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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-72.1 - Sheriff's employees in counties of 275,000 to 400,000

43:10-72.1. Sheriff's employees in counties of 275,000 to 400,000
Any sheriff's employee 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 sheriff's employee, had not attained the age of fifty years and who is not a member of the pension fund for sheriff's employees 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 sheriff's employee; 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.1944, c. 229, p. 772, s. 1. Amended by L.1946, c. 216, p. 817, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-72.2 - Persons eligible under State retirement system; resolution excluding

43:10-72.2. 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 sheriff's employee subsequent to the passage of such resolution who, at the time he becomes such sheriff's employee, is eligible to become a member of the State retirement system.
L.1947, c. 172, p. 787, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-72.3 - Effect of resolution

43:10-72.3. Effect of resolution
The adoption of a resolution pursuant to this act shall not impair the pension rights of any sheriff's employee theretofore employed, nor shall it relieve the county of its obligation to maintain a pension fund under this article for such previously appointed sheriff's employees.
L.1947, c. 172, p. 787, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-72.4 - Counties of second class; adjustments in amounts; ordinance or resolution

43:10-72.4. Counties of second class; adjustments in amounts; ordinance or resolution
Any county of the second class which is paying pensions to retirants pursuant to the provisions of article 6 of chapter 10 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes may, from time to time, by resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, of its governing body, 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 reasonable uniform state.
Any such adjustment may be made notwithstanding that the amount of pension benefits thereby payable will exceed the amount prescribed by sections 43:10-61, 43:10-63, 43:10-64, 43:10-66 and 43:10-67, of the Revised Statutes but no such adjustment shall be made that will reduce pension benefits below the amount so prescribed.
L.1979, c. 400, s. 1, eff. Feb. 8, 1980.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-72.5 - Limitation on adjustments

43:10-72.5. Limitation on adjustments
No adjustments 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 (C. 43:3B-1 et seq.).
L.1979, c. 400, s. 2, eff. Feb. 8, 1980.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-73 - "Sergeants-at-arms" and "court criers" defined

43:10-73. "Sergeants-at-arms" and "court criers" defined
The words sergeant-at-arms and court crier as used in this article shall mean and include sergeants-at-arms and court criers assigned to the Superior Court and of the County Court, in counties of the first class.
Amended by L.1953, c. 41, p. 770, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-74 - Retirement for service and age

43:10-74. Retirement for service and age
In any first class county of this state any person who shall now or hereafter have served as sergeant at arms or court crier for a period of twenty years and shall have reached the age of sixty years, shall, upon application in writing to the board of chosen freeholders of the county, be retired on half pay. In the computation of period of service under this article any sergeant at arms or court crier who shall have heretofore or hereafter served as court attendant prior to his promotion or appointment as sergeant at arms or court crier shall be given credit for his years of service as such court attendant.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-76 - Retirement for disability

43:10-76. Retirement for disability
Any sergeant at arms or court crier 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 judge of the court to which said sergeant at arms or court crier shall be attached at the time, be retired upon half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-77 - Retirement for disability incurred in service

43:10-77. Retirement for disability incurred in service
Any sergeant at arms or court crier who shall have received a permanent disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness incurred at any time which shall permanently incapacitate him from further duty shall, upon certification of the fact of such disability by three physicians designated as hereinafter provided, be retired upon half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-78 - Medical examination to determine disability

43:10-78. Medical examination to determine disability
Physical unfitness or incapacitation for further duty of any sergeant at arms or court crier 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 court of the county under which they are serving, one by sergeants at arms or court criers of such county, or a majority of them, and one by the county treasurer of such county; the three physicians so designated shall examine sergeants at arms or court criers applying for retirement upon half pay because of physical unfitness or incapacitation 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 43:10-79 - Pension to widow when death occurs during service

43:10-79. Pension to widow when death occurs during service
The widow of any sergeant at arms or court crier who shall lose his life in the performance of his duty or who shall die from natural causes shall receive a pension so long as she remains unmarried, equal to one-half of the amount of the annual salary of such sergeant at arms and court crier at the time of his death.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-80 - Pension to widow when death occurs after retirement

