N.J. Stat. § 43:8A-13 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 8A / Section 8A-13
Additional death benefit coverage; additional contributions not returnable
Status: in_force

(1) Within 6 months after January 1, 1954 or after the effective date of membership, whichever date is later, each member shall have the right to select additional death benefit coverage. (2) Upon the receipt of proper proof of the death in service of a member selecting coverage under this section, on account of which no accidental death benefit is payable under section 9 of this act, there shall be paid to such person, if living, as he shall have nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the board of trustees, otherwise to the executor, or administrator of the member's estate, the sum of $5,000.00. (3) Each member selecting the additional death benefit coverage under this section shall agree to the deduction of a percentage of his compensation in addition to that required under section 18. The actuary of the pension fund shall determine the constant percentage of contribution which if deducted from each payment of the prospective earnable compensation throughout active service of each member selecting coverage under this section, is computed to be sufficient to provide for all benefits of this section. (4) The percentage rate of contribution payable by members selecting coverage under this section shall be subject to adjustment from time to time by the board of trustees on the basis of annual actuarial valuations and experience investigations as provided under section 5 so that the value of future contributions of members selecting the additional death benefit coverage under this section shall be equal to the value of prospective benefit payments. (5) All other provisions of this section notwithstanding, this section and the benefits extended under this section shall not come into effect until 75% of the total number of members as of October 1, 1954 shall have applied for the additional death benefit coverage under this section. Such application shall be made with the secretary of the board of trustees, in such a manner and upon such forms as the board of trustees shall provide. (6) Any other provision of this act notwithstanding, the additional contributions of members selecting the additional death benefit coverage under this section shall not be returnable to the member or his beneficiary in any manner or for any reason whatsoever nor shall such contributions be included in any annuity payable to any such member or his beneficiary. L.1953, c. 423, p. 2135, s. 13. Amended by L.1954, c. 200, p. 760, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-59 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-59
Payment of benefits under group policies
Status: in_force

Benefits under such group policy or policies shall be paid by the insurance company to such person, if living, as the member shall have nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the insurance company through the policyholder, otherwise to the executors or administrators of the member's estate. A member may file with the insurance company through the policyholder and alter from time to time during his lifetime, as desired, a duly attested written nomination of his payee for the death benefit. L.1964, c. 241, s. 26, eff. Jan. 1, 1967. Amended by L.1967, c. 250, s. 23, eff. Dec. 18, 1968.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-58 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-58
Group policies; conversion privileges
Status: in_force

Any such group policy or policies shall include, with respect to any insurance terminating or reducing because the member has ceased to be in service or has retired, the conversion privilege available upon termination of employment as prescribed by the law relating to group life insurance; and shall also include, with respect to insurance terminating because of termination of the group policy resulting from a termination of the death benefits for all members established under sections 5, 6, 7(3), 9 and 10(5) of chapter 255 of the laws of 1944, and sections 16 and 17 of chapter 241 of the laws of 1964, the conversion privilege available upon termination of the group policy as prescribed by such law. Any such group policy or policies shall also provide that if a member dies during the 31-day period during which he would be entitled to exercise the conversion privilege, the amount of insurance with respect to which he could have exercised the conversion privilege shall be paid as a claim under the group policy. When benefits payable upon the death of a member following retirement are determined as though the member had not retired, the death benefits payable under the group policy or policies, together with the amount of insurance paid under any individual policy obtained under the conversion privilege, shall in no event exceed the amount of insurance for which the member was insured under the group policy or policies immediately prior to the date the right of conversion arose. If any member who has exercised the conversion privilege under the group policy or policies again becomes a member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey, and the individual policy obtained pursuant to the conversion privilege is still in force, he shall not again be eligible for any of the death benefits provided by sections 5, 6, 7(3), 9 and 10(5) of chapter 255 of the laws of 1944, and sections 16 and 17 of chapter 241 of the laws of 1964, unless he furnishes satisfactory evidence of insurability. L.1964, c. 241, s. 25, eff. Jan. 1, 1965. Amended by L.1967, c. 250, s. 22, eff. Dec. 18, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 43:17-1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-1
Incorporation
Status: in_force

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 associations incorporated pursuant to N.J.S.15A:1-1 et seq., one or more fire engine, hook and ladder, hose or supply companies or any fire association, fire department or board of firewardens, which is under the supervision or control of a municipal governing body, or board of fire commissioners, the chief or there being no chief, the next highest ranking officer, and the president, if any, of such fire association or department, and all members of any board of firewardens, or board of trustees of such fire association or department, and all firefighters belonging to such fire engine, hook and ladder, hose, or supply company or companies, of such municipality or fire district, may associate themselves and become incorporated under and by the name of "the firemen's relief association," or any other name which shall indicate the object of such association, using the name of the municipality or fire district in which the association may be located. Amended 1996, c.151, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-12.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-12.4
Requirements for receipt of death benefits; minimum amount of benefit payable
Status: in_force

Any other provision of this act notwithstanding, (a) no beneficiary of a pensioner who enrolled as a member on or after July 1, 1971 and who retired for any reason other than disability shall be entitled to receive benefits pursuant to the death benefit coverages provided by section 5 of chapter 255 of the laws of 1944 and sections 16 and 17 of chapter 241 of the laws of 1964, if the pensioner had less than 10 years of service credit for retirement purposes at the time of retirement; and (b) no member or beneficiary shall be entitled to receive a monthly retirement allowance or other benefit payable pursuant to this chapter unless the amount of the allowance or benefit would be at least $25.00 per month. L.1971, c. 175, s. 19, eff. June 1, 1971.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.21 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.21
Disability not arising out of employment; retirement pension; pension to dependents after death
Status: in_force

Subject to the other provisions of this act, any member employee who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in the employ of such city continuously for a period of 5 years and shall become permanently and totally disabled as the result of injury or illness not arising out of and in the course of his employment, shall, upon his application and approval thereof by the commissioners be retired on a pension equal to 2 1/2 % of the salary received by him at the time of his retirement; and for each additional year of aggregate service, but not more than 20 years of service in the aggregate, the amount of said pension shall be increased to the extent of 2 1/2 % of said salary for each year, not exceeding in any event 50% of said salary; provided, however, that for each year of service over 30 years there shall be an increase of disability pension of 2 1/2 % of the salary received by the employee at the time of said retirement; provided further, however, that no such pension, regardless of service or disability, shall exceed three-quarters of the annual salary of said employee at the time of retirement; nor shall any such pension be in excess of $12,000.00 per annum. Upon and after the death of such retired member or upon and after the death of any member who died as a result of injury or illness not arising out of and in the course of his employment, the said pension or a pension based upon the services of said member as the case may be, shall be paid to the surviving widow or widower, so long as he or she remains unmarried, minor children or dependent parent, as the case may be; provided, however, that in no instance shall said pension exceed the sum of $3,000.00 per annum. L.1954, c. 218, p. 818, s. 19. Amended by L.1966, c. 252, s. 3, eff. Aug. 25, 1966; L.1968, c. 453, s. 3, eff. Feb. 21, 1969; L.1975, c. 108, s. 3, eff. June 3, 1975; L.1979, c. 281, s. 9, eff. Jan. 8, 1980.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-23 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-23
Retirement for disability incurred in service
Status: in_force

Any county detective who shall have received a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness, incurred at any time in the service, which shall permanently incapacitate him from further duty, shall, upon the certification of the fact of such disability by three physicians designated as hereinafter provided, be retired upon one-half pay.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-46.2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-46.2
Payment of normal contribution for increased benefits for active members under C.43:15A-45 and C.43:15A-46.
Status: in_force

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 sections 9 and 11 of P.L.2001, c.353 shall be paid from the benefit enhancement fund established pursuant to section 22 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-22). If there are excess valuation assets after reductions in normal contributions and member contributions, the amount of excess valuation assets credited to the benefit enhancement fund shall include the present value of the expected additional normal contributions attributable to the provisions of sections 45 and 46 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-45 and 43:15A-46) as amended by sections 9 and 11 of P.L.2001, c.353 payable on behalf of the active members over the expected working lives of the active members in accordance with the tables of actuarial assumptions for the valuation period. No additional excess valuation assets shall be credited to the benefit enhancement fund after the maximum amount is attained. Interest shall be credited to the benefit enhancement fund as provided under section 33 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-33). If assets in the benefit enhancement fund are insufficient to pay the normal contribution for the increased benefits for a valuation period, the State shall pay the amount of normal contribution for the increased benefits not covered by assets from the benefit enhancement fund. L.2001,c.353,s.13.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-74 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-74
Extension of act to employees of county, board of education or municipality not previously under state employees' retirement system; referendum; prior service
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in the case of public employee veterans or in subsection b. of section 75 of this act, this act shall not become effective in any county, board of education or municipality which has not previously been covered by the former "State Employees' Retirement System" until its governing body shall, by resolution, have directed that the question of adoption by that county, board of education or municipality shall be submitted to the qualified voters thereof at a general election and a majority of the voters voting on the question at such election shall have voted in favor of its adoption. This act shall be effective without referendum in any county, board of education or municipality in which chapter 15 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes has been adopted. Any employee of any such county, board of education or municipality who prior to July 1, 1955, has filed an application covering service rendered to such county, board of education or municipality prior to the date upon which chapter 15 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes became effective therein shall be entitled to prior service covering such service. L.1954, c. 84, p. 521, s. 74. Amended by L.1954, c. 244, p. 901, s. 13; L.1966, c. 71, s. 5; L.1966, c. 217, s. 19; L.1977, c. 389, s. 1, eff. Feb. 23, 1978.
N.J. Stat. § 43:5-3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-3
Notice of disability; examination; approval of report by state house commission
Status: in_force

When it is made to appear not only that such physical or other disability exists, but that it will, in all reasonable probability, continue permanently, the employee may be retired from the service of the state, upon informing his immediate superior or departmental head of his desire to be retired and of his disability, or upon such information being given in his behalf. If the departmental head or official employing superior finds that a disability exists, he shall appoint a physician of skill and repute in his profession and resident in this state, who shall examine the person proposed for retirement and report on his physical condition or other disability, and as to whether, in all reasonable probability, if he finds the disability existent, it will continue permanently and does and will continue to prevent the applicant from giving service to the state in the performance of his duties. Upon receipt of the physician's report, the departmental head or official employing superior shall certify and send it to the state house commission. If the state house commission approves the report, it shall file it in the comptroller of the treasury's office, there to remain of record. Thereupon the applicant, or anyone in his behalf, may file his resignation in that office, and he shall be entitled to the benefit of this chapter as a retired employee.
N.J. Stat. § 43:23-5 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-5
Plan for the operation of the marketplace.
Status: in_force

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 provisions of this act. Thereafter, the State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall facilitate the connections between eligible employers and approved plans included in the marketplace. b. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall consult with the Director of Investment of the Department of the Treasury, or the director's designee; the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, or the commissioner's designee; the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, or the commissioner's designee; the Chairperson of the State Investment Council, or the chairperson's designee; the Director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits, or the director's designee; and the Chief Executive Officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, or the chief executive officer's designee, in designing and managing the marketplace. c. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall approve private sector financial services firms as defined in section 3 of this act for participation in the marketplace. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall ensure that the range of investment options offered by the financial services firms is sufficient to meet the needs of investors with various levels of risk tolerance and various ages. d. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall approve a diverse array of private retirement plan options that are available to employers on a voluntary basis, including life insurance plans that are designed for retirement purposes, and at least two types of plans for eligible employer participation, including: (1) a SIMPLE IRA type plan that provides for employer contributions to participating enrollee accounts; and (2) a payroll deduction individual retirement account type plan or workplace-based individual retirement accounts open to all workers in which the employer does not contribute to the employees' account. e. Prior to approving a plan to be offered on the marketplace, the State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall obtain certification from the Department of Banking and Insurance and the Bureau of Securities in the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety that the financial services firm providing the plan is in good standing with the department and the bureau and shall ensure that the plan meets the requirements of this act. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, may at any time remove any approved plan from the marketplace that no longer meets the requirements of this act. f. The financial services firms participating in the marketplace shall offer a minimum of two product options, including: (1) a target date or other similar fund, with asset allocations and maturities designed to coincide with the expected date of retirement; and (2) a balanced fund. The marketplace shall offer myRA in addition to any other approved plan. g. The marketplace shall not operate unless there are at least two financial services firms offering approved plans on the marketplace; however, nothing in this section shall be construed as to limit the number of financial services firms with approved plans participating in the marketplace. h. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall ensure that approved plans are compliant with any federal law or regulation regarding Internal Revenue Service approved retirement plans. i. Approved plans shall include the option for enrollees to roll pretax contributions into a different individual retirement account or another eligible retirement plan after ceasing participation in a plan approved by the marketplace. j. Financial services firms selected by the State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, to offer approved plans on the marketplace shall not charge the participating employer an administrative fee or surcharge and shall not charge enrollees more than 100 basis points in total annual fees and shall provide information about their product's historical investment performance. k. Participation in the marketplace is voluntary for both eligible employers and qualified employees, and enrollment in any approved plan offered in the marketplace is not an entitlement. l. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, shall establish protocol to address rollovers for eligible employers that have workers in other states, and to address whether out-of-State employees with existing IRAs may roll them into the plans offered through the marketplace. m. The State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, may establish a fee system that charges financial services firms that participate in the marketplace in order to cover the startup and annual administrative expenses of the State Treasurer, or the Treasurer's designee, in the performance of its duties under this act. L.2015, c.298, s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:11-5 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 11 / Section 11-5
Persons heretofore transferred to position in another branch of service of municipality
Status: in_force

Any person who, while holding any office, position or employment in any municipality of this State and while a member of and entitled to benefits under any retirement system or pension fund operated wholly in such municipality and to which system or fund the member contributed thereto, heretofore was transferred to an office, position or employment in another branch of service of said municipality shall continue and remain a member of such retirement system or pension fund notwithstanding such transfer from the branch of service in which said pension fund or retirement system is maintained and shall continue to be entitled to all the benefits of said pension fund or retirement system under the same conditions and deductions and contributions to said pension fund or retirement system shall be made for him as though he had not so transferred from said branch of service. L.1941, c. 335, p. 892, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-7.2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-7.2
Actuary; designation; duties; tables; adoption; employer contribution; annual certification by commissioner
Status: in_force

a. The actuary of the system shall be designated by the county executive after consultation with the president of the pension commission and subject to the veto of the commission for valid reasons. He shall be the technical adviser of the commission on matters regarding the operation of the funds created by the provisions of this act and shall perform such other duties as are required in connection therewith. The actuary shall recommend, and the retirement system shall keep in convenient form, such data as shall be necessary for actuarial valuation of the funds. At least once in every 3-year period, the actuary shall make an actuarial investigation into the mortality, service, and compensation or salary experience of the members and survivors as defined in this act and shall make a valuation of the assets and liabilities of the funds. Upon the basis of such investigation and valuation, with the advice of the actuary, the commission shall: (1) Adopt for the retirement system such mortality, service and other tables as shall be deemed necessary; and, (2) Certify the employer's contribution to the system, which shall be raised annually by the board of chosen freeholders. b. Upon the basis of tables recommended by the actuary as the commission shall adopt and regular interest, the actuary of the retirement system shall make an annual valuation of the assets and liabilities of the system. On the basis of such valuation the employer contribution shall be computed so that paid annually for a period of 30 years, beginning with the year following the year in which this amendatory act becomes effective, the amount certified by the actuary of the system shall meet the liabilities of the system. L.1976, c. 106, s. 7, eff. Oct. 18, 1976.
N.J. Stat. § 43:5-5 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 5 / Section 5-5
Payment of benefits upon death of certain state employees or retired state employees
Status: in_force

Upon the receipt of proper proof (1) of the death of any officer or employee in State service, who, had he lived and had he become incapacitated for service to the State, would have been eligible to retire upon pension pursuant to the provisions of chapter 5 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, or (2) of the death of any officer or employee, who shall hereafter have retired or be retired upon pension under said chapter by the State House Commission, said commission shall cause to be paid to such person, if living, as said officer or employee shall have nominated by written designation duly executed and filed in the office of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury, otherwise to the executor or administrator of said officer's or employee's estate, a sum equal to the amount which was payable as salary or compensation to said officer or employee during his last full year of service and said amount shall be paid out of the general funds of the State Treasury accordingly. L.1963, c. 175, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-5.3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-5.3
Employee with one year of service; death benefits; deferred pension; payment
Status: in_force

