N.J. Stat. § 43:7-14 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-14
Death within five years after passage of act
Status: in_force

If any such prison officer shall die within five years from the passage of this act and his widow, minor children or dependent parents, as the case may be, shall not be entitled to the pension hereunder, and if such prison officer shall have continuously paid his annual assessments or contributions up to the time of his death, the annual contributions or assessments deducted from the salary of such employee shall be returned by the pension commission to the personal representative of such deceased prison officer; provided, however, that if any such prison officer shall be killed in the line of duty within the five years from the passage of this act, the pension commission may, in its discretion, set aside a yearly sum, other than the total annual contributions or assessments paid by such employee into the pension fund, for the support of his widow, minor children or dependent parents, but in no event shall the amount so set aside by the pension commission exceed the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per annum. L.1941, c. 220, p. 633, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-6.3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-6.3
Responsibilities of authorized agent to client.
Status: in_force

4. a. An authorized agent shall keep any party that is a client of the agent reasonably informed about the status of any matter before the division and verify with the client the accuracy of any information it provides to the division. b. An authorized agent shall promptly notify the client of any scheduled proceedings before any representative of the division to allow time for case preparation and the scheduling of witnesses. Clients shall be apprised of the consequences of not appearing and the importance of participation at all stages of the proceedings and of producing first-hand testimony. c. If a client determines that it does not wish to pursue an appeal, a request for withdrawal of the appeal shall be made in writing, or communicated orally and followed by a written request, in a timely fashion. If the client and the authorized agent determine that there is no basis for an appeal, that the appeal is frivolous, or that the client is not interested in pursuing the appeal, the appeal shall be withdrawn, as soon as possible, and prior to the scheduling of a hearing if possible. L.2010, c.82, s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-1
Short title
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "unemployment compensation law" .
N.J. Stat. § 43:3C-25 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3C / Section 3C-25
Notification of change of beneficiary.
Status: in_force

1. The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall provide for the prompt notification in writing of any member or retiree of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, established pursuant to N.J.S.18A:66-1 et seq., the Judicial Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1973, c.140 (C.43:6A-1 et seq.), the Public Employees' Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-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.), when the member or retiree submits a change to the designation of beneficiary for contributory and non-contributory group life insurance available to the member or retiree through the system, that there is on file a judgment, court order, decree, or other legal document for that member or retiree specifically designating the beneficiary of such life insurance. The Board of Trustees of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System or its designee shall provide for the prompt notification in writing of any member or retiree of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.), when the member or retiree submits a change to the designation of beneficiary for contributory and non-contributory group life insurance available to the member or retiree through the system, that there is on file a judgment, court order, decree, or other legal document for that member or retiree specifically designating the beneficiary of such life insurance. The notification requirement shall apply only when there is a valid judgment, court order, decree, or other legal document that has been filed with the division or, in the case of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, the board of trustees or its designee pursuant to the division's or board's determination to accept and honor such a judgment, court order, decree, or document and that has been reviewed, approved, or classified as qualified by the division or the board or the board's designee. L.2015, c.180, s.1; amended 2018, c.55, s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-158 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-158
Retirement on service retirement allowance, formula
Status: in_force

4. a. Any member of the Prosecutors Part who has attained age 55 years may retire on a service retirement allowance by filing with the retirement system a written application, duly attested, stating at what time subsequent to the execution and filing thereof the member desires to be retired. 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. Any prosecutor in service who attains age 70 years shall be retired by the board of trustees on a service retirement allowance forthwith on the first day of the next calendar month or at such time within one month thereafter as it finds advisable, except that a prosecutor attaining age 70 years may be continued in service on an annual basis upon written notice to the retirement system by the Attorney General or the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the county employing the prosecutor. b. Upon retirement for service a prosecutor shall receive a service retirement allowance which shall consist of: (1) An annuity which shall be the actuarial equivalent of the prosecutor's aggregate contributions and (2) A pension in the amount which, when added to the prosecutor's annuity, will provide a total retirement allowance of one-sixtieth of average final compensation multiplied by the number of years of creditable service, or 2% of average final compensation multiplied by the number of years of creditable service up to 30 plus 1% of average final compensation multiplied by the number of years of creditable service over 30, or 50% of final compensation if the prosecutor has established 20 or more years of creditable service, whichever is greater. c. Any prosecutor as of the effective date of P.L.2001, c.366 (C.43:15A-155 et seq.) who has 20 or more years of creditable service at the time of retirement shall be entitled to receive a retirement allowance equal to 50% of final compensation plus, in the case of a prosecutor required to retire pursuant to the provisions of subsection a. of this section, 3% of final compensation multiplied by the number of years of creditable service over 20 but not over 25. d. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a prosecutor who has retired on a service retirement allowance, there shall be paid to the prosecutor's beneficiary an amount equal to one-half of the compensation upon which contributions by the prosecutor to the annuity savings fund were based in the last year of creditable service. L.2001,c.366,s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-57.2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-57.2
Reemployment of retired former member.
Status: in_force

27. a. Except as provided in subsections b., c., and d. of this section, if a former member of the State Employees' Retirement System or the retirement system, who has been granted a retirement allowance for any cause other than disability, becomes employed again in a position which makes him eligible to be a member of the retirement system, his retirement allowance and the right to any death benefit as a result of his former membership, shall be canceled until he again retires. Such person shall be re-enrolled in the retirement system and shall contribute thereto at a rate based on his age at the time of re-enrollment. Such person shall be treated as an active member for determining disability or death benefits while in service and no benefits pursuant to an optional selection with respect to his former membership shall be paid if his death shall occur during the period of such re-enrollment. Upon subsequent retirement of such member, his former retirement allowance shall be reinstated together with any optional selection, based on his former membership. In addition, he shall receive an additional retirement allowance based on his subsequent service as a member computed in accordance with applicable provisions of chapter 84 of the laws of 1954; provided, however, that his total retirement allowance upon such subsequent retirement shall not be a greater proportion of his final compensation than the proportion to which he would have been entitled had he remained in service during the period of his prior retirement. Any death benefit to which such member shall be eligible shall be based on his latest retirement, but shall not be less than the death benefit that was applicable to his former retirement. b. The cancellation, re-enrollment, and additional retirement allowance provisions of subsection a. of this section shall not apply to a former member of the retirement system who, after having been granted a retirement allowance, becomes employed again by: (1) an employer or employers in a position or positions for which the aggregate compensation does not exceed $15,000 per year; or (2) if the compensation exceeds $10,000 per year, by an employer that is a public institution of higher education as defined in N.J.S.18A:62-1 in a teaching staff position. The Director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits may from time to time adjust the amount in paragraph (1) of this subsection. This adjustment shall be 3/5 of the percentage of change in the index, as defined in section 1 of P.L.1958, c.143 (C.43:3B-1), over a period of time as determined by the director. c. The cancellation, reenrollment, and additional retirement allowance provisions of subsection a. and the compensation limitations of subsection b. of this section shall not apply to a former member of the retirement system who, after having been granted a retirement allowance, becomes employed by the State Department of Education in a position of critical need as determined by the State Commissioner of Education, or becomes employed by a board of education in a position of critical need as determined by the superintendent of the district on a contractual basis for a term of not more than one year; except that the cancellation, reenrollment, and additional retirement allowance provisions and the compensation limitations shall apply if the former member becomes employed within 120 days of retirement in a position with the employer from which the member retired. Nothing herein shall preclude a former member so reemployed by a board of education from renewing a contract for one additional year, provided that the total period of employment with any individual board of education does not exceed a two-year period. d. The cancellation, reenrollment, and additional retirement allowance provisions of subsections a., b., and c. of this section shall not apply to a former member of the retirement system who was granted a retirement allowance pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1985, c.414 (C.43:15A-47.2) prior to the effective date of P.L.2011, c.78. L.1966, c.217, s.27; amended 1971, c.213, s.45; 1997, c.23, s.2; 2001, c.253; 2001, c.278; 2001, c.355, s.2; 2011, c.78, s.34.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-92 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-92
Additional death benefits; contributions; adjustment
Status: in_force

In the event that the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System shall determine to purchase group insurance coverage for the additional death benefit coverage, each member selecting the additional death benefit coverage shall agree to the deduction of a percentage of his compensation determined from a schedule of contributions to be established by the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System. The schedule of contributions shall be established by said board of trustees on a basis it deems appropriate and shall be subject to adjustment by said board of trustees from time to time for the purpose of maintaining the Contributory Group Insurance Premium Fund at a level sufficient to meet the obligations of the fund for the cost of the insurance. L.1955, c. 214, p. 831, s. 5. Amended by L.1960, c. 79, p. 555, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.49h — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.49h
Repeal of ordinance; disposition of contributions and effect on benefits
Status: in_force

a. If the governing body of the city later repeals the ordinance which it enacted pursuant to section 1 of this supplementary act, a member enrolled on the basis of service as an elected official shall, upon filing an application therefor, receive a return of his contributions as an elected official pursuant to section 29 of P.L.1954, c. 218 (C. 43:13-22.31) unless the member continues in the retirement system pursuant to subsection b. of this section or has retired pursuant to this act. b. Any member who shall have served as an elected official of the city for at least 10 years and contributed to the retirement system, or who shall have attained the retirement age of 60, may continue to avail himself of the special benefits provided by this supplementary act, except that only creditable service rendered as an elected official up to the time of the repeal of the ordinance shall be included for the purposes of computing the special benefits. c. In the case of an elected official of the city who retires pursuant to the provisions of this act and is receiving or is eligible to receive the special benefits provided by this act, the repeal of the ordinance by the governing body shall not affect the benefits which such member is receiving or is eligible to receive, nor the obligation of the city to fund those benefits. L.1981, c. 565, s. 8, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-18.58 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-18.58
Retirement on half pay
Status: in_force

Subject to the other provisions of this act, any county employee who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in the employ of such county continuously or in the aggregate for a period of twenty years, and who shall have attained the age of fifty-five years, or who shall regardless of age have served in the employ of such county continuously or in the aggregate for a period of thirty-five years, shall, upon his application, be retired on half pay. Upon and after the death of such employee or pensioner, said retirement pension shall be paid to the surviving widow, so long as she remains unmarried, surviving widower, so long as he remains unmarried, or minor children up to eighteen years of age, as the case may be. L.1948, c. 310, p. 1243, s. 9.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-17 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-17
Death in active service; payments to beneficiaries
Status: in_force

a. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death in active service of a member of the retirement system, there shall be paid to his widow a survivor's benefit of 25% of final salary for the use of herself, to continue during her widowhood, plus 10% of final salary payable to one surviving child or plus 15% of final salary to two or more surviving children; if there is no surviving widow or in case the widow dies or remarries, 15% of final salary will be payable to one surviving child, 20% of final salary to two surviving children in equal shares and if there be three or more children, 30% of final salary will be payable to such children in equal shares. If there is no surviving widow or child, 20% of final salary will be payable to one surviving parent or 30% of final salary will be payable to two surviving parents in equal shares. b. In addition to the foregoing benefits payable under subsection a., there shall also be paid in one sum to the member's beneficiary an amount equal to one and one-half times the final salary received by the member. c. For the purposes of this section final salary means the current salary for the judicial position in which the member served at the time of death. L.1973, c. 140, s. 17, eff. May 22, 1973. Amended by L.1981, c. 470, s. 10, eff. Jan. 19, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.71 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.71
Adjustment cost to employer; appropriation to be made
Status: in_force

The employer shall bear the cost of the adjustment in the retirement allowances or pensions payable to retirants who retired from the employ of that employer and the cost of the survivorship benefits or pensions payable to beneficiaries of active or retired members who were in the employ of that employer at the members' death or retirement. The employer shall appropriate the amount in the fiscal year next following, taking into account payments made to retirants of the employer and their beneficiaries and prospective payments to be made to those retirants in the following year. The increase in retirement benefits, pensions and survivorship benefits provided for under this act shall commence with retirement allowance, pension and survivorship benefit payments for the month of January 1990, provided that there is appropriated the amount certified by the Director of the Division of Pensions of the Department of the Treasury to the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting as set forth in the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L.1969, c.169 (C.43:3B-1 et seq.). 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 retirement allowance, pension or survivorship benefit. The adjustment in retirement allowances, pensions and survivorship benefits shall continue to be paid as long as there shall be appropriated the amounts so certified. In the event that the necessary funds are not so appropriated, the adjustment in retirement allowances, pensions and survivorship benefits shall cease; no further payments shall be made by the employer; and a refund shall be made by the retirement system to the employer of any balance unexpended on its account. L.1990,c.20,s.9.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-69.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-69.1
Withdrawal from service
Status: in_force

Any member of the pension fund created pursuant to R.S. 43:10-69, who withdraws from service or ceases to be an employee for any cause other than death or retirement, shall, upon the filing of an application therefor, receive all his accumulated deductions standing to the credit of his account, plus interest at the rate of 2% per annum. If the member shall die before withdrawing or before endorsing the check constituting the return of his accumulated deductions, the deductions shall be paid to his beneficiary. If no beneficiary has been named, the deductions shall be paid to his estate. L. 1985, c. 218, s. 4, eff. July 2, 1985.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-98 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-98
Determination of physical unfitness
Status: in_force

6. Physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any court interpreter shall, for all purposes of this act, be established and determined by a board of three physicians who shall be designated for that purpose by the assignment judge of the Superior Court in such county. The three physicians so designated shall examine the court interpreter applying for retirement upon one-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 one-half pay. L.1938,c.330,s.6; amended 1953,c.41,s.9; 1991,c.91,s.419.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-84 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-84
Short title
Status: in_force

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Public Employees' Retirement System Act." L.1954, c. 84, p. 525, s. 84. Amended by L.1971, c. 213, s. 35, eff. June 17, 1971.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.49e — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.49e
Retirement after 60; benefits
Status: in_force

a. A member who shall have attained 60 years, upon retirement from service as an elected official of the city, shall receive a pension equal to 3% of final compensation as an elected official of the city for each year of creditable service as such an official. In no event shall the pension payable under this section exceed two-thirds of final compensation. b. The death benefit provided in section 18 of P.L.1954, c. 218 (C. 43:13-22.20) shall apply in the case of any member retiring under the provisions of this section. c. No member shall be eligible to retire pursuant to this section until he has terminated all public service covered by the retirement system. L.1981, c. 565, s. 5, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-44 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-44
Ineligibility for death benefits for retirant with less than 10 years of service credit; minimum amount of benefit to qualify
Status: in_force

Any other provision of this act notwithstanding, (a) no beneficiary of a retirant who retired for any reason other than disability shall be entitled to receive benefits pursuant to the death benefit coverages provided by sections 19 and 20 of this act if the retirant 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 pension, retirement allowance or other benefit payable pursuant to this act unless the amount of the pension, retirement allowance or benefit would be at least $25.00 per month. L.1973, c. 140, s. 44, eff. May 22, 1973. Amended by L.1981, c. 470, s. 22, eff. Jan. 19, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:12-28.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 12 / Section 12-28.4
Overseers of poor or deputy overseers of poor; application; amount
Status: in_force

Upon written application, the governing body of any municipality may grant, by resolution, an annual pension in an amount not exceeding $1,000.00 per annum to any person 75 years or older who shall have served continuously in such municipality as overseer of the poor or deputy overseer of the poor for not less than 20 years in either or both of such offices and who shall have retired from public service on or before January 1, 1964, provided that such a person is not entitled to or receiving any other pension from the State of New Jersey or political subdivision thereof. If such a pension is granted, it shall continue during the natural life of the person to whom it is granted, subject to the limitation set forth in section 2 of this act. L.1964, c. 59, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-11.7a — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-11.7a
Veteran status determined for military service credit.
Status: in_force

6. The Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Affairs shall be responsible for determining whether any person seeking to be considered a "veteran" under section 1 of P.L.1983, c.391 (C.43:16A-11.7), for the purpose of purchasing military service credit, meets the criteria set forth therein and adjudicating an appeal from any person disputing this determination. The determination of the commissioner shall be binding upon the board of trustees. L.2000, c.127, s.6; amended 2018, c.55, s.11; 2025, c.139, s.98.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-13a — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-13a
Transfer of certain powers, functions, duties.
Status: in_force