43:10-80. Pension to widow when death occurs after retirement
If any sergeant at arms or court crier, after having been retired upon one-half pay, shall die, or having made application for retirement shall die pending the completion of his papers and action thereon by the board of chosen freeholders or the judge of the court, as the case may be, leaving him surviving a widow who was his wife at the time of his retirement, or application for 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 sergeant at arms or court crier at the time of his retirement, or in case of his death before said action by the board of chosen freeholders or the judge of the court, as the case may be, then at the time of his death; provided, however, that before his death he shall have been examined by the board of physicians and their certificates shall have been made in accordance with the provisions of sections 43:10-77 and 43:10-78 of this title finding him physically unfit or incapacitated for further duty.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-82 - Creation of pension fund; contributions

43:10-82. 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 hereafter made to each sergeant at arms and court crier 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 sergeant at arms' and court criers' salary. 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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-83 - Management of pension fund; investments

43:10-83. 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 pension 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 43:10-84 - Retirement for service and age

43:10-84. Retirement for service and age
In any first class county of this state any county clerk's employee who shall now or hereafter have served as such for a continuous period of twenty years and shall have reached the age of sixty years, shall, upon application, in writing, to the board of chosen freeholders of the county, be retired upon half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-86 - Retirement for disability

43:10-86. Retirement for disability
Any county clerk'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 county clerk of the county, be retired upon half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-87 - Retirement for disability incurred in service

43:10-87. Retirement for disability incurred in service
Any county clerk'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 43:10-88 - Medical examination to determine disability

43:10-88. Medical examination to determine disability
Physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any county clerk'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 county clerk of the county; one by the county clerk's employees of such county or majority of them, and one by the county treasurer of such county; the three physicians so designated shall examine county clerk'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 43:10-89 - Pension to widow

43:10-89. Pension to widow
If any county clerk's employee, after having been retired on 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 of the amount of the annual salary of such county clerk's employee at the time of his retirement.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-91 - Creation of pension fund; contributions

43:10-91. 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 county clerk'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 county clerk'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 county clerk'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 43:10-92 - Management of pension fund; investments

43:10-92. 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 43:10-93 - Definition of "court interpreter"

43:10-93. Definition of "court interpreter"
The words "court interpreter," as used in this act, shall mean and include persons appointed by the judge or judges of the County Court in said county, or acting as interpreter in the Superior Court in the county or in the County Court.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 841, s. 1. Amended by L.1953, c. 41, p. 771, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-94 - Retirement for service and age

43:10-94. Retirement for service and age
2. In second-class counties of this State, now or hereafter having court interpreters, any court interpreter who shall have served as such for a continuous period of thirty years, and shall have reached the age of sixty years, shall, upon application in writing to the assignment judge of the Superior Court in their respective counties, be retired upon one-half pay.
L.1938,c.330,s.2; amended 1953,c.41,s.7; 1991,c.91,s.417.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-95 - Amount of pension

43:10-95. Amount of pension
The words "be retired upon one-half pay," as used in this act, shall be construed to mean, retired upon a pension equal to one-half of his annual salary at the time of retirement.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 841, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-96 - Retirement when physically unfit

43:10-96. Retirement when physically unfit
4. Any court interpreter who shall have served as such for a continuous period of thirty 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 services, shall, upon application in writing to the assignment judge of the Superior Court in his county, be retired upon one-half pay.
L.1938,c.330,s.4; amended 1953,c.41,s.8; 1991,c.91,s.418.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-97 - Retirement for permanent disability

43:10-97. Retirement for permanent disability
Any court interpreter who shall have received 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 account of such disability by three physicians designated as herein provided, be retired upon one-half pay.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 841, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-98 - Determination of physical unfitness