11. If any member of the pension fund who shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his or her assessments or contributions and been in the county services for a period of at least 1 year, dies, 2 1/2 % of the salary received by such person shall be paid each year to the surviving spouse or minor children, as the case may be, and for each additional year of service more than 1 year, the amount of the pension shall be increased to the extent of 2 1/2 % of the salary, but not to exceed in any event 50% thereof. If any member of the pension fund who shall have deferred his pension under the provisions of R.S.43:10-2, dies before receiving any benefits, the pension shall be payable to the surviving spouse or children, as the case may be, and shall be based on the amount of salary earned and years of service which the member had at the time of deferral. In no event shall the amount of any pension payable pursuant to the provisions of this section be less than $3,000 per annum. L.1973,c.345,s.11; amended 1976,c.106,s.5; 1991,c.309,s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-22 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-22
Retirement by reason of unfitness
Status: in_force

Any county detective who shall have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years, whether he has reached the age of sixty years or not, who shall be found, as hereinafter provided, to be physically unfit for further service, shall, upon application in writing to the prosecutor of the pleas of his county, be retired upon one-half pay.
N.J. Stat. § 43:8C-8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 8C / Section 8C-8
Rules by Director of Division of Pensions and Benefits.
Status: in_force

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 act in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.). L.1999,c.59,s.8.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3C-4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3C / Section 3C-4
Depository institution defined
Status: in_force

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. 67 (C. 17:9A-1); an association as defined in section 5 of the "Savings and Loan Act (1963)," P.L.1963, c. 144 (C. 17:12B-5); an insured Federal credit union or an insured State chartered credit union as defined in section 1 of P.L.1938, c. 293 (C. 17:13-26). L.1981, c. 213, s. 1, eff. July 20, 1981.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-17 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-17
Execution of releases, receipts or discharges
Status: in_force

The president and secretary shall, on behalf of the pension commission, execute any release, acquittance, receipt or discharge of any and all written evidence of indebtedness to the commission.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-40 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-40
Deductions to pay premiums; authorization by written request
Status: in_force

If possible, whenever any retirant or beneficiary shall, in writing, request the Division of Pensions to make deductions from his pension or retirement allowance for the purpose of paying premiums for the pensioner's group health insurance plan or the State Health Benefits program, the division may make such deductions and transmit the sums so deducted to the companies carrying the policies. Any such written authorization may be withdrawn by any retirant or beneficiary upon filing notice of such withdrawal with the division. L.1973, c. 140, s. 40, eff. May 22, 1973. Amended by L.1981, c. 470, s. 20, eff. Jan. 19, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3C-23 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3C / Section 3C-23
Participation in qualified group trust.
Status: in_force

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 401(a) of the federal Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. s.401(a)(24)) in accordance with Revenue Ruling 81-100, as amended by Revenue Ruling 2004-67 and Revenue Ruling 2011-1. L.2011, c.78, s.65.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-34 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-34
Retirement reserve fund; source of funds for payment of pensions
Status: in_force

The retirement reserve fund shall be the fund from which all pensions and retirement allowances shall be paid. Upon the retirement of the member his accumulated deductions together with regular interest shall be transferred to the retirement reserve fund from the annuity savings fund. The reserve needed to produce the pension shall be transferred from the contingent reserve fund. If the pension of a member who has been retired is subsequently canceled, the appropriate reserve shall be transferred to the contingent reserve fund. If the retirement allowance of a member who has been retired is subsequently cancelled, the appropriate reserve shall be transferred to the annuity savings fund and the contingent reserve fund. Any surplus or deficit developing in the retirement reserve fund shall be adjusted from time to time by transfer to or from the contingent reserve fund by appropriate action of the retirement system upon the advice of the actuary. L.1973, c. 140, s. 34, eff. May 22, 1973. Amended by L.1981, c. 470, s. 15, eff. Jan. 19, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-65 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-65
Medical examination to determine disability
Status: in_force

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 board of three physicians who shall be designated for that purpose, as follows: One by the sheriff of the county; one by the sheriff's employees of such county or a majority of them, and one by the county treasurer of such county; the three physicians so designated shall examine sheriff's employees applying for retirement upon half pay because of physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty, and if they, or a majority of them, find him physically unfit or incapacitated for further duty, they, or a majority of them, shall make and sign a certificate to that effect and file the same with the county treasurer, and thereupon the applicant shall be retired upon half pay.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-156 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-156
Prosecutors, membership in Prosecutors Part, PERS credit.
Status: in_force

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 seq.), of the Public Employees' Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 et seq.), and shall be subject to the same membership and benefit provisions as State employees, except as provided by P.L.2001, c.366. Membership in the retirement system shall be a condition of employment for service as a prosecutor. Any service credit which has been established in the Public Employees' Retirement System prior to the effective date of this act, P.L.2021, c.226, shall be established in the Prosecutors Part without further assessment of cost to the prosecutor; provided, however, any service credit which has been established in the Public Employees' Retirement System and the Judicial Retirement System not deferred pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2019, c.287 (C.43:6A-11.1) by a member of the retirement system in any position prior to service as a county prosecutor, nominated and appointed pursuant to Article VII, Section II, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, shall be established in the Prosecutors Part without further assessment of cost to the prosecutor. Any county prosecutor, nominated and appointed pursuant to Article VII, Section II, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution before or after the effective date of P.L.2024, c.56, who purchases, after appointment as a county prosecutor, credit for service as a law clerk to a judge of the New Jersey Superior Court or justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court in the same manner and subject to the same terms and conditions provided for the purchase of previous membership service by section 8 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-8) shall have that service established in the Prosecutors Part. Any county prosecutor or acting county prosecutor enrolled in the Defined Contribution Retirement Program as a county prosecutor or acting county prosecutor shall be eligible for service credit in the Prosecutors Part, except that the county prosecutor or acting county prosecutor shall first pay the amount equivalent to that amount contributed pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-3) during each fiscal year of membership in the Defined Contribution Retirement Program to be credited. b. All outstanding obligations, such as loans, purchases and other arrearage, shall be satisfied by a prosecutor as previously scheduled for payment to the Public Employees' Retirement System. L.2001, c.366, s.2; amended 2003, c.140; 2010, c.1, s.36; 2021, c.226; 2024, c.56, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:7-18.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-18.1
Responsibility for operation of pension fund.
Status: in_force

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 fund and shall have such powers and shall exercise such functions and duties, as may be necessary and appropriate for the proper operation of the fund, subject to the provisions of P.L.1955, c.70 (C.52:18A-95 et seq.). Any reference in a law, rule, regulation, judicial or administrative proceeding, or otherwise to the Prison Officers' Pension Commission shall mean and refer to the Division of Pensions and Benefits. The division may make all necessary rules and regulations. Such rules and regulations shall be consistent with those adopted by the other pension funds within the Division of Pensions and Benefits in order to permit the most economical and uniform administration of all such retirement systems. L.1973, c.155, s.4; amended 2013, c.253, s.25.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-8
Restoration of members discontinued from service; conditions
Status: in_force

a. If a member of the retirement system has been discontinued from service without personal fault or through leave of absence granted by an employer or permitted by any law of this State and has not withdrawn the accumulated member's contributions from the retirement system, the membership of that member may continue, notwithstanding any provisions of this act if the member returns to service within a period of 10 years from the date of discontinuance from service. No credit for pension purposes shall be allowed to the member covering the period of the discontinuance, unless leave of absence shall have been granted by the employer and the board, as provided for in section 39 of this act. b. If an employee who has withdrawn the accumulated member's contributions from the former "State Employees' Retirement System" or the retirement system as provided in section 41 of this act is re-enrolled as a member of the retirement system, that member may purchase credit for all of the previous membership service by paying into the annuity savings fund the amount required by applying the factor, supplied by the actuary as being applicable to the member's age at the time of the purchase, to the member's salary at that time, or to the highest annual compensation for service in this State for which contributions shall have been made during any fiscal year of membership or to the highest annual compensation for service in this State during any fiscal year for which credit is purchased, whichever is highest. The purchase may be made in regular installments, equal to at least one-half the full normal contribution to the retirement system, over a maximum period of 10 years. Any member electing to purchase service credit hereunder who retires prior to completing the payments as agreed with the retirement system will receive pro rata credit for service purchased prior to the date of retirement, but if the member so elects at the time of retirement, the member may make the additional lump-sum payment required at that time to provide full credit. L.1954,c.84,s.8; amended 1966,c.217,s.3; 1985,c.532; 1991,c.138,s.6.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-59.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-59.1
Persons eligible under State retirement system; resolution excluding
Status: in_force

The board of chosen freeholders may adopt a resolution directing that this article shall not apply to any person becoming a probation officer subsequent to the passage of such resolution who, at the time he becomes such probation officer, is eligible to become a member of the State retirement system. L.1947, c. 170, p. 785, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-5.6 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-5.6
Election for adjustment of pension benefits
Status: in_force

2. a. A county that is paying pension benefits to retirants or their surviving beneficiaries pursuant to the provisions of article 1 of chapter 10 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes may elect to make adjustments in accordance with the provisions of this act in the amount of the pension benefits paid in order to reflect increases in the cost of living and to maintain the purchasing power of the pension benefits by the adoption, and submission to the pension commission, of an appropriate resolution by its board of chosen freeholders. b. A pension adjustment shall not be made for any retirant or beneficiary who is not receiving the regular, full, monthly pension. The adjustment made shall be effective only on the first day of a month, shall be paid in monthly installments, and shall not be decreased, increased, revoked or repealed except as otherwise provided in this act. No adjustment shall be due to a retirant or beneficiary unless it constitutes a payment for an entire month. c. In the case of any retirant or beneficiary first becoming eligible to receive an adjustment under the provisions of this act, such adjustment shall be paid beginning in the 25th month in which the retirant or beneficiary is entitled to receive the pension benefit. L.2002,c.109,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:23-31 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-31
Penalties for noncompliant employers.
Status: in_force

19. a. An employer who fails without reasonable cause to enroll any employee who has not opted out of participation in the program within the time prescribed under section 14 of this act shall be subject to: (1) for the first calendar year during which at any point a violation occurs, a written warning by the department; (2) for the second calendar year during which at any point a violation occurs, a fine of $100; (3) for the third and fourth calendar year during which at any point a violation occurs, a fine of $250 for each employee who was neither enrolled in nor opted out of participation in the program; and (4) for the fifth and any subsequent calendar year during which at any point a violation occurs, a fine of $500 for each employee who was neither enrolled in nor opted out of participation in the program. b. An employer who collects employee contributions but fails to remit any portion of the contributions to the fund shall be subject to a penalty of $2,500 for a first offense, and $5,000 for the second and each subsequent offense. c. After a determination that an employer is subject to penalty pursuant to this section, the department shall issue a notice of proposed penalty to the employer. For purposes of subsection a. of this section, the notice issued by the department to the employer shall state the number of employees for which the penalty is proposed under paragraph (3) or (4) of subsection a. of this section and the total amount of penalties proposed. For purposes of subsection b. of this section, the department shall issue a notice of proposed penalty to the employer stating the total amount of penalties proposed under subsection b. of this section. Upon the expiration of 90 days after the date on which a notice of proposed penalty was issued, the penalties specified therein shall be deemed assessed, unless the employer had filed a protest with the department under subsection d. of this section. If, within 90 days after the date on which the notice of proposed penalty was issued, a protest is filed under subsection d. of this section, the penalties specified in the notice shall be deemed assessed when the decision of the department with respect to the protest is final. d. A written protest against the proposed penalty shall be filed with the department in a form prescribed by the department, setting forth the grounds on which the protest is based. If a protest is filed within 90 days after the date the notice of proposed penalty is issued, the department shall reconsider the proposed penalty and shall grant the employer a hearing. As soon as practicable after a reconsideration and hearing of the protest filed by the employer, the department shall issue a notice of decision to the employer, setting forth the department's findings of fact and the basis of decision. The decision of the department shall become final. e. As soon as practicable after the penalties specified in a notice of proposed penalty are deemed assessed, the department shall give notice to the employer liable for any unpaid portion of the penalty, stating the amount due and demanding payment. The department shall provide a payment plan to employers for purposes of complying with the demand of payment for the penalty. f. An employer who has overpaid a penalty assessed under this section may file a claim for refund with the department. A claim shall be in writing in a form prescribed by the department and shall state the specific grounds upon which it is founded. As soon as practicable after a claim for refund is filed, the department shall examine it and either issue a refund or issue a notice of denial. If a protest is filed, the department shall reconsider the denial and grant the employer a hearing. As soon as practicable after the reconsideration and hearing, the department shall issue a notice of decision to the employer. The notice shall set forth briefly the department's findings of fact and the basis of decision in each case decided in whole or in part adversely to the employer. A denial of a claim for refund shall be final 90 days after the date of issuance of the notice of the denial, except for those amounts denied as to which the employer has filed a protest with the department. If a protest has been timely filed, the decision of the department shall become final. g. No notice of proposed assessment shall be issued with respect to a calendar year after June 30 of the fourth subsequent calendar year. No claim for refund may be filed more than one year after the date of payment of the amount to be refunded. h. Whenever a notice is required by this section, it shall be issued by first class mail addressed to the person concerned at the person's last known address. i. All books and records and other papers and documents relevant to the determination of any penalty due under this section shall, at all times during business hours of the day, be subject to inspection by the department or the department's authorized representatives. j. The department shall require employers to report information relevant to their compliance with this act on their State income tax return. Failure to provide the compliance information requested shall not cause the income tax return to be treated as unprocessable for purposes of the applicable tax law. k. For purposes of any provision of State law allowing the department or any other agency of this State to offset an amount owed to a taxpayer against a tax liability of that taxpayer or allowing the department to offset an overpayment of tax against any liability owed to the State, a penalty assessed under this section shall be deemed to be a tax liability of the employer and any refund due to an employer shall be deemed to be an overpayment of tax of the employer. l. Except as provided in this subsection, all information received by the department from returns filed by an employer or from any investigation conducted under the provisions of this act shall be confidential, except for official purposes within the department or pursuant to official procedures for collection of penalties assessed under this act. No provision of this subsection shall be construed as prohibiting the department from publishing or making available to the public reasonable statistics concerning the operation of this act wherein the contents of returns are grouped into aggregates in such a way that the specific information of any individual employer shall not be disclosed. No provision of this subsection shall be construed as prohibiting the department from divulging information to an authorized representative of the employer or to any person pursuant to a request or authorization made by the employer or by an authorized representative of the employer. m. The department may charge the board a reasonable fee for its costs in performing its duties under this section to the extent that those costs have not been recovered from penalties imposed under this section. n. This section shall become operative nine months after the board notifies the department that the program has been implemented. Upon receipt of the notification from the board, the department shall immediately post on its Internet website a notice stating that this section is operative and the date that it is first operative. This notice shall include a statement that, rather than enrolling employees in the program under this act, employers may sponsor or provide coverage under an alternative arrangement, including, but not limited to, a defined benefit plan, 401(k) plan, a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plan, a Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE) plan, a plan sponsored by an employee leasing company or professional employer organization with which the employer has an employee leasing agreement or professional employer agreement as such terms are defined in section 1 of P.L.2001, c.260 (C.34:8-67), or an automatic payroll deduction IRA offered through a private provider. The board shall provide a link to the vendor Internet website described in subsection j. of section 14 of this act. L.2019, c.56, s.19.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-153 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-153
Return of accumulated contributions; election of retirement allowance
Status: in_force

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 eligible for any benefits under the Workers Compensation Judges Part, may, upon termination of such service as a judge of compensation, elect to receive the return of the judge's accumulated contributions in accordance with the provisions of subsection a. of section 41 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C. 43:15A-41). If a workers compensation judge is a member of the retirement system on the basis of other public service, no application for a return of contributions shall be approved until the judge has terminated all service covered by the system and makes application for a return of all contributions made to the retirement system. If all or any part of a member's service as a workers compensation judge is applied toward qualifying for benefits under any other provision of P.L.1954, c.84 to which this act, P.L.2001, c.259 (C.43:15A-142 et seq.), is a supplement, no return of contributions made on the basis of the workers compensation judge salary shall be approved, and in that event, service established as a workers compensation judge and salary pertaining thereto shall be credited in the same manner as all other service and salary covered by the retirement system. b. At the time of retirement, a member enrolled on the basis of service as a judge of compensation as well as other public service shall be permitted to elect the largest possible retirement allowance, if the member qualifies for benefits under both the provisions of this act and the act to which this is a supplement. An application for a return of contributions made on the basis of such other public service not used for the calculation of a retirement allowance or to qualify for State payment for health care benefits in retirement may be approved. c. A workers compensation judge electing to receive a retirement allowance under the Workers Compensation Judges Part shall be ineligible to receive a retirement allowance or pension for the same service under any other law of the State. L.2001,c.259,s.12.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-32 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-32
Management of funds.
Status: in_force