38. All of the present functions, powers, and duties relating to the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey in the Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury are hereby transferred to the Board of Trustees of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey, except that the Board of Trustees of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey may contract with the Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury to effectuate the goals of this Act. The Department of the Treasury and the Division of Investment shall retain all functions, powers, duties, equipment and records relating to Common Pension Fund L assigned to the Department of the Treasury and the Division of Investment by P.L. 2017, c.98 (C.5:9-22.5 et seq.). Copies of records relating to the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey in the Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury and the Division of Investment shall be made available to the Board of Trustees of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey upon request. L.2018, c.55, s.38.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-12.3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-12.3
Designation of beneficiary; payment of benefits
Status: in_force

The designation of beneficiary by a member or retirant shall be made in writing on a form satisfactory to the retirement system, and filed with the retirement system. The member or retirant may, from time to time and without the consent of his death benefit designee, change the beneficiary by filing written notice of the change with the system on a form satisfactory to it. The new nomination will be effective on the date the notice, in proper form, is received by the system, and any prior nomination shall thereupon become void. If more than one beneficiary is nominated and in such nomination the member or retirant has failed to specify their respective interests, the beneficiaries shall share equally. If any beneficiary predeceases the member or retirant, the interest of such beneficiary shall terminate and shall be shared equally by such of the beneficiaries as survive the member or retirant, unless the member or retirant has made written request to the contrary in his beneficiary nomination. Any amounts due for which there is no beneficiary at the death of a member, retirant or beneficiary shall be payable to the estate of such member, retirant or beneficiary. Except with regard to the payment of the member's accumulated deductions and the payment, upon the death of a retirant after attaining the age of 55 years, of the death benefits provided in 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, a member may elect, by making written request to the retirement system, that the whole or any part of his death benefits be made payable to his beneficiary either as a life annuity or in equal installments over a period of years specified in such election, and may alter such election from time to time during his lifetime by again making such written request. In the event of a change of beneficiary, any previous arrangement by the member or retirant under this paragraph shall be void. The election set forth in this paragraph shall not apply or be available when the beneficiary is an estate, or a corporation, partnership, association, institution, trustee, or any fiduciary. If, at the member's or retirant's death, an amount of death benefit would be payable to the beneficiary in a single sum, any election with regard to such amount which was available to the member or retirant immediately prior to his death in accordance with the provisions of the immediately preceding paragraph shall then be available to such beneficiary for the benefit of such beneficiary. The provisions of this section shall be construed separately with respect to each of the death benefits for which a beneficiary is designated by the member or retirant. L.1967, c. 250, s. 28, eff. Dec. 18, 1967.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-77 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-77
Retirement for disability incurred in service
Status: in_force

Any sergeant at arms or court crier who shall have received a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness incurred at any time which shall permanently incapacitate him from further duty shall, upon certification of the fact of such disability by three physicians designated as hereinafter provided, be retired upon half pay.
N.J. Stat. § 43:8C-7 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 8C / Section 8C-7
Rules by Director of Division of Local Government Services.
Status: in_force

7. The director may adopt rules to effectuate the purposes of this act in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.). L.1999,c.59,s.7.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-104 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-104
Contribution rate.
Status: in_force

8. The percentage contribution rate of each member who is a law enforcement officer shall be fixed according to his age at the time of becoming a permanent and full-time employee of the State and shall be 1/2 of the total percentage contribution rate calculated for such age by the actuary of the board of trustees to be required to provide all benefits of service retirement, ordinary disability retirement, and termination of service benefits provided by this act and the act to which this act is a supplement. In the event that a member ceases to hold a position as a law enforcement officer although continuing his employment in a position covered by the Public Employees' Retirement System, his rate of contribution shall be fixed in accordance with the rates applicable at that time to persons becoming members who are not law enforcement officers, except that his age at the time of becoming a permanent full-time employee of the State shall be used in determining his rate of contribution. Members of the retirement system shall contribute 6.5% of compensation to the system 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. L.1955, c.257, s.8; amended 1956, c.55, s.4; 2011, c.78, s.11.
N.J. Stat. § 43:8C-4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 8C / Section 8C-4
Additional service credits, PFRS, PERS; conditions.
Status: in_force

4. a. For employees who are members of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey, pursuant to P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.), an incentive program for retirement may provide additional months of service credit for an employee who has 20 or more years of service credit on the last day for retirement under the incentive program, so that the employee shall have an aggregate amount of service credit under the retirement system of no more than 30 years on the effective date of retirement. In no case shall more than 60 months of additional service credit be provided under the incentive program. b. For employees who are members of the Public Employees' Retirement System of New Jersey, pursuant to P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 et seq.), or a county or municipal retirement system, an incentive program for retirement may provide not more than 60 additional months of service credit for an employee who has 20 or more years of service credit on the last day for retirement under the incentive program. c. An incentive program may require one or more of the following criteria: a minimum number of years of service credit in a retirement system, a minimum number of years of service with the local unit, or a minimum age for eligibility to participate in the program. d. An employee who receives an incentive benefit for retirement or termination of employment under P.L.1999, c.59 (C.43:8C-1 et seq.) shall forfeit any tenure, civil service, or other employment right for continued employment or for return to employment based upon the employment for which the employee receives the incentive benefit. e. When the needs of the local unit require the continuation in service of an employee who elects to retire and receive an incentive benefit under P.L.1999, c.59 (C.43:8C-1 et seq.), the effective retirement date of the employee may be delayed, with the approval of the governing body of the local unit and the agreement of the employee, until the first day of any month not later than the twelfth month after the last date for retirement under the incentive program. If an employee whose retirement is delayed under this subsection dies before the retirement becomes effective, the retirement shall be effective on the first day of the month after the date of death of the employee, unless the employee's beneficiary for retirement benefits requests in writing to the board of trustees of the retirement system that benefits payable for death in active service be paid on behalf of the employee. f. An employee retiring with an incentive benefit under P.L.1999, c.59 (C.43:8C-1 et seq.) who has not paid the full amount of a loan from the retirement system by the effective date of retirement may repay the loan through deductions from the monthly retirement benefits in the same monthly amount which was deducted from the member's compensation immediately preceding retirement, until the balance of the amount borrowed with interest at the statutory rate is repaid. If the retiree dies before the outstanding balance of the loan and interest is repaid, the remaining balance shall be repaid as provided in the laws governing the retirement system for repayment of loans. g. Notwithstanding the provisions of the laws governing the retirement system, an employee purchasing service credit to qualify for a benefit under P.L.1999, c.59 (C.43:8C-1 et seq.) may, for each affected retirement system, purchase a portion of the service credit which the employee is eligible to purchase. h. If the incentive program is approved and implemented, the actuary to the affected retirement system shall determine the full amount of the liability of the retirement system for the incentive program including the liability for the additional service credit and the earlier retirement of employees under the incentive program in accordance with the assumptions used by the retirement system to determine the full liabilities of the system. The local unit shall pay the amount of the liability determined by the actuary to the retirement system in a lump sum or through annual installment payments with regular interest at the rate used by the retirement system to determine liabilities and to estimate investment return for a period approved by the Director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury which shall not exceed 15 years. The local unit shall pay the cost for the actuarial work to determine the full liability of the retirement system if the incentive program is approved and implemented. If the local unit does not make payments for the liability, the cost of the actuarial work, and administrative expenses in a timely manner, the local unit shall be subject to interest and penalties on the payments on the same basis provided for late payment of employer contributions to the retirement system under the laws and rules governing the retirement system. i. The Director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall provide a local unit with information on the estimated liability for the proposed incentive program, and actual liability if the program is approved and implemented. If the program provides additional service credit to employees under the Public Employees' Retirement System of New Jersey, pursuant to P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 et seq.) or the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey, pursuant to P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.), the director shall provide the eligible employees of the local unit with information on the benefits they would receive under the incentive program, and other appropriate assistance, to enable employees to decide whether to accept the incentive benefit and retire from the retirement systems if they accept the incentive benefit. j. The powers, duties and responsibilities related to retirement systems under P.L.1999, c.59 (C.43:8C-1 et seq.) for county and municipal retirement systems shall be exercised and performed by the governing bodies of the retirement systems. L.1999,c.59,s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-106 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-106
Retirement for service and age
Status: in_force

In any county of this State the county superintendent of weights and measures and the assistant county superintendents of weights and measures, where such persons have served for a continuous period of twenty years, and have reached the age of sixty years, shall, upon their respective applications, in writing, be retired upon one-half pay. The words "be retired upon one-half pay," as used in this act, shall be construed to mean retirement upon a pension equal to one-half of the annual salary of such person at the time of retirement. L.1938, c. 397, p. 984, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-93 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-93
Conversion privilege
Status: in_force

Any such group policy or policies shall include, with respect to any insurance terminating or reducing because the member ceases to be eligible for participation under the Public Employees' Retirement System or 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 38, 41, 45, 46, 48, 49 and 57 of P.L. 1954, c. 84 (C. 43:15A-38, 43:15A-41, 43:15A-45, 43:15A-46, 43:15A-48, 43:15A-49, 43:15A-57), the conversion privilege available upon termination of the group policy as prescribed by the law relating to group life insurance. 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, 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 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 Public Employees' Retirement System, 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 P.L. 1954, c. 84 (C. 43:15A-1 et seq.) unless he furnishes satisfactory evidence of insurability. L. 1955, c.214, s.6; amended by L. 1987, c. 1, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-24b — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-24b
State liable for increased cost to government employers for veterans of operations Restore Hope, Joint Endeavor and Joint Guard
Status: in_force

3. The State shall be liable for any increased cost to local government employers participating in the Public Employees' Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 et seq.), as a result of the provisions of this act, P.L.2001, c.128. L.2001, c.128, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-8
Eligibility for retirement; 10 years or more of service; amount of pension
Status: in_force

a. Any member who shall have served at least 10 years as a judge of the several courts and having attained the age of 70 years, shall be retired. b. Any member who shall have served at least 15 years as a judge of the several courts and having attained the age of 65 years but not the age of 70 years, may retire. c. Any member who shall have served at least 20 years as a judge of the several courts and having attained the age of 60 years but not the age of 65 years, may retire. d. Service in the several courts as given in subsections a., b. and c. of this section shall include service in the office of the Chancellor, Chief Justice of the old Supreme Court, associate justice of the old supreme court, judge of the circuit court, Vice-Chancellor, judge of the court of errors and appeals, judge of the court of common pleas, and advisory master to the superior court. e. 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 his accumulated deductions together with regular interest, and a pension which, when added to the member's annuity, will provide a retirement allowance during the remainder of his life in the amount equal to three-quarters of his final salary. L.1973, c. 140, s. 8, eff. May 22, 1973. Amended by L.1981, c. 470, s. 2, eff. Jan. 19, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-48.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-48.4
Transferred employees; deduction; contributions; rate; rights and benefits; credits
Status: in_force

The transferred employees thereby affected shall be members of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System and deductions from their salaries and contributions on their behalf shall thereafter be made as required by the act creating such system for members thereof. Such transferred employees shall have the same contribution obligation and enjoy the same rights and benefits of all other members of the system except as provided by this act. Any credit for public service which had been established in the county or county park commission pension funds or in the Public Employees' Retirement System by the transferred employee shall be established in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System. Upon the transfer of membership to the Police and Firemen's Retirement System under the provisions of this act, the rate of contribution of such member shall be determined by the rates payable by other members, except that the number of years of credited service in the former pension fund shall be deducted from the member's current age in order to fix the age upon which the rate of contribution is based. L.1973, c. 92, s. 4, eff. April 24, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-68 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-68
Transmittal of information by chief fiscal officer.
Status: in_force

9. The chief fiscal officer of the employer shall transmit to the retirement system such information as the system shall require in order for the board of trustees to comply with the provisions of this act. L.1973, c.156, s.9; amended 2018, c.55, s.34.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-20.3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-20.3
Definitions relative to unemployment insurance benefits.
Status: in_force

1. For the purposes of this act: "Affected unit" means a specified plant or other facility, department, shift or other definable unit which includes two or more employees to which an approved short-time benefits program applies. "Division" means the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, or any representative of the division responsible for approval or other division responsibilities regarding a shared work program. "Health insurance and pension coverage" means employer-provided health benefits, and retirement benefits under a defined benefit plan, as defined in section 414(j) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 414(j)), or employer contributions under a defined contribution plan, as defined in section 414(i) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 414(i)), which are incidents of employment in addition to the cash remuneration earned. "Shared work employer" means an employer who is providing a shared work program approved by the division pursuant to section 2 of this act. "Shared work program" means a program submitted by an employer for approval by the division pursuant to section 2 of P.L.2011, c.154 (C.43:21-20.4) and approved by the division, under which the employer requests short-time benefits to employees in an affected unit of the employer to avert layoffs. "Short-time benefits" means unemployment benefits payable to employees of an affected unit under an approved shared work program that are intended to be in lieu of layoffs and provided pursuant to sections 1 through 9 of this act, as distinguished from unemployment benefits otherwise payable under the New Jersey "unemployment compensation law," R.S. 43:21-1 et seq. "Usual weekly hours of work" means the usual hours of work for an employee in the affected unit when that unit is operating on its regular basis, not to exceed forty hours and not including hours of overtime work. L.2011, c.154, s.1; amended 2013, c.279, s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15C-5 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15C / Section 15C-5
Allocation of contributions by participants.
Status: in_force

5. Participants in the Defined Contribution Retirement Program shall be allowed to allocate their own contributions and the contributions of their employer into investment alternatives as determined by the Defined Contribution Retirement Program Board, including, but not limited, to mutual funds, subject to such rules and regulations as the Division of Pensions and Benefits may adopt, in accordance with all Internal Revenue Code rules and regulations. All moneys which are deferred and deducted in accordance with the provisions of sections 1 through 19 of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 through C.43:15C-15, C.43:3C-9, C.43:15A-7, C.43:15A-75 and C.43:15A-135) and the program shall remain assets of the State and shall be invested in accordance with the provisions of this act and the program. The obligation of the State to participating employees and contractors shall be contractual only and no preferred or special interest in the deferred moneys shall accrue to such employees or contractors, except that all assets and income of the program shall be held in trust for the exclusive benefit of participating employees and their beneficiaries. L.2007, c.92, s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-84 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-84
Retirement for service and age
Status: in_force

In any first class county of this state any county clerk's employee who shall now or hereafter have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years and shall have reached the age of sixty years, shall, upon application, in writing, to the board of chosen freeholders of the county, be retired upon half pay.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-39 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-39
Computing service.
Status: in_force

39. In computing for retirement purposes the total service of a member about to be retired, the retirement system shall credit the member with the time of all service rendered by the member since that member's last enrollment, and in addition with all the service to which the member is entitled and with no other service. Except as otherwise provided in this act, this service credit shall be final and conclusive for retirement purposes unless the member shall discontinue service for more than two consecutive years. In the case of a member for whom compensation is defined in paragraph (2) of subsection r. of section 6 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-6), the retirement system shall credit the member with the time of all service rendered by the member during the part of any year that the member was a participant of the Defined Contribution Retirement Program, pursuant to paragraph (5) of subsection a. of section 2 of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-2) as amended by section 12 of P.L.2007, c.103, and making contributions to that program. For the purpose of computing service for retirement purposes, the board shall fix and determine by appropriate rules and regulations how much service in any year shall equal a year of service and a part of a year of service. Not more than one year shall be credited for all service in a calendar year. A member may purchase credit for time during which the member shall have been absent on an official leave without pay. The credit shall be purchased for a period of time equal to: (1) three months or the duration of the leave, whichever is less; or (2) if the leave was due to the member's personal illness, two years or the duration of the leave, whichever is less; or (3) the period of leave that is specifically allowed for retirement purposes by the provisions of any law of this State. 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 credit by section 8 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-8). In computing the service or in computing final compensation, no time during which a member was in employment, office, or position for which the annual salary or remuneration was fixed at less than $500.00 in the case of service rendered prior to November 6, 1986, or for which the annual salary or remuneration, or the number of hours of work, is fixed at less than that which was required for membership pursuant to section 7 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-7) as applicable to the member in the case of service rendered on or after that date, shall be credited. In computing the service or in computing final compensation, no time during which a member was in employment, office, or position for which the hours of work were 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) after the effective date of P.L.2010, c.1 shall be credited, unless the member shall have been a member since that effective date continuously. In the case of a veteran member credit shall be given for service rendered prior to January 2, 1955, in an employment, office or position if the annual salary or remuneration therefor was fixed at not less than $300.00 and such service consisted of the performance of the full duties of the employment, office or position. L.1954, c.84, s.39; amended 1954, c.244, s.7; 1955, c.261, s.10; 1966, c.217, s.7; 1971, c.213, s.16; 1986, c.139, s.2; 1991, c.138, s.10; 2007, c.103, s.18; 2008, c.89, s.8; 2010, c.1, s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-103 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-103
Payment upon death of member who had retired on accidental disability retirement allowance
Status: in_force

Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who at the time of retirement was a law enforcement officer and who has retired on an accidental 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 $5,000.00 or the amount payable pursuant to section 46c of the act to which this act is a supplement, whichever is greater. L.1955, c. 257, p. 942, s. 7.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-8
Withdrawal from fund; employee without widow, widower or dependent children under 18; repayment of deductions
Status: in_force

Any employee entering the fund may at any time thereafter withdraw therefrom and shall be entitled to a refund of the moneys theretofore deducted from his salary hereunder. Where the employee leaves no widow, widower, or dependent children under 18 years of age, all moneys theretofore deducted from his salary for the retirement system established hereunder shall be paid to the person designated by said employee as his or her beneficiary and if no such designation has been made or if the beneficiary has predeceased said employee, all moneys deducted from his or her salary for the retirement system shall be paid to the estate of the deceased employee. Amended by L.1973, c. 345, s. 5, eff. Dec. 27, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-79 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-79
State employees paid by county or municipality; membership in Public Employees' Retirement System
Status: in_force

(a) All employees of the State whose compensation is paid in whole or in part by any county or municipality in which chapter 15 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes has been, or in which this act is, adopted shall be entitled to receive the same benefits as employees of such county or municipality are entitled to receive and the county or municipality paying such compensation shall have the same obligations with respect to such employees of the State as it has to its own employees under this act. (b) All employees of the State, employed on or before the effective date of this amendatory act, whose compensation is paid in whole or in part by any county or municipality or by any board, body, commission or agency of any county or municipality maintained by funds supplied by the county or municipality in which chapter 15 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes or in which this act has not been adopted and for which a separate retirement system has been provided by statute, and who were members of such system on the effective date of this amendatory act and do not apply for withdrawal from such system within 60 days from such effective date, shall be treated as county or municipal employees for the purpose of membership in a retirement or pension system and, as such, they shall be ineligible for membership in the public employees' retirement system. (c) Except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, an employee of the State whose compensation is paid in whole or in part by any such county or municipality or by any board, body, commission or agency of any such county or municipality maintained by funds supplied by such county or municipality shall be eligible for membership in the public employees' retirement system and shall not be a member of any county or municipal pension system by reason of such State service. Any such veteran employee who is not a member of such county or municipal pension system on the effective date of this amendatory act may within 60 days from such effective date apply for prior service credit as provided in section 60 of this act, and shall be entitled to same as therein provided. The county or municipality shall be deemed to be the employer of such employees of the State for the purposes of this act and shall have the obligation as such employer as set forth in section 81 of this act. Any employee who applies to withdraw from a county retirement system, as provided in subsection (b) hereof, shall, within said 60-day period, file a copy of such application with the board of trustees of the public employees' retirement system together with his application for membership in the public employees' retirement system. The county retirement system to which such employee has made contributions shall cause to be transferred to the public employees' retirement system within 90 days thereafter the amount of such employees' contributions to such county retirement system, without interest, for which such employee shall receive prior service credit for the time of his membership in such county retirement system. Any such veteran member who, in his application for membership in the public employees' retirement system requests prior service credit as provided by section 60 of this act, shall be entitled to same as therein provided. (d) Any State employee veteran, who is not eligible for membership, by reason of subsection (b) hereof, in the public employees' retirement system, and who is paid in whole or in part by any county or municipality or by any board, body, commission or agency of any county or municipality maintained by funds supplied by the county or municipality, shall not thereby be rendered ineligible for retirement benefits under sections 43:4-1, 43:4-2 and 43:4-3 of the Revised Statutes, and the responsibility for the payment of said retirement benefits shall be upon the county or municipality or such board, body, commission or agency which pays his salary. (e) When any employee of any county in which chapter 15 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes or this act has not been adopted and for which a separate retirement system has been provided by statute, who was a member of such system on February 10, 1956, later becomes an employee of the State, whose compensation is paid in whole or in part by such county, he shall retain his membership in such retirement system, notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of the act of which this act is amendatory, provided that he shall notify the Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System of his desire to retain such membership within 30 days after his becoming a State employee, or within 30 days from the effective date of this amendatory act, whichever is later. Thereafter he shall be treated as a county employee for the purpose of membership in a retirement system and, as such, shall be ineligible for membership in the Public Employees' Retirement System. L.1954, c. 84, p. 524, s. 79. Amended by L.1954, c. 244, p. 902, s. 15; L.1956, c. 4, p. 15, s. 1; L.1957, c. 31, p. 58, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3B-3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3B / Section 3B-3
Percentage of adjustment; calculation
Status: in_force

For retirants and beneficiaries, the percentage of adjustment which shall apply to the retirement allowance, survivorship benefit or pension originally granted to a retirant or beneficiary shall be calculated in accordance with the following percentages as determined by the calendar year in which the retirement became effective; provided that, in no instance shall the amount of the retirement allowance or pension paid to any retirant under this act including payments under future revisions be less than the retirement allowance or pension paid under chapter 143, public laws of 1958 as amended by chapter 144, public laws of 1961 and chapter 198, public laws of 1964; and, provided further, that in no instance shall the amount of the retirement allowance, survivorship benefit or pension originally granted and payable to any retirant or beneficiary be reduced as a result of the provisions of this amendatory and supplementary act. In no event shall a beneficiary whose benefit year is established by subsection d.(4) of section 1 of this act (C. 43:3B-1) be eligible for an increase under this section. Year of Year of Retirement Percentage of Retirement Percentage of or Death Adjustment or Death Adjustment 1915 219% 1935 137% 1916 198% 1936 134% 1917 153% 1937 126% 1918 116% 1938 130% 1919 88% 1939 134% 1920 62% 1940 132% 1921 82% 1941 120% 1922 94% 1942 99% 1923 90% 1943 88% 1924 90% 1944 85% 1925 85% 1945 80% 1926 84% 1946 66% 1927 87% 1947 45% 1928 89% 1948 35% 1929 89% 1949 36% 1930 94% 1950 35% 1931 113% 1951 25% 1932 138% 1952 22% 1933 151% 1953 21% 1934 143% 1954 21% L.1958, c.143, s.3; amended by L.1961, c. 144, p. 820, s. 2, eff. July 1, 1962; L.1969, c. 169, s. 3; L.1971, c. 139, s. 4, eff. May 12, 1971; L.1977, c. 306, s. 2, eff. Dec. 27, 1977.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-45.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-45.1
Increase in retirement allowance under C.43:15A-45 and C.43:15A-50.
Status: in_force

10. The retirement allowance of each retiree under section 45 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-45), or the retiree's beneficiary pursuant to section 50 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-50), on the effective date of P.L.2001, c.353 shall be increased by a percentage equivalent to the percentage increase in the fraction of final compensation for each year of credited service for the total retirement allowance under these sections made by this act, P.L.2001, c.353 (C.18A:66-41.1 et al.). The provisions of section 7 of P.L.1969, c.169 (C.43:3B-8) shall not be applicable to the increases in retirement allowances provided by this section. L.2001,c.353,s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-26 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-26
Excess refundable; shortage deducted
Status: in_force

Any contributions made by a member of the former "State Employees' Retirement System" prior to June 30, 1953, which are in excess of those required shall be refundable with regular interest to the member on demand or used at retirement to provide an annuity of equivalent actuarial value which shall be in addition to his regular retirement allowance. The actuarial equivalent of any shortage in required contributions at the time of retirement on account of misstatement of age, leave of absence, or clerical error, shall be deducted from the retirement allowance otherwise payable. L.1954, c. 84, p. 491, s. 26.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-39.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-39.4
Availability of annual reports; contents.
Status: in_force

13. a. (1) The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall issue and make available to the public, not later than December 31, 2010, and each subsequent year, annual reports providing data on temporary disability benefits, and, for each annual report issued not later than December 31 of 2019 and each subsequent year, all of the data required by this paragraph (1) as amended by P.L.2018, c.123, including separate data for claims involving pregnancy and childbirth, and family temporary disability benefits, including separate data for each of the following categories of claims: care of newborn children; care of newly adopted children; care of sick children; care of sick spouses, and care of other sick family members. The reports shall include, for each category of claims, the occupations of the workers receiving the benefits, the regular weekly wages earned by the workers receiving the benefits, the number of workers receiving the benefits, the number of workers receiving the benefits that work full-time, the number of workers receiving the benefits that work part-time, the number of workers receiving the benefits that belong to a labor union or employee organization, the number of employers employing each worker in the worker's base year, the amount of benefits paid, the average duration of benefits, the average weekly benefit, the county in which the employer is located, whether the employer is private or a governmental entity, the employer size based on whether the employer employs less than 30 workers or employs 30 or more workers, and, in the case of family temporary disability benefits, any reported amount of sick leave, vacation or other fully paid time which resulted in reduced benefit duration, and the number of workers claiming intermittent benefits. The report shall provide data by: gender; race, ethnicity or national origin; level of educational attainment; and by any other demographic factors determined to be relevant by the commissioner. The reports shall also provide, for all temporary disability benefits and for all family temporary disability benefits, the number of workers claiming both temporary disability benefits and family temporary disability benefits in the same calendar year, the total costs of benefits and the total cost of administration, the portion of benefits for claims during unemployment, and the total revenues from: employer assessments, where applicable; employee assessments; and other sources. (2) For each of the reports issued not later than December 31 of 2019 and each subsequent year, the report shall also provide the amount and rate of contributions, with the amount of the tax base, made by employers, including, separately, the amounts paid by employers with private plans, for benefits for periods of disability and periods of family disability leave, and the amount and rate of contributions, with the amount of the tax base, made by workers, and benefits paid to workers, including, separately, benefits paid to, and contributions paid by, workers in private plans, for each of the following: benefits for periods of disability, and benefits for periods of family temporary disability leave. The portion of the report regarding private plans shall include: the number of claims received, the number of claims accepted, the amount of benefits paid, the number of workers covered, the administrative costs, and, in the case of private plans in which insurance companies assume the liability for benefits, in addition to the foregoing, premiums earned, dividends to policy holders, benefit losses, and expenses incurred, and in the case of private plans in which insurance companies do not assume the liability for benefits, the amount contributed by workers. b. The commissioner may, in his discretion, conduct surveys and other research regarding, and include in the annual reports descriptions and evaluations of, the impact and potential future impact of the provisions of P.L.2008, c.17 (C.43:21-39.1 et al.) on the State disability benefits fund, and other effects of those provisions, including the costs and benefits resulting from the provisions of P.L.2008, c.17 (C.43:21-39.1 et al.) for: (1) Employees and their families, including surveys and evaluations of: what portion of the total number of employees taking leave would not have taken leave, or would have taken less leave, without the availability of benefits; what portion of employees return to work after receiving benefits and what portion are not permitted to return to work; and what portion of employees who are eligible for benefits do not claim or receive them and why they do not; (2) Employers, including benefits such as reduced training and other costs related to reduced turnover of personnel, and increased affordability of family temporary disability leave insurance through the State plan, with special attention given to small businesses; and (3) The public, including savings caused by any reduction in the number of people receiving public assistance. c. The total amount of any expenses which the commissioner determines are necessary to carry out his duties pursuant to this section shall be charged to the Family Temporary Disability Leave Account of the State disability benefits fund, except that the amount shall in no case exceed $150,000 during any fiscal year. L.2008, c.17, s.13; amended 2018, c.123; 2019, c.37, s.16.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-138 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-138
Age of retirement; retirement allowance
Status: in_force

A member, who shall have attained the age of 60 years, upon retirement on the basis of legislative 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 3% of final compensation as a legislator, for each year of creditable service as a member of the Legislature. In no event shall the allowance payable under this section exceed two-thirds of final compensation. c. The death benefit provided in P.L.1954, c. 84, s. 48(c) (C. 43:15A-48c) shall apply in the case of any member retiring under the provisions of this section. d. No member shall be eligible to retire pursuant to this section until he has terminated all public service covered by the retirement system. L.1972, c. 167, s. 4, eff. Nov. 3, 1972.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-3.12 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-3.12
Noneligibility for additional benefits
Status: in_force

5. A person transferring to PFRS under this supplementary act shall not be eligible to receive any benefit provided under P.L.1993, c.99 unless the person receives full credit toward benefits under PFRS for the transferred PERS service credit as provided in section 3 of this supplementary act. L.1993,c.247,s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-24.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-24.1
Payment of pension adjustment benefits.
Status: in_force

2. Pension adjustment benefits for members and beneficiaries of the Public Employees' Retirement System provided by the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L.1958, c.143 (C.43:3B-1 et seq.), shall be paid by the retirement system and shall be funded as employer obligations by the same method provided by law for the funding of employer obligations for the basic retirement benefits provided by the retirement system. Normal and accrued liability contributions for pension adjustment benefits for active employees of employers other than the State shall be determined for the 1992 valuation year and shall be phased in so that the level of recognition of the full normal and accrued liability contributions for the State and other employers shall be 20% for valuation year 1992 and 24% for valuation year 1993, and shall be increased by 2.24% for each valuation year thereafter until the full normal and accrued liability contributions are fully recognized. L.1990, c.6, s.2; amended 1992, c.41, s.16; 1993, c.182; 1994, c.62, s.8; 1997, c.115, s.6; 2002, c.11, s.2; 2007, c.103, s.44.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.74 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.74
Termination of increases if blanket increase in benefits adopted
Status: in_force

If legislation is adopted providing for a blanket increase in the original retirement allowances, pensions or survivorship benefits or for minimum allowances, pensions or benefits to any group of retirants or beneficiaries eligible for benefits under P.L.1964, c.275 (C.43:13-22.50 et seq.), other than legislation which shall have been enacted on or before the effective date of P.L.1990, c.20 (C.43:13-22.69 et al.), all increases provided under this act shall be terminated on the first of the month when such blanket increases or minimum allowances, pensions or benefits are payable, except in those instances where the retirant's or beneficiary's original allowance, pension or benefit plus the increases provided under this act will exceed the amounts payable to such retirant or beneficiary as a result of such other legislation; in such event the amount payable under this act shall be the difference between the new allowance, pension or benefit payable by the pension fund and the amount which would otherwise have been paid under this act. Any subsequent annual review of amounts payable under this act for such retirants and beneficiaries shall continue to be determined on the basis of the original allowance, pension benefit as granted by the pension fund prior to any blanket increase or provision for minimum retirement allowances, pensions or survivorship benefits for any group of retirants or beneficiaries eligible for benefits under this act. L.1990,c.20,s.12.
N.J. Stat. § 43:17-45 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-45
Executive committee powers; annual report
Status: in_force

43:17-45. The executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall have the supervision and power of control of the funds and other property of all firemen's relief associations, shall see that the same are properly guarded and legally invested and expended and shall examine the annual reports of each association. It shall report to the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, on or before June 10th in each year, a list of all associations which have complied with the law in all respects. Only associations so reported shall be entitled to the pro rata share of the moneys arising from the two per cent on premiums. Amended 1996, c.151, s.37.
N.J. Stat. § 43:17-31 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-31
Annual statements; filing, examination.
Status: in_force

