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NJ Rev Stat § 43:17-41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:17-41 - State association continued; conduct of affairs; expenses

43:17-41. State association continued; conduct of affairs; expenses  43:17-41. The New Jersey State Firemen's Association organized pursuant to an act entitled "An act concerning firemen's relief associations," approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand 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.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:17-42 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:17-42 - Delegates, representatives of local firemen's relief associations.

43:17-42 Delegates, representatives of local firemen's relief associations.  43:17-42. On or before May 1st in each year, the board of representatives of each duly incorporated local firemen's relief association in this State shall choose, out of the whole body of the membership thereof, three delegates to the convention or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association and three alternates, one or more of whom shall act in the place of any delegate so chosen who may be unable to attend the convention or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. They, together with the chief, or if there is no chief the next highest ranking officer, shall represent the local association at the conventions or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. Amended 1996, c.151, s.34; 2008, c.64, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:17-43 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:17-43 - Delegates of exempt firemen's association.

43:17-43 Delegates of exempt firemen's association.  43:17-43. On or before May 1st in every year, each duly incorporated exempt firemen's association shall choose, by ballot, one delegate and one alternate who shall act in the place of the delegate who may be unable to attend the convention or meeting of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association out of the whole body of the membership thereof, who shall represent and vote for the local exempt firemen's association at the convention or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. This delegate or alternate shall have the same rights, powers and privileges as the delegates elected to the New Jersey State Firemen's Association by the local firemen's relief associations. Amended 1996, c.151, s.35; 2008, c.64, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:17-44 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:17-44 - Annual convention; election of officers

43:17-44. Annual convention; election of officers  43:17-44. At each annual convention of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association, there shall be elected, by ballot, a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, first assistant secretary, second assistant secretary, executive committee and such other officers as the constitution and by-laws adopted by the New Jersey State Firemen's Association require. The president, secretary and other officers and such other persons or committees as the constitution and by-laws of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association provide, shall constitute the executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. The president and secretary, after each election, shall file with the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance a sworn statement of the fact of the election and of the names of the officers so elected. The first certificate filed after March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, which contained a reference to the 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), stated the intention to incorporate thereunder and had thereon an impression of the common seal of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall be deemed to be the certificate of incorporation of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. The executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association has the power to adopt and revise the constitution and by-laws from time for time in accordance with R.S.43:17-35. At each annual convention the New Jersey State Firemen's Association may adopt for its use and government any amendment submitted by any local association or the executive committee to amend the constitution and by-laws as seem best for its uses and purposes. Amended 1996, c.151, s.36.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:17-45 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:17-45 - Executive committee powers; annual report

43:17-45. Executive committee powers; annual report  43:17-45. The executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall have the supervision and power of control of the funds and other 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.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:17-46 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:17-46 - Field examiner, examination of books

43:17-46. Field examiner, examination of books  43:17-46. For the purpose of proper supervision and control of the funds and property of the local firemen's relief associations, the executive committee may, each year, elect a field examiner, who shall, by virtue of his office, be a member of the executive committee. The field examiner shall examine the books, bonds and property of any association whenever it may seem necessary for the proper care, safety and custody of the funds and property thereof, and for that purpose may demand and receive, for examination, all bonds and papers necessary to a full and fair examination thereof. Amended 1996, c.151, s.38.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:17-47 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:17-47 - Annual certificate, filing; share in relief fund

43:17-47. Annual certificate, filing; share in relief fund  43:17-47. On or before June 1st in each year, the field examiner of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall file in the Office of the Secretary of State a sworn certificate, countersigned by the president of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association, stating the name and address of the treasurer of each local firemen's relief association which has complied with the requirements of this chapter. No firemen's relief association or any of the officers thereof, shall share in the distribution of or be entitled to have or receive any part of any fund for the relief of needy or disabled firefighters, unless the association and officers shall have complied with R.S.43:17-31, and shall be so certified to the Secretary of State.  Amended 1996, c.151, s.39.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-1 - Incorporation; purpose

43:18-1. Incorporation; purpose  The employees of the local board or department of health heretofore or hereafter established in any city may form a corporation for the purpose of providing and obtaining a fund to pension such employees.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-2 - Procedure