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 all functions, powers, and duties relating to the investment or reinvestment of moneys of, and purchase, sale, or exchange of any investments or securities, of or for any fund or account established under this act, shall be exercised and performed by the Director of the Division of Investment in accordance with the provisions of chapter 270, P.L.1950, as amended and supplemented. The secretary of the board of trustees shall determine from time to time the cash requirements of the various funds and accounts established by this act and the amount available for investment, all of which shall be certified to the Director of the Division of Investment. The members of the finance committee of the board of trustees shall be appointed at or after July 1 of each calendar year by the chairman of the board of trustees to serve through June 30 of the ensuing calendar year and until their successors are appointed. The finance committee of the board of trustees shall consist of five members of the board of trustees, one of whom shall be the State Treasurer, and one of whom shall be the member designated to serve on the State Investment Council. At least three members of the finance committee shall be members of the board of trustees who have been elected by members of the system. A quorum of the finance committee shall consist of three members thereof. An elected member of the board of trustees to be designated by a majority vote thereof shall serve on the State Investment Council as a representative of said board of trustees, for a term of three years and until a successor is designated and qualified. L.1954, c.84, s.32; amended 1954, c.244, s.4; 1955, c.261, s.7; 1970, c.57, s.3; 2011, c.78, s.30.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-28 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-28
Special reserve fund
Status: in_force

The special reserve fund shall be the fund to which any earnings in excess of the amounts annually allowed under the provisions of section 33 of this act shall be transferred. No additional amounts shall be credited to the special reserve fund at any time when the total accumulations in such fund shall equal 1% of the book value of the investments of the retirement system. In this event, any such excess shall be credited to the contingent reserve fund. All losses from the sale of securities shall be charged against the special reserve fund. The special reserve fund shall be considered for valuation purposes by the actuary as an asset of the retirement system. L.1954, c. 84, p. 492, s. 28. Amended by L.1963, c. 51, s. 2; L.1971, c. 213, s. 43, eff. June 17, 1971.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-50 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-50
Deposit and investment of fund; income
Status: in_force

The pension commission shall deposit the fund in any of the banks or trust companies of the village, and shall invest the fund in bonds secured by first mortgages on improved property worth at least twice the amount loaned, or in bonds of the United States, of this State or of any municipality in this State, or in securities in which savings banks of this State are authorized by law to invest. All income, interest or dividend paid or agreed to be paid on account of any loan or deposit shall belong to and constitute a part of the fund. Amended by L.1945, c. 213, p. 714, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-152 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-152
Credit for previous service; purchase, conditions
Status: in_force

11. a. Any workers compensation judge who wishes to receive credit for previous service as a judge of compensation or in an office, position, or employment of this State or of a county, municipality, board of education, or public agency of this State, shall file an application therefor with the board of trustees and pay into the annuity savings fund the amount required by applying the factor, supplied by the actuary, as being applicable to the judge's age at the time of purchase and the type of service to be purchased, to the member's salary at that time. Such purchase may be made in regular installments, equal to at least one-half the full normal contribution to the retirement system over a maximum period to be determined by the board of trustees. In the case of any judge coming under the provisions of this section, full pension credit for the period of employment for which arrears are being paid shall be given upon the payment of at least one-half the total arrearage obligation and the completion of one year of membership and the making of such arrears payments, except that in the case of retirement, the total membership credit for such service shall be in direct proportion as the amount paid bears to the total amount of arrearage obligation. b. The State shall pay to the retirement system the employer's accrued liability obligation on behalf of such judge purchasing prior service credit. L.2001,c.259,s.11.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3C-22 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3C / Section 3C-22
Prohibited transactions.
Status: in_force

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 503(b) of the federal Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. s.503(b)). L.2011, c.78, s.64.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-24 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-24
Partial invalidity
Status: in_force

If any provision, section or part of any section of this act is declared to be unconstitutional, the same shall not be held to affect any other section or provision of this act, and the remainder of this act shall in nowise thereby be invalidated. L.1944, c. 255, p. 857, s. 24.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-142 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-142
Definitions relative to retirement benefits for workers compensation judges.
Status: in_force

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, position, or employment of this State or of a county, municipality, board of education, or public agency of this State. "Beneficiary" means any person entitled to receive any benefit pursuant to the provisions of this act by reason of the death of a member or retirant. "Child" means a deceased member's or retirant's unmarried child who is (a) under the age of 18; (b) of any age who, at the time of the member's or retirant's death, is disabled because of an intellectual disability or physical incapacity, is unable to do any substantial, gainful work because of the impairment, and the impairment has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, as affirmed by the medical board; or (c) under the age of 21 and is attending school full time. "Final salary" means the annual salary received by the member at the time of retirement or death. "Retirant" means any former member receiving a pension or retirement allowance as provided by this act. "Widow" means the woman to whom a member was married at least four years before the date of his death and to whom he continued to be married until the date of his death. The eligibility of a widow to receive a survivor's benefit shall be considered terminated by the marriage of the widow subsequent to the member's or the retirant's death. In the event of accidental death, the four-year qualification shall be waived. When used in this act, the term "widow" shall mean and include "widower" as may be necessary and appropriate to the particular situation. "Widower" means the man to whom a member was married at least four years before the date of her death and to whom she continued to be married until the date of her death. The eligibility of a widower to receive a survivor's benefit shall be considered terminated by the marriage of the widower subsequent to the member's or the retirant's death. In the event of accidental death, the four-year qualification shall be waived. "Workers compensation judges" means the Chief Judges, administrative supervisory judges, supervisory judges and judges of compensation of the Division of Workers' Compensation of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. L.2001, c.259, s.1; amended 2010, c.50, s.72.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-37 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-37
Inapplicability of other laws on pensions or retirement benefits to members or beneficiaries; nonliability of system it reserves nonexistent
Status: in_force

a. No other provisions of the law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State of New Jersey or any political subdivision thereof for pensions or retirement benefits for members of this system and for beneficiaries shall apply to such members or beneficiaries. b. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the retirement system shall not be liable for the payment of any pensions, retirement allowances or other benefits to any member or beneficiary for which reserves have not been previously created from funds contributed by the members or the State for such benefits. L.1973, c. 140, s. 37, eff. May 22, 1973. Amended by L.1981, c. 470, s. 18, eff. Jan. 19, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:23-22 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-22
Investment, reinvestment of moneys in the fund; reports.
Status: in_force

10. a. Moneys in the fund shall be invested, or reinvested, as the case may be, by the department. The department shall comply with any and all applicable federal and State laws, rules, and regulations, as well as any and all rules or regulations promulgated by the board with respect to the program and the investment of the fund, including, but not limited to, the investment policy. b. The department shall provide reports as the board deems necessary for the board to oversee the department's performance and the performance of the fund. L.2019, c.56, s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-80 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-80
Pension to widow when death occurs after retirement
Status: in_force

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 die pending the completion of his papers and action thereon by the board of chosen freeholders or the judge of the court, as the case may be, leaving him surviving a widow who was his wife at the time of his retirement, or application for retirement, such widow, so long as she shall remain unmarried, shall receive a pension equal to one-half the amount of the annual salary of such sergeant at arms or court crier at the time of his retirement, or in case of his death before said action by the board of chosen freeholders or the judge of the court, as the case may be, then at the time of his death; provided, however, that before his death he shall have been examined by the board of physicians and their certificates shall have been made in accordance with the provisions of sections 43:10-77 and 43:10-78 of this title finding him physically unfit or incapacitated for further duty.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.58 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.58
Refund of contributions
Status: in_force

Upon the separation from service with the city of any member who is not entitled to receive any other benefits from the system, the contributions, without interest, paid into the fund by such member shall be refunded to him. Said refund of the member's contributions shall be made at the expiration of 90 days following his separation from service, plus the period of time during which any legal proceedings pertaining thereto shall be pending. No such person shall thereafter be eligible for a pension under this act unless upon a re-employment by the city he shall repay to the fund the amount of any such refund made to him. The obligation to refund payments made to the fund shall not apply to an employee suspended or discharged for causes which bar him from eligibility to reappointment under civil service rules. L.1964, c. 275, s. 9.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-55.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-55.1
Liability for repayment of disability benefits overpayments.
Status: in_force

2. (a) If it is determined by the division that an individual for any reason has received, under the State plan, an approved private plan or for a disability during unemployment, any sum of disability benefits, including benefits during a period of family temporary disability leave, to which the individual was not entitled, the individual shall, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, be liable to repay the sum in full. Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the sum that the individual is liable to repay shall be deducted from future benefits payable to the individual under P.L.1948, c.110 (C.43:21-25 et al.) or subsection (f) of R.S.43:21-4, or shall be repaid by the individual to the division, the employer or the insurer, and that sum shall be collectible in the manner provided for by law, including, but not limited to, the filing of a certificate of debt with the Clerk of the Superior Court of New Jersey; except that no individual who does not knowingly misrepresent or withhold any material fact to obtain benefits shall be liable for any repayments or deductions against future benefits unless notified before four years have elapsed from the time the benefits in question were paid. The division shall promptly notify the individual by mail of the determination and the reasons for the determination. Unless the individual files an appeal of the determination within 20 calendar days following the receipt of the notice, or, within 24 days after the notice was mailed to the individual's last known address, the determination shall be final. (b) If the individual received the overpayment of benefits because of an error made by the division, the employer or the physician, and if the individual did not knowingly misrepresent or withhold any material fact to obtain the benefits, the following limits shall apply: (1) The amount withheld from any subsequent benefit check shall be an amount not greater than 50% of the amount of the check; and (2) Any repayments of the overpayments by the individual or the estate of the individual may be waived, but all repayments of overpayments shall be waived in cases in which the individual is deceased or permanently disabled. Any demand for repayment from an individual pursuant to this subsection shall include an explanation of the provisions of this subsection. L.1997, c.318, s.2; amended 2008, c.17, s.9; 2019, c.37, s.25.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-64 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-64
Effect of lack of Social Security coverage and insufficient service credit
Status: in_force

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 provisions of Title II of the Federal Social Security Act as a public employee shall not be eligible for the death benefit provisions of sections 38, 41, 45(c), 46(c), 48 (c), 49(e) and 57 except for the payment of accumulated deductions together with regular interest; (b) no beneficiary of a pensioner who enrolled as a member on or after July 1, 1971 and who retired for any reason other than disability shall be entitled to receive benefits pursuant to the noncontributory death benefit coverages provided by this chapter if the pensioner had less than 10 years of service credit for retirement purposes at the time of retirement. L.1954, c. 84, p. 517, s. 64. Amended by L.1966, c. 217, s. 14; L.1971, c. 213, s. 29, eff. June 17, 1971.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-20 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-20
Powers of public corporation; status of realty
Status: in_force

The retirement system shall, for the purposes of this act, possess the powers and privileges of a public corporation, and any real property held by it as an investment and occupied by the State or any agency thereof shall be deemed for all purposes to be equivalent to and to have the same status as real property owned by the State. L.1954, c. 84, p. 487, s. 20. Amended by L.1960, c. 44, p. 180, s. 10.
N.J. Stat. § 43:8B-4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 8B / Section 8B-4
Eligibility
Status: in_force

In order to be eligible for a pension under the provisions of this act, an employee must be at least 65 years of age, or have been employed by an employer for at least 40 years, or be permanently and totally disabled. L.1955, c. 263, p. 981, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-48 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-48
Retirement allowance for service.
Status: in_force

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 deductions together with regular interest; and b. A pension in the amount which, when added to the member's annuity, will provide a total retirement allowance of 1/64 of final compensation for each year of service credited as Class A service and 1/55 of final compensation for each year of service credited as Class B service, or for a person who becomes a member of the retirement system on or after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.1 1/60 of final compensation for each year of service credited as Class B service. c. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who has retired on a service retirement allowance, there shall be paid to the member's beneficiary, an amount equal to 3/16 of the compensation upon which contributions by the member to the annuity savings fund were based in the last year of creditable service. L.1954, c.84, s.48; amended 1955, c.261, s.14; 1971, c.213, s.22; 2001, c.133, s.13; 2010, c.1, s.13.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-20.9 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-20.9
Manner of charging short-time benefits.
Status: in_force

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," R.S.43:21-1 et seq. L.2011, c.154, s.7; amended 2013, c.279, s.7.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3C-9.5 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3C / Section 3C-9.5
"Non-forfeitable right to receive benefits."
Status: in_force

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 right has attached, cannot be reduced. The provisions of this section shall not apply to post-retirement medical benefits which are provided pursuant to law. b. Vested members of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Judicial Retirement System, the Prison Officers' Pension Fund, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Consolidated Police and Firemen's Pension Fund, the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System, upon the attainment of five years of service credit in the retirement system or fund or on the date of enactment of this bill, whichever is later, shall have a non-forfeitable right to receive benefits as provided under the laws governing the retirement system or fund upon the attainment of five years of service credit in the retirement system or fund or on the effective date of this act, whichever is later. This subsection shall not be applicable to a person who becomes a member of these systems or funds on or after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.1, except that such person shall not include a person who at the time of enrollment in the retirement system or fund on or after that effective date transfers service credit, as permitted, from another State-administered retirement system or fund of which the person was a member immediately prior to the effective date and continuously thereafter, but shall include a former member of the retirement system or fund who has been granted a retirement allowance and is reenrolled in the retirement system or fund on or after that effective date after becoming employed again in a position that makes the person eligible to be a member of the retirement system. c. (1) The State and all other applicable employers shall make their annual normal contribution to each system or fund as determined by the applicable board of trustees in consultation with the system's or fund's actuary. The State and all other applicable employers shall also make their annual unfunded accrued liability contribution to each system or fund as determined by the applicable board in consultation with the system's or fund's actuary, pursuant to standard actuarial practices authorized by law, unless: (1) there is no existing unfunded accrued liability contribution due to the system or fund at the close of the valuation period applicable to the upcoming fiscal year; or (2) there are excess valuation assets in excess of the actuarial accrued liability of the system or fund at the close of the valuation period applicable to the upcoming fiscal year. The annual normal contribution plus the annual unfunded accrued liability contribution shall together be the annual required contribution, provided, however, that for the State, section 38 of P.L.2010, c.1 (C.43:3C-14) shall apply with regard to the State's annual required contribution. The amount of the State's annually required contributions shall be included in all annual appropriations acts as a dedicated line item. (2) Each member of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Judicial Retirement System, the Prison Officers' Pension Fund, the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Consolidated Police and Firemen's Pension Fund, the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System shall have a contractual right to the annual required contribution amount being made by the member's employer or by any other public entity. The contractual right to the annual required contribution means that the employer or other public entity shall make the annual required contribution on a timely basis to help ensure that the retirement system is securely funded and that the retirement benefits to which the members are entitled by statute and in consideration for their public service and in compensation for their work will be paid upon retirement. The failure of the State or any other public employer to make the annually required contribution shall be deemed to be an impairment of the contractual right of each employee. The Superior Court, Law Division shall have jurisdiction over any action brought by a member of any system or fund or any board of trustees to enforce the contractual right set forth in this subsection. The State and other public employers shall submit to the jurisdiction of the Superior Court, Law Division and shall not assert sovereign immunity in such an action. If a member or board prevails in litigation to enforce the contractual right set forth in this subsection, the court may award that party their reasonable attorney's fees. d. This act shall not be construed to preclude forfeiture, suspension or reduction in benefits for dishonorable service. e. Except as expressly provided herein and only to the extent so expressly provided, nothing in this act shall be deemed to (1) limit the right of the State to alter, modify or amend such retirement systems and funds, or (2) create in any member a right in the corpus or management of a retirement system or pension fund. The rights reserved to the State in this subsection shall not diminish the contractual rights of employees established by subsections a., b., and c. of this section. f. Nothing in the provisions of P.L.2015, c.55 shall be interpreted to diminish the non-forfeitable right to benefits provided to any member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System under State law or affirmed by a ruling or holding of a court in the Judiciary Branch of State government. L.1997, c.113, s.5; amended 2010, c.1, s.29; 2011, c.78, s.26; 2018, c.55, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-18.15 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-18.15
Mandatory provisions
Status: in_force