43:17-31. On or before February 20th in every year, each local firemen's relief association, however incorporated, shall file a financial report with the field examiner of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association who then shall file a sworn statement with the Secretary of State on or before May 1st showing: a. The names of its representatives, trustees and other officers, and the amount of their respective fees or salaries, if any; b. The names of the applicants approved for relief during or within the year preceding the statement and the amount of money paid to each of them; c. The receipts and expenses during the year, which shall be stated in detail; and d. The amount of money or other property in its possession at the date of making the statement and how the money is invested or secured and where it is deposited. The executive committee shall cause an examination to be made of the local association and shall file a biannual report, certified by an accountant licensed by the State of New Jersey, with the Department of Banking and Insurance. The report shall provide the following: (1) a statement of the plan and procedures for the examination and report; (2) reasonable assurances that each local association's financial statement is free of material misstatements; (3) material instances of non-compliance or failures to follow State statutes, regulations, or policies and the rules and regulations of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association; (4) information to provide for the economical, fair, and non-discriminatory administration and efficient provisions for protection of the assets of the local association. The statement of the plan and procedures shall be prepared by the executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association and be filed with the Department of Banking and Insurance. The plan or the procedures may be amended from time to time. The report shall be filed with the Treasurer of the New Jersey State Fireman's Association and the Department of Banking and Insurance on or before June 1. Amended 1996, c.151, s.26; 2005, c.39, s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-24.29 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-24.29
Payment of emergency unemployment benefits
Status: in_force

10. Emergency unemployment benefits may be paid pursuant to the provisions of sections 7 through 11 of P.L.2002, c.13 (C.43:21-24.26 through C.43:21-24.30) only with respect to weeks not within an extended benefit period, and not within a period covered by any federal law allowing the filing of new claims extending benefits beyond those provided for as regular or extended benefits. L.2002,c.13,s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-53 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-53
Pension to dependent widower and children
Status: in_force

The widower 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 he shall remain unmarried, equal to one-half the amount of the annual salary of such county probation officer at the time of her death, and upon the death of such widower, or in the event there be no widower, 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; provided, however, that no pension shall be paid to the surviving husband of any deceased probation officer unless such surviving husband was wholly dependent for his income upon such county probation officer at the time of her death, and shall continue to remain so dependent upon the income which such probation officer was receiving at the time of her death; and further provided, that such surviving husband shall be and continue to remain physically or mentally incapable of pursuing some gainful occupation. The question of dependency, as well as ability to pursue some gainful occupation, of the surviving husband shall be determined in the same manner as the permanent incapacity of probation officer as provided for in section 43:10-51 of this title.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3C-17 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3C / Section 3C-17
Utilization of super conciliator.
Status: in_force

33. Whenever a committee of the Public Employees' Retirement System, the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, or the State Police Retirement System fails to render a decision on a matter before the committee because it has not received a vote of the majority of the committee members after 60 days have passed following the initial consideration of the matter, the committee shall utilize a super conciliator, randomly selected from a list developed by the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission. The super conciliator shall assist the committee based upon procedures and subject to qualifications established by the commission pursuant to regulation. The super conciliator shall promptly schedule investigatory proceedings. The purpose of the proceedings shall be to: Investigate and acquire all relevant information regarding the committee's failure to render a decision; Discuss with the members of the committee their differences, and utilize means and mechanisms, including but not limited to requiring 24-hour per day negotiations, until a voluntary settlement is reached, and provide recommendations to resolve the members' differences; and Institute any other non-binding procedures deemed appropriate by the super conciliator. If the actions taken by the super conciliator fail to resolve the dispute, the super conciliator shall issue a final report, which shall be provided to the committee promptly and made available to the public within 10 days thereafter. The super conciliator, while functioning in a mediatory capacity, shall not be required to disclose any files, records, reports, documents, or other papers classified as confidential which are received or prepared by him or to testify with regard to mediation conducted by him under this section. Nothing contained herein shall exempt an individual from disclosing information relating to the commission of a crime. L.2011, c.78, s.33; amended 2018, c.55, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.49d — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.49d
Member of PERS; remittance and adjustment of accumulated deductions and employer's obligation to retirement system of city
Status: in_force

In the case of an elected official who is a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to section 75 of P.L.1954, c. 84 (C. 43:15A-75), all accumulated deductions standing to the credit of such an official shall be remitted to the retirement system of the city within 120 days following the receipt of the ordinance as prescribed in section 10 of this supplementary act. Such deductions shall be adjusted for all years prior to the adoption of the ordinance to determine either an overpayment or shortage in the separate account on the basis of the percentage of salary provided for in section 3 of this supplementary act. Overpayments shall be refunded, and shortages shall be established as arrearage obligations to be satisfied in the same manner as any other arrearage obligation established pursuant to section 3. Within 180 days following the receipt of the ordinance, the pro rata part of the reserve fund constituting the employer's obligations under P.L.1954, c. 84 (C. 43:15A-1 et seq.) applicable to the elected official's account shall be remitted to the retirement system of the city. Interest at the rate of 6% per annum shall be added to the employer's obligation if such moneys are not remitted within the periods prescribed by this section. L.1981, c. 565, s. 4, eff. Jan. 12, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16-2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16 / Section 16-2
Retirement for disability
Status: in_force

Any member of such police or paid or part-paid fire department who shall have received permanent disability as a direct result of a traumatic event occurring while performing his regular or assigned duties shall be retired upon an accidental disability pension equal to 2/3 of his average salary if an application for such retirement is filed by such member or by his employer within 5 years after the date of such traumatic event or the commission may consider an application filed after the 5-year period if it can be factually demonstrated to the satisfaction of the commission that the disability is due to the accident and the filing was not accomplished within the 5-year period due to a delayed manifestation of the disability or other circumstances beyond the control of the member. A member of any such department who shall have served honorably and who shall have become permanently and totally incapacitated for service for any cause other than as a direct result of a traumatic event occurring during the performance of duty, shall, upon approval of his application, or the application of his employer, be retired on a nonaccident disability pension equal to 1/2 of his average salary. Permanent and total disability resulting from a cardiovascular, pulmonary or musculo-skeletal condition which was not a direct result of a traumatic event occurring in the performance of duty shall be deemed a nonaccident disability. A member of any such department seeking to retire on an accident disability or nonaccident disability pension shall make application to the commission in writing; or the commission may, upon application of the employer, cite any such member of any such department before it to examine such member concerning his alleged disability and in either case the commission shall call to its assistance the aid of a surgeon or physician, and the member may likewise call to his aid a regularly licensed and practicing physician or surgeon; but no member shall be so retired unless the official physician of the local police or fire department, as the case may be, with which the person to be retired is connected, shall certify to the commission that such member has the disability by reason of which the retirement is sought. The chairman of the commission is authorized to administer oaths to such physicians or surgeons or any other person called with respect to the matter before the commission. If the 2 physicians or surgeons so called fail to agree upon the physical or mental condition of the member, the commission may call a third and disinterested, licensed and practicing physician or surgeon, and the determination of a majority of such surgeons or physicians, after they shall have been duly sworn in the case, shall be reduced to writing and signed by them. The determination shall specify whether or not such member is permanently disabled from performing his usual duty and any other available duty in the department which his employer is willing to assign to him and whether or not his permanent disability is a direct result of a traumatic event occurring during the performance of his duty. The commission shall determine by resolution whether the member is fit for the performance of his usual duty or such other duty in his department which his employer is willing to assign to him and if it is determined that he is unfit for such duty or there is no available duty which he could perform then he shall be entitled to the benefits of this subtitle. In determining whether the member should be retired on a disability pension, the commission shall consider the physicians' or surgeons' determination in arriving at its decision. The commission shall require any member who is less than 51 years of age and who shall have been retired on an accident disability or nonaccident disability pension to submit to a physical examination twice a year for a period of 3 years and once a year thereafter in order to determine whether or not the disability which existed at the time that he was retired still exists. Such examination shall be made in accordance with the same procedure in the instance of the examination made by virtue of a member's application for retirement for disability. If the physicians or surgeons or a majority of them report that the member is able to perform either his former usual duties, if such be available, or such other available duties in the department which his employer shall assign to him, the pensioner shall report for such duty within 10 days after receipt of notice of the commission's determination thereon, and be reinstated to duty at the salary prevailing for the position at the time of his reinstatement and thereupon his pension payments shall cease. If the pensioner fails to submit to a medical examination or fails to return to duty within 10 days after receiving either request or within such further time as may be allowed by the commission for valid reason, his pension payments shall be discontinued during such default. Any pensioner who may be of the opinion that he has recovered from the disability which existed at the time of his retirement may request and be granted an examination by the commission at any time and if it be found by the physicians or surgeons or a majority of them that he be fit for his usual duty or any other available duty in the department which his employer is willing to assign to him and the commission concurs therein then he shall be reinstated thereto, if such be available, at the salary prevailing for the position at the time of his reinstatement and thereupon his pension payments shall cease. Amended by L.1944, c. 253, p. 820, s. 2; L.1946, c. 284, p. 967, s. 1; L.1947, c. 234, p. 898, s. 2; L.1952, c. 358, p. 1150, s. 2; L.1959, c. 159, p. 630, s. 1; L.1964, c. 242, s. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1965.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-90 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-90
Payment of pension
Status: in_force

Persons who may become entitled to pension under this article shall be paid such pensions in the same manner and at the same time as the county clerk's employees in active service in the several counties are respectively paid.
N.J. Stat. § 43:7-9 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-9
Widow, children or dependent parents; pension to.
Status: in_force

3. a. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who shall have lost his life, there shall be paid to his widow or widower a pension of 25% of the member's average final compensation, for the use of herself or himself, to continue during her or his widowhood, plus 15% of such salary payable to one surviving child or plus 25% of such salary to two or more surviving children; if there is no surviving widow or widower or in case the widow or widower dies or remarries, 20% of the member's average final compensation will be payable to one surviving child, 35% of such compensation to two surviving children in equal shares and if there be three or more children, 50% of such compensation will be payable to such children in equal shares; if there is no surviving widow, widower or child, 25% of the member's average final compensation will be payable to one surviving parent or 40% of such compensation will be payable to two surviving parents in equal shares. b. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death after retirement of a former member of the pension fund, there shall be paid to his widow or widower a pension of 25% of the member's average final compensation for the use of herself or himself, to continue during her or his widowhood, plus 15% of such compensation payable to one surviving child or plus 25% of such compensation to two or more surviving children; if there is no surviving widow or widower or in case the widow or widower dies or remarries, 20% of the member's average final compensation will be payable to one surviving child, 35% of such compensation to two surviving children in equal shares and if there be three or more children, 50% of such compensation will be payable to such children in equal shares. c. The changes in benefits provided by subsections a. and b. of this section shall apply only to pensions hereafter granted; provided, however, that pensions granted prior to the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act shall be increased to the schedule of payments stipulated by subsection a. on the first of the month following the commission's approval of those cases where proper evidence is submitted to the satisfaction of the pension commission that the death of the member in active service was the result of an accident met in the actual performance of duty at some definite time and place, that such death was not the result of the member's willful negligence, and that the death occurred within 5 years of the accident; provided, further, that any pension in an amount less than $1,600.00 per annum, presently paid or to be paid in the future to a widow or widower or a prison officer, shall be increased to $1,600.00 per annum. d. For purposes of this section: (1) "Child" shall mean a deceased member's unmarried child either (a) under the age of 18 or (b) of any age who, at the time of the member'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 his impairment has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, as affirmed by the examining physicians of the fund. (2) "Widower" shall mean the man to whom a member was married before the date of her retirement or at least 5 years before the date of her death and to whom she continued to be married until the date of her death and who was receiving at least one-half of his support from the member in the 12-month period immediately preceding the member's death or the accident which was the direct cause of the member's death. The dependency of such a widower will be considered terminated by marriage of the widower subsequent to the death of the member. (3) "Widow" shall mean the woman to whom a member was married before the date of his retirement or at least 5 years before the date of his death and to whom he continued to be married until the date of his death and who has not remarried. (4) "Parent" shall mean the parent of a member who was receiving at least one-half of his support from the member in the 12-month period immediately preceding the member's death or the accident which was the direct cause of the member's death. The dependency of such a parent will be considered terminated by marriage of the parent subsequent to the death of the member. L.1941, c.220, s.3; amended 1964, c.171, s.1; 1969, c.56, s.3; 1973, c.155, s.2; 2010, c.50, s.69.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.53 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.53
Retirement for age and service.
Status: in_force

4. (a) Any member who shall have established 20 or more years of creditable service in the retirement system and who shall have attained the age of 60 years shall, upon application by that member to the commission, be retired on a pension equal to 55% of final salary, plus 1% of such salary for each year of creditable service in excess of 20 years, if the member has more than 20 years of creditable service at retirement. In no event shall the amount of any pension payable pursuant to the provisions of this subsection be less than $3,600 per annum. (b) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1990, c.20) (c) Any member who upon attainment of 60 or more years of age shall have established less than 20 years of creditable service in the retirement system may retire on a pension equal to 2% of final salary for each year of creditable service. In no event shall the amount of any pension payable pursuant to the provisions of this subsection be less than $3,600 per annum. (d) A person who becomes a member of the retirement system on or after the effective date of P.L.2013, c.282, who shall have established 25 or more years of creditable service in the retirement system and who shall have attained the age of 65 years shall, upon application by that member to the commission, be retired on a pension equal to 55% of final salary, plus 1% of such salary for each year of creditable service in excess of 25 years, if the member has more than 25 years of creditable service at retirement. In no event shall the amount of any pension payable pursuant to the provisions of this subsection be less than $3,600 per annum. L.1964, c.275, s.4; amended 1966, c.158, s.3; 1975, c.307; 1981, c.534, s.6; 1990, c.20, s.2; 1996, c.101, s.1; 2013, c.282, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-47 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-47
"Be retired upon one-half pay" defined
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 the annual salary of the county probation officer at the time of his retirement.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-9.7 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-9.7
Applicability of adjustment in benefit.
Status: in_force

3. The adjustment in the benefit to a surviving child or children made pursuant to the amendment of section 9 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-9) by P.L.2019, c.305 shall apply to a benefit entitlement initially granted on or after January 1, 2017, and, if granted on or after that date but before the effective date of P.L.2019, c.305, still in effect on that effective date. The adjustment in the benefit to a surviving child or children pursuant to the amendment of section 9 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-9) by P.L.2019, c.305 shall apply only for benefit payments made after the effective date of P.L.2019, c.305. No surviving child of a deceased member of the retirement system shall be granted a retroactive payment based upon the difference between the benefit the person would have received if the adjustment made pursuant to the amendment of section 9 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-9) by P.L.2019, c.305 had been applicable at the date of entitlement and the benefit that the surviving child has received from the date of entitlement to the effective date of P.L.2019, c.305. L.2019, c.305, s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-55 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-55
Fraud against system a misdemeanor
Status: in_force

A person who knowingly makes a false statement, or falsifies or permits to be falsified any record of this retirement system, in an attempt to defraud the system as a result of such act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. L.1954, c. 84, p. 508, s. 55.
N.J. Stat. § 43:23-4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 23 / Section 23-4
New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace.
Status: in_force

4. There is established the New Jersey Small Business Retirement Marketplace in the Department of the Treasury. L.2015, c.298, s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-11 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-11
Powers and duties of commission; moneys belonging to fund
Status: in_force

The pension commission shall have control and management of the funds and of the retirement of the county employees, and may make all necessary rules and regulations regarding the same not inconsistent with this article. All retirements shall be made and pensions allowed by the pension commission. All moneys belonging to the pension fund shall be received and paid over to the chief financial officer of the county, whose official bond shall cover the same. All moneys paid out of the pension fund shall be paid by the chief financial officer of the county upon warrants signed by the president and secretary of the pension commission or such officers as the pension commission designates.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-151 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-151
Benefits to survivors of retired judges
Status: in_force

10. a. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a workers compensation judge who has retired on a pension or retirement allowance based on age and service, or pursuant to section 7 of this act, P.L.2001, c.259 (C.43:15A-148), there shall be paid to the member's beneficiary, an amount equal to one-fourth of the final salary received by the member. b. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who has retired on a disability pension or retirement allowance, there shall be paid to the member's beneficiary, an amount equal to one and one-half times the final salary received by the member if such death occurs before the member shall have attained 60 years of age but if such death occurs thereafter, an amount equal to one-fourth of the final salary received by the member. L.2001,c.259,s.10.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-22 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-22
Other laws not affected
Status: in_force