43:10-98. Determination of physical unfitness
6. Physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any court interpreter shall, for all purposes of this act, be established and determined by a board of three physicians who shall be designated for that purpose by the assignment judge of the Superior Court in such county. The three physicians so designated shall examine the court interpreter applying for retirement upon one-half pay because of physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty, and if they, or a majority of them, find him physically unfit or incapacitated for further duty, they, or a majority of them, shall make and sign a certificate to that effect and file the same with the county treasurer, and thereupon the applicant shall be retired upon one-half pay.
L.1938,c.330,s.6; amended 1953,c.41,s.9; 1991,c.91,s.419.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-99 - Pension to widow of court interpreter dying while in service

43:10-99. Pension to widow of court interpreter dying while in service
The widow of any court interpreter, who shall die from any cause while in the service, whether the said court interpreter shall have served as such for a continuous period of thirty years or not, or whether such court interpreter 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 of the amount of the annual salary of such court interpreter at the time of his death.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 842, s. 7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-100 - Pension to widow who was wife at time of retirement

43:10-100. Pension to widow who was wife at time of retirement
If any court interpreter, after having been retired on one-half pay, shall die, leaving him surviving a widow who was his wife at the time of his retirement, such widow, so long as she shall remain unmarried, shall receive a pension equal to one-half the amount of the annual salary of such court interpreter at the time of his retirement.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 842, s. 8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-101 - Time and manner of payment of pensions

43:10-101. Time and manner of payment of pensions
Persons who may become entitled to pensions under this act shall be paid such pensions in the same manner and at the same time as court interpreters in active service in the several counties are respectively paid.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 842, s. 9.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-102 - Pension fund

43:10-102. Pension fund
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 court interpreter, three per centum (3%) of the amount thereof; then there shall be contributed annually by the county the amount equivalent to three per centum (3%) of said interpreter's salaries; to said fund there shall be added all moneys donated for the purpose of such fund, and all rewards which may be paid to any court interpreter while acting as such court interpreter, 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.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 842, s. 10.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-103 - Tax levy to meet requirements when fund deficient; contributions when fund exceeds adequate amount

43:10-103. Tax levy to meet requirements when fund deficient; contributions when fund exceeds adequate amount
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 act, 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.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 843, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-104 - Management and control of fund; investment

43:10-104. Management and control of fund; investment
The board of chosen freeholders of said county shall have the management and control of said fund and is hereby empowered to make all necessary rules and regulations concerning the same not inconsistent with this act; all moneys not needed for the immediate payment of such pensions shall be invested by the said board of chosen freeholders in interest-bearing bonds of any municipality of this State or in any other interest-bearing securities in which savings banks of this State are authorized to invest their funds.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 843, s. 12.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-105 - Exemption from taxation and process

43:10-105. Exemption from taxation and process
All pensions granted under this act shall be exempt from any State or municipal tax, levy, and sale, garnishment or attachment or any other process whatsoever.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 843, s. 13.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-105.1 - Partial invalidity

43:10-105.1. Partial invalidity
If any section, subdivision, or clause of this act shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, said decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the act.
L.1938, c. 330, p. 844, s. 14.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-105.2 - Persons eligible under State retirement system; resolution excluding

43:10-105.2. Persons eligible under State retirement system; resolution excluding
The Board of Chosen Freeholders may adopt a resolution directing that the act to which this act is a supplement shall not apply to any person becoming a court interpreter subsequent to the passage of such resolution, who, at the time he becomes such court interpreter, is eligible to become a member of the State retirement system.
L.1947, c. 174, p. 789, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-105.3 - Effect of resolution

43:10-105.3. Effect of resolution
The adoption of a resolution pursuant to this act shall not impair the pension rights of any court interpreter theretofore employed, nor shall it relieve the county of its obligation to maintain a pension fund under this article for such previously appointed court interpreter.
L.1947, c. 174, p. 789, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-106 - Retirement for service and age