The following provisions shall apply to all members of the retirement system: (a) No pension shall be paid to the surviving husband of a deceased member of the retirement system unless he is and continues to remain dependent upon the income which the member was receiving at the time of her death, nor unless he is and continues to remain physically or mentally incapable of pursuing a gainful occupation. The pension commission shall determine the question of the dependency of the surviving husband as well as the ability of a surviving husband to pursue a gainful occupation. (b) (Deleted by amendment.) (c) (Deleted by amendment.) (d) (Deleted by amendment.) (e) The rights of any employee or beneficiary to receive any payments under the workmen's compensation act of New Jersey shall not be affected or impaired by any of the provisions of this act. (f) Where the service of an employee is terminated by reason of imposition of a sentence upon him of actual commitment to a penal institution on account of conviction of an indictable offense involving moral turpitude, no pension under this act shall be paid to any such employee; provided, however, that no member of this retirement system who shall have served honorably as a county employee for a period of 20 years and shall have attained the age of 60 years shall be deprived of his pension privileges because of any violation of the rules and regulations established for the government of such county employment, but he may be fined, reprimanded or discharged. (g) Where any pension or other benefit shall be payable from the pension fund herein provided to any retired employee or other beneficiary who is or shall be confined in a penal institution as the result of a conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, the pension commission may pay such pension or any part of it or other benefit to the wife, husband, minor children, mother or father of the confined person if it determines the same is necessary for their maintenance during such confinement. (h) All payments of pensions shall be made semimonthly and payments of pensions, refunds or other benefits under this act shall be made without interest. (i) (Deleted by amendment; P.L. 1987, c. 429.) L. 1943,c.160,s.15; amended 1949,c.169; 1971,c.378,s.1; 1971,c.426,s.4; 1987,c.429,s.6.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-12 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-12
Employment service
Status: in_force

(a) State employment service. The employment bureau of the New Jersey Department of Labor and its present personnel, including those employed by the New Jersey national re-employment service, is hereby transferred to the commission as a division thereof, which shall establish and maintain free public employment offices in such number and in such places as may be necessary for the proper administration of this chapter and for the purpose of performing such duties as are within the purview of the Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for co-operation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three (48 Stat. 113; U.S.C. Title 29, sec. 49(c) ), as amended. The said division shall be administered by a full-time salaried director, who shall be charged with the duty, subject to the supervision of the commission and the executive director, to co-operate with any official or agency of the United States having powers or duties under the provisions of the said Act of Congress, as amended, and to do and perform all things necessary to secure to this State the benefits of the said Act of Congress, as amended, in the promotion and maintenance of a system of public employment offices. The provisions of the said Act of Congress, as amended, are hereby accepted by this State, in conformity with section four of said act, and this State will observe and comply with the requirements thereof. The New Jersey State Employment Service Division is hereby designated and constituted the agency of this State for the purpose of said act. The executive director, with the approval of the commission, is empowered to appoint, subject to the provisions of Title 11, Civil Service, the director, other officers, and employees, subject to the provisions aforesaid, of the New Jersey State Employment Service on a nonpartisan merit basis from lists of eligible persons prepared by the Civil Service Commission and in accordance with regulations prescribed by the director of the United States Employment Service; provided, however, that present employees having civil service status shall retain full rights as provided in Title 11, Civil Service. The commission may co-operate with or enter into agreements with the Railroad Retirement Board with respect to the establishment, maintenance, and use of free employment service facilities. (b) Financing. All moneys received by this State under the said Act of Congress, as amended, shall be paid into the special "employment service account" in the unemployment compensation administration fund, and said moneys are hereby made available to the New Jersey State Employment Service to be expended as provided by this section and by said Act of Congress. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining free public employment offices, commission is authorized to enter into agreements with the Railroad Retirement Board, or any other agency of the United States charged with the administration of an unemployment compensation law, with any political subdivision of this State, or with any private, nonprofit organization, and as a part of any such agreement the commission may accept moneys, services, or quarters as a contribution to the employment service account. Amended by L.1939, c. 94, p. 201, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-115 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-115
Persons becoming employees after termination; membership as condition of employment
Status: in_force

Any person becoming an employee of any such employer after the date of termination who is not in a position covered by any other pension fund supported in whole or in part by the State or 1 or more counties, municipalities or school districts, shall become a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System as a condition of employment. L.1956, c. 169, p. 664, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16-7 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16 / Section 16-7
Division designated trustee of funds.
Status: in_force

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 act. The division shall have the general responsibility for the proper operation of the pension fund and shall have such powers and shall exercise such functions and duties as may be necessary and appropriate for the proper operation of the fund. Any reference in a law, rule, regulation, judicial or administrative proceeding, or otherwise to the Consolidated Police and Firemen's Pension Fund Commission shall mean and refer to the Division of Pensions and Benefits. The division may make all necessary rules and regulations with regard thereto. Such rules and regulations shall be consistent with those adopted by the other pension funds within the Division of Pensions and Benefits in order to permit the most economical and uniform administration of all such retirement systems. All moneys and assets of and belonging to the funds consolidated and required by this chapter to be consolidated and transferred to the pension fund, together with all increments and contributions thereto shall be received and paid over to the State Treasurer, whose official bond shall cover the same. No moneys shall be paid out of the consolidated fund except upon the warrant of the fund, signed by the director of the division. All pensions granted under this chapter shall be exempt from execution, garnishment, attachment, sequestration, or other legal process. All moneys not needed for the immediate payment of pensions under this chapter shall be invested by the Director of the Division of Investment established pursuant to the provisions of chapter 270 of the laws of 1950, subject to the limitations contained in section 11 of said chapter. amended 1941, c.86; 1943, c.77; 1944, c.253, s.8; 1952, c.358, s.6; 1971, c.179, s.3; 2013, c.253, s.30.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-59.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-59.4
County probation officers permitted enrollment in PERS
Status: in_force

2. A county probation officer of the county who, on the effective date of this act, is in active service and eligible to retire under this article shall, upon termination of the pension fund, be permitted to enroll in the Public Employees' Retirement System of New Jersey if the officer makes application for such enrollment not later than the 90th day following the termination. Within 120 days following the termination the county shall remit to the Public Employees' Retirement System all accumulated deductions standing to the credit of each officer so enrolled and shall remit the pro rata part of the county fund constituting the employer's account. Employees enrolled in the Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to this act shall be members of the retirement system, and deductions from their salaries and contributions on their behalf shall be made as required by P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 et seq.). Those employees shall have the same rights, benefits and obligations as all other members of the system. Any credit for public service which had been established in the terminated pension fund by those employees shall be established in the Public Employees' Retirement System. All outstanding obligations and arrearages shall be satisfied by a transferred employee as previously scheduled for payment to the terminated pension fund. Upon enrollment of the employees in the Public Employees' Retirement System under the provisions of this act, the rate of contribution of each such newly enrolled member of the retirement system shall be determined by the rates payable by other members, except that the number of years of credited service in the terminated pension fund shall be deducted from the member's current age at the time of enrollment in order to fix the age upon which the rate of contribution is based. The actuary of the Public Employees' Retirement System under this act shall calculate the difference, for each employee enrolled in the retirement system under this act, between the amounts transferred as provided herein and the amounts necessary to provide all benefits to which the employee shall be entitled upon such enrollment. The employer of the employee shall be liable to the retirement system for the full amount of that difference. Upon certification by the actuary of the Public Employees' Retirement System, each employer shall make such contributions as are required in order to meet the financial obligation. The chief fiscal officer of each employer shall transmit to the retirement system such information as the system shall require in order for the New Jersey State Division of Pensions and Benefits to comply with the provisions of this act. L.1994,c.23,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:17-11 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-11
Board of representatives
Status: in_force

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 board of trustees of any fire association or department, and any board of firewardens, which is under the supervision or control of any municipal governing body, board of fire commissioners, or nonprofit corporations and associations incorporated pursuant to N.J.S.15A:1-1 et seq., and which is organized for and doing public fire duty in any municipality or fire district in this State, shall choose not more than three representatives, and the exempt firemen's association, if any such there be, shall choose not more than three representatives, who, together with the president, if any, of such fire association or department, and the chief, or, if there be no chief, then the next highest ranking officer, shall constitute a board of representatives, and shall have and exercise all the powers and perform all the duties herein committed to them, and shall hold office until their successors be chosen, and until their successors shall meet for the purpose of holding the annual election of officers, as provided in R.S.43:17-12. Amended 1996, c.151, s.9.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-21 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-21
Amount of pension
Status: in_force

The words "be retired upon one-half pay" , as used in this article, shall be construed to mean, retired upon a pension equal to one-half of his annual salary at the time of retirement.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-29 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-29
Management and control of fund; treasurer; investments; payments.
Status: in_force

The life guard pension commission shall have the management and control of the fund and may make all necessary rules and regulations not inconsistent with this article. All moneys belonging to the fund shall be paid over to the city treasurer, who shall give bond in such amount, from time to time, as the governing body of the city determines. All moneys not needed for the immediate payment of the pensions shall be invested by the life guard pension commission in interest bearing bonds of the city or in other interest bearing securities in which savings banks of this state may invest their funds. No moneys shall be paid out of the fund by the treasurer except upon the warrant of the life guard pension commission, to be signed by such member or members of the commission as shall be designated by the commission.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-81 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-81
Payment of pensions
Status: in_force

Persons who may become entitled to pension under this article shall be paid such pension in the same manner and at the same time as the sergeants at arms or court criers in active service in the counties are respectively paid.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-62 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-62
State firemen and police; membership
Status: in_force

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 of the State of New Jersey with police powers and holding one of the titles cited in section 1 of P.L.1944, c. 255 (C. 43:16A-1) who are otherwise eligible in accordance with the provisions of this act. L.1973, c. 156, s. 3, eff. June 1, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-37.8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-37.8
Retirement on half pay; dependents after death
Status: in_force

Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, any town employee who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in the employ of such town continuously or in the aggregate for a period of twenty years, and who shall have attained the age of sixty years, shall, upon his application, be retired on half pay. In the event that such town employee shall have retired and pensioned under the provisions of this act and shall have continued to pay into said pension fund or have deducted for the benefits of such pension fund the full amount of his percentage based on the amount of his pension after his retirement and until his death, then, in such event and subject to the limitation hereinafter provided, an amount equal to one-half of the salary or compensation received by such town employees at the time of his retirement shall be paid each year to the dependent widow, dependent children under the age of sixteen years or dependent parent or parents, as the case may be. L.1943, c. 189, p. 526, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 43:17-39 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-39
Associations unaffected
Status: in_force

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, prior to March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, by the exempt firefighters of any city, or by the volunteer firefighters therein, previous to, at or about the time for the organization therein of a paid fire department, or to prevent the incorporation of any such associations. This chapter shall not apply to or affect in any manner any funds which have been or may be accumulated by any such associations. Amended 1996, c.151, s.32.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3A-1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3A / Section 3A-1
Absence of two months under circumstances indicating accidental death in performance of duties
Status: in_force

In case any person holding office, position or employment in the service of the State, and being a member, in good standing, of any pension or retirement system or fund to which the State is a contributor, has been or shall be absent from the place of his last known residence for a period of not less than two months, under circumstances indicating that he died by reason of an accident which occurred in the actual performance of the duties of his office, position or employment and that the natural and proximate cause of his death was the performance of his said duty, and such as would entitle any dependent or dependents of such person to a pension from said pension or retirement system or fund if he were actually dead, and the head of the principal department of the State Government, under which such person held such office, position or employment, upon proof submitted to him or from other information, is satisfied that said person may reasonably be presumed to have died at a certain place on a certain day in the manner and for the causes hereinbefore described, he shall issue his certificate accordingly, stating the date, the circumstances and place of said presumed death and thereupon such person shall be presumed to be dead as of the time so certified for the purposes of this act. L.1952, c. 215, p. 746, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-86 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-86
Retirement for disability
Status: in_force

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 sixty years or not, who shall be found, as hereinafter provided, to be physically unfit for further service, shall, upon application, in writing, to the county clerk of the county, be retired upon half pay.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.70 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.70
Adjustment to monthly retirement allowance or pension
Status: in_force

The monthly retirement allowance or pension originally granted to any retirant and the pension or survivorship benefit originally granted to any beneficiary shall be adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this act. Pension increases shall not be paid to retirants or beneficiaries who are not receiving their regular, full, monthly retirement allowances, pensions or survivorship benefits. The adjustment granted under the provisions of this act shall be effective only on the first day of a month, shall be paid in monthly installments, and shall not be decreased, increased, revoked or repealed except as otherwise provided in this act. No increase shall be due to a retirant or his beneficiary unless it constitutes a payment for an entire month. L.1990,c.20,s.8.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-52 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-52
Pension to widow and children
Status: in_force

The widow of any county probation officer, who shall die from any cause while in the service, whether such county probation officer shall have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years or not, or whether such county probation officer shall have reached the age of sixty years or not, shall receive a pension, so long as she shall remain unmarried, equal to one-half the amount of the annual salary of such county probation officer at the time of his death; and upon the death of such widow, or in the event there be no widow, the child or children of such probation officer, under the age of sixteen years shall, until each reaches the age of sixteen years, receive the proportionate amount of such pension.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-24.3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-24.3
Benefit payments not chargeable to employers' accounts
Status: in_force

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. 509, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3C-3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3C / Section 3C-3
Reemployment in elected public office; option for benefits
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, if a former member of any pension fund or retirement system, contributory or noncontributory, established under any law of this or any other state, who has been granted a pension or retirement allowance for any cause other than vesting or deferred retirement, becomes employed again in an elected public office which makes him eligible to be a member of the same or any other pension fund or retirement system established under any law of this State, such person shall have the option to choose either to be reenrolled in the same fund or system or enrolled in such other pension fund or retirement system or to continue to receive said pension or retirement allowance and any death benefit as a result of his former membership irrespective of his position as an elected public officer. L.1977, c.171, s.1; amended 1989,c.320,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-3.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-3.1
Service defined
Status: in_force

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 with administrative or supervisory duties over policemen or firemen or any combination thereof by any person who not more than six months prior to such service served as a member of that or any other law enforcement unit or firefighting unit, as the term "member" is defined in section 1 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1), shall be deemed to be service as a member under and for all the purposes of the provisions of the act of which this act is a supplement. L.1965,c.186,s.1; amended 1992, c.73, s.1; 2000, c.166.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-144 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-144
Separate accounts, contributions.
Status: in_force

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 savings fund for each workers compensation judge and all contributions based on the judge's salary shall be credited to this account. This account shall be separate from any other account that the member may have as a result of other public service covered by the retirement system. b. A workers compensation judge shall contribute at a rate equal to 5% of the judge's salary, which contribution shall be deducted from the salary at the time or times it is paid, and which shall be exclusive of any other contribution required of the member for Social Security, contributory death benefits or deductions for any other purpose. The contribution rate shall be 5.5% of the judge's salary effective with the payroll period for which the beginning date is closest to July 1, 2007. The contribution rate shall be 6.5% of the judge's salary on and after the effective date of P.L.2011, c.78, with an additional contribution of 1% to be phased in in equal increments over a period of seven years commencing with the first year following that effective date. c. A workers compensation judge who is enrolled on the basis of other public service before, during, or after service as a judge of compensation shall contribute for such other service at the rate of contribution required of other members as provided by section 25. L.2001, c.259, s.3; amended 2007, c.103, s.5; 2011, c.78, s.13.
N.J. Stat. § 43:23-33 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-33
Severability, assets not deemed assets for certain purposes.
Status: in_force

21. a. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or other part of the act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, including any judgment made pursuant to R.S.1:1-10 that the part is unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperative, the judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of this act, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or other part directly involved in the controversy in which the judgment shall have been rendered. b. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the value of assets in an individual's account under the program shall not be regarded as assets for the purposes of determining eligibility for benefits or the amount of benefits to be provided pursuant to any State or federal law, except that, if the federal law expressly requires that the assets in the accounts be regarded as assets for those purposes, the assets may be taken into consideration when determining eligibility benefits or the amount of benefits, provided further that if the federal law provides discretion to the State in setting standards regarding the amount of assets which many be disregarded in determining benefits, or other factors regarding the assets which impact the eligibility for, or amount of, benefits, the State shall, with respect to assets in the assets in the accounts under the program, set standards which are as favorable as the federal law permits for the individuals with the accounts. L.2019, c.56, s.21.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.49b — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.49b
Separate account for each elected official; credits; contributions
Status: in_force