The State Firemen's Relief Fund and the State Firemen's Association and the laws by virtue of which they exist and operate shall not be affected by the provisions of this act, nor shall anything in this act contained be construed to in anywise limit or interfere with the operation and effect of sections 38:23-4, 38:23-5 and 38:23-6 of the Revised Statutes. L.1944, c. 255, p. 856, s. 22.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-18 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-18
Officers, actuary, legal adviser, secretary.
Status: in_force

18. The board shall elect annually from its membership a chairman and may also elect a vice-chairman, who shall have all the power and authority of the chairman in the event of the death, absence or disability of the chairman. The actuary of the fund shall be selected by the Retirement Systems Actuary Selection Committee established by P.L.1992, c.125. The actuary shall be the technical adviser of the board and the committees 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 Attorney General shall be the legal adviser of the retirement system, except that if the Attorney General determines that a conflict of interest would affect the ability of the Attorney General to represent the board or the committees on a matter affecting the retirement system, the board may select and employ legal counsel to advise and represent the board or the committees on that matter. The chief or assistant chief of the office of secretarial services of the Division of Pensions and Benefits of the State Department of the Treasury shall be the secretary of the board. The chief and assistant chief of the office of secretarial services shall be in the competitive division of the State classified service. The secretary presently in office shall hold the position as assistant chief of the office of secretarial services subject to all of the provisions of Title 11 of the Revised Statutes and shall not be removed from said office except in the manner provided under the provisions of said Title relating to permanent employees in the competitive division of the State classified service. The board of trustees shall select its secretary from among the eligible candidates. L.1954, c.84, s.18; amended 1954, c.244, s.3; 1966, c.67, s.2; 1970, c.57, s.2; 1992, c.41, s.14; 1992, c.125, s.8; 2011, c.78, s.7.
N.J. Stat. § 43:4-3.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 4 / Section 4-3.4
Waiver of increase; written request
Status: in_force

Any increase in pension, or a portion thereof, authorized by this act, may be waived upon written request of the person entitled thereto. L.1967, c. 294, s. 4, eff. Feb. 15, 1968.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-95 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-95
Lump sum or installment payments
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. A member may make such 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 a member, 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 a member'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 installments 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 member's death. Any arrangement for payment under the group policy to a beneficiary shall be in lieu of that provided by sections 38, 41, 45, 46, 48, 49 and 57 of Chapter 84 of the laws of 1954. L.1955, c. 214, p. 833, s. 8. Amended by L.1960, c. 79, p. 556, s. 7; L.1971, c. 213, s. 38, eff. June 17, 1971.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-24.25 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-24.25
Administrative actions to ensure proper payment of emergency unemployment benefits
Status: in_force

5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the division shall use appropriate administrative means to insure that emergency unemployment benefits are paid only to individuals who meet the requirements of this act. These administrative actions may include, but shall not be limited to, the following procedure: the division shall match the claimant's social security number against available wage records to insure that no earnings were reported for that claimant by employers under R.S.43:21-14 for periods in which emergency unemployment benefits were paid. All necessary administrative costs related to implementation of this act shall be paid from contributions made pursuant to section 29 of P.L.1992, c.160 (C.43:21-7b). L.1996,c.30,s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-44 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-44
Pension fund; exemption from taxation and process
Status: in_force

For the purpose of paying the pensions a fund shall be created in each village where this article takes effect, as follows: a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to a municipal employee or officer benefited by this article five per centum (5%) of the amount thereof and if any employee or officer hereafter enters the service of the municipality after reaching the age of thirty-five years, such percentage shall be increased to such an amount as the pension commission determines to correspond to the risk arising by the age of such employee. b. The village shall raise by taxation and pay into the fund yearly an amount equal to seven per centum (7%) of the total salaries paid to the employees or officers who shall benefit by this article, and may raise by taxation and pay into the fund yearly such additional amount or amounts as, upon the recommendation of the pension commission of the municipality, the governing body shall determine to be necessary to maintain the fund. c. There shall be added all fines imposed upon any such employee or officer, all moneys given or donated to the fund, all moneys deducted from the salary of such employee or officer because of absence or loss of time and one-half of all rewards paid for any purpose to such employees or officers. If there shall not be sufficient money in the fund so created, the governing body of such village shall include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of the fund for the time being. All pensions granted under this article shall be exempt from any State or municipal tax, levy and sale, garnishment or attachment or any other process whatsoever, and shall be unassignable. Amended by L.1945, c. 213, p. 712, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-25 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-25
Terms of policy
Status: in_force

Any such group policy or policies shall include, with respect to any insurance terminating or reducing because an insured person has ceased to be in active 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 all death benefits established under sections 17b., 19 and 20, 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 an insured person 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. If any member who has exercised the conversion privilege under the group policy or policies again becomes a member of the retirement system, 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 17 b., 19 and 20, unless he furnishes satisfactory evidence of insurability. When benefits payable upon the death of a member following retirement are determined as though he were an active member at the time of his death, the death benefit 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. L.1973, c. 140, s. 25, eff. May 22, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-7 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-7
Retirement for disability
Status: in_force

Any municipal employee of any city of the first class who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty, or shall be suffering from permanent injury or disease, shall, upon the certificate of a physician designated for that purpose by the pension commission, be retired on a pension equal to one-half of his salary at the time of his retirement. Where, however, any such municipal employee shall desire to retire by reason of such injury or disease, he shall apply in writing to the pension commission for such retirement. The pension commission shall, thereupon, call to its aid a regularly licensed and practicing surgeon or physician and the applicant may also call to his aid a regularly licensed and practicing surgeon or physician. If the two surgeons or physicians so called fail to agree on the physical condition of the applicant, the pension commission may call a third and disinterested, licensed and practicing surgeon or physician. The determination of the majority of the three surgeons or physicians, who shall first be duly sworn, shall be reduced to writing and signed by them. The president of the pension commission may administer oaths to such surgeons, physicians or other persons called regarding the matter before the commission. The commission shall determine, by resolution, whether the applicant is entitled to the benefits of this article and shall consider the determination of the surgeons or physicians in reaching its decision.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-75.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-75.1
Municipal or county member with prior service in county or other county; prior service credit; purchase
Status: in_force

Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System who is in the service of a municipality and who, prior to entering such service was the holder of a position in the service of a county, or who is presently in the service of a county and who, prior to entering such service was the holder of a position in the service of another county, shall be entitled to purchase prior service credit for the years of such county service; but said county shall not be liable for any payment to the system by reason of the said member's purchase of benefits under this supplementary act and contributions required hereunder shall be made by the member. Proof of such prior county service shall be furnished by the affidavit of the member supported by other evidence if required by the board of trustees of said retirement system. The member may purchase credit for such prior county service by making payments to the system either in a lump sum or in regular monthly installments pursuant to such formulas, rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the Division of Pensions. L.1981, c. 7, s. 1, eff. Jan. 26, 1981.
N.J. Stat. § 43:17-16 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-16
Failure to hold required elections at times specified; effect
Status: in_force

If any of the aforesaid elections are not held at the time or times hereinbefore provided, they shall be held thereafter as soon as may be convenient. The failure shall not work a forfeiture or dissolution of the corporation, nor shall the election be ineffective because of any delay in holding it. The president and secretary of the corporation shall, in case of failure to hold an election at the time hereinbefore provided, forthwith give reasonable notice of a time and place for the holding thereof. If they fail to give the notice, or on failure to comply therewith, any vacancy caused thereby shall be filled as hereinafter provided. Any dereliction on the part of any representative or officer, in the performance of any known duty in connection with the holding of or failure to hold an election, shall be deemed a malfeasance in office and be punished accordingly. If a person is elected to an office at any other than the usual time for the election, he shall hold office only until the time for the next regular election and until his successor is elected.
N.J. Stat. § 43:22-15 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 22 / Section 22-15
Grants-in-aid and other revenue from State utilized to pay employer's contributions; types of aid.
Status: in_force

6. a. All State political subdivisions receiving financial aid, who provide Social Security coverage for their employees pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1951, c.253 (C.43:22-1 et seq.), and any amendments or supplements thereto, and the provisions of the statutes governing the several State-administered retirement systems as authorized by law, shall, in addition to other purposes, utilize all grants-in-aid and other revenue received from the State to pay the employer's share of Social Security contributions; provided, however, that this shall not apply to employees who are enrolled in the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund. b. The grants-in-aid and other revenue referred to in subsection a. of this section specifically include, but are not limited to, general formula aid to local school districts (including general assistance programs for public schools, programs for persons with disabilities, the disadvantaged, teacher training, adult education, school nutrition, career development), aid for school and public libraries, aid for higher education, including county colleges, aid to counties and municipalities (for local highway systems, including county and municipal roads for purposes of construction, operation, and maintenance, aid for medical assistance, old age assistance, general assistance, disability assistance, dependent children assistance, medical assistance for persons who are elderly, persons who are blind, families of the working poor, child care, county psychiatric hospitals, community mental health services), aid to political subdivisions of the State (programs of economic opportunity, training, youth employment, model cities, housing and urban renewal projects, continuing planning assistance, parental and child health services, other local health services, inland waterways, shore protection, and grade crossing elimination), and aid pertaining to tax collections, including a proportion of inheritance taxes, aid in lieu of railroad property taxes, net sales taxes, and reimbursement for senior citizens' tax deductions. L.1980, c.86, s.6; amended 2017, c.131, s.177.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-129 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-129
Enrollment of veterans and nonveterans who elected not to enroll in 1955; purchase of credit
Status: in_force

a. Any veteran who was in the employ of the State, or of a county, municipality, public agency, school district or board of education of this State on January 2, 1955 and who elected not to become a member of the retirement system by notifying the system in writing of his desire not to become a member, may join the retirement system at any time during the continuation of such employment by filing an application for membership and agreeing to purchase membership credit for all service rendered after January 1, 1955. If such veteran becomes a member pursuant to this section, service rendered by him prior to January 2, 1955 shall be credited to him in accordance with the provisions of paragraph a of section 60 of the act to which this section is a supplement. The employer of such public employee veteran on the date of his becoming a member shall pay the accrued liability on behalf of such prior service and such accrued liability shall be paid in such a manner that the total obligation will be met within the period of time fixed for the liquidation of all veteran accrued liabilities of the employer. b. Any person other than a veteran who was in the employ of the State, or of a county, municipality, public agency, school district or board of education of this State on January 2, 1955 and who elected not to become a member of the retirement system by claiming a refund of his accumulated deductions may join the retirement system at any time during the continuation of such employment by filing an application for membership and agreeing to purchase membership credit for all service rendered subsequent to January 1, 1955. Any such member may also be permitted to purchase credit pursuant to any other applicable provision of the act to which this section is a supplement and to purchase credit for service previously established in the former "State Employees' Retirement System" in order to give such person the same credit for such service as he had at the time of withdrawing his membership. c. The purchase of credit pursuant to this section shall be made by a member's paying into the retirement system the amount required by applying the factor supplied by the actuary as being applicable to the member's age at the time of his election to make the purchase to his salary at the time of such election. Such purchases may be made in regular installments equal to at least 1/2 of the full normal contribution to the retirement system over a maximum period of 10 years. In the event that such member retires before he completes the payment for all service for which he agreed to purchase credit, credit for such service shall be given in direct proportion as the amount paid bears to the total amount of the arrearage obligation, except that if any such veteran retires before he completes the purchase of credit for all service rendered by him subsequent to January 1, 1955, no credit for service rendered by him prior to January 2, 1955 shall be considered for retirement purposes. d. Notwithstanding any other provision of the act of which this section is a supplement, any person becoming a member of the retirement system pursuant to the provisions of this section shall not be allowed any of the death benefits established by sections 41, 45, 46, 48 and 57 of the act to which this section is a supplement unless he shall have furnished satisfactory evidence of insurability. L.1966, c. 217, s. 26, eff. Aug. 1, 1966.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-16.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-16.1
Loans to members, interest rates, repayment.
Status: in_force

18. Any member who has at least 3 years of service to his credit for which he has contributed as a member may borrow from the retirement system, an amount equal to not more than 50% of the amount of his aggregate contributions, but not less than $50.00; provided that the amount so borrowed, together with interest thereon, can be repaid by additional deductions from salary, not in excess of 25% of the member's salary, made at the time the salary is paid to the member. The amount so borrowed, together with interest on any unpaid balance thereof, shall be repaid to the retirement system in equal installments by deductions from the salary of the member at the time the salary is paid or in such lump sum amount to repay the balance of the loan but such installments shall be at least equal to the member's rate of contribution to the retirement system and at least sufficient to repay the amount borrowed with interest thereon. Not more than two loans may be granted to any member in any calendar year. Notwithstanding any other law affecting the salary or compensation of any person or persons to whom this act applies or shall apply, the additional deductions required to repay the loan shall be made. The rate of interest for a loan requested by a member prior to the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.) shall be 4% per annum on any unpaid balance thereof. For a loan requested after the effective date of that act, the rate of interest per annum shall be a commercially reasonable rate as required by the Internal Revenue Code to be determined by the State Treasurer on that effective date, and by the board of trustees on January 1 of each calendar year thereafter. An administrative fee in an amount set by the board of trustees for each calendar year may be charged for any loan requested after the effective date of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-1 et al.). Loans shall be made to a member from his aggregate contributions. The interest earned on such loans shall be treated in the same manner as interest earned from investments of the retirement system.
L.1964, c.241, s.18; amended 1967, c.250, s.17; 1971, c.175, s.10; 1981, c.370, s.1; 2007, c.92, s.38; 2018, c.55, s.18.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-11.11 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-11.11
Members of Police and Firemen's Retirement System may purchase credit.
Status: in_force

3. A member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System may file a detailed statement of public employment in other states or with the United States Government which would be eligible for credit in a State-administered retirement system if the employment was with a public employer in this State, of military service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or of public employment as a class two special law enforcement officer with a public employer in this State, including time taken during such public employment to complete a basic police training course required for that employment, rendered prior to becoming a member, for which the member desires credit, and of such other facts as the retirement system may require. The member may purchase credit for all or a portion of the service evidenced in the statement up to the nearest number of years and months, but not exceeding 10 years, provided however, that a member purchasing that maximum credit may purchase up to five additional years for additional military service qualifying the member as a veteran as defined in section 1 of P.L.1983, c.391 (C.43:16A-11.7). No application shall be accepted for the purchase of credit for the service if, at the time of application, the member has a vested right to retirement benefits in another retirement system based in whole or in part upon that service. The member may purchase credit for the 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 were made during any prior fiscal year of membership, whichever is greater. The purchase may be made in regular installments equal to at least 1/2 of the full normal contribution to the retirement system, over a maximum period of 10 years. The employer of a member who applies, pursuant to this section, to purchase credit for public employment with the United States Government, for military service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or for public employment as a class two special law enforcement officer with a public employer in this State shall not be liable for any payment to the retirement system on behalf of the member for the purchase of this credit. Notwithstanding any provision of this act to the contrary, a member shall not be liable for any costs associated with the financing of pension adjustment benefits and health care benefits for retirees when purchasing credit for public employment in other states or with the United States Government, military service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or for public employment as a class two special law enforcement officer with a public employer in this State. Any member electing to purchase the service who retires prior to completing 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. Purchase of credit for service as a class two special law enforcement officer shall be permitted only if the break between service as such an officer and the date of their enrollment in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System is less than 365 days. Members of the retirement system who are enrolled on the effective date of P.L.2024, c.54 shall have only one year from that effective date to apply for such a purchase. The board of trustees shall notify all members of the retirement system of the provisions of this act, P.L.2024, c.54. L.1991,c.153,s.3; amended 2024, c.54.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-14a — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-14a
ZIP Code reporting
Status: in_force

In addition to the information required to be reported pursuant to the provisions of subsection (2)(A) of R.S. 43:21-14, every employer shall, in accordance with regulations established by the Commissioner of Labor, report, on an annual basis, the ZIP Code of the residence of each full-time employee and regularly employed part-time employee of the employer, and the ZIP Code of the location where the employee regularly works. L. 1987, c. 450, s. 1; per s.4, expired April 19, 1993.
N.J. Stat. § 43:19-9 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 19 / Section 19-9
Payments from fund
Status: in_force

