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NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-40 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-40 - Retirement for disability; application for retirement

43:10-40. Retirement for disability; application for retirement  A member of the county police department who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty shall, upon the certificate of a surgeon, the county physician or another physician designated for that purpose by the pension commission, be retired on a pension equal to two-thirds of the amount of his salary at the time of his retirement. When a member or employee of the department desires to retire because of injury or disease, he shall apply in writing to the pension commission for retirement. Thereupon, the commission shall call to its aid the county physician or other physician designated for that purpose, and the applicant may also call to his aid a regularly licensed and practicing physician or surgeon. The president of the board of pension commissioners may administer oaths to such physicians or any person called regarding the matter before the commission. If the two physicians so called fail to agree on the physical condition of the applicant, the commission may call a third disinterested practicing physician and surgeon. The determination of a majority of these three physicians, after they have first been duly sworn in the case, shall be reduced to writing and signed by them. The pension commission shall determine by resolution whether the applicant is entitled to the benefits of this article and shall consider the physicians' determination in arriving at its decision.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-41 - Pension fund

43:10-41. Pension fund  For the purpose of paying the pensions, a fund shall be created in the respective counties, as follows: a. If a member of the county police department shall have entered the service on or before the age of thirty-five years, two per cent of the amount of every salary payment to him shall be deducted and if he entered the service after the age of thirty-five years, this percentage shall be increased to such an amount as shall be determined by the pension commission to correspond to the risk arising by the additional age of the member. b. The county shall raise by taxation and pay into the fund yearly an amount equal to four per cent of the total salaries paid to the members of the police department. c. All fines imposed on any member of the department, moneys given or donated to the fund, moneys deducted from the salary of a member because of absence or loss of time and one-half of all rewards paid for any purpose shall be added to the fund. If there is not sufficient money in the fund, the board of chosen freeholders shall include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of the fund for the time being.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-42 - Pension commission

43:10-42. Pension commission  In all counties in which this article takes effect there shall be established a pension commission of five members, consisting of the director of the board of chosen freeholders, the county treasurer, two members of the police department of the county, and one citizen of the county, to be selected by them at a meeting or meetings to be held in December of each year at a date to be fixed by each body. The term of each of the members selected from the county police department and of the citizen member shall be for two years.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-43 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-43 - Control of fund and retirement

43:10-43. Control of fund and retirement  The pension commission shall have control and management of the fund and of the retirement of members of the departments, and may make all 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.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-44 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-44 - Adoption of article

43:10-44. Adoption of article  This article shall not be operative in any county until the board of chosen freeholders thereof shall have determined, by resolution, to adopt its provisions for the county.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-45 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-45 - Citation of article

43:10-45. Citation of article  This article may be cited as "An act providing for the pensioning of county probation officers in certain counties of this state."
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-46 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-46 - "County probation officers" defined

43:10-46. "County probation officers" defined  43:10-46. The words "county probation officers" as used in this article shall mean and include the chief probation officer; and persons permanently appointed to act as probation officers, which appointments are made by the assignment judge of the Superior Court, as provided for in N.J.S.2A:168-5.  Amended 1953,c.41,s.1; 1991,c.91,s.413.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-47 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-47 - "Be retired upon one-half pay" defined

43:10-47. "Be retired upon one-half pay" defined  The words "be retired upon one-half pay" , as used in this article, shall be construed to mean, retired upon a pension equal to one-half of the annual salary of the county probation officer at the time of his retirement.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-48 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-48 - Retirement for service and age

43:10-48. Retirement for service and age  43:10-48. The county probation officers in the counties of this State now or hereafter having within their territorial limits a population of over eighty-three thousand, who have served as such county probation officers for a continuous period of twenty years and have reached the age of sixty years shall, upon application in writing to the assignment judge of the Superior Court of their respective counties, be retired upon one-half pay.  Amended 1953,c.41,s.2; 1991,c.91,s.414.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-49 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-49 - Retirement for disability regardless of service or age