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 official of the city, and all contributions based on service as an elected official of the city shall be credited to this account, as distinguished from any other account that the elected official may have as a result of other public service covered by the retirement system. The elected official shall contribute at a rate equal to 5% of his official salary, which contribution shall be deducted from his salary at the time or times it is paid, and which shall be exclusive of any other contribution required of the member for Social Security, contributory death benefits or deductions for any other purpose. An elected official of the city who is enrolled on the basis of other public service before, during, or after his service as such an elected official shall contribute for such other service at the rate of contribution required of other members of the system. L.1981, c. 565, s. 2, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-24.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-24.1
Sale of surplus, obsolete or unsuitable property; disposition of proceeds
Status: in_force

At the request of the Director of the Division of Employment Security, the Director of the Division of Purchase and Property may sell, either at public or private sale, or otherwise dispose of, property purchased or acquired with funds or grants of the United States of America or any agency or department thereof which have been or shall be deposited in the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund, if the Director of the Division of Employment Security deems such property surplus, obsolete or no longer suitable for the purposes for which it was intended. The proceeds of any sale of surplus, obsolete or unsuitable property heretofore or hereafter made shall be deposited in the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund. L.1955, c. 56, p. 195, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-6.6 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-6.6
Production of evidence, witnesses at hearing.
Status: in_force

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, prior to the date of the hearing, to all parties copies of any documentary evidence to be admitted into the record. An authorized agent shall not: a. Engage in, or counsel or assist any party that is a client to engage in, conduct which the authorized agent knows or should know to be criminal, in violation of the provisions of sections 3 through 9 of this act or other provisions of this chapter (R.S.43:21-1 et seq.), or is prejudicial to, or unnecessarily delays, the efficient administration of this chapter (R.S.43:21-1 et seq.), including any failure to be, without good cause, available and properly prepared to participate in appeals, hearings and other procedures at the scheduled times; b. Engage in, or counsel or assist any party that is a client to engage in, conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or the withholding of material facts; c. Unlawfully obstruct another party's access to evidence or destroy or conceal evidence; assert personal knowledge of the facts unless testifying as a witness; d. Refer at a hearing to a matter which the authorized agent does not reasonably believe is relevant or is not supported by evidence; e. Seek to improperly influence any representative of the division; or f. Engage in any ex parte communication with any representative of the division concerning the merits of any pending appeal unless all other parties have waived their right to participate. L.2010, c.82, s.7.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-72 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-72
Withdrawal by veterans from former fund for court attendants; payments returned with interest
Status: in_force

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 counties of the second class of this state,' approved April sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine," approved December fourth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, saved from repeal. [This act provides that any court attendant, being a veteran of any war, who is a member of the retirement system created by L.1929, c. 104, p. 170, which act was repealed by L.1936, c. 139, p. 330, may, at any time withdraw from such system, upon making application for such withdrawal, and receive the amount of his payments into such system, with interest, without prejudice to his right as a veteran to any benefits to which he might be entitled under any other law of this state.]
N.J. Stat. § 43:4-8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-8
Payments in reduced amounts after waiver
Status: in_force

Upon receipt of such a waiver, and until the same is withdrawn or altered by a subsequent request, the department of the public service paying such pension shall make periodic payments in such reduced amount. L.1954, c. 169, p. 676, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-18.2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-18.2
Employees' pension fund in counties over 800,000 created
Status: in_force

In each county of this State having a population of more than eight hundred thousand inhabitants a county employees' pension fund shall be created, set apart, maintained and administered, in the manner prescribed in this act, for the benefit of employees of such county and of the widows, widowers, and children of such employees, and of all contributors to, participants in, and beneficiaries of any pension fund in operation in such county at the time this act shall come in force and effect in such county, under and by virtue of articles one, two, five, six and seven of chapter ten of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes and of sections 40:37-157 to 40:37-174, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes and of "An act providing for the retirement of persons employed in the department of weights and measures of any county in this State, and providing a pension for such persons so retired," filed June twenty-first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight (P.L.1938, c. 397). L.1943, c. 160, p. 447, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-100.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-100.1
Supplementary "special" retirement allowance to certain retired law enforcement officers
Status: in_force

4. a. Should a law enforcement officer member retire after having established 25 years of creditable service, the member shall receive, in addition to the service retirement allowance provided in section 4 of P.L.1955, c.257 (C.43:15A-100), a supplementary "special" retirement allowance equal to 5% of the member's final compensation or such lesser amount as will, if added to the member's service retirement allowance, provide a total retirement allowance of 70% of the member's final compensation. b. The supplementary "special" retirement allowance provided under subsection a. of this section shall be payable to any former member of the retirement system who, prior to the effective date of this act, P.L.2001, c.4, retired as a law enforcement officer member of the retirement system after having established 25 years of creditable service. The provisions of this subsection shall not be construed either to require a reduction in the retirement allowance payable to any retirant or to provide for the payment of any adjustment in such an allowance with respect to any period of time prior to the first day of the month following that effective date. L.2001,c.4,s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-38 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-38
Vesting of PERS members.
Status: in_force

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, before reaching service retirement age, and not by removal for cause on charges of misconduct or delinquency, such person may elect to receive: (a) The payments provided for in section 41b. of this act, if he so qualifies under said section; or (b) A deferred retirement allowance, beginning at the retirement age, which shall be made up of an annuity derived from the accumulated deductions standing to the credit of the individual member's account in the annuity savings fund at the time of his severance from the service together with regular interest, and a pension which when added to the annuity will produce a total retirement allowance of 1/64 of final compensation for each year of service credited as Class A service and 1/55 of final compensation for each year of service credited as Class B service, or for a person who becomes a member of the retirement system on or after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.1 1/60 of final compensation for each year of service credited as Class B service, calculated in accordance with section 48 of this act, with optional privileges provided for in section 50 of this act if he exercises such optional privilege at least 30 days before his attainment of the normal retirement age; provided, that such election is communicated by such member to the retirement system in writing stating at what time subsequent to the execution and filing thereof he desires to be retired; and provided further, that such member, as referred to in this subsection may later elect: (1) to receive the payments provided for in section 41b. of this act, if he had qualified under that section at the time of leaving service, except that in order to avail himself of the optional privileges pursuant to section 50, he must exercise such optional privilege at least 30 days before the effective date of his retirement; or (2) to withdraw his accumulated deductions with interest as provided in section 41a. If such member shall die before attaining service retirement age then his accumulated deductions, plus regular interest, shall be paid in accordance with section 41c.; or if such member shall die after attaining service retirement age and has not withdrawn his accumulated deductions, an amount equal to 3/16 of the compensation received by the member in the last year of creditable service shall be paid to such person, if living, as he shall have nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the retirement system; otherwise to the executor or administrator of the member's estate. L.1954, c.84, s.38; amended 1955, c.261, s.9; 1966, c.217, s.6; 1981, c.177, s.4; 2001, c.133, s.11; 2010, c.1, s.11.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-27 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-27
Duties of chief financial officer and of board of trustees as to referendum; fiscal statement
Status: in_force

Whenever the question of the adoption of the act of which this act is an amendment and supplement is to be submitted to the voters at the general election in any year, the chief financial officer of the county, municipality or political subdivision in which the question is to be submitted shall, on or before July fifteenth preceding such election, mail to the board of trustees full information, on forms to be supplied by request by the board of trustees, as to the employees who may be covered if the act is adopted. The board of trustees shall, prior to August thirty-first of said year, transmit to the governing body of such county, municipality or political subdivision the following fiscal statement with respect to the effect of the adoption of the act: (1) Estimated cost to the municipality, county or political subdivision, as the case may be, as follows: (a) The annual normal contribution to be made on account of employees then in service. (b) The percentage of payroll for employees then in service, to meet the contribution under (a). (c) The estimated lump sum of accrued liability for services rendered and to be rendered prior to the following January first. (d) The percentage of present payroll to meet the liability stated in (c). (e) The estimated annual contribution on account of the accrued liability if paid in ten installments. (f) The percentage of present payroll, to meet the accrued liability, as stated in (e). (g) The estimated annual contribution on account of accrued liability if met in twenty-five installments. (h) The percentage of present payroll, to meet the accrued liability, as stated in (g). (2) The annual contribution of the employee stated in percentage of pay for the several age brackets as of the following January first. L.1945, c. 148, p. 530, s. 11.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-1.3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-1.3
Report on titles covered, number of members affected, actuarial status
Status: in_force

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 of Pensions shall report in writing to the Governor, the Senate Revenue, Finance and Appropriations Committee, the Senate State Government, Federal and Interstate Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee, the Assembly Appropriations Committee, and the Assembly State Government Committee, or their successors, concerning the titles that will and will not continue to be covered by the retirement system and the number of people that will be affected and are projected to be affected thereby as a result of this act. The director shall provide reports to the Governor and the committees annually thereafter which shall include information concerning, but not limited to, the titles covered by the retirement system, any changes in title coverage, the number of members affected by any changes, and the actuarial status of the retirement system. L.1989,c.204,s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-24.23 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-24.23
Employer's account not charged; exceptions
Status: in_force

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 of an out-of-State employer who is liable for charges under the Combined Wage Program. However, nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve employers electing to make payments in lieu of contributions pursuant to section 3 or 4 of P.L.1971, c.346 (C.43:21-7.2 or C.43:21-7.3) from reimbursing the unemployment benefits paid to an unemployed individual pursuant to this act. Emergency unemployment benefits paid to federal civilian employees shall be charged to the appropriate federal account. Emergency unemployment benefits paid to ex-service persons shall be charged to the unemployment compensation fund. L.1996,c.30,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-18.25 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-18.25
Effective date; repeal of conflicting laws
Status: in_force

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, c. 160, p. 470, s. 25.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6-6.35 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6 / Section 6-6.35
Retroactive coverage
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer is also directed to obtain social security coverage for such judges on a retroactive basis, to the extent that retroactivity is possible under Federal and State Statutes. L.1967, c. 47, s. 3, eff. May 15, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-11.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-11.4
Establishment of system of annual filings.
Status: in_force

3. a. The Commissioner of Labor shall establish a system of annual filings to meet the alternative system requirements of paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of 42 U.S.C. s.1320b-7 on or before the 30th day after enactment of P.L.1999, c.94 (C.54A:9-17.2 et al.), and shall seek waiver from the United States Secretary of Labor in conformance with paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of 42 U.S.C. s.1320b-7. b. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act to the contrary, the powers of the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of subsection (g) of R.S.43:21-11 to require quarterly reports of wages paid are reserved to the commissioner, to be exercised after compliance with subsection a. of this section if necessary to maintain a State income and eligibility verification system in compliance with the requirements of paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of 42 U.S.C. s.1320b-7. L.1999,c.94,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-42 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-42
Dependency condition of payment; determination of
Status: in_force

No pension shall be paid to the surviving husband of a deceased employee or officer unless he shall be and shall continue to remain dependent upon the income which such employee or officer was receiving at the time of her death, nor unless he shall be and shall continue to remain physically or mentally incapable of pursuing a gainful occupation. No pension shall be paid to any minor child or dependent parent of such female employee or officer unless the minor child or dependent parent shall be and shall continue to remain dependent upon the income which such employee or officer was receiving at the time of her death. The pension commission shall determine the question of the dependency of the surviving husband, minor child or dependent parent, as well as the ability of the surviving husband to pursue some gainful occupation.
N.J. Stat. § 43:5A-1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 5A / Section 5A-1
Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this act: a. "final compensation" means either (1) the average annual compensation of an employee during the last 60 months preceding the month in which the employee is retired, or (2) the average annual compensation of the employee for any 5 fiscal years of the State during the period of continuous service upon which his eligibility for a pension under this act is based, depending upon which method of computation provides the larger benefit to the employee; b. "years of continuous service" shall be computed as the number of years and months of paid service rendered to the State of New Jersey; c. an employee shall be deemed to be "permanently and totally disabled" when it appears not only that he is physically or otherwise incapacitated for service, but also that such incapacity will, in all reasonable probability, continue permanently; d. the Social Security system shall not be deemed a retirement system for the purpose of determining eligibility to a pension under this act; e. "Commission" means the State House Commission. L.1973, c. 249, s. 1, eff. Nov. 26, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-105.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-105.1
Partial invalidity
Status: in_force

If any section, subdivision, or clause of this act shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, said decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the act. L.1938, c. 330, p. 844, s. 14.
N.J. Stat. § 43:23-2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-2
Findings, declarations relative to a New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace.
Status: in_force

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 gap in this State, one in six Americans retire in poverty, and employees who are unable to effectively build their retirement savings risk living on low incomes in their elderly years and are more likely to become dependent on State services; b. small businesses, which employ half of New Jersey's private workforce, often choose not to offer retirement plans to employees due to concerns about the cost, administrative burden, and potential liability that they believe would be placed on their businesses; c. the federal government has attempted to address the savings gap by establishing the myRA program, a safe, affordable, and accessible retirement vehicle designed to remove barriers to retirement savings; d. the New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace will remove the barriers to entry into the retirement market for small businesses by educating small employers on plan availability and promoting, without mandating participation, qualified, low cost, low burden retirement savings vehicles and myRA; the marketplace furthers greater retirement plan access for the residents of New Jersey while ensuring that individuals participating in these retirement plans will have all the protections offered by federal law; e. the New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace should not place any financial burden upon taxpayers in the State and it should not be implemented if it is determined that there is any financial exposure to the State; f. the New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace will be the best way for New Jersey to close the retirement savings access gap, protect the fiscal stability of the State and its citizens well into the future, become a national leader in retirement and investor promotion and protection, and educate and promote retirement saving among employees and small employers; g. according to a recent AARP poll, 86 percent of New Jersey residents age 35 and older say they hope to retire one day, but 65 percent are anxious about saving enough money so they could afford it, and AARP estimates that roughly 1.7 million private sector workers in New Jersey do not have access to a retirement savings plan through their employer, and the National Institute of Retirement Security describes this as a growing consumer crisis, because the typical family has saved only $2,500 for their retirement; h. AARP has been instrumental in leading a national initiative called Work and Save to deal with retirement insecurity by promoting state run retirement programs, including the Washington Small Business Retirement Marketplace, signed into law in May 2015, designed to provide thousands of small business employees access to retirement plans by creating a voluntary public-private partnership marketplace that will educate small business employers on existing private sector retirement plan vendors; i. the Washington marketplace was the result of public and private organizations coming together to find the most effective and efficient way to close the retirement savings access gap, and the following organizations have endorsed the Washington marketplace: AARP, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the American Council of Life Insurers, Washington Bankers Association, and various employer groups; and j. by following this model, the New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace will provide a market-based approach so that small businesses can offer a simple and inexpensive way to offer private savings to their employees, which will result in workers saving more for retirement throughout their lives. L.2015, c.298, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-2
Severability
Status: in_force

If any provision, section, or part of any section of this act is declared to be unconstitutional, the same shall not be held to affect any other section or provision of this act, and the remainder of this act shall in no wise thereby be invalidated. L.1973, c. 140, s. 2, eff. May 22, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-65 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-65
State employee membership.
Status: in_force

65. (a) All employees of any public agency or organization of this State, which employs persons engaged in service to the public, shall be eligible to participate in the Public Employees' Retirement System; provided the employer consents thereto by resolution and files a certified copy of such resolution with the board of trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the board of trustees approves thereof by resolution. Such organization shall be referred to in this act as the employer. If the participation of such employees is so approved then the employer shall contribute to the contingent reserve fund on account of its members at the same rate per centum as would be paid by employers other than the State. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, every person becoming an employee of a public agency or organization of this State, which employs persons engaged in service to the public, after June 30, 1966, who is not eligible to become a member of any other retirement system, shall be required to participate in the Public Employees' Retirement System. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, membership in the Public Employees' Retirement System shall be optional with any person in the employ of any such public agency or organization on June 30, 1966, provided such person is not required to be a member pursuant to another provision of this act, and provided further that such person is not eligible to be a member of any other retirement system. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any person whose position is temporary or seasonal, nor to any person in office, position or employment for which the annual salary or remuneration, or the number of hours of work, is fixed at less than that which is required for membership pursuant to section 7 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-7) as applicable to the member, nor to any person whose position is not covered by the old-age and survivors' insurance provisions of the federal Social Security Act. After the effective date of P.L.2010, c.1, the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any person in office, position or employment for which the hours of work are fewer per week than those required for membership pursuant to subsection d. of section 7 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-7), unless the person shall have been a member since that effective date continuously. The public agency or organization employing any such person who becomes a member of the retirement system pursuant to this subsection shall contribute to the contingent reserve fund on account of such employees at the same rate per centum as would be paid by employers other than the State. L.1954, c.84, s.65; amended 1966, c.71, s.1; 1966, c.217, s.15; 1971, c.213, s.30; 1986, c.139, s.3; 2008, c.89, s.9; 2010, c.1, s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-7 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-7
Pension fund
Status: in_force