Pensions shall be paid from the fund as follows: a. In any city of the first class in which this chapter becomes operative, all members of the pension corporation formed from the employees of the board of street and water commissioners, or its successor, who shall have served in the employ of the city in the aggregate for twenty years, and attained the age of sixty years, shall, upon application to the board of street and water commissioners, or its successor, in the city, be retired by the board, or its successor, and shall thereafter receive from the pension fund created under this chapter an amount equal to one-half of his salary at the time of his retirement. b. If any employee of the board of street and water commissioners, or its successor, who is a member of the pension corporation, shall become incapacitated either mentally or physically, for the performance of his duties, whenever such incapacity is the result of injury received or illness incurred in the discharge of his duties as an employee of the board of street and water commissioners, or its successor, he may be retired by the board, or its successor, and thereupon shall receive from the pension fund, during the term of his incapacity or injury, an amount at the rate of one-half of his annual salary at the time of his retirement. c. Any employee of the board of street and water commissioners, or its successor, who is a member of the pension corporation, shall have served the city twenty years in the aggregate and shall become incapacitated, either mentally or physically, from illness or injury incurred in the performance of his duty as such employee, or who by reason of advanced age is found unfit by the board of street and water commissioners, or its successor, for the performance of his duties, shall be retired by the board, or its successor, and shall be entitled to receive from the pension fund an amount equal to one-half of his annual salary at the time of his retirement. In case of the retirement of any member of the pension corporation, who became a member thereof prior to March eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, the city shall pay into the pension fund such portion of the pension of one-half the annual salary of the pensioner at the time of his retirement, which shall be in excess of the amount of pension provided for the pensioner in this chapter. d. No pension shall be paid out of the fund created under this chapter until five years after the creation of the pension corporation provided for hereunder, and all pensions herein provided for shall be paid in the manner which may be determined by the board of trustees of the pension fund. e. Any employee of the board of street and water commissioners, or its successor, who is a member of the pension corporation who shall hereafter become incapacitated, either mentally or physically, for duty, may be retired by such board, or its successor, for the term of such incapacity; provided, he or she shall have at the time of such incapacity been a member of such corporation for at least five years and had paid in during such time the full amount of his or her annual assessments or contributions, on a pension equal to twenty-five per centum of one-half of his or her annual salary received by said member at the time of his or her retirement, and for every year of active membership in addition to five years, such member shall receive an additional pension equal to five per centum of one-half of the annual salary received by said member at the time of his or her retirement; provided, however, that in no case the annual pension so paid shall exceed one-half of the annual salary received by any member at the time of his or her retirement; and provided, further, that if such incapacity occurs during the first twenty years of active membership in the said pension corporation, the pension payable as aforesaid shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) annually. Amended by L.1938, c. 53, p. 147, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16-7.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16 / Section 16-7.1
Local commissions to transfer money and assets to state commission
Status: in_force

Promptly after it has organized, the commission shall give notice in writing not later than September first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, to the pension commission of each municipality and county in this State maintaining a pension fund, pursuant to an act entitled "An act providing for the retirement of policemen and firemen of the police and fire departments in municipalities of this State, including all police officers having supervision or regulation of traffic upon county roads, and providing a pension for such retired policemen and firemen and members of the police and fire departments, and the widows, children, and sole dependent parents of deceased members of said departments," approved April fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, as amended and supplemented, or to chapter sixteen of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, requiring that such local commission file with the secretary of the commission hereby created, on or before October first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, an inventory and report of all moneys and assets in and constituting the pension fund being administered by said local commission and further requiring the custodian of the investment securities and moneys of such local pension fund and the treasurer of the municipality or county in which said local commission exists, to turn over to the State Treasurer, on July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three, all of such assets for the use of the commission created by this chapter together with a statement of the moneys and securities which it is estimated it will be required to apply in discharge of pension obligations chargeable against the fund prior to July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. Every such local custodian and treasurer shall promptly comply with the request aforesaid, and the State Treasurer or his deputy is hereby authorized and directed to deliver a written receipt for all moneys and securities turned over pursuant to such request. Such receipt shall be signed in behalf of the commission created by this chapter, in the name of the State Treasurer, shall be addressed and delivered to the local pension commission to which such moneys and other assets previously belonged and upon such delivery shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the municipality or county in which such local pension commission exists. Upon the filing of such receipt in said clerk's office, the term of office of every member of said local commission shall end and the existence of said local commission shall terminate. Before any such local commission shall comply with the request of the commission created by this chapter to turn over moneys and assets of such local commission, there shall be segregated from such money and other assets and reserved by the treasurer of the municipality or county in which such local commission exists, sufficient moneys and securities to provide for the payment of all pension obligations of said local commission which accrued or matured prior to July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three, and in making such turn over, the local commission, over the signatures of the chairman or president and the secretary thereof and of the local treasurer, shall certify to the commission created by this chapter the amount or amounts withheld for the purpose of meeting such pension obligations during the period aforesaid and the names and addresses of the beneficiaries thereof and the respective amounts withheld for the account of each. Such withheld moneys shall be applied in discharge of all pension obligations chargeable against the fund from which they are reserved and accruing prior to July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. L.1952, c. 358, p. 1159, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-150 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-150
Benefits to survivors of judges on active service
Status: in_force

9. a. Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death in active service of a workers compensation judge member of the retirement system, there shall be paid to the member's widow a survivor's benefit of 25% of final salary for the use of the widow, to continue during widowhood, plus 10% of final salary payable to one surviving child or plus 15% of final salary to two or more surviving children; if there is no surviving widow or in case the widow dies or remarries, 15% of final salary shall be payable to one surviving child, 20% of final salary to two surviving children in equal shares and if there are three or more children, 30% of final salary shall be payable to such children in equal shares. If there is no surviving widow or child, 20% of final salary shall be payable to one surviving parent or 30% of final salary shall be payable to two surviving parents in equal shares. b. In addition to the benefits payable under subsection a. of this section, there shall also be paid in one sum to the member's beneficiary an amount equal to one and one-half times the final salary received by the member. L.2001,c.259,s.9.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-8
Medical exam; report of medical board; restoration to active service.
Status: in_force

8. (1) Upon the receipt by the retirement system of a written application for a disability retirement allowance, the system shall refer the application to the medical board, which shall designate a physician or physicians to examine the applicant and the report of the medical board shall be considered by the board of trustees in acting upon such application. (2) Any beneficiary under the age of 55 years who has been retired on a disability retirement allowance under this act, on his request shall, or upon the request of the retirement system may, be given a medical examination and he shall submit to any examination by a physician or physicians designated by the medical board once a year for at least a period of five years following his retirement in order to determine whether or not the disability which existed at the time he was retired has vanished or has materially diminished. If the report of the medical board shall show that such beneficiary is able to perform either his former duty or any other available duty in the department which his employer is willing to assign to him, the beneficiary shall report for duty; such a beneficiary shall not suffer any loss of benefits while he awaits his restoration to active service. If the beneficiary fails to submit to any such medical examination or fails to return to duty within 10 days after being ordered so to do, or within such further time as may be allowed by the board of trustees for valid reason, as the case may be, the pension shall be discontinued during such default. (3) (Deleted by amendment.) (4) If a disability beneficiary is restored to active service, his retirement allowance and the right to any death benefit as a result of his former membership, shall be canceled until he again retires. Such person shall be reenrolled in the retirement system and shall contribute thereto at a rate based on his age at the time of prior enrollment. Such person shall be treated as an active member for determining disability or death benefits while in service. Upon subsequent retirement of such member, he shall receive a retirement allowance based on all his service as a member computed in accordance with applicable provisions of this act, but the total retirement allowance upon subsequent retirement shall not be a greater proportion of his average final compensation or final compensation, whichever is applicable, than the proportion to which he would have been entitled had be remained in service during the period of his prior retirement. Any death benefit to which such member shall be eligible shall be based on his latest retirement. L.1944,c.255,s.8; amended 1964, c.241, s.5; 1967, c.250, s.8; 1968, c.452; 1971, c.172; 1971, c.175, s.5; 1971, c.217, s.9; 1999, c.428, s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:17-41 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 17 / Section 17-41
State association continued; conduct of affairs; expenses
Status: in_force

43:17-41. The New Jersey State Firemen's Association organized pursuant to an act entitled "An act concerning firemen's relief associations," approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five (L.1885, c.122, p.144), and the amendments thereof and supplements thereto, is continued as heretofore, and there shall not be more than one such State association. The delegates and alternates of the local firemen's relief associations, elected as hereinafter provided, and the chief or next highest ranking officer, representing the local relief associations, together with the delegates and alternates from exempt firemen's associations of this State, elected as hereinafter provided, and those recognized by the New Jersey State Firemen's Association, or who may hereafter be elected by it as life members under its by-laws and constitution, so long as they remain members, and the officers of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association, shall conduct the affairs of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. The New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall have the same rights, powers and privileges as the local firemen's relief associations, including providing for the distribution of any fund for the relief of disabled or needy firefighters and their families. The expense of maintaining the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall be borne equally by all of the local firemen's relief associations in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. Amended 1996, c.151, s.33.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.56 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.56
Death benefits.
Status: in_force

7. Death benefits. (a) Upon the death of a member in service who shall have paid into the fund the full amount of contributions due and who shall die as a result of injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of that member's regular or assigned duties or who shall have served in the employ of the city for 20 or more years, a pension of 50% of the member's final salary shall be paid to the surviving widow, so long as she remains unmarried, or surviving widower, so long as he remains unmarried; if there is no surviving widow or widower or in case the widow or widower dies or remarries, a pension of 20% of such final salary shall be paid to one surviving child, 35% of such final salary shall be paid to two surviving children in equal shares, and if there be three or more children, 50% of such final salary shall be paid to such children in equal shares; and if there is no surviving widow, widower or child, a pension of 25% of such final salary shall be paid to one surviving dependent parent or a pension of 40% of such final salary shall be paid to two surviving dependent parents in equal shares. (b) Upon the death of a member in service who shall have paid into the fund the full amount of contributions due and who shall die for causes other than injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of that member's regular or assigned duties and who shall have served in the employ of the city for five or more years but less than 20 years, a pension in an amount equal to 50% of the member's final salary shall be paid to the surviving widow, so long as she remains unmarried, or surviving widower, so long as he remains unmarried; if there is no surviving widow or widower or in case the widow or widower dies or remarries, a pension of 20% of such final salary shall be paid to one surviving child, 35% of such final salary shall be paid to two surviving children in equal shares, and if there be three or more children, 50% of such final salary shall be paid to such children in equal shares; and if there is no surviving widow, widower or child, a pension of 25% of such final salary shall be paid to one surviving dependent parent or a pension of 40% of such final salary shall be paid to two surviving dependent parents in equal shares. (c) Upon the death of a pensioner from the retirement system who has retired for age and service under the provisions of section 4 of P.L.1964, c.275 (C.43:13-22.53), or who has retired under the provisions of subsection (a), (b), (c) or (d) of section 1 of P.L.1967, c.222 (C.43:13-22.54a), or who has retired because of a disability under the provisions of section 6 of P.L.1964, c.275 (C.43:13-22.55), a pension equal to 50% of the amount of the pension, including any adjustment thereto under sections 7 through 13 of P.L.1990, c.20 (C.43:13-22.69 to 43:13-22.75), payable to the decedent at the time of death shall be paid to the surviving widow, so long as she remains unmarried, or surviving widower, so long as he remains unmarried; if there is no surviving widow or widower or in case the widow or widower dies or remarries, such pension shall be paid to one surviving child or to two or more surviving children in equal shares; and if there is no surviving widow, widower or child, such pension shall be paid to one surviving dependent parent of the retirant or to both surviving dependent parents in equal shares. (d) (1) In the event a pension shall be payable as a result of the death of a member in service and there are no eligible survivors at the time of such member's death, an amount equal to such member's contributions to the fund, without interest, shall be paid to the member's estate. If, after the payment of all pension and survivorship benefits payable by the retirement system to any eligible survivors of a deceased member or retirant, the total amount of those benefits, including adjustments under sections 7 through 13 of P.L.1990, c.20 (C.43:13-22.69 to 43:13-22.75), together with the total amount of any retirement allowance or pension benefits, including adjustments, which shall have been paid to the decedent during retirement, is less than the amount of the decedent's contributions during membership in the retirement system, the amount of the difference, without interest, shall be payable to the deceased member or retirant's estate. (2) If at the time of the death of a member in service the sole eligible survivors of such member are minor children and the total of the aggregate payments on account of such children shall be an amount which is less than such member's contributions to the fund, without interest, the balance of such amount shall be payable to the guardian of such minor children. L.1964, c.275, s.7; amended 1966, c.158, s.5; 1973, c.348, s.1; 1981, c.534, s.2; 1985, c.281, s.1; 1990, c.20, s.5; 1996, c.101, s.3; 2013, c.282, s.6.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-1.5 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-1.5
Counties under 800,000; membership of employees in public employees' retirement system
Status: in_force

Any person employed by a county of the first class having a population of less than 800,000 which heretofore adopted the provisions of article 1 of chapter 10 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes (C. 43:10-1, et seq.), after the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, shall become a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System of New Jersey as a condition of employment and shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits and subject to all obligations of other members of said system, provided that the board of chosen freeholders of such county has adopted and submitted to the Public Employees' Retirement System a resolution providing for such membership and agreeing that said county shall be subject to the same liabilities with respect to such members as all other counties participating in the Public Employees' Retirement System. Such employees shall not be eligible to be members of any pension fund maintained by said county for persons employed by the county prior to the effective date of the resolution adopted by said county. L.1973, c. 345, s. 13, eff. Dec. 27, 1973.
N.J. Stat. § 43:8B-12 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 8B / Section 8B-12
Cost of increase payable by employer
Status: in_force

The employer shall bear the cost of the increase in the pensions payable to retirants who retired from the employ of such employer. The employer shall appropriate the amount, in the fiscal year next following, taking into account payments made to retirants of such employer and prospective payments to be made to such retirants in the following year. L.1971, c. 379, s. 4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:18-13 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 18 / Section 18-13
Refunding dues paid upon death within five years, resignation or dismissal
Status: in_force

On or after June fifth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, if any person then a member, or thereafter or hereafter becoming a member of such pension corporation, having paid into such fund, shall die not having served five years as an employee or officer, or shall resign voluntarily or be dismissed from service or is transferred outside the jurisdiction of the fund, all dues paid by such person shall be refunded to him or her without interest.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-66 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-66
Effective date of participation
Status: in_force

(a) If the employer shall so consent to the enrollment of its employees and the board of trustees shall so approve, participation in the retirement system shall become effective on the date fixed by such board, but not later than 6 months following such approval by the board of trustees of the retirement system. In such event, all service rendered to the employer by its employees previous to the effective date of such participation or previous to July 1, 1966, whichever is earlier, shall be credited to its employees who file application for membership within 1 year from such effective date, and such credit to its employees shall be known as prior service credit, and the obligation of the employer on account of such credit shall be known as the accrued liability. Membership shall be compulsory for all employees entering the service of the employer after the effective date of such participation or after June 30, 1966, whichever is earlier. (b) No credit shall be allowed for service rendered to the employer prior to July 1, 1966 to any person becoming a member of the retirement system pursuant to subsection b of section 65 of this act unless the employer consents thereto by resolution pertaining to all eligible employees and files a certified copy of such resolution with the board of trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the said board of trustees approves thereof. L.1954, c. 84, p. 517, s. 66. Amended by L.1966, c. 71, s. 2; L.1966, c. 217, s. 16.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-71 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-71
Rules, regulations
Status: in_force

5. The Department of Labor shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of P.L.1995, c.394 (C.43:21-67 et al.). L.1995,c.394,s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-2
Retirement system established.
Status: in_force

2. A retirement system is hereby established in the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits for policemen and firemen under the provisions of this act. It shall have the powers and privileges of a corporation and shall be known as "The Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey" and by such name all of its business shall be transacted, all of its funds invested, and all of its cash and securities and property held in trust for the purpose for which received. L.1944, c.255, s.2; amended 1967, c.250, s.2; 2018, c.55, s.8.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-37.5 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-37.5
Fund created; deductions from compensation; contributions by town; temporary loans where funds inadequate; exemption of pensions; no refunds
Status: in_force