43:18-2. Procedure  For the purpose of forming such a corporation, the health officer or other chief officer or person in charge of such employees, shall notify every employee of the local board or department of health to attend a meeting to be held not less than five days after the giving of the notice, to consider the formation of a corporation in accordance with this chapter. The notice shall be in writing and specify the time and place of the meeting of the employees. If two-thirds of the employees present at the meeting vote in favor of forming the corporation they shall adopt a resolution to that effect and choose a name for the corporation. They shall organize by electing three persons selected from the employees of such board or department, who, together with the executive head of the board or department having charge or control of the public health in the city, and the health officer or other chief officer or person in charge of the employees, the latter two being ex-officio members, shall constitute a board of trustees. The first trustees created hereunder shall prepare and sign a certificate reciting the adoption of the resolution by the employees as hereinbefore directed, the name adopted, the appointment of trustees, the organization and the name of officers and execution of the certificate, for the purpose of forming a corporation under this chapter, for the purposes herein set forth, which certificate shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county wherein the corporation is organized, and filed in the office of the commissioner of banking and insurance, at Trenton. Thereupon such trustees, their associates and successors, shall be a corporation with all the powers incident thereto.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-3 - Trustees; filling vacancy of trustee or officer; bond of trustee or officer

43:18-3. Trustees; filling vacancy of trustee or officer; bond of trustee or officer  The first board of trustees, selected as provided in section 43:18-2 of this title, shall serve until the month of January following the incorporation of the association. At such time three members of the association shall be elected as trustees in place of the three selected as provided in said section 43:18-2, by a majority vote of the members of the association as follows: One for the term of one year, one for the term of two years and one for the term of three years, who shall serve for the respective terms for which they each were chosen. Thereafter annually, in the month of January in each year, a member of the board of trustees shall be chosen for a full term of three years to serve in the place of the trustee whose term shall have then expired, so that the term of office of only one member shall expire in each year. A vacancy occurring in any manner in the board of trustees or in the office of any officer of the corporation shall be filled in the manner provided for in the by-laws, and in the absence of such provision by the board of trustees. The trustees and officers of the corporation shall give bonds, with a duly authorized surety company as surety thereon, for the faithful performance of their duties in such sum or sums as the corporation's by-laws fix.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-4 - Organization

43:18-4. Organization  The board of trustees shall, at the first annual meeting thereof, and at each annual meeting thereafter, elect a chairman, secretary, treasurer and any other officers it deems necessary. The secretary may be a member of the board, or the clerk of the local board or department of health. The board of trustees shall fix the compensation of the secretary and treasurer. The chairman shall serve without compensation.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-5 - Payments; deposits; investments

43:18-5. Payments; deposits; investments  All moneys paid out of the pension fund shall be paid by the treasurer of the corporation upon warrants signed by the chairman of the board of trustees and countersigned by the secretary thereof, and no warrant shall be drawn except by the order of the board upon a yea and nay vote recorded in the minutes of the board. The board of trustees may deposit the fund in any of the banks or trust companies of such cities, and may invest the same in bonds secured by first mortgages on improved property worth at least twice the amount loaned, or in bonds of the United States or of this state, or any city or county in this state. All income, interest 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 the fund.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-6 - Reports

43:18-6. Reports  The board of trustees shall make a semiannual report of the condition of the fund and the manner in which it is invested to the local board or department of health of the city, in the months of January and July in each year, and at such other times as it may be requested so to do by the local board or department.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-7 - Membership

43:18-7. Membership  Except as hereinafter in this section provided the employees of any such local board or department of health who shall be entitled to accept the provisions of this chapter shall be the health officer or chief inspector employed by such board or department, all persons employed in the sanitary department of any such board, all persons regularly employed by any such board in the care of any tuberculosis or any other hospital which is or may be under the control of any such board, all persons actually engaged as physicians, nurses, or otherwise, in taking care of patients in any such tuberculosis or any other hospital, excepting visiting physicians not on the regular staff of any such hospital, and all persons employed in any dispensary or laboratory under the control and management of any such board, including chemists regularly employed by any such board; it being the intent of this paragraph to include under the provisions thereof all persons and employees on the payroll of any such department of health. Every employee or officer as above defined, appointed after June second, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, shall automatically become a member of the pension fund corporation from the date of appointment for service in the health department or city hospital, providing such employee or officer has been passed by the corporation's physician as mentally and physically eligible for membership. No employee or officer who has attained the age of forty years, shall be eligible to become a member of such pension fund corporation. The terms of this chapter shall not serve to involuntarily enroll any employee eligible to membership who is already entitled by virtue of qualifying prior military service to pension benefits established by law for war veterans. All persons employed by any such board or department of health who are eligible to membership in the pension fund shall be permitted to take the immediate advantage of this chapter.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-8 - Perjury