A fund to pay pensions under this article shall be created as follows: a. The county treasurer shall deduct from every payment of salary to any county employee who is benefited by this article and pay to the fund, 3% of the amount of the salary. b. The board of chosen freeholders shall annually raise in the county budget and contribute annually to the fund for a period of 30 years from the date this amendatory act becomes effective an amount as certified by the commission, with the advice of the actuary, to meet the liabilities of the fund. c. All moneys donated for the purpose of the fund and all rewards paid to any county employee while acting as county employee shall be paid over to the board of chosen freeholders of the county to be deposited in the fund. If, at any time, there is not sufficient money in the pension fund to pay the pension, the board of chosen freeholders shall, from time to time, include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of the pension fund. Amended by L.1973, c. 345, s. 4, eff. Dec. 27, 1973; L.1976, c. 106, s. 6, eff. Oct. 18, 1976.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.32 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.32
Widow of employee
Status: in_force

When a member of the retirement system is separated from service or is absent on leave for a period in excess of 1 year, and said separation or leave of absence is for a cause other than illness or other employment within the municipality covered by the retirement system, then and in such event the commission may remove such member from the membership rolls of the system, whereupon the said member shall be entitled to receive a refund of his contributions to the system in accordance with section 29 of this act. Whenever a member of the retirement system shall be on leave of absence or becomes separated from the municipal service for any reason other than retirement or entry into the armed forces and subsequently re-enters the service of the municipality within 5 years after such separation and shall submit to and pass the physical and mental examination required by the commission as provided under section 13(a) of this act, then all the rights and benefits hereunder enjoyed by such member prior to such separation shall be restored to him upon payment of any refunds given to him at the time of his separation from the service; provided, however, that such member shall not be entitled to receive credit for pension purposes for the time elapsing during such separation period; and provided, further, however, that such member or his dependents or beneficiaries shall not be entitled to receive any pension benefits during such separation period. Such repayment of refunds may be made either (1) in one sum or (2) the total amount together with 3% interest on said total amount by regular payroll deductions over a period of not more than 10 years, but in no event to extend beyond the date upon which such employee attains the age of 60 years, such installments to be deducted in addition to the other deductions made from his salary for the retirement system. The municipality shall not be required to make a matching contribution for such repayment. L.1954, c. 218, p. 828, s. 30. Amended by L.1968, c. 453, s. 7, eff. Feb. 21, 1969.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-27 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-27
Settlement options
Status: in_force

Any such group policy or policies shall provide that payment of any death benefits which are payable by the insurance company may be made in one sum directly to the beneficiary as hereinafter provided, in equal installments over a period of years or as a life annuity or in such other manner as may be made available by the insurance company. An insured person may make arrangements for settlement, and may alter from time to time during his lifetime any arrangement previously made, by making written request to the insurance company through the policyholder. Upon the death of an insured person, a beneficiary to whom a benefit is payable in one sum by the insurance company may likewise arrange for a settlement as described above. If an insured person's or beneficiary's request for settlement of any death benefit in equal installments over a period of years or as a life annuity pursuant to the foregoing is approved by the policyholder, the amount of such installment or such life annuity, as the case may be, shall be determined on the basis of such applicable mortality tables as shall have been adopted by the retirement system and are in effect at the death of the insured person. Any arrangement for payment under the group policy to a beneficiary shall be in lieu of that provided by sections 17 b., 19 and 20. L.1973, c. 140, s. 27, eff. May 22, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-99 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-99
Pension to widow of court interpreter dying while in service
Status: in_force

The widow of any court interpreter, who shall die from any cause while in the service, whether the said court interpreter shall have served as such for a continuous period of thirty years or not, or whether such court interpreter shall have reached the age of sixty years or not, shall receive a pension, so long as she shall remain unmarried, equal to one-half of the amount of the annual salary of such court interpreter at the time of his death. L.1938, c. 330, p. 842, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-11.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-11.1
Certain members of Judicial Retirement System; deferment.
Status: in_force

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, a member of the Judicial Retirement System who has been appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to the position of Administrative Director of the Courts in accordance with Article VI, Section VII, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution may file, prior to commencing service as the Administrative Director of the Courts, a written and duly executed application for retirement for any reason other than disability if the member has attained the age of 65 years, has the necessary judicial service credit for a full judicial retirement, and has served for 20 years as a judge for any court in New Jersey. The approval process shall be expedited. If the application is approved, the effective date of retirement for that member shall be deferred to the first day of the month following the termination of the member's service in the position of Administrative Director of the Courts. The application for retirement shall be accompanied by a copy of the member's written resignation from the judicial office effective as of the date of the approval of the retirement application. If such a person attains the age of 70 years while serving as the Administrative Director of the Courts and has an approved application for the member's retirement the effective date of which has been deferred, this section shall specifically override the JRS mandatory retirement age of 70 enacted in section 7 of P.L.1973, c.140 (C.43:6A-7) and in the administrative code and shall allow for the deferment of the mandatory retirement for JRS to the first day of the month following the termination of the member's service in the position of Administrative Director of the Courts. If such a person dies while in service as the Administrative Director of the Courts, the death shall not be considered a death in active service. The beneficiary shall be eligible for a pension or survivor's benefit and for any death benefits, based on the approved retirement application and the retirement shall be effective as of the date of death. The election by the member of an option in accordance with section 1 of P.L.2002, c.54 (C.43:6A-16.1) shall become effective and payable. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a person who files an application for retirement pursuant to this section and serves in the position of Administrative Director of the Courts shall not be eligible to enroll in any other State-administered retirement system or receive any other payments from the State deemed to be payments for retirement accounts, funds, or pensions, not including annuities. The person and the person's dependents shall be eligible for health care benefits coverage provided for the position of Administrative Director of the Courts during service in that position. This section shall be effective if the qualified status of the retirement system under federal law can be maintained upon its application, and such modifications to the system as may be available shall be made to allow for its application. L.2019, c.287, s.1; amended 2021, c.105; 2021, c.329, s.1; 2022, c.94; 2024, c.56, s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-148 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-148
"Early" retirement; formula, conditions
Status: in_force

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 public service, and who resigns or is not reappointed before reaching age 60, may elect "early" retirement, provided, that such election is communicated by the member to the retirement system by filing a written application, duly attested, stating at what time subsequent to the execution and filing thereof the member desires to be retired. Any member of the retirement system, eligible to retire under the provisions of this section, shall receive a retirement allowance consisting of an annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of the member's accumulated deductions together with regular interest, and a pension which, when added to the member's annuity, shall provide a retirement allowance during the remainder of the member's life in the amount of 2% of the member's final salary multiplied by the number of years of service up to 25 plus 1% of the member's final salary multiplied by the number of years of service over 25. Such retirement allowance shall be reduced in accordance with a table of actuarial equivalents recommended by the actuary and adopted by the retirement system reflecting all months that the member lacks of being age 60. The board of trustees shall retire the member at the time specified or at such other time within one month after the date so specified as the board finds advisable. L.2001,c.259,s.7.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.63 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.63
Powers and duties of pension commission
Status: in_force

All retirements shall be made and pensions allowed under this act by the commission. The commission shall have control and management of the fund and of the retirement of the members of the system and may make all necessary rules and regulations regarding the same not inconsistent with this act. The members of the commission shall be the trustees of the fund and shall have full power to invest and reinvest the fund, subject to all the terms, conditions, limitations and restrictions imposed by the laws of the State upon life insurance companies in the making and disposing of their investments; and subject to like terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions, such trustees shall have full power to hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer, and dispose of any securities and investments in which the fund shall have been invested, as well as the proceeds of such investments; provided, however, that no restrictions as to the percentages of various classifications of investments now or hereafter described by the statutes establishing legal investments for life insurance companies under the laws of the State shall be applicable. The commission shall deposit the fund in any depository lawful for the deposit of municipal funds. Any agreement, release, acquittance, satisfaction, and any and all other documents which may be required in the management of the fund shall be executed by the president and secretary on behalf of the commission. The commission shall make an annual report of the condition of the fund and the manner in which the same is invested. L.1964, c. 275, s. 14.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-4
Payments to certain dependents
Status: in_force

The widow, dependent husband, children under the age of sixteen years or dependent parents, as the case may be, of a municipal employee who shall have: a. Paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and who dies as a result of injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duties; or b. Served in the employ of a city of the first class in the aggregate for twenty years, and who has paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and who dies from causes other than injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duties; or c. Been retired and pensioned under this article and continued to pay into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions based on his retirement pay after his retirement and until his death, and who dies-- Shall receive a pension in an amount equal to one-half of the salary received by the employee at the time of his death, and in those cases where an employee shall have been retired and pensioned previous thereto in an amount equal to one-half of the salary he received at the time of his retirement. The pension so paid shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars annually. No pension shall be paid to a widow or dependent husband if she or he was married to her or his deceased spouse after the date of her or his retirement or after she or he shall have reached fifty-five years of age. The pension shall be paid to the widow or dependent husband during her or his natural life and so long as she or he remains unmarried. If there is no widow or dependent husband surviving such employee, or no widow or husband qualified to take under this article, or if the widow or husband subsequently dies or remarries and such employee shall have left her or him surviving children under the age of sixteen years such children shall receive payments as follows: If there is one child, he shall be paid the sum of twenty-five dollars monthly until he reaches sixteen years of age; if two children, each shall be paid twenty-five dollars monthly until he reaches sixteen years of age; if three or more children, such pension equal in amount to one-half of the salary received by the employee at the time of his death or retirement, but not exceeding in the aggregate one thousand dollars annually, shall be paid to the children who have not reached sixteen years of age in equal shares, but no one of such children shall receive more than twenty-five dollars monthly. If there is no widow, dependent husband and children under sixteen years of age at the time of such employee's death, the pension shall be paid to any dependent parent or parents of such deceased employee.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-36 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-36
"County police officer" defined
Status: in_force

As used in this article, "county police officer" means and includes all uniformed members, whether officers or patrolmen, of the county force.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-6 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-6
Dependency condition of payment; determination of
Status: in_force

No pension shall be paid to the surviving husband of a deceased employee unless he shall be and shall continue to remain dependent upon the income which such employee was receiving at the time of her death, nor unless he shall be and shall continue to remain physically or mentally incapable of pursuing a gainful occupation. No pension shall be paid to any minor child or dependent parent of such female employee unless such minor child or dependent parent shall be and shall continue to remain dependent upon the income which such employee was receiving at the time of her death. The pension commission shall determine the question of the dependency of the surviving husband, minor child or dependent parent, as well as the ability of the surviving husband to pursue some gainful occupation.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-28 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-28
Publication of fiscal statement; notice; hearing; resolution as to method of payment
Status: in_force

The governing body shall publish on or before September fifteenth of said year, in at least one newspaper having general circulation in such county, municipality or political subdivision, such fiscal statement with respect to the effect of the adoption of the act and a notice that the governing body will determine by resolution, after a public hearing on (insert time and date), which date shall be at least five days after date of publication and also before October fifth of said year, whether, if the act is adopted, the accrued liability on account of prior service credits shall be paid in one sum or in ten annual installments, or in twenty-five annual installments. At such public hearing any citizen or taxpayer of such county, municipality or political subdivision shall be heard. After the public hearing the governing body shall pass such resolution adopting one of the three methods of payment. Such resolution adopting a method of payment shall be binding if the act is adopted, except that if installment payments are provided for, any installment may be paid before the time such installment becomes due under the method adopted in said resolution. After the passage of such resolution, a certified copy thereof shall be forwarded by the clerk to the board of trustees of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey. L.1945, c. 148, p. 531, s. 12.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-3
Membership; termination; return of contributions; continuance on return
Status: in_force

(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 or fire district located in a township where, prior to the date this act takes effect, a pension under chapter 16 of Title 43 or article 4 of chapter 10 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes for policemen or firemen has been established, shall become a member of this retirement system as a condition of his employment; he will be enrolled provided, that his age at becoming such full-time policeman or fireman is not over 35 years or if such person shall have met the requirements at the announced closing date of a civil service examination for such position and was appointed during the existence of the civil service list promulgated as a result of such examination; and further provided, that he shall furnish such evidence of good health at the time of becoming a member as the retirement system shall require. (2) After the date upon which this act becomes effective in any county, municipality or political subdivision thereof, pursuant to a referendum as hereinafter provided (a) any person becoming a full-time policeman or fireman in any such county, municipality or political subdivision shall become a member of this retirement system as a condition of his employment; he will be enrolled provided, that his age at becoming such full-time policeman or fireman is not over 35 years; and provided further, that he shall furnish such evidence of good health at the time of becoming a member as the retirement system shall require; and (b) any person in service as a full-time policeman or fireman in any such county, municipality or political subdivision on the date this act becomes effective therein who, within the time and in the manner permitted by this act, elects to become a member of this retirement system, shall become such member. (3) Should any member withdraw his aggregate contributions, or become a beneficiary or die, or if more than 2 years have elapsed from the date of his last contributions to the system, he shall thereupon cease to be a member. (4) Should any member resign or be dismissed from the police or fire service of the employing agency and not make application for the return of his aggregate contributions, the retirement system shall upon receiving conclusive advice of such separation, terminate the membership. The employees' contributions from memberships so terminated shall be held by the retirement system and returned to the employee without interest when application for such return is made. (5) If a member of the retirement system has been discontinued from service through no fault of his own or through leave of absence granted by his employer or permitted by any law of this State and he has not withdrawn his accumulated deductions, his membership may continue, notwithstanding any provisions of this article if such member returns to service within a period of 5 years from the date of his discontinuance from service. L.1944, c. 255, p. 839, s. 3. Amended by L.1945, c. 148, p. 521, s. 2; L.1948, c. 424, p. 1662, s. 1; L.1952, c. 124, p. 467, s. 1; L.1956, c. 101, p. 474, s. 1; L.1962, c. 150, s. 1; L.1964, c. 241, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1965; L.1967, c. 250, s. 3, eff. Dec. 18, 1967; L.1968, c. 276, s. 2, eff. Sept. 4, 1968; L.1980, c. 129, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:17-42 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-42
Delegates, representatives of local firemen's relief associations.
Status: in_force

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 shall choose, out of the whole body of the membership thereof, three delegates to the convention or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association and three alternates, one or more of whom shall act in the place of any delegate so chosen who may be unable to attend the convention or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. They, together with the chief, or if there is no chief the next highest ranking officer, shall represent the local association at the conventions or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. Amended 1996, c.151, s.34; 2008, c.64, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:4-4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-4
Provision for pension; effect of abolition of office
Status: in_force

Provisions for all pensions arising under this article shall be made in the appropriation or tax levy for the department of the public service from which the person shall be retired. No pension shall cease or become invalid by reason of the abolition of the department or office in which he served, or any change in its title.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-37.12 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-37.12
Death of employee leaving no widow; benefits to dependent children
Status: in_force

In the event that any such town employee shall die leaving no widow, but shall leave a dependent child or children under the age of sixteen years, the amount of the benefits under this act shall be five hundred dollars ($500.00) per annum for each dependent child, but the aggregate amount for such dependent children shall not exceed the amount to which such town employee's widow would have been entitled to under the provisions of this act had she survived him. L.1943, c. 189, p. 528, s. 12.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-9 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-9
Nonmember State employee may join at any time; option
Status: in_force

Any person other than a veteran who was in the employ of the State prior to January 2, 1955, and who did not join the former "State Employees' Retirement System," may join the retirement system at any time. The person shall have the option of joining the retirement system as a new member upon proper application with no credit for previous service, or of purchasing membership credit for the previous service. The purchase shall be made in the same manner and be subject to the same terms and conditions provided for the purchase of previous membership service by section 8 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-8). L.1954,c.84,s.9; amended 1966,c.217,s.4; 1991,c.138,s.7.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-3.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-3.1
Final salary; retirement after January 1, 1982
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the final salary of any member who retires after January 1, 1982 shall be the annual salary to which that member would have been entitled had he been an active member of the retirement system on January 19, 1982. L.1982, c. 22, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:18-17 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 18 / Section 18-17
Change in form of government not to affect corporation
Status: in_force

