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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-29.2 - Effect of resolution

43:10-29.2. Effect of resolution
The adoption of a resolution pursuant to this act shall not impair the pension rights of any county detective theretofore employed, nor shall it relieve the county of its obligation to maintain a pension fund under this article for such previously appointed county detectives.
L.1947, c. 173, p. 788, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-29.3 - Counties of 300,000 to 500,000; county detectives desiring to become members of pension fund

43:10-29.3. Counties of 300,000 to 500,000; county detectives desiring to become members of pension fund
Any county detective employed in the office of the prosecutor of the pleas, of any county now or hereafter having a population of more than three hundred thousand and not more than five hundred thousand inhabitants, who, at the time of his entry into service as a county detective, had not attained the age of fifty years and who is not a member of the pension fund for county detectives 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 may be admitted as a member of said pension fund, if approved by the board of chosen freeholders, with the same standing as a member of said fund as if he had joined it upon his entry into such service as a county detective; 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 semi-monthly 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.1947, c. 396, p. 1248, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-29.4 - Counties of second class; adjustments in amount of pension benefits; resolution or ordinance

43:10-29.4. Counties of second class; adjustments in amount of pension benefits; resolution or ordinance
Any county of the second class which is paying pensions to retirants pursuant to the provisions of article 2 of chapter 10 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, may, from time to time, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, of the governing body of the county, make adjustments in the amounts of the pension benefits payable to said retirants so as to reflect increases or decreases in living costs and maintain the purchasing power of their pension benefits in a reasonably uniform state.
Any such adjustment may be made notwithstanding that the amount of pension benefits thereby payable will exceed the amount prescribed by R.S. 43:10-20 and R.S. 43:10-21, but no such adjustment shall be made that will reduce pension benefits below the amount so prescribed.
L.1971, c. 285, s. 1, eff. Aug. 19, 1971. Amended by L.1979, c. 135, s. 1, eff. July 6, 1979.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-29.5 - Limitations on adjustment

43:10-29.5. Limitations on adjustment
No adjustment shall be made beyond those permitted to be made for pensioners in State administered retirement systems, as promulgated by the Director of the Division of Pensions in accordance with the provisions of the "Pension Increase Act" (P.L.1958, c. 143).
L.1971, c. 285, s. 2, eff. Aug. 19, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-29.6 - Appropriations necessary for continuation of adjustments

43:10-29.6. Appropriations necessary for continuation of adjustments
Adjustments hereunder shall continue to be made as long as the employer appropriates the amount necessary to make such additional payments and provided further that there is appropriated by the State the amount certified for pensioners of State administered retirement systems.
L.1971, c. 285, s. 3, eff. Aug. 19, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-30 - Retirement for service, age and disability

43:10-30. Retirement for service, age and disability
In all counties of the first class of this state which have police officers for the supervision and regulation of traffic on county roads therein, any member of the police force thereof who shall have honorably served on the force for a period of twenty years, shall have attained the age of sixty years and shall be found physically unfit for further services thereon, may be retired on half pay by the board or body having charge and control of the force, or upon his application shall be retired upon half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-31 - Retirement on application for age and service

43:10-31. Retirement on application for age and service
A member of such police traffic force who shall have attained the age of fifty years and shall have honorably served on the force for a period of twenty years, shall, upon his application, be retired on half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-32 - Retirement for disability

43:10-32. Retirement for disability
A member of such police force who shall have sustained a permanent disability by reason of an accident incurred at any time in the service, or by reason of disease contracted in the service, shall, upon the certificate of a physician designated for that purpose by the board having charge of the force, be retired upon a pension equal to one-half of his salary at the time of his retirement.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-33 - Pension to widow and children

43:10-33. Pension to widow and children
The widow or children of any member of such police force who shall have lost his life in the performance of his duty, shall, so long as she remains unmarried or so long as the children or any of them remain under the age of sixteen years, receive a pension equal to one-half of the amount of his salary at the time of his death. If the police officer leaves a widow and children, the pension shall be paid to the widow so long as she remains unmarried. If he leaves children and no widow, the pension shall be paid to those children who have not attained the age of sixteen years in equal shares.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-34 - Pension fund

