount Of Short-time Benefits Paid.
  5.The amount of short-time benefits paid to an eligible individual shall, for any week, be equal to the individual's weekly benefit rate multiplied by...
• Section 43:21-20.8 - Beginning, Expiration Of Payment Of Benefits.
  6.A shared work program and payment of short-time benefits to individuals under the program shall go into effect on the date mutually agreed upon...
• Section 43:21-20.9 - Manner Of Charging Short-time Benefits.
  7.Any short-time benefits paid to an individual shall be charged in the same manner as other unemployment benefits pursuant to the "unemployment compensation law,"...
• Section 43:21-20.10 - Report To Legislature.
  8.The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, three years after the effective date of this act, shall submit a report to the Legislature assessing...
• Section 43:21-20.11 - Provisions In Violation Of Federal Law Inoperative.
  9.If the United States Department of Labor finds any provision of this act to be in violation of federal law, that provision of this...
• Section 43:21-21 - Reciprocal Benefit Arrangements
  (a) The commissioner is hereby authorized to enter into arrangements with the appropriate agencies of other states or the Federal Government whereby potential rights...
• Section 43:21-22 - Saving Clause
  The legislature reserves the right to amend or repeal all or any part of this chapter at any time; and there shall be no...
• Section 43:21-23 - Separability Of Provisions
  If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter and...
• Section 43:21-24.1 - Sale Of Surplus, Obsolete Or Unsuitable Property; Disposition Of Proceeds
  At the request of the Director of the Division of Employment Security, the Director of the Division of Purchase and Property may sell, either...
• Section 43:21-24.2 - Contracts For Payments Under Federal Temporary Unemployment Compensation Act Of 1958
  The Commissioner of Labor and Industry is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Labor of the United States on...
• Section 43:21-24.3 - Benefit Payments Not Chargeable To Employers' Accounts
  Temporary unemployment compensation benefit payments pursuant to an agreement entered into hereunder shall not be charged to any employer's account. L.1958, c. 72, p....
• Section 43:21-24.4 - Agreements With United States
  The Director of the Division of Employment Security on behalf of the division is authorized to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Labor...
• Section 43:21-24.11 - Definitions.
  5.For the purposes of the extended benefit program and as used in this act, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: a."Extended benefit period" means...
• Section 43:21-24.12 - Effect Of State Law Provisions Relating To Regular Benefits On Claims For, And The Payment And Charging Of, Extended Benefits
  6. Except when the result would be inconsistent with other provisions of the "Extended Benefits Law," as provided in the regulations of the division,...
• Section 43:21-24.13 - Eligibility Requirements For Extended Benefits
  An individual shall be eligible to receive extended benefits with respect to any week of unemployment in his eligibility period only if the division...
• Section 43:21-24.14 - Weekly Extended Benefit Rate
  The weekly extended benefit rate payable to an individual for a week of total unemployment in his eligibility period shall be an amount equal...
• Section 43:21-24.15 - Total Extended Benefit Amount.
  9. a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, the total extended benefit amount payable to any eligible individual with respect to...
• Section 43:21-24.16 - Beginning And Termination Of Extended Benefit Period
  a. Whenever an extended benefit period is to become effective in this State as a result of a state "on" indicator, or an extended...
• Section 43:21-24.17 - Short Title
  Sections 5 through 11 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Extended Benefits Law." L.1970, c. 324, s. 11.
• Section 43:21-24.18 - Cessation Of Extended Benefits When Paid Under An Interstate Claim In A State Where An Extended Benefit Period Is Not In Effect
  a. Except as provided in paragraph b. of this section, an individual shall not be eligible for extended benefits for any week if: (1)...
• Section 43:21-24.19 - Ineligibility For Benefits; Failure To Accept Offer Of, Apply For Or Actively Engage In Seeking Suitable Work Or Dismissal For Misconduct
  a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of P.L.1970, c. 324 (C. 43:21-24.12) an individual shall be ineligible for payment of extended benefits for...
• Section 43:21-24.20 - Inapplicability Of C.43:21-24.19
  2. The provisions of section 2 of P.L.1981, c.90 (C.43:21-24.19) shall not apply to weeks of unemployment beginning after March 6, 1993 and before...
• Section 43:21-24.21 - Definitions For Purposes Of Emergency Unemployment Benefits Program
  1. For the purposes of the Emergency Unemployment Benefits Program and as used in this act: "Emergency unemployment benefits" means benefits financed entirely by...
• Section 43:21-24.22 - Provision Of Weekly Emergency Unemployment Benefits
  2. During an emergency unemployment benefit period exhaustees, who otherwise continue to meet the eligibility requirements for regular benefits pursuant to the provisions of...
• Section 43:21-24.23 - Employer's Account Not Charged; Exceptions
  3. No employer's account shall be charged for emergency unemployment benefits paid to an unemployed individual pursuant to this act, except for the account...
