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NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-22.75 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-22.75 - Rules, regulations

43:13-22.75. Rules, regulations  The Director of the Division of Pensions of the Department of the Treasury shall promulgate such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L.1969, c.169 (C.43:3B-1 et seq.) and this act, as the director shall deem necessary for the effective operation of the program. The director shall include a report of the operation of this act with his report of the operation of the "Pension Adjustment Act" in the annual report submitted to the Governor and the Legislature regarding all of the operations of the Division of Pensions. The retirement system shall furnish such information as the director may request for this purpose.  L.1990,c.20,s.13.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-23 - Definitions

43:13-23. Definitions  As used in this article, "a year of service" shall consist of such part of the calendar year as the life guard force is normally employed and the "year's salary" means the salary a life guard receives during the time of his normal employment in any calendar year. If the salary is payable on a per diem basis the pension commission may determine the length of service and the amount of the year's salary by averaging the salary theretofore received by the life guard or officer during the then past three years or in any other equitable manner and may determine in that case what constitutes a year's salary and a year's service.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-24 - Retirement for service and age

43:13-24. Retirement for service and age  In all cities of the fourth class any member of the life guard force, whether employed as an officer or a guard, who has or shall have served on such force for a period of twenty years, and shall have attained the age of forty-five years, and for a period of ten years preceding his application has been continuously in such service, may, either by the governing body of any such city or upon his own application, be retired upon half pay.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-25 - Retirement for disability

43:13-25. Retirement for disability  An officer or member of the life guard force who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty shall, upon the certificate of the beach surgeon, or other physician designated by the governing body, be retired on a pension equal to one-half of his salary at the time of retirement.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-26 - Widow's, children's or dependent's pension

43:13-26. Widow's, children's or dependent's pension  The widow of a life guard, officer or member of the life guard force who loses his life in the performance of his duty, dies from natural causes or has been retired on pension shall receive a pension, so long as she remains unmarried equal to one-half of the amount of the annual salary of her husband at the time of his death. At her death, or if there is no widow or she remarries, her minor child or children shall receive the pension for their support until the youngest reaches sixteen years of age. If there are no children under sixteen years of age, the pension shall be paid to the dependent parent or parents of such life guard officer or life guard.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-27 - Pension fund

43:13-27. Pension fund  For the purpose of paying the pensions hereunder, a fund shall be created as follows: a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to each member of the life guard force in the city four per cent of the amount thereof. b. The city shall raise by taxation and pay into the fund yearly an amount equal to four per cent of the total salaries paid to members of the life guard force. c. Any fines imposed upon a member of the force, money given or donated for the purpose of the fund, money deducted from the salary of a member of the force because of absence or loss of time and half of any reward paid to the force or any member thereof shall be added to the fund. If at any time there is not sufficient money in the pension fund for the purposes thereof, the governing body shall include in any tax levy a sum in addition to amounts theretofore contributed which shall be sufficient to meet the requirements of the fund. This sum shall be raised by tax levy no longer than is necessary to meet the requirements of the fund. Whenever the fund exceeds an amount which the governing body by resolution from time to time determines to be adequate for the fund, no moneys, except the four per cent of salaries and the fines, donations and rewards specified in this section, shall be paid into the fund unless and until the fund falls below the amount so determined to be adequate.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-28 - Pension commission

43:13-28. Pension commission  The mayor or chief executive officer shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the governing body of the city, a life guard pension commission of four members. One member shall be a superior officer of the life guard force, one a life guard and two citizens who are not members of the force. They shall serve for a term of four years and until their successors are appointed and have qualified and shall not receive any compensation for their services. Each person so appointed shall take an oath of office before the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-29 - Management and control of fund; treasurer; investments; payments

43:13-29. Management and control of fund; treasurer; investments; payments  The life guard pension commission shall have the management and control of the fund and may make all necessary rules and regulations not inconsistent with this article. All moneys belonging to the fund shall be paid over to the city treasurer, who shall give bond in such amount, from time to time, as the governing body of the city determines. All moneys not needed for the immediate payment of the pensions shall be invested by the life guard pension commission in interest bearing bonds of the city or in other interest bearing securities in which savings banks of this state may invest their funds. No moneys shall be paid out of the fund by the treasurer except upon the warrant of the life guard pension commission, to be signed by such member or members of the commission as shall be designated by the commission.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-30 - Retirement for service and age