43:10-34. 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 each member of the police force one per cent of the amount thereof.
b. There shall be added to the fund all fines imposed on any member of the police force and all moneys given or donated for the purpose of the fund.
If at any time there is not sufficient money in this pension fund to pay the pensions, the board of chosen freeholders of the county shall include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of the fund, but this sum shall be raised by tax levy no longer than is necessary to meet the requirements of the pension fund. When the pension fund exceeds an amount which the board of chosen freeholders of the county from time to time determines, by resolution, to be adequate for the pension fund, no moneys except those specified in paragraphs "a" and "b" of this section shall be paid into the fund, unless and until the fund falls below the amount so determined to be adequate.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-35 - Management of fund

43:10-35. Management of fund
The board of chosen freeholders of the county shall have the management and control of the fund and may make all necessary rules and regulations concerning the same not inconsistent with this article. All moneys not needed for the immediate payment of the pensions shall be invested by the 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 may invest their funds.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-36.1 - Article inapplicable to certain persons

43:10-36.1. Article inapplicable to certain persons
This article shall not apply to any person becoming a member of such police department after this supplement takes effect who, at the time he becomes such member, is eligible to become a member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey.
L.1945, c. 244, p. 766, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-37 - Retirement for service and age

43:10-37. Retirement for service and age
Any county police officer who has honorably served for a period of twenty years in a duly organized county police department of any county of this state, having a population in excess of two hundred thousand and not more than four hundred thousand, and has reached the age of fifty years, shall, on his own application, be retired on half pay. A member of such county police department who has honorably served for a period of twenty years and reached the age of sixty-five years shall be retired on half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-37.1 - Increase in amount of service retirement pension

43:10-37.1. Increase in amount of service retirement pension
The amount of the service retirement pension of any member of such police department, who has served for more than 25 years and who retires after the effective date of this supplementary act, shall be increased by an amount equal to 1% of his average salary for each year of service in excess of 25 years rendered prior to his reaching age 65.
L.1968, c. 225, s. 1, eff. July 31, 1968.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-38 - Pension to widow, children or parent of deceased member

43:10-38. Pension to widow, children or parent of deceased member
The widow, children or sole dependent parent of a member of the county police department, who shall have served therein for a period of ten years, paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessment or contributions and either lost his life in the performance of his duty or died from causes other than injuries received in the performance of duty, shall receive a pension equal to the full amount of such member's salary at the time of his death, but not exceeding one thousand dollars. No widow shall be entitled to a pension who shall have married the member after he shall have reached the age of fifty years.
If the member leaves him surviving a widow and children, the pension shall be paid to the widow for the use of herself and the children. If he leaves three or more children but no widow, the pension shall be paid, in equal shares, to the children who have not reached the age of sixteen years; if there are two children, they shall be paid twenty dollars each monthly; if one child, he shall be paid twenty-five dollars monthly. If a widow entitled to a pension hereunder remarries, the pension shall cease and shall not be paid to her or her children.
If he leaves no widow and no children under sixteen years of age, the pension shall be paid to his sole dependent parent.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-39 - Pension to widow, children or parent of deceased retired member

43:10-39. Pension to widow, children or parent of deceased retired member
The widow of any retired member of such police department, who was married to her deceased husband before the date of his retirement and before he reached the age of 50 years, shall, if he paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and continued so to do after his retirement until his death, which death shall have been from causes other than injuries received in the performance of duty, receive a pension equal to one-half of the pay of her deceased husband at the time of his retirement, not exceeding $2,000.00, for so long as she remains unmarried. This pension shall be for the use of herself and any children of her deceased husband under 16 years of age.
If a retired deceased member leaves no widow but leaves three or more children under 16 years of age, the pension shall be paid, in equal shares, to those of his children who have not attained the age of 16 years; if there be only two such children, they shall be paid $20.00 each monthly; and if only one such child, he shall be paid $25.00 monthly, until the age of 16 years is reached.
If there is no widow and no child under 16 years of age, the pension shall be paid to the sole dependent parent of the deceased member.
All retirements hereunder shall be made and pensions allowed by the pension commission hereinafter created.
Amended by L.1979, c. 168, s. 1, eff. Aug. 9, 1979.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-59.4 - County probation officers permitted enrollment in PERS