• Section 43:21-24.24 - Conditions For Payment
  4. Emergency unemployment benefits may be paid pursuant to the provisions of this act only with respect to weeks not within an extended benefit...
• Section 43:21-24.25 - Administrative Actions To Ensure Proper Payment Of Emergency Unemployment Benefits
  5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the division shall use appropriate administrative means to insure that emergency unemployment benefits are paid only...
• Section 43:21-24.26 - Definitions Relative To Emergency Unemployment Benefits Program
  7.For the purposes of the Emergency Unemployment Benefits Program and as used in sections 7 through 11 of P.L.2002, c.13 (C.43:21-24.26 through C.43:21-24.30): "Emergency...
• Section 43:21-24.27 - Emergency Unemployment Benefits
  8.During an emergency unemployment benefit period, an exhaustee who otherwise continues to meet the eligibility requirements for regular benefits pursuant to the provisions of...
• Section 43:21-24.28 - Charging Of Employer's Account For Emergency Unemployment Benefits
  9.No employer's account shall be charged for emergency unemployment benefits paid to an unemployed individual pursuant to sections 7 through 11 of P.L.2002, c.13...
• Section 43:21-24.29 - Payment Of Emergency Unemployment Benefits
  10. Emergency unemployment benefits may be paid pursuant to the provisions of sections 7 through 11 of P.L.2002, c.13 (C.43:21-24.26 through C.43:21-24.30) only with...
• Section 43:21-24.30 - Administrative Actions To Ensure Payment To Eligible Individuals
  11. The division shall use appropriate administrative means to insure that emergency unemployment benefits are paid only to individuals who meet the requirements of...
• Section 43:21-25 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Temporary Disability Benefits Law." L.1948, c. 110, p. 586, s. 1.
• Section 43:21-26 - Purpose.
  2.Purpose. This act shall be liberally construed as remedial legislation enacted upon the following declarations of public policy and legislative findings of fact: The...
• Section 43:21-27 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (a) (1) "Covered employer" means, with respect to whether an employer is required...
• Section 43:21-28 - Coverage
  All covered individuals shall be entitled on and after January first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, to the benefits provided under either a...
• Section 43:21-29 - Compensable Disability, Individual, Family.
  5.Compensable disability. (a) In the case of the disability of a covered individual, disability shall be compensable subject to the limitations of P.L.1948, c.110...
• Section 43:21-30 - Nonduplication Of Benefits, Exceptions, Certain.
  6.Nonduplication of benefits. (a) No benefits shall be required or paid under this act for any period with respect to which benefits are paid...
• Section 43:21-30.1 - Notice Of Unemployment Compensation, Conditions
  2. The Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance shall provide notice to each individual receiving compensation under the provisions of the "Temporary Disability...
• Section 43:21-31 - Certain Individuals Excepted
  Any person who adheres to the faith or teachings of any church, sect, or denomination, and who in accordance with its creed, tenets, or...
• Section 43:21-32 - Establishment Of Private Plans
  Any covered employer may establish a private plan for the payment of disability benefits in lieu of the benefits of the State plan hereinafter...
• Section 43:21-33 - Election By Employees; Deduction Of Contributions
  If employees are to be required to contribute toward the cost of benefits under a private plan, such plan shall not become effective unless...
• Section 43:21-34 - Existing Plans
  If upon the effective date of this act a covered employer has in effect a plan for the payment of cash disability benefits to...
• Section 43:21-35 - Termination Of Private Plans.
  11. (a) If the division is furnished satisfactory evidence that a majority of the employees covered by an approved private plan have made election...
• Section 43:21-36 - Additional Benefits
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the establishment by an employer, without approval, of a supplementary plan or plans providing for...
• Section 43:21-37 - Persons Entitled To Benefits
  Any covered individual who on the date of the commencement of a period of disability is not entitled to disability benefits under an approved...
• Section 43:21-38 - Duration Of Benefits.
  14.Duration of benefits. With respect to any period of disability for an individual's own disability commencing on or after January 1, 1953, disability benefits,...
• Section 43:21-39 - Limitation Of Benefits.
  15.Limitation of benefits. Notwithstanding any other provision of the "Temporary Disability Benefits Law," P.L.1948, c.110 (C.43:21-25 et al.), no benefits shall be payable under...
• Section 43:21-39.1 - Compensation For Family Temporary Disability Leave; Conditions.
  10. a. Family temporary disability leave shall be compensable subject to the limitations of P.L.2008, c.17 (C.43:21-39.1 et al.) for any period of family...
• Section 43:21-39.2 - Duration Of Family Temporary Disability Leave; Continuous Or Intermittent; Certification.
  11. a. In the case of a family member who has a serious health condition, the benefits for family temporary disability leave may be...