43:10-106. Retirement for service and age
In any county of this State the county superintendent of weights and measures and the assistant county superintendents of weights and measures, where such persons have served for a continuous period of twenty years, and have reached the age of sixty years, shall, upon their respective applications, in writing, be retired upon one-half pay. The words "be retired upon one-half pay," as used in this act, shall be construed to mean retirement upon a pension equal to one-half of the annual salary of such person at the time of retirement.
L.1938, c. 397, p. 984, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-107 - Retirement for disability

43:10-107. Retirement for disability
Any county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendents of weights and measures 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 governing body of such county, be retired upon one-half pay.
L.1938, c. 397, p. 985, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-108 - Retirement for permanent disability because of injury, accident or sickness incurred in service

43:10-108. Retirement for permanent disability because of injury, accident or sickness incurred in service
Any county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures 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 one-half pay. Physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty of any county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures shall for the purposes of this act, be established and determined by a board of three physicians, to be designated for that purpose by the governing body of such county. The three physicians so designated shall examine the said county superintendent of weights and measures so applying for retirement upon one-half pay, because of physical unfitness or incapacity for further duty, and if they or a majority of them find him physically unfit or incapacitated for further duty, they or a majority of them shall make such finding and certify the same to the clerk of the governing body of such county, and thereupon the governing body shall retire the applicant upon one-half pay.
L.1938, c. 397, p. 985, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-109 - Pension to widow or children or sole dependent parent

43:10-109. Pension to widow or children or sole dependent parent
The widow or children or sole dependent parent of any superintendent or assistant superintendent of the county department of weights and measures, having paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessment or contributions, who shall have lost his life in the performance of his duty, or who shall die from causes other than injuries received in the performance of duty, shall receive a pension equal to one-half of the salary of such member at the time of his death; provided, however, that in case of a widow and children such pension shall be paid to the widow for the use of herself and the children, if any, and in case of children and no widow, then such pension shall be paid to such of the children who have not attained the age of sixteen years, in equal shares; provided, there are three or more children; if there are two children, they shall be paid thirty dollars ($30.00) each monthly; if one child, thirty-five dollars ($35.00) monthly; and in case there is no widow and no children under the age of sixteen years, then such pension shall be paid to the sole dependent parent of such deceased member; provided, further, no widow shall be entitled to a pension who shall have married any such member after he shall have attained the age of fifty years, after the passage of this act; provided, further, that if any widow entitled to a pension as aforesaid remarry, then such pension shall cease and shall not be paid to such widow or her children.
L.1938, c. 397, p. 986, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-110 - Payment of pensions; pension fund; tax levy

43:10-110. Payment of pensions; pension fund; tax levy
Persons who may become entitled to pensions under this act shall be paid such pensions monthly. 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 superintendent of weights and measures and each assistant county superintendent of weights and measures three per centum (3%) of the amount thereof; then there shall be contributed by the county an amount equivalent of three per centum (3%) of said salary; to said sum there shall be added all moneys donated for the purpose of such fund; and all rewards which may be paid to any county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures while acting in their official capacity, all of which moneys and rewards shall be paid over to the governing body of the county to be deposited in said fund. In case, at any time, there shall not be sufficient money in said pension fund to pay such pensions the governing body 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 the amount which the governing body 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 act, and the moneys given or donated as herein mentioned and any of the aforementioned rewards, shall be paid in the said fund, unless and until the amount of such fund shall fall below the amount then determined to be adequate.
L.1938, c. 397, p. 986, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-111 - Management and control of fund; investment of moneys

43:10-111. Management and control of fund; investment of moneys
The governing body of such county shall have the management and control of said fund and is hereby empowered to make all necessary rules and regulations concerning the same not inconsistent with this act; all moneys not needed for the immediate payment of pensions shall be invested by the governing body in interest-bearing bonds of any county of this State, or in any other interest-bearing securities in which savings banks of this State are authorized to invest their funds.
L.1938, c. 397, p. 987, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-113 - Persons eligible under State retirement system; resolution excluding