43:13-30. Retirement for service and age  Any employee of the water department of any municipality, including any employee having supervision or regulation of the water department, who shall have served honorably in the department for a period of twenty-five years and reached the age of sixty years, shall, upon his own application, be retired on half pay. Any such employee who shall have served honorably for a period of twenty years and reached the age of sixty-five years shall be retired on half pay.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-31 - Retirement for disability

43:13-31. Retirement for disability  Any employee of the water department who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty, shall, upon certificate of the surgeon or 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, a person desires to retire by reason of injury or disease, he shall apply in writing to the pension commission for retirement. Thereupon the pension commission shall call to its aid a surgeon or physician who shall represent the commission and the applicant may call to his aid a regularly licensed and practicing physician or surgeon. If these two physicians or surgeons fail to agree upon the physical condition of the applicant, the pension commission may call a third disinterested licensed and practicing physician or surgeon and the determination of the majority of such three physicians, they being first duly sworn in the case, shall be reduced to writing and signed by them. The president of the pension commission may administer an oath to such physicians or surgeons or any other person 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 physicians' or surgeons' determination in arriving at its decision.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-32 - Widow of employee

43:13-32. Widow of employee  The widow of an employee of the water department, who shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and shall have lost his life in the performance of his duty or died from causes other than injuries received in the performance of duty, shall, if she shall have married her deceased husband prior to his having reached sixty years of age, receive a pension equal to one-half of his salary at the time of his death, but not exceeding one thousand dollars. If a widow entitled to a pension hereunder remarries, the pension shall cease and shall not be paid to her or her children.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-33 - Widow of retired employee

43:13-33. Widow of retired employee  If any retired employee of the water department, who, while an employee of the department shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and continued so to do after his retirement until his death, shall have died from causes other than injuries received in the performance of duty, his widow, if she was married to him before the date of his retirement and before he reached sixty years of age, shall, so long as she remains unmarried, receive a pension equal to one-half of her deceased husband's pay at the time of his retirement, but not exceeding one thousand dollars for the use of herself.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-34 - Pension fund

43:13-34. Pension fund  For the purpose of paying the pensions a fund shall be created as follows: a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to any employee of the water department in the municipality who shall have entered the service on or before the age of thirty-five years, two per cent of the amount thereof, and if he shall have entered the service after reaching thirty-five years of age, the percentage shall be increased to such an amount as the pension commission determines to correspond to the risk arising by his additional age. b. The municipality shall raise by taxation and pay into the fund yearly, an amount equal to four per cent of the total salaries paid to the employees of the water department. c. All moneys given or donated to the fund and moneys deducted from the salary of any employee of the department because of absence or loss of time shall be added to the fund. If there is not sufficient money in this fund, the governing body shall include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of the fund for the time being.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-35 - Pension commission; organization

43:13-35. Pension commission; organization  There shall be established in all municipalities in which this article takes effect a pension commission of five members consisting of the mayor or other chief executive of the municipality, the chief financial officer of the municipality and two employees of the water department. These employees shall be nominated at a meeting or meetings held by the employees of the department in November and elected by them for a term of two years at a meeting held about the middle of December of each year at a date to be fixed by each body. The fifth member of the commission shall be a citizen who is not holding office under the municipality and shall be selected by the other four members of the pension commission. He shall hold office for the term of one year. In case of a vacancy for any cause, the commission may fill it until the next election. The commission shall hold its first and annual meeting on January first, in each year, and elect its president from its members and a secretary from the employees of the department or anyone from outside of the department, as the commission sees fit. The commission may fix the secretary's compensation. All retirements and pensions provided for by this article shall be made and allowed by the commission.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-36 - Rules and regulations; treasurer; payments

43:13-36. Rules and regulations; treasurer; payments  The pension commission shall have control and management of the fund and of the retirement of the employees of the water department and may 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 municipality, whose official bond shall cover the same. No moneys shall be paid out of the fund except upon a warrant of the commission, signed by its president and secretary.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-37 - Referendum