• Section 43:21-39.3 - Payment Of Benefits For Period Of Family Temporary Disability Leave, Birth Or Adoption Of Child.
  12. a. All of the disability benefits paid to a covered individual during a period of family temporary disability leave with respect to any...
• Section 43:21-39.4 - Availability Of Annual Reports, Contents.
  13. a. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall issue and make available to the public, not later than December 31, 2010, and...
• Section 43:21-40 - Weekly And Daily Benefit Amounts
  With respect to periods of disability commencing on or after July 1, 1961, an individual's weekly benefit amount shall be determined and computed by...
• Section 43:21-41 - Entitlement For Disability Benefits.
  17. (a) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1975, c.355.) (b)(Deleted by amendment, P.L.2001, c.17). (c)(Deleted by amendment, P.L.2001, c.17). (d) (1) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2008, c.17)....
• Section 43:21-42 - Payment Of Disability Benefits; Fund; Deceased Claimant; Minors; Representative Appointed
  (a) Disability benefits payable pursuant to this article shall be paid out of the State disability benefits fund established by law, and to the...
• Section 43:21-45 - Administration
  (a) It shall be the duty of the executive director of the commission to administer this act under the supervision and control of the...
• Section 43:21-45.1 - Reciprocal Agreements For Certain Temporary Disability Benefits.
  1. a. The Commissioner of Labor is authorized to enter into a reciprocal agreement with the department of labor, or other corresponding agency, of...
• Section 43:21-46 - State Disability Benefits Fund.
  22.State disability benefits fund. (a) The State disability benefits fund, hereinafter referred to as the fund, is hereby established. The fund shall remain in...
• Section 43:21-47 - Withdrawal From Federal Treasury.
  23. Withdrawal from Federal Treasury. (a) The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to requisition and withdraw on or before December 31, 1948,...
• Section 43:21-48 - Assessment Of Costs Of Administration
  (a) If officers or employees of the Division of Employment Security perform duties in part related to the administration of this act and of...
• Section 43:21-49 - Postings, Notice And Claim For Disability Benefits.
  25. (a) (1) Every employer shall post, in prominent locations, notices to employees in the form provided by the division of whether the employer...
• Section 43:21-50 - Review
  (a) If a person claiming benefits under an approved private plan shall be unable to agree with the employer or insurer as to benefits...
• Section 43:21-51 - Fees Of Attorney And Medical Witnesses
  In any proceeding had as the result of a complaint filed with the commission as provided in this article, the hearing officer may (i)...
• Section 43:21-52 - Records And Reports
  (a) Each employer shall keep true and accurate employment records, containing such information as may reasonably be prescribed by the commission. Such records shall...
• Section 43:21-53 - Rights In Payments
  Benefits payable under an approved private plan by an employer as a self-insurer shall have the same preference against the assets of the employer...
• Section 43:21-54 - Financial Responsibility Under Private Plans
  If a private plan does not provide for the assumption by an insurer, duly authorized and admitted to do business in this State, of...
• Section 43:21-55 - Penalties.
  31.Penalties. (a) Whoever makes a false statement or representation knowing it to be false or knowingly fails to disclose a material fact, and each...
• Section 43:21-55.1 - Liability For Repayment Of Disability Benefits Overpayments.
  2. (a) If it is determined by the division that an individual for any reason has received, under the State plan, an approved private...
• Section 43:21-56 - Severability
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional, invalid...
• Section 43:21-57 - Findings, Declarations
  1. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: a. During the 1980s, New Jersey employers reported serious difficulties in finding skilled workers for a...
• Section 43:21-58 - Definitions.
  2.As used in this act: "Approved service provider" or "approved training provider" means a service provider which is on the State Eligible Training Provider...
• Section 43:21-59 - Counseling, Employability Development Plan.
  3.Counseling shall be made available by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development to each individual who meets the requirements indicated in subsections a....
• Section 43:21-60 - Requirements For Provision Of Additional Benefits.
  4.Except as provided in section 8 of this act, the additional benefits indicated in section 5 of this act shall be provided to any...
• Section 43:21-61 - Additional Benefits Provided During Completion Of Remedial Education, Vocational Training.
  5.Except as provided in section 8 of this act, each individual who meets the requirements of section 4 of this act, but has not...
• Section 43:21-62 - Notice Of Services, Benefits Available, Applications
  6. a. The Department of Labor shall provide notice to any individual who is laid off or notified of a pending layoff of the...
• Section 43:21-63 - Allocation Of Moneys For Education, Training
  7. In using moneys provided as individual grants pursuant to the "1992 New Jersey Employment and Workforce Development Act," P.L.1992, c.43 (C.34:15D-1 et al.),...
• Section 43:21-65 - Rules, Regulations
  9. The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations necessary to govern the proper...
• Section 43:21-67 - Short Title
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Self-Employment Assistance and Entrepreneurial Training Act." L.1995,c.394,s.1.