43:10-59.4. County probation officers permitted enrollment in PERS
2. A county probation officer of the county who, on the effective date of this act, is in active service and eligible to retire under this article shall, upon termination of the pension fund, be permitted to enroll in the Public Employees' Retirement System of New Jersey if the officer makes application for such enrollment not later than the 90th day following the termination. Within 120 days following the termination the county shall remit to the Public Employees' Retirement System all accumulated deductions standing to the credit of each officer so enrolled and shall remit the pro rata part of the county fund constituting the employer's account. Employees enrolled in the Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to this act shall be members of the retirement system, and deductions from their salaries and contributions on their behalf shall be made as required by P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 et seq.). Those employees shall have the same rights, benefits and obligations as all other members of the system. Any credit for public service which had been established in the terminated pension fund by those employees shall be established in the Public Employees' Retirement System. All outstanding obligations and arrearages shall be satisfied by a transferred employee as previously scheduled for payment to the terminated pension fund.
Upon enrollment of the employees in the Public Employees' Retirement System under the provisions of this act, the rate of contribution of each such newly enrolled member of the retirement system shall be determined by the rates payable by other members, except that the number of years of credited service in the terminated pension fund shall be deducted from the member's current age at the time of enrollment in order to fix the age upon which the rate of contribution is based.
The actuary of the Public Employees' Retirement System under this act shall calculate the difference, for each employee enrolled in the retirement system under this act, between the amounts transferred as provided herein and the amounts necessary to provide all benefits to which the employee shall be entitled upon such enrollment. The employer of the employee shall be liable to the retirement system for the full amount of that difference. Upon certification by the actuary of the Public Employees' Retirement System, each employer shall make such contributions as are required in order to meet the financial obligation. The chief fiscal officer of each employer shall transmit to the retirement system such information as the system shall require in order for the New Jersey State Division of Pensions and Benefits to comply with the provisions of this act.
L.1994,c.23,s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-60 - "Sheriff's employees" defined

43:10-60. "Sheriff's employees" defined
The words "sheriff's employees" , as used in this article, shall mean and include court attendants and all other persons appointed by the sheriffs of the counties of the first and second classes of this state, for the detection, apprehension, service and arrest of offenders against the law, and any other employees of the sheriffs of the counties of the first and second classes, aforesaid, who may be subject to call by the said sheriffs for any of the hazardous duties incident to the preservation of the peace, the quelling of riots or disturbances, or the protection of property rights; provided, however, that nothing in this article contained shall be construed as applying to any class of employees, except those who are now or who may hereafter be in the classified class of the civil service of this state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-61 - Sheriff's employee's pension

43:10-61. Sheriff's employee's pension
a. In any first or second class county of this State any sheriff's employee who shall now or hereafter have served as such for a continuous period of 20 years, and shall have reached the age of 60 years, shall, upon application in writing to the board of chosen freeholders of the county, be retired upon half pay.
b. Should any member of the pension fund created pursuant to R.S. 43:10-69, after having completed 10 years of service for which credit has been established in the pension fund, be separated voluntarily or involuntarily from the service, before reaching age 60, and not by removal for cause or charges of misconduct or delinquency, he may elect to withdraw his contributions to the fund or receive a deferred pension beginning at age 60 which shall be made up of an annuity derived from the accumulated deductions standing to the credit of the individual member's account in the annuity savings fund at the time of his severance from service, together with regular interest and a pension which when added to the annuity will produce a total retirement allowance of 1/60 of the annual salary the member was receiving at the time he became separated from service, for each year of creditable service.
Amended by L. 1985, c. 218, s. 1, eff. July 2, 1985.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-63 - Retirement for disability