43:10-49. Retirement for disability regardless of service or age  Any county probation officer who shall at any time receive a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness, physical or mental, which shall permanently incapacitate him from further duty, whether he shall have served as a county probation officer for a continuous period of twenty years or not, or whether he shall have reached the age of sixty years or not, shall, upon the certification of the fact of such disability by three physicians designated as hereinafter provided, be retired upon one-half pay.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-50 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-50 - Retirement when physically or mentally unfit

43:10-50. Retirement when physically or mentally unfit  43:10-50. Any county probation officer who shall have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years, whether he has reached the age of sixty years or not, who shall be found to be physically or mentally unfit for further service shall, upon application in writing to the assignment judge of the Superior Court of his county, be retired upon one-half pay.  Amended 1953,c.41,s.3; 1991,c.91,s.415.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-51 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-51 - Determination of permanent incapacity

43:10-51. Determination of permanent incapacity  43:10-51. Permanent incapacity for further duty of any county probation officer shall, for all purposes of this article, be established and determined by a 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 such county probation officer and if they, or a majority of them, find that such county probation officer is permanently 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 assignment judge of the Superior Court, the chief probation officer and the county treasurer, and thereupon the applicant shall be retired upon one-half pay.  Amended 1953,c.41,s.4; 1991,c.91,s.416.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-52 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-52 - Pension to widow and children

43:10-52. Pension to widow and children  The widow of any county probation officer, who shall die from any cause while in the service, whether such county probation officer shall have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years or not, or whether such county probation officer shall have reached the age of sixty years or not, shall receive a pension, so long as she shall remain unmarried, equal to one-half the amount of the annual salary of such county probation officer at the time of his death; and upon the death of such widow, or in the event there be no widow, the child or children of such probation officer, under the age of sixteen years shall, until each reaches the age of sixteen years, receive the proportionate amount of such pension.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-53 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-53 - Pension to dependent widower and children

43:10-53. Pension to dependent widower and children  The widower of any county probation officer who shall die from any cause while in the service, whether such county probation officer shall have 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.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-54 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-54 - Death after retirement; pension to widow and children

43:10-54. Death after retirement; pension to widow and children  If any county probation officer, after having been retired on one-half pay, shall die, leaving him surviving a widow, who was his wife at 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 county probation officer at the time of his retirement; and upon the death of such widow, or in the event there be no widow, the child or children of such probation officer, under the age of sixteen years, shall, until each reaches the age of sixteen years, receive the proportionate amount of such pension.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-55 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-55 - Death after retirement; pension to dependent widower and children

43:10-55. Death after retirement; pension to dependent widower and children  If any county probation officer, after having been retired on one-half pay, shall die, leaving her surviving a widower, who was her husband at the time of her retirement, such widower, so long as he shall remain unmarried, shall receive a pension equal to one-half the amount of the annual salary of such probation officer at the time of her retirement, 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 of surviving husband shall be determined in the same manner as the permanent incapacity of probation officers as provided for in section 43:10-51 of this title.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-56 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-56 - Payment of pensions

43:10-56. Payment of pensions  Persons who may become entitled to pensions under this article shall be paid such pensions in the same manner and at the same time as county probation officers in active service in the several counties are respectively paid.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-57 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-57 - Source of pension fund; right of withdrawal; exemptions

43:10-57. Source of pension fund; right of withdrawal; exemptions  A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying such pensions, to wit: There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to each county probation officer three per centum (3%) of the amount thereof, then there shall be contributed annually by the county an amount equivalent to three per centum (3%) of such probation officers' salaries; to such sum there shall be added all moneys donated for the purpose of such fund, and all rewards which may be paid to any county probation officer while acting as such county probation officer, all of which moneys and rewards shall be paid over to the board of chosen freeholders of the county to be deposited in such fund. In case, at any time, there shall not be sufficient money in such pension fund to pay such pensions, the board of chosen freeholders of the county shall, from time to time, include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of such pension fund. Whenever such pension fund shall exceed an amount which the board of chosen freeholders of such county shall by resolution from time to time determine to be adequate for such pension fund, no moneys, except the three per centum (3%) specified in this article, and the moneys given or donated as herein mentioned and any aforementioned rewards, shall be paid into such fund, unless and until the amount of such fund shall fall below the amount thus determined to be adequate. Any county probation officer who has paid into the pension fund for at least four years, and is no longer in the service, shall have the right to withdraw from such pension fund and shall be entitled to a refund of the moneys theretofore deducted from his salary. 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.1944, c. 234, p. 791, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-57.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-57.1 - Probation officers in counties of 275,000 to 400,000; pensions; conditions