• Section 43:21-68 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Small Business
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that a significant percentage of new jobs in this country are created by small businesses and that approximately 12...
• Section 43:21-69 - Definitions Relative To Self-employment Assistance
  3.As used in P.L.1995, c.394 (C.43:21-67 et al.): "Division" means the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance of the Department of Labor. "Full-time...
• Section 43:21-70 - Self-employment Assistance Allowance; Conditions
  4. a. Any unemployed individual who qualifies for regular benefits and is identified through the worker profiling system as likely to exhaust regular benefits...
• Section 43:21-71 - Rules, Regulations
  5.The Department of Labor shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to effectuate...
• Section 43:22-1 - Public Policy Declared
  In order to extend to certain persons holding office, position or employment in the service of the State and of any county, municipality or...
• Section 43:22-2 - Definitions
  For the purposes of this act: (a) The term "wages" means all remuneration for employment as defined herein, including the cash value of all...
• Section 43:22-3 - Agreement To Extend Social Security Coverage.
  3.The State agency, with the approval of the Governor or the official designated by the Governor, is hereby authorized to enter on behalf of...
• Section 43:22-4 - Contributions By State Employees
  (a) Every employee of the State whose services are covered by an agreement entered into under section 3 shall be required to pay for...
• Section 43:22-5 - Plan For Extending Benefits; Submission By Each Employer; Approval; Requirements; Contributions
  (a) Each employer other than the State coming within the provisions of this act is hereby authorized to submit for approval by the State...
• Section 43:22-7 - Appropriation
  There is appropriated for the purposes of administering this act such sums as may from time to time be included in an annual or...
• Section 43:22-8 - Rules And Regulations
  The State Agency shall make and publish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as it finds necessary or...
• Section 43:22-9 - Studies By State Agency; Report To Governor And Legislature
  The State Agency shall make studies concerning the problem of old-age and survivors insurance protection for employees of the State and local governments and...
• Section 43:22-10 - Partial Invalidity
  If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act and...
• Section 43:22-11 - Employees Of Authority, Commission Or Other Instrumentality Created By Compact
  Any authority, commission or other instrumentality created by a compact between this State and any other State or States is hereby authorized upon the...
• Section 43:22-12 - Referendum On Question Of Inclusion Under Agreement
  (a) The Governor is empowered to authorize a referendum on the question whether service in positions covered by a retirement system which is supported...
• Section 43:22-13 - Transfer Of Member To Public Employees' Retirement System
  Whenever a retirement system has been divided, (1) the State Agency shall execute, in conformity with section 218 of the Social Security Act and...
• Section 43:22-14 - Expenses Of Administration Of State Agency; Employers' Proportionate Shares
  The expenses of administration of the State Agency shall be paid by the State of New Jersey. Each employer shall reimburse the State for...
• Section 43:22-15 - Grants-in-aid And Other Revenue From State Utilized To Pay Employer's Contributions; Types Of Aid
  a. All State political subdivisions receiving financial aid, who provide Social Security coverage for their employees pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1951, c. 253,...
• Section 43:23-1 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace Act." L.2015, c.298, s.1.
• Section 43:23-2 - Findings, Declarations Relative To A New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace.
  2.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.it is appropriate to create a New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace because there is a retirement savings...
• Section 43:23-3 - Definitions Relative To A New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace.
  3.As used in this act: "Approved plans" means retirement plans offered by private sector financial services firms that meet the requirements of this act...
• Section 43:23-4 - New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace.
  4.There is established the New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace in the Department of the Treasury. L.2015, c.298, s.4.
• Section 43:23-5 - Plan For The Operation Of The Marketplace.
  5. a. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall design and implement a plan for the operation of the marketplace pursuant to the...
• Section 43:23-6 - Contracts With Private Sector Entities.
  6. a. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall contract with one or more private sector entities to: (1)establish a protocol for reviewing...
• Section 43:23-7 - Use Of Private Funding Sources.
  7.In addition to any funds appropriated for the purposes of this act, the State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall approve the use of...
• Section 43:23-8 - Avoidance Of Liability.
  8.The Department of the Treasury shall not expose the State as an employer or through administration of the marketplace to any liability under the...
• Section 43:23-9 - Incentive Payment To Participating Employers.
  9.The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall approve incentive payments to participating employers that enroll in the marketplace if there are sufficient funds...
• Section 43:23-10 - Report To Legislature.
  10. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall report biennially to the Legislature on the effectiveness and efficiency of the marketplace, including levels...
• Section 43:23-11 - Compliance.
  11. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall ensure that any individual retirement account products proposed for inclusion in the marketplace comply with...
• Section 43:23-12 - Regulations.
  12. The Department of the Treasury shall promulgate regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) necessary to effectuate the...

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