A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying the benefits provided by this act, to wit: There shall be deducted by disbursing officers of town funds and paid to said pension fund commission from every payment of salary or compensation to every town employee who shall be entitled to benefits under this act, three per centum (3%) of the amount thereof; provided, however, that in the case of a person hereafter entering the service of any such town after reaching the age of forty years, the said percentage of his salary to be deducted shall in the judgment of the pension fund commission be fixed and determined at not less than three per centum (3%), and such employee, upon notice from said commission of the decision of the commission, shall have the privilege to participate in the benefits of this act or decline to come within its provisions. In addition thereto, there shall be annually raised by the town council of such town in the town budget and contributed semiannually to such pension fund commission an amount equivalent to three per centum (3%) of such "town employees" salary or compensation. Additional sums shall be appropriated and paid to said pension fund commission by said town council as occasion demands to carry out the provision of this act. Where town funds are not available or adequate, or should there be no such town funds, such additional sums shall be raised by temporary loans or notes, certificates of indebtedness or temporary loan bonds to be issued as otherwise provided and limited by law for towns of this State, and the amounts necessary to pay such obligations shall be placed in the town budget for the next ensuing fiscal year. All pensions granted under this act shall be exempt from any State or municipal tax, levy and sale, garnishment or attachment, or any other civil process, and shall be unassignable. No refund of moneys deducted from the salary or compensation of any such employee shall be made. L.1943, c. 189, p. 524, s. 5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:8C-5 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 8C / Section 8C-5
Consultation with representative of bargaining unit.
Status: in_force

5. Prior to the beginning date of the incentive program, appropriate representatives of the governing body of a local unit which implements an incentive program shall meet and consult with the majority representative of the bargaining unit or units which include the employees of the local unit who would be eligible for the incentive program. L.1999,c.59,s.5.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-49 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-49
Management of fund; receipts and payments
Status: in_force

The pension commission shall have control and management of the fund and of the retirement of the municipal employees or officers and may make all necessary rules and regulations regarding the same not inconsistent with this article. All moneys belonging to the pension fund shall be received and paid over to the treasurer of the village whose official bond shall cover the same. All moneys paid out of the pension fund shall be paid by the village treasurer, upon warrants signed by the president and secretary of the pension commission or such other officers as the pension commission shall designate.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-19 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-19
Other laws inapplicable
Status: in_force

No other provision of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State of New Jersey or of any county or municipality in the State for pensions or retirement benefits for policemen or firemen or county policemen, their widows, or other dependents, shall apply to members, or beneficiaries of the retirement system established by this act, their widows or other dependents. L.1944, c. 255, p. 855, s. 19.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-18.50 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-18.50
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this act: "Service" shall always, unless otherwise stated, be considered as continuous or in the aggregate. "Salary" or "compensation" when used solely for the purpose of fixing benefits under this act means the average annual salary or compensation earned by a member during his or her 3 years of service, or during his or her entire length of service if such service totaled less than 3 years as a county employee immediately preceding death or retirement; provided, however, that no benefit paid to a surviving spouse shall exceed 25% of the final compensation of said member, but in no instance shall be less than $2,500.00; provided, however, that as to any employee who, at the time of the adoption of this act, is a member of any retirement system in operation in the county under and by virtue of articles 1, 2, 5, 6 and 9 of chapter 10 and chapter 9 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes and of R.S. 40:37-157 to 40:37-174, inclusive, 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 21, 1938 (P.L.1938, c. 397), the total annual salary received by such employee during the year immediately prior to his death or retirement shall be considered for pension or other purposes under this act. "Pension fund" or "fund" means the fund referred to in section 16 of this act, and is the fund from which pensions provided for in this act shall be paid. "State" shall, unless otherwise stated, mean the State of New Jersey. "His" shall be construed to mean both sexes. "County employee" or "employee" means and includes all employees and officers in service in any county of this State having a population of from 300,000 to 325,000 inhabitants and shall mean and include all employees and officers of any county board, body or commission, maintained out of county funds in any such county, and shall also mean and include employees and officers appointed by such county to employment on intercounty bridges, but the term "county employee" or "employee" does not include office holders elected by the voters of the county, or their appointed assistants or deputies, or members of the judiciary, or any laborers, unless the labor work is paid on an hourly, daily, monthly, or annual salary basis for a continuous employment thereof and recognized as permanent appointees, it being the intent to exclude transient labor from the operation of this act. The pension commission shall determine whether or not the employment of an employee is permanent within the meaning of this act. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute of this State, any person hereafter accepting any employment in the county under the age of 40 years shall be eligible to join as a "county employee" or "employee" as hereinabove defined, and except as herein otherwise provided, any such person of the age of 40 years or over shall be ineligible to join; provided, however, that any employee who, at the time of the adoption of this act, is a member of any retirement system in operation in such county under and by virtue of articles 1, 2, 5, 6 and 9 of chapter 10 and chapter 9 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, and of R.S. 40:37-157 to 40:37-174, inclusive, 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 21, 1938 (P.L.1938, c. 397). "Population" of a county shall mean the population of a county according to the Federal census of 1940. "Widow" or "widower" means the surviving spouse of a county employee who married such employee prior to the retirement of such employee and prior to the time when such employee reached the age of 50 years. No such surviving spouse shall be eligible for any benefit hereunder who was or shall be more than 15 years younger than the employee at the time of their marriage, if such marriage occurs hereafter while the employee is a member of this retirement system. "Minor child" means a child under the age of 18 years born in lawful wedlock, and shall include children adopted, and shall not include children born of marriages occurring outside the age limits prescribed under this act. "Permanent and total disability" means physical or mental incapacity of an employee any longer to perform the duties of his position or office. "Employees' retirement system of (name of county)," shall be the name of the retirement system provided under the provisions of this act. By that name all of its business shall be transacted, its funds invested, warrants for money drawn and payments made and all of its cash and securities and other property held. L.1948, c. 310, p. 1227, s. 1. Amended by L.1957, c. 204, p. 718, s. 1; L.1975, c. 230, s. 1, eff. Oct. 16, 1975.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-39 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-39
Retirement for service and age
Status: in_force

Any municipal employee who shall have served either in the employ of a village in a county of the first class continuously or in the aggregate for a period of twenty-five years, who shall have attained the age of sixty years, and who shall have paid his full contributions into the fund since the commencement of said fund or from the date of his employment whichever is the later date, shall upon his own application be retired on half pay. Any municipal employee who shall have attained the age of seventy years shall be retired forthwith, unless the board of trustees of said village, by resolution annually adopted, shall continue said employee in service. Such employee shall receive a pension equal to two per centum (2%) of his final average salary for each year said employee has served the village, but said pension shall not exceed one-half of his final average salary. Amended by L.1949, c. 119, p. 484, s. 2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-18.64 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-18.64
Election between pensions; workmen's compensation; conviction; time of payments; eligibility of widows or widowers
Status: in_force

The following provisions shall apply to all members of the retirement system: (a) (Deleted by amendment; P.L.1978, c. 127.) (b) Where a husband and wife are each receiving a pension as a retired employee from any retirement system supported wholly or in part by the county, upon the death of either the husband or the wife, if the survivor is entitled to receive another pension on account of such death, said survivor shall elect to accept one or the other of the two pensions but in no case shall a beneficiary receive more than one pension at the same time. (c) Where any employee or other beneficiary is entitled to receive two pensions under the provisions of this act, such employees or other beneficiary shall elect to receive one or the other of the two pensions and in no case shall receive more than one pension. (d) 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. (e) 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 55 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. (f) 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. (g) All payments of pensions shall be made semimonthly. Payments of pensions, refunds or other benefits under this act shall be made without interest. (h) Upon and after the adoption of this act the benefits hereunder shall not extend to the widow or widower of any county employee who shall remarry, or shall have married such employee after such employee has retired or attained the age of 50 years, nor to any children of such marriage, but benefits shall extend to the widow or widower of a county employee who marries or shall have married the employee after the employee has attained the age of 50 years, provided the employee remains in the employment of the county and an active member of the fund for at least 5 years after such marriage. (i) Persons who may become entitled to pensions under this act shall be paid on the first and fifteenth day of each month, or at the same time as all persons permanently employed by the county. L.1948, c. 310, p. 1246, s. 15. Amended by L.1971, c. 378, s. 2, eff. Dec. 30, 1971; L.1978, c. 127, s. 2; L.1981, c. 34, s. 1, eff. Feb. 12, 1981.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-22.2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-22.2
First class cities; employees who may become members of pension fund on payment of arrears
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 43:1-1 of the Revised Statutes, any employee of a city of the first class as defined in the article to which this is a supplement who at the time of the adoption of this act is ineligible to membership in the pension fund established for employees of said city of the first class by chapter one hundred ninety of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven or article two of chapter thirteen of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes by reason of having accepted employment after reaching the age of forty years and who was at the time of accepting such employment under the age of fifty years, or any person now in the employ of a city of the first class, who was in the employ of said city on, or who has accepted employment by said city since March twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, who has remained continuously in the employ of said city and who was at the time of accepting such employment eligible to membership in the pension fund established for employees of said city of the first class by chapter one hundred ninety of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven or article two of chapter thirteen of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes but who declined to join said pension fund, may within two months after this act becomes effective become a member of such pension fund by payment into the fund, in such manner as shall be determined by the pension commission, of all arrears, with interest, as the pension commission shall determine to be due in order to give such employee the same standing as a member of said fund, in the case of employees employed on March twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, as all other members who joined said pension fund when the law providing for such fund became effective, and in the case of employees accepting employment since that date, as if such employees had joined said fund upon accepting such employment, in which case the maximum rate of interest shall not exceed the average rate of earnings of the investments of said fund and the maximum length of time for the payment of arrears shall be five years from the date of the application to join the fund. L.1951, c. 272, p. 939, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3C-7 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3C / Section 3C-7
Minimum retirement allowance
Status: in_force

A retirant shall receive a minimum retirement allowance of $6,000.00 per year from the Division of Pensions in the Department of the Treasury. L.1984, c. 156, s. 2, eff. July 1, 1984.
N.J. Stat. § 43:9A-8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 9A / Section 9A-8
When effective and operative
Status: in_force

This act shall take effect immediately, but shall remain inoperative until the first day of July succeeding the date of its enactment. L.1945, c. 281, p. 830, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16-6.2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16 / Section 16-6.2
Actuarial evaluation of fund, legal advice.
Status: in_force

7. The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall keep, in convenient form, such data as may be necessary for the actuarial evaluation of the fund committed to its charge and to serve as a record of its experience in the administration of the pension system dependent upon such fund. The Attorney General shall act as the legal adviser for the fund, except that if the Attorney General determines that a conflict of interest would affect the ability of the Attorney General to represent the division on a matter affecting the retirement system, the division may select and employ legal counsel to advise and represent the division on that matter. The actuary of the fund shall be selected by the Retirement Systems Actuary Selection Committee established by P.L.1992, c.125. The actuary of the fund shall be the technical adviser of the division on all matters regarding the operation of the pension fund not otherwise prescribed by law. L.1952, c.358, s.7; amended 1970, c.57, s.15; 1992, c.41, s.21; 1992, c.125, s.11; 2013, c.253, s.29.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-9 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-9
Eligibility for retirement; 5 years or more of service with additional public service; amount of pension
Status: in_force

a. Any judge of the several courts, who shall have served at least 5 years successively as such judge and shall have attained the age of 65 years or more while serving in such office and shall have served at least 15 years in the aggregate, including such service as a judge, or in office, position, or employment of this State or of a county, municipality, board of education or public agency of this State, may retire. b. Any judge of the several courts, who shall have served at least 5 years successively as such judge and shall have attained the age of 60 years or more while serving in such office and shall have served at least 20 years in the aggregate, including such service as a judge, or in office, position, or employment of this State or of a county, municipality, board of education or public agency of this State, may retire. c. 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 his accumulated deductions together with regular interest, and a pension which, when added to the member's annuity, will provide a retirement allowance during the remainder of his life in an amount equal to one-half of his final salary. L.1973, c. 140, s. 9, eff. May 22, 1973. Amended by L.1981, c. 470, s. 3, eff. Jan. 19, 1982.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-100 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-100
Pension to widow who was wife at time of retirement
Status: in_force

If any court interpreter, after having been retired on one-half pay, shall die, leaving him surviving a widow who was his wife at the time of his 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 court interpreter at the time of his retirement. L.1938, c. 330, p. 842, s. 8.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-141 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-141
Death benefits for legislators
Status: in_force

A member of the Legislature shall be entitled to the noncontributory and contributory death benefits under the retirement system without proof of insurability. If contributory death benefits become payable with respect to the member, required contributions for any period of service as a legislator which have not been paid shall be deducted from the benefit. L. 1987, c. 311, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:13-46 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-46
Beneficiaries under other pension laws excepted; workmen's compensation to be deducted
Status: in_force

No person who shall receive any pension under any other law of this State shall be entitled to receive the benefits of this article. Any compensation paid under the workmen's compensation law, chapter fifteen of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey, to a member on account of a happening to the member, shall be deducted from any pension or benefit payments to a member as provided by this article. Should the compensation payment be made in a lump sum, then the pension or benefit payments shall cease and be deducted until such deductions shall equal the amount of such compensation. Should the compensation be paid in periodic payments, then the amount of such compensation payments shall be deducted from the pension or benefits payable under this article until the deductions shall equal the amount of such compensation. Amended by L.1945, c. 213, p. 713, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-105 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-105
Contributions by veterans; withdrawal
Status: in_force

In the event that a veteran member shall have made contributions to the retirement system for credit for service as a law enforcement officer rendered prior to January 1, 1955, such member shall be entitled to withdraw such contributions at the time of his application for retirement; provided, that he does not apply for retirement as a law enforcement officer; and provided further, that he shall not claim or receive credit as a law enforcement officer for such years of service in calculating the amount of his retirement allowance. L.1955, c. 257, p. 943, s. 9.
N.J. Stat. § 43:3A-3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 3A / Section 3A-3
Proof that person was alive when pension was paid to dependents; appropriation
Status: in_force

If, thereafter, it shall be proved that the said person was alive at any time when any sums were paid by way of pension to dependent or dependents of any person so presumed to be dead, pursuant to this act, the said board of trustees shall include the amount of such payment or payments made during the time when such person was alive, in its itemized statement of budget request or requests for appropriations for the next succeeding fiscal year and the Legislature shall make an additional appropriation sufficient to repay such amount or amounts to said retirement system or fund and the sums so appropriated shall be applied and used accordingly. L.1952, c. 215, p. 747, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-24.22 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-24.22
Provision of weekly emergency unemployment benefits
Status: in_force

2. During an emergency unemployment benefit period exhaustees, who otherwise continue to meet the eligibility requirements for regular benefits pursuant to the provisions of the "unemployment compensation law," R.S.43:21-1 et seq., and who are not eligible for any other unemployment benefits, including benefits provided for by any federal law extending benefits beyond those provided for as regular benefits or extended benefits, may receive weekly emergency unemployment benefits for weeks subsequent to June 2, 1996 in an amount equal to the weekly benefit amount of the individual's most recent regular unemployment benefit claim subject to the provisions of the "unemployment compensation law," R.S.43:21-1 et seq. The maximum emergency unemployment benefits an individual may receive pursuant to this act is 50 percent of the regular unemployment benefits which were payable to the individual pursuant to the "unemployment compensation law," R.S.43:21-1 et seq., (including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and ex-service persons or payable under the combined wage program) in the individual's applicable benefit year. L.1996,c.30,s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:8A-19 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 8A / Section 8A-19
Funds to which assets to be credited
Status: in_force