43:10-63. Retirement for disability
Any sheriff's employee who shall have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years, whether he has reached the age of sixty years or not, who shall be found, as hereinafter provided, to be physically unfit for further service, shall, upon application in writing to the sheriff of the county, be retired upon half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-64 - Retirement for disability incurred in service

43:10-64. Retirement for disability incurred in service
Any sheriff's employee who shall have received a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness, incurred at any time in the service, which shall permanently incapacitate him from further duty, shall, upon the certification of the fact of such disability by three physicians designated as hereinafter provided, be retired upon half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-65 - Medical examination to determine disability

43:10-65. Medical examination to determine disability
Physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any sheriff's employee shall, for all purposes of this article, be established and determined by a board of three physicians who shall be designated for that purpose, as follows: One by the sheriff of the county; one by the sheriff's employees of such county or a majority of them, and one by the county treasurer of such county; the three physicians so designated shall examine sheriff's employees applying for retirement upon half pay because of physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty, and if they, or a majority of them, find him physically unfit or incapacitated for further duty, they, or a majority of them, shall make and sign a certificate to that effect and file the same with the county treasurer, and thereupon the applicant shall be retired upon half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-66 - Pension of employee's spouse

43:10-66. Pension of employee's spouse
The widow of any sheriff's employee who shall die from any cause shall receive a pension so long as she shall remain unmarried, equal to one-half of the amount of the annual salary of such sheriff's employee at the time of his death, and at her death, or in case there be no widow, his minor child or children, until each reaches the age of 16 years, shall receive the amount of said pension for their support. A "widower" shall receive the same benefits as a "widow" receives pursuant to this section.
Amended by L. 1957, c. 222, p. 767, s. 1; L. 1985, c. 218, s. 2, eff. July 2, 1985.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-67 - Pension of retiree's spouse

43:10-67. Pension of retiree's spouse
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-69 - Creation of pension fund; contributions

43:10-69. Creation of pension fund; contributions
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 sheriff's employee three per cent of the amount thereof; then there shall be contributed annually by the county an amount equivalent to three per cent of said sheriff's employees' salaries; to the said fund there shall be added all moneys donated for the purpose of such fund and all rewards which may be paid to any sheriff's employee while acting as such employee, 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 cent specified in this section, 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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-69.1 - Withdrawal from service

43:10-69.1. Withdrawal from service
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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-70 - Management of pension fund; investments

43:10-70. Management of pension 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 pensions shall be invested by said 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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-71 - Transfer of court attendants' pension fund to credit of sheriff's employees' pension fund

43:10-71. Transfer of court attendants' pension fund to credit of sheriff's employees' pension fund
All moneys remaining on June fifth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, in the possession of any board of chosen freeholders of any county of the second class acquired by virtue of payments made pursuant to an act entitled "An act providing for the retirement and pensioning of court attendants in counties of the second class of this state," approved April sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, the same being chapter 104 of the laws of 1929, are hereby transferred to the credit of any pension fund created for the benefit of any sheriff's employees of counties of the second class and subject to pension benefits that may be acquired by any sheriff's employees of counties of the second class by virtue of the formation of any such pension fund.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-72 - Withdrawal by veterans from former fund for court attendants; payments returned with interest

43:10-72. Withdrawal by veterans from former fund for court attendants; payments returned with interest
L.1933, c. 429, p. 1152, entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act providing for the retirement and pensioning of court attendants in counties of the second class of this state,' approved April sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine," approved December fourth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, saved from repeal. [This act provides that any court attendant, being a veteran of any war, who is a member of the retirement system created by L.1929, c. 104, p. 170, which act was repealed by L.1936, c. 139, p. 330, may, at any time withdraw from such system, upon making application for such withdrawal, and receive the amount of his payments into such system, with interest, without prejudice to his right as a veteran to any benefits to which he might be entitled under any other law of this state.]