In the event of a change in the method of government heretofore or hereafter adopted in any city in which a pension corporation has been incorporated under this chapter, the corporation shall not thereby become inoperative, but shall extend to and continue in force and effect in so far as the provisions of this chapter may be consistent with such change and rearrangement of the duties and positions of the members of the pension corporation. The provisions hereof shall apply to any new board, body or authority which shall be charged with the supervision of the department or departments under which the members of any such pension corporation are employed.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-34.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-34.1
Annuity savings fund, payroll deductions.
Status: in_force

26. a. The annuity savings fund shall be the fund to which shall be credited aggregate contributions made by members or on their behalf to provide for their allowances. The aggregate contributions of a member withdrawn by him or paid to his estate or his designated beneficiary in the event of death as provided by this amendatory and supplementary act shall be paid from the annuity savings fund. Upon the retirement of a member where the aggregate contributions of the member are to be provided in the form of an annuity, the aggregate contributions of the member shall be transferred from the annuity savings fund to the retirement reserve fund. b. There shall be deducted from the payroll of each member of the system 3% of the amount of any difference between the salary on or after January 19, 1982 for any judicial position held by the member and the salary for that position on January 18, 1982, except that there shall be deducted from the payroll of each new member initially enrolled on or after January 1, 1996, in the retirement system, 3% of the salary for the judicial position held by the member. There shall be deducted from the payroll of each member of the system on and after the effective date of P.L.2011, c.78 an additional 9% of the salary for the judicial position held by the member phased-in in equal increments over a period of seven years. Every judge of the several courts to whom this amendatory and supplementary act applies shall be deemed to consent and agree to any deduction from his compensation required by this act and to all other provisions of this act. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation affecting the salary, pay, compensation, other perquisites, or tenure of a person to whom this amendatory and supplementary act applies, or shall apply, and notwithstanding that the minimum salary, pay, or compensation or other perquisites provided by law for him shall be reduced thereby, payment, less such deductions, shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands for service rendered by him during the period covered by such payment. L.1981, c.470, s.26; amended 1995, c.424, s.4; 2011, c.78, s.9.
N.J. Stat. § 43:8A-8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 8A / Section 8A-8
Ordinary disability retirement allowance; death benefit
Status: in_force

(1) Upon the written application of a member in service or of his employer, any member who has had five or more years of creditable service may be retired by the board of trustees, not less than thirty days and not more than ninety days next following the date of filing such application, on an ordinary disability retirement allowance; provided, that the medical board, after a medical examination of such member, shall certify that such member is mentally or physically incapacitated for the performance of his usual duty and of any other available duty in the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control which his employer is willing to assign to him and that such incapacity is likely to be permanent and to such an extent that he should be retired. (2) Upon retirement for ordinary disability, a member shall receive an ordinary disability retirement allowance which shall consist of: (a) An annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of his aggregate contributions at the time of retirement; and (b) A pension equal to the annuity provided by the aggregate contributions but not less than the amount which when added to the member's annuity will provide a total retirement allowance of twenty-five per centum (25%) of the member's average final compensation. (3) Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who has retired on an ordinary disability retirement allowance, there shall be paid to such person, if living, as he shall have nominated by written designation duly executed and filed with the board of trustees, otherwise to the executor or administrator of the member's estate, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00). L.1953, c. 423, p. 2132, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-43.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-43.1
"Law enforcement officer."
Status: in_force

3. As used in this section, "law enforcement officer" includes, but shall not be limited to, sheriff's officers and corrections officers. For purposes of subsection a. of section 43 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-43), permanent and total disability of a member who is a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical responder eligible to retire pursuant to that subsection a. shall be deemed to have occurred as a direct result of a traumatic event occurring during and as a result of the performance of regular or assigned duties if: the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical responder contracts COVID-19 and tests positive for SARS-CoV-2 during the public health emergency in the State declared by the Governor in Executive Order No. 103 of 2020 and as extended; the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical responder is permanently and totally disabled as a result of COVID-19; and the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical responder's regular or assigned duties required the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical responder to interact, and the law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical responder so interacted, with the public or to directly supervise other personnel so interacting with the public on any date during the public health emergency in the State declared by the Governor in Executive Order No. 103 of 2020 and as extended and within 14 calendar days prior to the appearance of symptoms consistent with COVID-19 that shall have been confirmed in writing by a licensed health care provider on a form approved by the board of trustees and also confirmed by a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2. A member who is a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical responder and who retired during the public health emergency in the State declared by the Governor in Executive Order No. 103 of 2020 and as extended and has been approved for a retirement allowance pursuant to a provision other than this section or section 43 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-43) prior to the effective date of this act, P.L.2020, c.54, may apply for a retirement allowance pursuant to this section and, if approved, the prior approval shall be rescinded and the retirement allowance pursuant to approval under this section shall be made retroactive to the date of the initial approval of the rescinded retirement allowance. This section shall not apply to any member who has retired and subsequently returned to employment pursuant to Executive Order No. 115 of 2020 or any other executive order similarly permitting a retired member to return to employment without reenrollment to assist during the public health emergency and state of emergency. New onset diseases and chronic psychological disease resulting from prior exposure to, and recovery from, COVID-19 shall not be deemed a permanent and total disability resulting from COVID-19. L.2020, c.54, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-24.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-24.4
Agreements with United States
Status: in_force

The Director of the Division of Employment Security on behalf of the division is authorized to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Labor of the United States on behalf of the United States under which the division (a) will make, as agent of the United States, payments of unemployment compensation to individuals who may be eligible therefor under any law of the United States, and will otherwise cooperate with the Secretary of Labor of the United States and with agencies of other states in making payments of unemployment compensation under any such laws; provided, however, that all costs incurred, all expenses paid and all such compensation benefits paid shall be paid or reimbursed by the United States and shall not devolve upon the State of New Jersey; or (b) will receive reimbursement from the United States for unemployment compensation paid pursuant to any law of this State or of the United States; and the division shall perform such agreements. L.1961, c. 6, p. 20, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-30 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-30
Retirement for service and age
Status: in_force

Any employee of the water department of any municipality, including any employee having supervision or regulation of the water department, who shall have served honorably in the department for a period of twenty-five years and reached the age of sixty years, shall, upon his own application, be retired on half pay. Any such employee who shall have served honorably for a period of twenty years and reached the age of sixty-five years shall be retired on half pay.
N.J. Stat. § 43:9A-7 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 9A / Section 9A-7
Abolition of office; change in title
Status: in_force

No pension shall cease or become invalid by reason of the abolition of the office in which such person had previously served or any change in title. L.1945, c. 281, p. 830, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-44 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-44
Certification to secretary of park commission of its contributions
Status: in_force

The board of trustees shall certify to the secretary of any such county park commission on or before the first day of February following, for the then current fiscal year and thereafter on or before the first day of December of each year for the ensuing fiscal year, the normal contribution of such county park commission and also its contribution for accrued liability for prior service credits. L.1948, c. 441, p. 1734, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-40 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-40
First or second class counties over 300,000; admission of park police as members; fiscal statement
Status: in_force

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 created pursuant to the provisions of the Revised Statutes, sections 40:37-96 through 40:37-194, may by an appropriate resolution request the board of trustees of the State Police and Firemen's Retirement System to permit the members of the park police department of any such county to become members of the State fund. The trustees shall thereupon request full information on forms to be supplied by them as to the employees who are to become members of the fund and transmit to such county park commission the following fiscal statement: (1) Estimated cost to the county park commission as follows: (a) The annual normal contribution to be made on account of employees then in service. (b) The percentage of payroll for employees then in service, to meet the contribution under (a). (c) The estimated lump sum of accrued liability for services rendered and to be rendered prior to the following January 1. (d) The percentage of present payroll to meet the liability stated in (c). (e) The estimated annual contribution on account of the accrued liability if paid in 10 installments. (f) The percentage of present payroll, to meet the accrued liability, as stated in (e). (g) The estimated annual contribution on account of accrued liability if met in 25 installments. (h) The percentage of present payroll to meet the accrued liability, as stated in (g). (2) The annual contribution of the employee stated in percentage of pay for the several age brackets as of the following January 1. L.1948, c. 441, p. 1731, s. 1. Amended by L.1971, c. 88, s. 1, eff. April 8, 1971.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-88 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-88
Authorization to purchase group life insurance
Status: in_force

The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and permitted to purchase from one or more life insurance companies, as determined by him, a policy or policies of group life insurance to provide for the benefits specified in sections 38, 41, 45, 46, 48 and 49 of chapter 84 of the laws of 1954. The Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System is hereby authorized and permitted to purchase from one or more life insurance companies, as determined by it, a policy or policies of group life insurance to provide for the benefits specified in section 57 of chapter 84 of the laws of 1954. Such group life insurance coverage may be provide under one or more policies issued to the State Treasurer specifically for this purpose, or in the discretion of the State Treasurer, under one or more policies issued to the State Treasurer which provide group life insurance coverage for members of one or more other retirement systems of the State of New Jersey. Whenever such policy or policies of group insurance shall be in effect, the benefits payable thereunder shall be in lieu of the above mentioned death benefits provided by said sections. L.1955, c. 214, p. 830, s. 1. Amended by L.1960, c. 79, p. 554, s. 2; L.1971, c. 213, s. 36, eff. June 17, 1971.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-37.9 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-37.9
Death of employee after 20 years of service; pensions to dependents
Status: in_force

In the event that any such town employee entitled to the benefits of this act, who having had deducted from his salary or compensation the percentage provided in this act, shall die as the result of injury or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duty, or in the event that such town employee shall have served in the employ of the town continuously or in the aggregate for twenty years and who has had deducted from his salary or compensation the percentage provided for in this act, shall die from cause other than injury or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duty, subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, there shall be paid each year to his dependent widow, dependent child or children under the age of sixteen years, or dependent parent or parents, a sum equal to one-half the compensation or salary received by such town employee at the time of his death. L.1943, c. 189, p. 527, s. 9.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-20.11 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-20.11
Provisions in violation of federal law inoperative.
Status: in_force

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 act shall be inoperative. L.2011, c.154, s.9; amended 2013, c.279, s.8.
N.J. Stat. § 43:12-1.14 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 12 / Section 12-1.14
"Public employee" defined
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this act, the term "public employee" shall be deemed to mean and include a person who holds or has held an office, position or employment in county or municipal government. L.1962, c. 188, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:11A-1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 11A / Section 11A-1
Definitions
Status: in_force

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 of New Jersey, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven and chapter eight hundred two, laws of New York, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven. (b) "Marine terminal" shall mean a marine terminal as defined in chapter forty-four, laws of New Jersey, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven and chapter six hundred thirty-one, laws of New York, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven. (c) "New Jersey municipality" shall mean any city, county, town, village, borough, or other political subdivision of the State of New Jersey located in the Port of New York District. (d) "Municipal service" or "municipal employment" shall mean service or employment as an officer or employee of a New Jersey municipality. (e) "Former New Jersey municipal employee" shall mean an officer or employee of the Port Authority who, within ninety days prior to the commencement of his Port Authority employment, was in the employ of a New Jersey municipality at or in connection with an air or marine terminal the operation of which was assumed by or vested in the Port Authority during such ninety-day period pursuant to an agreement between such municipality and the Port Authority for the sale, lease or operation thereof, and who, if he had continued in his municipal employment would, presumptively, have been entitled to a pension under an applicable New Jersey pension act. (f) "Applicable New Jersey pension act" as used in reference to a former municipal employee shall mean a New Jersey act providing for the payment of pensions to municipal employees upon or after their retirement from municipal service, or establishing or regulating pension funds from which pensions are paid or to be paid to municipal employees upon their retirement from municipal service, to which said pension such former municipal employee would presumptively have been entitled if he had continued in his municipal employment for a specified period of time or until attaining a specified age, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the provisions of this section shall, and shall be deemed to, include all applicable provisions of chapter four, chapter twelve and chapter nineteen of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes. (g) "New Jersey pension" shall mean the annual payment made to a former municipal employee under an applicable New Jersey pension act as supplemented by this act. (h) "New York Retirement System" shall mean the New York State Employees' Retirement System as now or hereafter constituted. (i) "Retirement" shall mean retirement pursuant to the laws governing the retirement of employees who are members of the New York Retirement System. (j) "New York retirement allowance" shall mean the total annual payments consisting of pension and annuity made to a former municipal employee by the New York Retirement System. (k) "Final average salary" shall mean a former municipal employee's salary for retirement purposes as computed by the New York Retirement System. L.1948, c. 250, p. 1105, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-98 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-98
Law enforcement officers within Division of Motor Vehicles; membership in System; waiver of credits
Status: in_force

(a) Any person holding a permanent appointment as a law enforcement officer within the Division of Motor Vehicles on February 1, 1956 shall be a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System as of said date notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of the act to which this act is a supplement. Any member of the Public Employees' Retirement System who held a permanent appointment as a law enforcement officer on February 1, 1956 may within 90 days after May 22, 1956 or after first becoming a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System, whichever is later, waive his privilege of obtaining credit as a law enforcement officer. (b) Any person who was enrolled in the Public Employees' Retirement System after February 1, 1956 and prior to January 1, 1960, who was required to be enrolled as a law enforcement officer member and who did not have the right to waive credit as a law enforcement officer may within 90 days after January 1, 1960 waive his privilege of obtaining credit as a law enforcement officer. (c) Any person who becomes eligible for credit as a law enforcement officer on or after January 1, 1960 may elect to obtain such credit within 90 days after first becoming eligible therefor. (d) Any person eligible for credit as a law enforcement officer who waives or elects not to obtain such credit shall thereafter be treated in all respects as a nonlaw enforcement officer member of the retirement system, except with regard to compulsory retirement as provided in section 3 of this act. L.1955, c. 257, p. 941, s. 2. Amended by L.1956, c. 55, p. 107, s. 1; L.1959, c. 170, p. 700, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-16.12 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-16.12
Administration of mortgage loan program.
Status: in_force

5. The board of trustees shall delegate the administration of this mortgage loan program to the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency established under section 4 of P.L.1983, c.530 (C.55:14K-4). The agency shall: a. originate loans; b. appraise the value of any real property eligible to be mortgaged under this act; c. guarantee and insure title to the real property; and d. perform any other service necessary to accomplish the purposes of this act in a manner consistent with the protection of the rights of beneficiaries of the retirement system. The cost of the performance of these services in connection with the making of a mortgage loan shall be charged to the borrower and included in the amount of that mortgage loan. L.1992, c.78, s.5; amended 2018, c.55, s.22.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-31 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-31
Certain individuals excepted
Status: in_force

Any person who adheres to the faith or teachings of any church, sect, or denomination, and who in accordance with its creed, tenets, or principles depends for healing upon prayer or spiritual means, in the practice of religion, shall be exempt from this act upon filing with the commission and with his employer a statement, in such form as the commission shall by regulation prescribe, waiving any and all benefits under this act. Such person shall thereupon be exempt from the provisions of this act, including any obligation to make contributions hereunder and any right to receive benefits hereunder. L.1948, c. 110, p. 589, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 43:17-21 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-21
Office of representative, filling vacancies
Status: in_force

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 representative was elected, for the remainder of the term for which he was elected, at a special election held for that purpose. Amended 1996, c.151, s.18.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-24.16 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-24.16
Beginning and termination of extended benefit period
Status: in_force

a. Whenever an extended benefit period is to become effective in this State as a result of a state "on" indicator, or an extended benefit period is to be terminated in this State as a result of a state "off" indicator, the division shall make an appropriate public announcement. b. Computations required by the provisions of paragraph f. of section five shall be made by the division, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the United States Secretary of Labor. L.1970, c. 324, s. 10. Amended by L.1982, c. 144, s. 4, eff. Sept. 24, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-19 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-19
"County detectives" defined
Status: in_force

The words, "county detectives" , as used in this article, shall mean and include persons appointed by the prosecutors of the pleas as special officers for the detection, apprehension, arrest, indictment and conviction of offenders against the law.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-16.2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-16.2
Repayment of loans after retirement of member of PFRS.
Status: in_force