(1) All of the assets of the pension fund shall be credited according to the purpose for which they are held to one of three funds, namely the annuity savings fund, the pension accumulation fund, and the retirement reserve fund. (2) The annuity savings fund shall be a fund in which shall be accumulated contributions from the compensation of members to provide for their annuities and additional death benefit coverage under section thirteen of this act. The aggregate contributions of a member withdrawn by him or paid to his estate or his designated beneficiary in event of his death as provided in this act shall be paid from the annuity savings fund. Upon the retirement or death of a member where the aggregate contributions and additional death benefit coverage under section thirteen of this act 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. (3) The pension accumulation fund shall be the fund in which shall be credited contributions made by employers. Upon the retirement or death of a member the reserve of any pension and death benefit under any section of this act other than section thirteen payable to or on his account shall be transferred to the retirement reserve fund. All interest and other income from investments shall be credited to the pension accumulation fund and annually the board of trustees shall transfer from the pension accumulation fund to the retirement reserve fund regular interest on the mean amount in the retirement reserve fund for the year. The board of trustees, in its discretion, may transfer to and from the pension accumulation fund any surplus or deficit in the retirement reserve fund. (4) The retirement reserve fund shall be the fund in which shall be held the reserves on all retirement allowances and death benefits granted to members or their beneficiaries and from which all benefits in lieu thereof shall be paid. Should a member who retired on account of disability be restored to active service his pension reserve shall be transferred from the retirement reserve fund to the pension accumulation fund and the excess of his aggregate contributions as they stood at retirement over the amount of annuity payments made shall be transferred to the annuity savings fund. L.1953, c. 423, p. 2141, s. 19.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-50.2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-50.2
Applicability of C.43:15A-50
Status: in_force

4. Section 50 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-50) as amended by section 2 of P.L.1995, c.221 shall apply to a filing for retirement received by the retirement system on or after January 1, 1992, except it shall not apply in a situation in which benefits were paid prior to the effective date of P.L.1995, c.221 to any beneficiary other than or in addition to the beneficiary who would be eligible for benefits under section 50 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-50) as amended by section 2 of P.L.1995, c.221. Benefits payable under section 50 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-50) as amended by section 2 of P.L.1995, c.221 on a filing for retirement received by the retirement system prior to the effective date of P.L.1995, c.221 shall be adjusted, if necessary, to account for an insurance benefit or return of contributions paid on behalf of the member prior to the effective date of P.L.1995, c.221, and the amount of a retirement allowance or insurance benefit payable may be reduced, so that the total amount of benefit paid on behalf of the member shall not exceed the value of the benefit to which the member or beneficiary would have been entitled if P.L.1995, c.221 had been in effect on the date of the filing for retirement. L.1995,c.221,s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-5.8 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-5.8
Waiver of right to pension adjustment
Status: in_force

4. Any retirant or beneficiary who is eligible to receive an adjustment to a pension under the provisions of this act may, at any time, waive the right thereto by filing a written notice of waiver with the pension commission. Such waiver may be withdrawn at any time and upon such withdrawal the adjustment in the pension shall commence with the pension payment for the next following month. L.2002,c.109,s.4.
N.J. Stat. § 43:6A-9.6 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 6A / Section 6A-9.6
Eligibility for retirement; age 70 with 25 years of public service
Status: in_force

Any judge of the several courts who shall have served at least 4 years successively as such judge and shall have served at least 25 years in the aggregate in office, position, or employment of this State or of a county, municipality, board of education or public agency of this State, including such service as a judge, shall upon attaining the age of 70 years and upon making application to the State House Commission within 1 year following the effective date of this act be eligible to receive an annual pension during the remainder of his life in an amount equal to one-half of his final salary. Any judge who accepts a judicial pension pursuant to this act shall waive for himself, his heirs and his beneficiaries all of his rights under any other public pension system established under any law of this State. L.1979, c. 259, s. 1, eff. Dec. 28, 1979.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-18.67 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-18.67
Withdrawal; separation from service; death
Status: in_force

From and after January 1, 1949, any employee who is or becomes a member of this retirement system may not withdraw therefrom and shall not be entitled to a refund of any moneys theretofore and thereafter deducted from his salary hereunder; provided, however that any employee who separates from the county service through his discharge, resignation, or for any reasons other than retirement, shall be entitled to a refund of all moneys theretofore deducted from his salary for the retirement system established hereunder; and provided further, that where the service of an employee is terminated by death of the employee, if such employee leaves no widow, widower, or children under 18 years of age all moneys theretofore deducted from his salary for the retirement system established hereunder shall be paid, to the person designated by the employee or in the absence of any designation, to the estate of the deceased employee. L.1948, c. 310, p. 1251, s. 18. Amended by L.1954, c. 141, p. 642, s. 1; L.1966, c. 210, s. 6.
N.J. Stat. § 43:21-7.7 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 21 / Section 21-7.7
Reduced new employer contribution rate
Status: in_force

1. a. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the "unemployment compensation law," R.S.43:21-1 et seq., for the payment of contributions, an employer who transfers all or an approved part of its operations from another state to this State may qualify for a reduced new employer contribution rate until the employer establishes eligibility based on benefit experience within the State as provided in subsection (c) of R.S.43:21-7. A reduced new employer contribution rate of not less than 1.0% of taxable wages as defined in R.S. 43:21-7(b)(3) may be assigned for those operations, or any part thereof, as approved by the department, if the employer: (1) As of January 31 immediately preceding the fiscal year within which that transfer occurs, has paid wages subject to the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, 26 U.S.C. s.3301 et seq., for not less than 28 consecutive completed calendar quarters; (2) Has acquired in the other state an employer reserve ratio of not less than 11% or an equivalent cumulative positive reserve balance experience with unemployment insurance contributions and benefits; (3) Demonstrates to the satisfaction of the department that the employer reserve ratio acquired in the other state or equivalent cumulative reserve balance experience with unemployment insurance contributions and benefits acquired in the other state may be considered indicative of future employment experience in this State; and (4) Certifies to the satisfaction of the department that at least 50 full-time jobs will be established at the New Jersey location within 180 days of the transfer of operations. For the purposes of this subsection, "employer reserve ratio" means total employer contributions minus total benefits charged to the employer's account as a percentage of the employer's average annual payroll as defined in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of R.S.43:21-19. b. An employer shall, within 30 days of the transfer of operations to this State, apply to the department in a form and manner prescribed for determination of eligibility for a reduced new employer contribution rate. The department shall review the application and, if the employer qualifies, assign a reduced new employer contribution rate as set forth in the following table: Fund 10.0% 7.00% 4.00% 2.50% 0.00% Less Reserve and to to to to than Ratio Over 9.99% 6.99% 3.99% 2.49% 0.00% Reduced New Employer Rate: 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 For the purposes of this subsection, "fund reserve ratio" means the unemployment trust fund balance as of March 31 as a percentage of the total taxable wages reported as of that date with respect to the prior calendar year. The employer may, within 30 days of receipt of notice of determination of such a rate, withdraw the request. c. An employer applying for determination of a contribution rate pursuant to this section shall certify to the department that information with respect to wages, contributions and benefits in connection with the transferred operation, and any other information, as the department deems necessary. The employer shall furnish to the department, at those times and in the manner prescribed, that information with respect to those benefits paid after the transfer, and before each succeeding computation date, which were based on wages applicable to the transferred operations and paid in another state. L.1992,c.202,s.1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-50 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-50
Public employee pension options
Status: in_force

50. At the time of retirement, a member shall receive benefits in a retirement allowance payable throughout life, or the member may, on retirement, elect to receive the actuarial equivalent of the member's retirement allowance, in a lesser retirement allowance payable throughout life, with the provision that: Option 1. If the member dies before the member has received in payments the present value of the retirement allowance as it was at the time of retirement, the balance shall be paid to a legal representative or to such person as the member shall nominate by written designation acknowledged and filed with the retirement system, either in a lump sum or by equal payments over a period of years at the option of the payee. If the member shall have designated a natural person as the payee, said payee may elect to receive such payments in the form of a life annuity. Option 2. Upon the member's death, the member's retirement allowance shall be continued throughout the life of and paid to such person as the member shall nominate by written designation duly acknowledged and filed with the retirement system at the time of retirement. Option 3. Upon the member's death, one-half of the member's retirement allowance shall be continued throughout the life of and paid to such person as the member shall nominate by written designation duly acknowledged and filed with the retirement system at the time of retirement. Option 4. Some other benefit or benefits shall be paid either to the member or to whomever the member nominates, if such other benefit or benefits, together with the lesser retirement allowance, shall be certified by the actuary to be of equivalent actuarial value. In no case, however, shall the lesser retirement allowance be smaller than that provided under Option 2. Option 5. Some other benefit, which is equivalent to the full amount, three-quarters, one-half or one-quarter of the member's retirement allowance, shall be paid to whomever the member nominates and if that nominee dies before the member, the member's retirement allowance shall increase to the maximum retirement allowance for the member's lifetime, provided that such other benefit together with the member's lesser and maximum retirement allowances shall be certified by the actuary to be of equivalent actuarial value. If the total amount of benefits paid to a retirant who does not elect to receive benefits in the form of an optional settlement, or to the retirant and the designated beneficiary in the case of a retirant who does so elect, before the death of the retirant or the retirant and the beneficiary is less than the deductions accumulated in the retirant's account at the time of retirement, including regular interest, the balance shall be paid in one lump sum to the retirant's designated beneficiary or estate in the manner provided in section 51 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-51). Except in the case of members who have elected to receive (1) a deferred retirement allowance pursuant to section 38 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-38) or (2) early retirement allowances pursuant to subsection b. of section 41 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-41) after separation from service pursuant to section 38, if a member dies within 30 days after the date of retirement or the date of board approval, whichever is later, the member's retirement allowance shall not become effective and the member shall be considered an active member at the time of death. However, if the member dies after the date the application for retirement was filed with the system, the retirement will become effective if: a. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1995, c.221); b. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1995, c.221); c. The deceased member had designated a beneficiary under an optional settlement provided by this section; and d. The surviving beneficiary requests in writing that the board make such a selection. Upon formal action by the board approving that request, the request shall be irrevocable. The board may select an Option 3 settlement, on behalf of the beneficiary of a member who applied for and was eligible for retirement but who died prior to the effective date of the retirement allowance, if all of the above conditions, with the exception of c., are met. L.1954, c.84,s.50; amended 1954, c.244, s.8; 1966, c.217, s.10; 1984, c.96, s.1; 1987, c.446, s.2; 1995, c.221, s.2; 2001, c.120, s.2.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-99 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-99
Retirement
Status: in_force

A member who has attained the age of 55 and who immediately prior to retirement has 20 years of creditable service as a law enforcement officer, shall be eligible for service retirement as a law enforcement officer. Any member in service who is a law enforcement officer at the time of attaining age 65 years shall be retired on a service retirement allowance forthwith or on the first day of the next calendar month, as is determined by the board of trustees; provided, however, any law enforcement officer who is a veteran shall not be retired at age 65 years if he does not have 20 years of service in office, position or employment of this State, or of any county, municipality or school district, but such veteran member shall be retired upon the completion of such 20 years of service or upon attaining age 70 years, whichever is earlier; and provided, further, that any member of the Public Employees' Retirement System who was a member of the Prison Officers' Pension Fund on the date of termination of said fund and who elected not to obtain credit as a law enforcement officer shall not be required to retire on account of age until age 70. L.1955, c. 257, p. 941, s. 3. Amended by L.1956, c. 55, p. 108, s. 2; L.1959, c. 170, p. 701, s. 3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-33.4 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-33.4
Rental or lease terms; purpose of section
Status: in_force

If the property is rented or leased to the State, it shall be on terms calling for level periodic rental payments, not more than 1 year apart, in such amounts as will amortize the total actual cost of the investment, including cost of land, construction, improvement and supervision of construction, over a period of 20 years from the beginning of the term of its first rental, together with income to be derived therefrom for the benefit of the fund at such rate not in excess of 6% per annum, as shall be fixed by the Director of the Division of Investment and approved by the board of trustees, on the depreciated value of the asset which shall be its total actual cost to the fund less a depreciation allowance equal in amount to the aggregate sums received toward amortization of the investment. Such portion of the rentals as shall exceed the amounts received toward amortization shall be treated as investment income. It is the purpose of this section to provide for the accounting basis upon which the real property investment shall be carried and depreciated and for the treatment, as between capital and income, of the amounts received for the use of the property by way of rental, in order to maintain the integrity and actuarial soundness of the funds established by the "Public Employees' Retirement-Social Security Integration Act" (P.L.1954, c. 84). L.1960, c. 44, p. 178, s. 4. Amended by L.1968, c. 468, s. 2, eff. March 4, 1969.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-61.2 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-61.2
Increase of retirement allowance under subsection b. of C.43:15A-61 and C.43:15A-50.
Status: in_force

15. The retirement allowance of each retiree under subsection b. of section 61 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-61), or the retiree's beneficiary pursuant to section 50 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-50), on the effective date of P.L.2001, c.353 shall be increased from 50% to 54.5% of the compensation for which contributions were made during the 12-month period of membership providing the largest possible benefit to the member or the member's beneficiary. The provisions of section 7 of P.L.1969, c.169 (C.43:3B-8) shall not be applicable to the increases in retirement allowances provided by this section. L.2001,c.353,s.15.
N.J. Stat. § 43:16A-4.3 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 16A / Section 16A-4.3
Disposition of application by board; credit for service; liability of employer
Status: in_force

The board shall, upon receiving such application and such evidence, advise the employer of the submission of such application and request the employer to submit such evidence of a return of contributions to the member as the board deems necessary for the purposes of this section. The board shall within 60 days of receiving, pursuant to section 1 of this supplementary act, evidence supporting such application make a determination of the amount of service as a chanceman for which contributions to a municipal retirement system were made by the member and the portion of such service for which such contributions were returned to the member. Notwithstanding the provisions to the contrary of section 4 of P.L.1944, c. 255 (C. 43:16A-4) or of any other law, the board shall thereupon credit to the member the remaining portion of such service as creditable service. Any employer of employees receiving credit for service under the provisions of this supplementary act shall be liable for the amount to be credited to the member's account. The actuary of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System shall calculate the amount of such liability and certify the same to the board. The board shall transmit to the employer notice of the amount due, and the employer shall within 60 days of receiving such notice remit such amount in full to the Police and Firemen's Retirement System. L.1981, c. 198, s. 2, eff. July 9, 1981.
N.J. Stat. § 43:15A-39.1 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 15A / Section 15A-39.1
Credit in retirement system for members on approved leave of absence.
Status: in_force

3. Any member who serves, while on an approved leave of absence from regular duties, as an officer or representative of a local, county or State labor organization which represents, or is affiliated with an organization which represents, public employees shall have the option to receive credit in the retirement system for the service. Any member who chooses to receive the credit shall be liable, with respect to the service to be credited, for payment to the retirement system of both the contributions that would have been required under section 25 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-25) and section 30 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-30) and the contributions that would have been required under section 24 of P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-24) if that service had been rendered as regular service to the employer granting the leave of absence. The contributions shall be based upon the compensation that would have been received by the member under the negotiated salary guide of the employer granting the leave had that member remained in service with that employer, including applicable normal increments and negotiated wage increases occurring during the period of the leave. L.2005,c.368,s.3.
N.J. Stat. § 43:7-27 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 7 / Section 7-27
Benefit payments based on temporary service; continuation
Status: in_force

Any prison officer or his beneficiary presently receiving benefits under the act to which this act is a supplement shall continue to receive such benefits notwithstanding the fact that the length of service upon which the rights of benefits have been computed was based in whole or in part on temporary service. Nothing in this act or in the act to which this act is a supplement shall authorize the Prison Officers Pension Commission to grant benefits hereafter based upon temporary service. L.1955, c. 54, p. 180, s. 1.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-43 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-43
Control of fund and retirement
Status: in_force

The pension commission shall have control and management of the fund and of the retirement of members of the departments, and may make all necessary rules and regulations regarding the same not inconsistent with this article. All moneys belonging to the fund shall be received and paid over to the county treasurer, whose official bond shall cover the same. No moneys shall be paid out of the fund except upon the warrant of the commission, signed by its president and secretary.
N.J. Stat. § 43:10-67 — NJ Code / Title 43 / Chapter 10 / Section 10-67
Pension of retiree's spouse
Status: in_force

If any sheriff's employee, after having been retired on half pay, shall die leaving his surviving widow who was his wife at the time of his 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 sheriff's employee at the time of his retirement. A "widower" shall receive the same benefits as a "widow" receives pursuant to this section. Amended by L. 1985, c. 218, s. 3, eff. July 2, 1985.