43:10-57.1. Probation officers in counties of 275,000 to 400,000; pensions; conditions  Any probation officer of any county now or hereafter having a population of more than two hundred seventy-five thousand and not more than four hundred thousand inhabitants, who, at the time of his entry into service as a probation officer, had not attained the age of fifty years and who is not a member of the pension fund for probation officers of said county and who signifies in writing his desire to become a member of said pension fund to the board of chosen freeholders of the county within six months after the effective date of this act shall be admitted as a member of said pension fund, with the same standing as a member of said fund as if he had joined it upon his entry into such service as a probation officer; provided, (a) that he satisfies the board of chosen freeholders that he meets the conditions required under this act; (b) that he shall pay into said fund all accrued contributions, with interest, either in one payment or in regular semimonthly payments, under such rules and regulations as the board of chosen freeholders shall make; and (c) that he consent to the regular deductions required of other members of said fund. L.1946, c. 215, p. 816, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-58 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-58 - Management of fund; investments

43:10-58. Management of fund; investments  The board of chosen freeholders of said county shall have the management and control of such fund and is hereby empowered to make all necessary rules and regulations concerning the same not inconsistent with this article. All moneys not needed for the immediate payment of such pension shall be invested by such board of chosen freeholders, in interest-bearing bonds of any municipality in this state or in any other interest-bearing securities in which savings banks of this state are authorized to invest their funds.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-59 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-59 - Other pension funds and associations not affected

43:10-59. Other pension funds and associations not affected  This article shall not be construed to affect in any manner any other pension fund organized or created under any law existing on May twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, nor shall the same affect in any manner any pension association or corporation organized and existing under any law existing on said date, nor shall it affect any of the members thereof; nor shall it affect any county whose probation officers have or may hereafter merge or join in any other pension fund.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-59.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-59.1 - Persons eligible under State retirement system; resolution excluding

43:10-59.1. Persons eligible under State retirement system; resolution excluding  The board of chosen freeholders may adopt a resolution directing that this article shall not apply to any person becoming a probation officer subsequent to the passage of such resolution who, at the time he becomes such probation officer, is eligible to become a member of the State retirement system. L.1947, c. 170, p. 785, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-59.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-59.2 - Effect of resolution

43:10-59.2. Effect of resolution  The adoption of a resolution pursuant to this act shall not impair the pension rights of any probation officer theretofore employed, nor shall it relieve the county of its obligation to maintain a pension fund under this article for such previously appointed probation officers. L.1947, c. 170, p. 786, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:10-59.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:10-59.3 - Termination of pension fund established for certain county probation officers

43:10-59.3. Termination of pension fund established for certain county probation officers  1. Any pension fund established for county probation officers under this article (R.S.43:10-45 et seq.) in a county having a population of at least 250,000 but not greater than 375,000 according to the 1990 federal decennial census shall be terminated as of the first day of the fourth month following the effective date of this act. The obligations of the fund with respect to the payment of pensions to retirants, beneficiaries and survivors under this article shall, upon termination of the fund, become obligations of the county. Any assets of the fund not already held in the name of the county shall become assets of the county, but the county shall hold those assets and any income, profit or gain derived therefrom in trust for those retirants, beneficiaries and survivors for so long as they continue to be qualified for benefits under the provisions of this article.  L.1994,c.23,s.1.