43:13-37. Referendum  The question of the adoption of this article shall be submitted to the voters of any municipality by the governing body at any general election or special election held for that purpose, upon the presentation of a petition for its adoption, signed by at least ten per cent of the legal voters, but which shall not be submitted to such an election until at least thirty days after the date of filing the petition. The question of the adoption of this article shall, through action of the governing body, be placed upon a ballot at any general election or be submitted at a special election, in the manner required by law in such cases. If a majority of the legal voters voting at the election adopt this article, it shall take effect immediately, but the organization and establishment of the funds shall not take place until January first following the election.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-37.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-37.1 - Pension fund in certain towns in counties of first class; pension fund commission; membership; meetings

43:13-37.1. Pension fund in certain towns in counties of first class; pension fund commission; membership; meetings  There shall be established, in all towns in counties of the first class of this State whose charter was granted between the years one thousand eight hundred and eighty and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine and also still have a councilmanic form of government and in which towns have established by referendum under subtitle three, Title 11, Civil Service, a pension fund. The said fund shall be administered by a commission of five members consisting of the mayor of such town who shall be president of such pension fund commission, the town treasurer of such town who shall be treasurer of such pension fund commission, two municipal employees of such town who shall be nominated and elected at a meeting to be held by the aforesaid town employees, which meeting shall be held at the call of the mayor of the town within thirty days aforesaid. The town employees shall hold such office until their successors are nominated and elected at a meeting of such employees to be held on the third Wednesday of the following December, and thereafter two town employees shall be nominated and elected as members of such pension fund commission in the same manner on the third Wednesday of December every second year, and the terms of office of said members so to be elected by the town employees shall be for two years commencing January first following their election. The fifth member of said commission shall be a citizen of the town who is not holding any public office or position, shall be selected by the other four members of the commission and shall hold office for the term of one year expiring on January first each year. In case of vacancy for any cause the commission shall have power to fill such vacancy until the next election. The said commission shall hold its annual meetings between the first and fifteenth days of January in each year and elect such officers as it shall deem advisable for the term of one year or until their successors are elected, and shall also have power to select a secretary whose duties and compensation the commission shall have power to fix and who shall serve for a period of one year or until his successor is appointed. The commission shall have the power to employ from time to time such clerical assistance as it shall deem necessary and to purchase such office supplies and equipment as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and to pay for the same out of the pension fund hereinafter provided for. The pension fund commission shall be known as "the town employees" pension fund commission of the town of in the county of . L.1943, c. 189, p. 522, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-37.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-37.2 - Powers and duties of pension fund commission

43:13-37.2. Powers and duties of pension fund commission  The said pension fund commission shall have control and management of the pension fund hereafter referred to and they are hereby empowered to make rules, by-laws and regulations regarding the same not inconsistent with this act. Said commission shall have power to determine the question of dependency of the surviving beneficiaries under this act. It shall have the right to sue and be sued and to have, hold, purchase, sell, assign and transfer any of the securities in which any part of the said fund may be invested and any moneys belonging to said fund. All moneys belonging to said pension fund shall be received and paid over to the treasurer of such pension fund commission, whose official bond as town treasurer shall cover same. All moneys paid out of such pension fund shall be paid by the treasurer of said pension fund commission under warrants signed by the president and secretary of such pension fund commission, or such other officers as said commission shall designate. L.1943, c. 189, p. 523, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-37.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-37.3 - Execution of releases, acquittances or discharges of indebtedness; deposits; interest and income

43:13-37.3. Execution of releases, acquittances or discharges of indebtedness; deposits; interest and income  The president and secretary shall, on behalf of the said pension fund commission, execute any and all releases, acquittances, receipts or discharges of any and all written evidences of indebtedness to said pension fund commission; said pension fund commission shall deposit such fund in any of the banks or trust companies of such town, and shall have power to invest the same in bonds of the United States or of this State, or of any county or municipality in this State. All income, interest, earnings or dividend which shall be paid or agreed to be paid on account of any loan or deposit shall belong to and constitute a part of said pension fund. L.1943, c. 189, p. 524, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-37.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-37.4 - Annual reports

43:13-37.4. Annual reports  The pension fund commission shall make an annual report of the conditions of such fund and the manner in which the fund is invested and file the same with the mayor and town council of such town. L.1943, c. 189, p. 524, s. 4.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:13-37.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:13-37.5 - Fund created; deductions from compensation; contributions by town; temporary loans where funds inadequate; exemption of pensions; no refunds

43:13-37.5. Fund created; deductions from compensation; contributions by town; temporary loans where funds inadequate; exemption of pensions; no refunds  A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying the benefits provided by this act, to wit: There shall 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.