43:18-8. Perjury  A person who shall willfully or knowingly swear falsely in an oath for the purpose of obtaining or procuring a pension or the payment thereof, under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of perjury.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-9 - Application for membership

43:18-9. Application for membership  Any employee of the board or department of health hereinbefore mentioned may avail himself of the benefits of the pension fund by applying in writing for membership therein and paying in the fund the monthly assessments levied by the board of trustees.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-10 - Physical examination as prerequisite to membership

43:18-10. Physical examination as prerequisite to membership  Any employee applying for membership in a corporation created under this chapter and the benefits thereof, must have passed, at the time he entered service, a physical examination satisfactory to and conducted by a physician designated by the board of trustees of the pension fund or shall pass a physical examination satisfactory to and conducted by such a physician at the time of his application for membership in the corporation and the benefits of this chapter. The applicant shall produce a certificate of good health signed by such a physician before being admitted to membership and the benefits of this chapter.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-11 - Pension fund

43:18-11. Pension fund  The pension fund shall be created and sustained as follows: a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to each employee not less than four per cent and not more than six per cent of the amount thereof, as determined by the board of trustees, if such employee entered such service on or before the age of thirty-five years, and, if after such age, then such percentage shall be increased to such an amount as shall be determined by the board of trustees to correspond to the risk arising by the additional age of such employee. b. The city shall raise by taxation and pay into said fund yearly an amount equal to four per cent of the total salaries paid to such employees. c. All fines, if any, imposed on any employee, all fines and penalties, collected for the violation of any statute relating to the public health, or ordinance of the board of health, and all moneys deducted from the salary of any such employee on account of absence or loss of time. d. All moneys given or donated to such fund by any person or corporation in any manner or form whatsoever. In case there shall not be sufficient money in the pension fund created as aforesaid, the governing body shall include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of such fund for the time being. The board of trustees of any such pension corporation may assess and collect from each and every employee of such board or department, who is a member of such pension corporation the per cent of his annual salary, as shall be determined by the board of trustees, to be paid semimonthly to the treasurer of such corporation, and such assessment and collection shall be in manner and form as may be provided in the by-laws of such corporation. The board of trustees is hereby empowered, in its judgment, to make it a condition of membership that each member shall sign an order on the city treasurer, or other disbursing officer, directing the retention of the amount of the assessment levied hereunder, to be paid over directly to such corporation by retention from his salary or wages, and the city treasurer or other disbursing officer is hereby directed to make such retention and payment; but such retention and payment shall only become operative in the event of the same being authorized by the by-laws of such corporation. The fund shall be under the control and management of the board of five trustees.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-12 - Pension exempt from legal process

43:18-12. Pension exempt from legal process  All pensions created under this chapter shall be exempt from execution, attachment or other legal process.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-13 - Refunding dues paid upon death within five years, resignation or dismissal

43:18-13. Refunding dues paid upon death within five years, resignation or dismissal  On or after June fifth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, if any person then a member, or thereafter or hereafter becoming a member 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.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-14 - Application for retirement

43:18-14. Application for retirement  An applicant for retirement shall apply therefor in writing to the board of trustees of the pension fund. The application shall be granted if it is acted upon favorably by a majority of the board and if all charges and dues against the applicant, as shown by the books of the fund, have been paid in full.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-15.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-15.1 - Pensions to widows in certain cases

43:18-15.1. Pensions to widows in certain cases  The widow of any member of any pension fund corporation existing under the provisions of the chapter to which this act is a supplement shall be entitled to receive the pension provided for by section fifteen of said chapter, notwithstanding that her marriage to said member took place after said member reached the age of fifty years; provided, such marriage took place prior to March twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven; and provided, further, that such member at the time of his death, was or shall be in good standing in said corporation. L.1938, c. 327, p. 838, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 43:18-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation|Section 43:18-16 - Dishonesty to bar benefit hereunder

43:18-16. Dishonesty to bar benefit hereunder  Any employee of the board or department of health, included in the provisions of this chapter, who unlawfully retains any of the moneys, funds, properties or effects of a corporation organized under this chapter shall be forever debarred from receiving any relief or benefit from the pension fund.