2. In the case of any member who retires without repaying the full amount so borrowed, the board of trustees shall deduct from the retirement benefit payments the same monthly amount which was deducted from the compensation of the member immediately preceding retirement until the balance of the amount borrowed together with the interest is repaid. In the case of a pensioner who dies before the outstanding balance of the loan and interest thereon has been recovered, the remaining balance shall be repaid from the proceeds of any other benefits payable on the account of the pensioner either in the form of monthly payments due to his beneficiaries or in the form of lump sum payments payable for pension or group life insurance. L.1981, c.370, s.2; amended 1988, c.134, s.3; 1999, c.132, s.3; 2007, c.92, s.39; 2018, c.55, s.19.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-48 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-48
Retirement for service and age
Status: in_force

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 thousand, who have served as such county probation officers for a continuous period of twenty years and have reached the age of sixty years shall, upon application in writing to the assignment judge of the Superior Court of their respective counties, be retired upon one-half pay. Amended 1953,c.41,s.2; 1991,c.91,s.414.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-9.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-9.4
Judge's widow; pension
Status: in_force

Upon receipt of the proper proofs of death of a judge who has retired under the provisions of this supplementary act, there shall be paid to the judge's widow a pension of 25% of the final salary received by the member. L.1976, c. 62, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-7.2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-7.2
Ineligibility for PERS under professional services contract.
Status: in_force

20. a. A person who performs professional services for a political subdivision of this State or a board of education, or any agency, authority or instrumentality thereof, under a professional services contract awarded in accordance with section 5 of P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-5), N.J.S.18A:18A-5 or section 5 of P.L.1982, c.189 (C.18A:64A-25.5), on the basis of performance of the contract, shall not be eligible for membership in the Public Employees' Retirement System. A person who is a member of the retirement system as of the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.) shall not accrue service credit on the basis of that performance following the expiration of an agreement or contract in effect on the effective date. Nothing contained in this subsection shall be construed as affecting the provisions of any agreement or contract in effect on the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.), whether or not the agreement or contract specifically provides by its terms for membership in the retirement system. No renewal, extension, modification, or other agreement or action to continue any professional services contract in effect on the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.) beyond its current term shall have the effect of continuing the membership of a person in the retirement system or continuing the accrual of service credit on the basis of performance of the contract. b. A person who performs professional services for a political subdivision of this State or a board of education, or any agency, authority or instrumentality thereof, shall not be eligible, on the basis of performance of those professional services, for membership in the Public Employees' Retirement System, if the person meets the definition of independent contractor as set forth in regulation or policy of the federal Internal Revenue Service for the purposes of the Internal Revenue Code. Such a person who is a member of the retirement system on the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.) shall not accrue service credit on the basis of that performance following the expiration of an agreement or contract in effect on the effective date. Nothing contained in this subsection shall be construed as affecting the provisions of any agreement or contract of employment in effect on the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.), whether or not the agreement or contract specifically provides by its terms for membership in the retirement system. No renewal, extension, modification, or other agreement or action to continue any such agreement or contract in effect on the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.) beyond its current term shall have the effect of continuing the membership of a person in the retirement system or continuing the accrual of service credit on the basis of performance of the agreement or contract. As used in this subsection, the term "professional services" shall have the meaning set forth in section 2 of P.L.1971, c.198 (C.40A:11-2). L.2007, c.92, s.20.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-17.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-17.1
Deductions for health insurance from SHBP.
Status: in_force

19. If possible, whenever any beneficiary shall, in writing, request the board of trustees to make deductions from his retirement allowance or pension for the purpose of paying premiums for the pensioners' group health insurance plan or the State Health Benefits program, the board may make such deductions and transmit the sums so deducted to the companies carrying the policies. Any such written authorization may be withdrawn by any beneficiary upon filing notice of such withdrawal with the division. L.1964, c.241, s.19; amended 1971, c.175, s.14; 2018, c.55, s.25.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15C-10 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15C / Section 15C-10
Method of payment of death benefits.
Status: in_force

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 one sum directly to the beneficiary as hereinafter provided, in equal installments over a period of years or as a life annuity or in such other manner as may be made available by the insurance company. A participant may make such arrangements for settlement, and may alter from time to time during life any arrangement previously made, by making written request to the insurance company through the policyholder. Upon the death of the participant, a beneficiary to whom a benefit is payable in one sum by the insurance company may likewise arrange for a settlement as described above. L.2007, c.92, s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-4.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-4.1
Borough of Barrington; contributions
Status: in_force

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 between 8,400 and 8,500 inhabitants according to the 1970 census, and located in a second-class county, which employment with said borough was terminated for a period of less than 4 years and who prior to said termination were members of the Police and Firemen's Pension Fund, shall be permitted to make contributions covering such a period of termination on the basis of rates established by the actuary, provided the respective borough makes the necessary employer contribution to the fund covering such period of termination on the basis of rates established by the actuary. L.1978, c. 166, s. 1, eff. Dec. 22, 1978.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.52a — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.52a
Temporary employees; membership as condition of employment
Status: in_force

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, unless he is a member of another retirement system or otherwise ineligible, become a member of the retirement system established pursuant to P.L.1964, c. 275, as a condition of his employment; provided that he shall submit to and pass the physical and mental examinations required by the commission and shall provide such evidence of good health, at that time, as the commission shall require. L.1984, c. 118, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:18-8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 18 / Section 18-8
Perjury
Status: in_force

A person who shall willfully or knowingly swear falsely in an oath for the purpose of obtaining or procuring a pension or the payment thereof, under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of perjury.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-3.7 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-3.7
Transfer of membership for eligible officers.
Status: in_force

3. Any officer eligible to become a member pursuant to the amendatory provisions of this act who is enrolled in the Public Employees' Retirement System (P.L.1954, c.84, C. 43:15A-1 et seq.) or any county pension fund established under Title 43 of the Revised Statutes shall be permitted to transfer membership from the aforesaid system or fund to the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey in accordance with the provisions of P.L.1973, c.156 (C. 43:16A-62 et seq.) and upon a lump sum payment into the Police and Firemen's Retirement System annuity savings fund of the amount of the difference between the contribution which was paid as a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System or county pension fund and the contribution that would have been required if he had been a member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System since the date of last enrolling in the Public Employees' Retirement System or a county pension fund. In addition, the employee shall be liable for any payment to the retirement system that the employer would have been required to make on behalf of the member for the purchase of such credit; this payment may be made in regular monthly installments or in a lump sum, as the employee may elect, and pursuant to rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the board of trustees. Whenever in P.L.1973, c.156 a period of time is set which is to be calculated from the effective date of said act, such time shall be calculated from the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act for the purposes hereof. L.1983, c.439, s.3; amended 2018, c.55, s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-43 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-43
Accrued liability for service credited on prior service certificates, costs for
Status: in_force

The county park commission shall be liable to the board of trustees for the whole costs for the accrued liability on account of service credited on all prior service certificates issued to any police member of a county park commission. L.1948, c. 441, p. 1734, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-147 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-147
Conditions for receipt of one-half of final salary
Status: in_force

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 or more while serving in such office and has served at least 15 years of aggregate public service, or b. served at least five years successively as a judge of compensation and attained the age of 60 years or more while serving in such office and has served at least 20 years of aggregate public service, may retire and receive the retirement allowance prescribed by this section. The retirement allowance shall consist of an annuity that shall be the actuarial equivalent of the member's accumulated deductions together with regular interest, and a pension that, when added to the member's annuity, shall provide a retirement allowance during the remainder of the member's life in an amount equal to one-half of the member's final salary. L.2001,c.259,s.6.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3C-9.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3C / Section 3C-9.1
Corpus, income of retirement systems, restrictions on use, diversions.
Status: in_force

1. In accordance with the provisions of section 401 (a) (2) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, and subject to such exceptions as may be permitted for governmental plans under section 401 (a) (2) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, at no time prior to the satisfaction of all liabilities with respect to members and their beneficiaries under 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, c.140 (C.43:6A-1 et seq.), the Prison Officers' Pension Fund, established pursuant to P.L.1941, c.220 (C.43:7-7 et seq.), the Public Employees' Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 et seq.), the Consolidated Police and Firemen's Pension Fund, established pursuant to R.S.43:16-1 et seq., the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.), the State Police Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1965, c.89 (C.53:5A-1 et seq.), the Alternate Benefit Program, established pursuant to P.L.1969, c.242 (C.18A:66-167 et seq.), and the Defined Contribution Retirement Program, established pursuant to P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et seq.), shall any part of the corpus or income of the respective retirement systems, within the taxable year or thereafter, be used for or diverted to purposes other than for the exclusive benefit of the members or their beneficiaries. L.1997, c.113, s.1; amended 2011, c.78, s.56.
N.J. Stat. § 43:8B-3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 8B / Section 8B-3
Budget provisions for payment
Status: in_force

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, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-61 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-61
Sheriff's employee's pension
Status: in_force

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 a continuous period of 20 years, and shall have reached the age of 60 years, shall, upon application in writing to the board of chosen freeholders of the county, be retired upon half pay. b. Should any member of the pension fund created pursuant to R.S. 43:10-69, after having completed 10 years of service for which credit has been established in the pension fund, be separated voluntarily or involuntarily from the service, before reaching age 60, and not by removal for cause or charges of misconduct or delinquency, he may elect to withdraw his contributions to the fund or receive a deferred pension beginning at age 60 which shall be made up of an annuity derived from the accumulated deductions standing to the credit of the individual member's account in the annuity savings fund at the time of his severance from service, together with regular interest and a pension which when added to the annuity will produce a total retirement allowance of 1/60 of the annual salary the member was receiving at the time he became separated from service, for each year of creditable service. Amended by L. 1985, c. 218, s. 1, eff. July 2, 1985.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-38 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-38
Error in records; correction
Status: in_force

Should any change or error in the records of this retirement system result in any member or person receiving from the retirement system more or less than he would have been entitled to receive had the records been correct, the retirement system shall, as far as practicable, correct such error and adjust the payments in such manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which the member or beneficiary was correctly entitled shall be paid. L.1973, c. 140, s. 38, eff. May 22, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-18.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-18.4
Moneys belonging to retirement system; disposition
Status: in_force

All moneys belonging to the retirement system shall be received and paid over to the treasurer of the retirement system whose official bond as county treasurer shall cover the same. All moneys paid out of the retirement system shall be paid by the treasurer of the fund upon warrants signed by the president and secretary of the pension commission or such officers as the pension commission designates. L.1943, c. 160, p. 450, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-46 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-46
Allowance for retirement for accidental disability.
Status: in_force

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 shall be the actuarial equivalent of his accumulated deductions together with regular interest; and b. A pension, in the amount which, when added to the member's annuity, will provide a total retirement allowance of 72.7% of his actual annual compensation for which contributions were being made at the time of the occurrence of the accident. c. Upon receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who has retired on an accidental disability retirement allowance, there shall be paid to such member's beneficiary, an amount equal to 1 1/2 times the compensation upon which contributions by the member to the annuity savings fund were based in the last year of creditable service; provided, however, that if such death shall occur after the member shall have attained age 60, the amount payable shall equal 3/16 of such compensation. L.1954,c.84,s.46; amended 1955, c.261, s.13; 1966, c.67, s.7; 1971, c.213, s.20; 2001, c.353, s.11.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-46 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-46
Transfer from State Employees' Retirement System to Police and Firemen's Retirement System in certain counties
Status: in_force

Any employee of any county or municipality which has adopted, or shall adopt, the State Employees' Retirement System existing under the provisions of chapter fourteen of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, pursuant to the provisions of chapter fifteen of said Title, and has thereafter adopted, or shall adopt, the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey created by the provisions of "An act for the establishment of a police and firemen's retirement system for the police and firemen of a municipality, county or political subdivision thereof," approved April twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, being chapter two hundred fifty-five of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, by referendum, who is a policeman or fireman, as defined in said chapter two hundred fifty-five of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, and who would be eligible to membership in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey but for the fact that he is a member of the State Employees' Retirement System shall, within thirty days after the effective date of this act, or when said chapter two hundred fifty-five of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and forty-four becomes effective in such county or municipality, as the case may be, be transferred to membership in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey created thereby. L.1949, c. 273, p. 843, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3B-7 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3B / Section 3B-7
Review of index; determination of percentum of change; retirant defined
Status: in_force

a. On or before October 1, 1977 and by the same date in each subsequent year, the Director of the Division of Pensions shall review the index and determine the percentum of change in the index from the benefit year index. In determining the percentum of change the director shall use the index for the year ending the August 31 prior to the date of review, dividing such index by the benefit year index and then subtracting 100% from the resulting quotient expressed to the nearest 1/100 of 1%. The percentage of adjustment shall be 3/5 of the percentum of change. Any adjustment so calculated shall apply to all of the months of the following calendar year for eligible retirants and beneficiaries, except for those qualifying for the first time, it shall apply only to those months of the following calendar year in which the retirant or beneficiary is eligible to receive the adjustment. The director shall include (a) in his corpus appropriation request for the administration of the act on behalf of those retirants and beneficiaries for whom the State assumes the costs attributable to this act, and, (b) in his certification of amounts due from each employer in accordance with section 4 of the Pension Adjustment Act, amounts sufficient to adjust the retirement allowances, survivorship benefits or pensions payable to all eligible retirants and beneficiaries by 3/5 of the percentum of change in the index as such retirement allowances, survivorship benefits or pensions may have been originally granted, or increased for certain retirants or beneficiaries in accordance with section 3 of the Pension Adjustment Act. In no instance shall the amount of the retirement allowance or pension originally granted and payable to any retirant be reduced as a result of the adjustment made pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1969, c. 169. b. For purposes of this act a "retirant" shall mean any retirant who has or shall have received a retirement allowance or pension for no less than 24 months and a "beneficiary" shall mean any beneficiary who has or shall have received for no less than 24 months a pension, or survivorship benefit, or whose increased pension pursuant to the provisions of the statutes stipulated in subsection d(4) of section 1 of the act to which this act is an amendment (C. 43:3B-1). In the case of beneficiaries, all or any part of the 24 month period shall include the period in which the retirant was entitled to receive his retirement allowance or pension. L.1969, c. 169, s. 6. Amended by L.1971, c. 139, s. 8, eff. May 12, 1971; L.1975, c. 375, s. 5, eff. March 3, 1976; L.1977, c. 306, s. 4, eff. Dec. 27, 1977.
N.J. Stat. § 43:22-14 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 22 / Section 22-14
Expenses of administration of state agency; employers' proportionate shares
Status: in_force

The expenses of administration of the State Agency shall be paid by the State of New Jersey. Each employer shall reimburse the State for a proportionate share of the amount paid by the State for administrative expense. This proportion shall be established by regulation of the State Agency and the pro rata share of the cost of administrative expense shall be included with the employer's report of covered wages and payment of contributions due. L.1980, c. 86, s. 5, eff. Aug. 21, 1980.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-62 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-62
Effect upon political subdivisions previously under State Employees' Retirement System
Status: in_force

Where any county, municipality or public agency of the State has previously been covered by the former "State Employees' Retirement System," such county, municipality or public agency shall be covered under the provisions of this act and the employees of such county, municipality or public agency shall have the same rights and obligations with regard to becoming members of the Public Employees' Retirement System as they had with regard to the former "State Employees' Retirement System." L.1954, c. 84, p. 516, s. 62. Amended by L.1966, c. 217, s. 12.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-23 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-23
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this article, "a year of service" shall consist of such part of the calendar year as the life guard force is normally employed and the "year's salary" means the salary a life guard receives during the time of his normal employment in any calendar year. If the salary is payable on a per diem basis the pension commission may determine the length of service and the amount of the year's salary by averaging the salary theretofore received by the life guard or officer during the then past three years or in any other equitable manner and may determine in that case what constitutes a year's salary and a year's service.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-70 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-70
Limitation on liability of retirement system
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the retirement system shall not be liable for the payment of any pensions or other benefits on account of the employees or pensioners of any employer under this article, for which reserves have not been previously created from funds, contributed by such employer or its employees for such benefits. L.1954, c. 84, p. 520, s. 70.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-17 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-17
Representation in court or administrative proceeding
Status: in_force

(a) In any civil action to enforce the provisions of this chapter, the Commissioner of Labor and the State may be represented by any qualified attorney, who is a regular salaried employee of the Department of Labor or is designated by it for this purpose, or, at the commissioner's request, by the Attorney General. (b) In any administrative proceeding before the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance of the Department of Labor, the board of review or the appeal tribunal, the claimant or the employer may appear pro se or employ an attorney or a nonattorney to represent him. Amended by L.1984, c. 24, s. 11, eff. Oct. 1, 1984.