43:10-113. Persons eligible under State retirement system; resolution excluding
The board of chosen freeholders may adopt a resolution directing that the act to which this act is a supplement shall not apply to any person becoming a county superintendent of weights and measures or an assistant county superintendent of weights and measures subsequent to the passage of such resolution, who, at the time he becomes such county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures, is eligible to become a member of the State retirement system.
L.1947, c. 171, p. 786, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:10-114 - Effect of resolution

43:10-114. Effect of resolution
The adoption of a resolution pursuant to this act shall not impair the pension rights of any county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures, nor shall it relieve the county of its obligation to maintain a pension fund under this article for such previously appointed county superintendent of weights and measures or assistant county superintendent of weights and measures.
L.1947, c. 171, p. 786, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:11-1 - Violation of rules and regulations of police or fire department; effect on pension

43:11-1. Violation of rules and regulations of police or fire department; effect on pension
No member of the police or fire department of any municipality who shall have served honorably in either department for the required number of years to entitle him to retire or be retired on a pension, shall be deprived of his pension privileges because of any violation of the rules and regulations established for the government of the department, but he may be fined, reprimanded or discharged. A member of the department found guilty before a court of competent jurisdiction of having committed a crime may be dismissed or punished in any manner provided by law.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:11-2 - Time between removal and reinstatement of policemen allowed in certain cases

43:11-2. Time between removal and reinstatement of policemen allowed in certain cases
When a member of the police department in any municipality has been removed from employment therein without charges being preferred against him, or has been removed from employment by reason of the disbanding of a police department, and has subsequently been reinstated, the time elapsed between such removal and reinstatement shall be computed as time in actual service in determining his right to retirement from service in the department.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:11-4 - Transfer to position in another branch of service of municipality

43:11-4. Transfer to position in another branch of service of municipality
Any person who, while holding any office, position or employment in any municipality of this State and while a member of and entitled to benefits in any retirement system or pension fund operated wholly in such municipality and to which system or fund the member contributes, accepts or is transferred to an office, position or employment in another branch of service of said municipality, shall remain a member of such retirement system or pension fund notwithstanding such transfer, whether voluntary or involuntary, from the branch of service in which said pension fund or retirement system is maintained and shall continue to be entitled to all the benefits of said pension fund or retirement system under the same conditions, and deductions and contributions to said pension fund or retirement system shall be made for him, as though he had not so transferred from said branch of service.
L.1941, c. 335, p. 892, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:11-5 - Persons heretofore transferred to position in another branch of service of municipality

43:11-5. Persons heretofore transferred to position in another branch of service of municipality
Any person who, while holding any office, position or employment in any municipality of this State and while a member of and entitled to benefits under any retirement system or pension fund operated wholly in such municipality and to which system or fund the member contributed thereto, heretofore was transferred to an office, position or employment in another branch of service of said municipality shall continue and remain a member of such retirement system or pension fund notwithstanding such transfer from the branch of service in which said pension fund or retirement system is maintained and shall continue to be entitled to all the benefits of said pension fund or retirement system under the same conditions and deductions and contributions to said pension fund or retirement system shall be made for him as though he had not so transferred from said branch of service.
L.1941, c. 335, p. 892, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:11-6 - Act inapplicable to uniformed policemen or firemen

43:11-6. Act inapplicable to uniformed policemen or firemen
This act shall not apply to any member of any uniformed police or fire department.
L.1941, c. 335, p. 893, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:11A-2 - Payment of pension to former municipal employee on retirement from Port Authority service; computation of pension

43:11A-2. Payment of pension to former municipal employee on retirement from Port Authority service; computation of pension
Upon his retirement from Port Authority service, a former municipal employee shall be paid a New Jersey pension under, pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the applicable New Jersey pension act as the same was in effect at the time he left the municipal service, or as such act may hereafter be amended or supplemented, such pension to be paid from the same source and in the same manner as though he had remained in the municipal service until he became entitled to a pension under the applicable New Jersey pension act, and such New Jersey pension to be computed as follows:
(a) Where, if he had remained in the municipal service, the employee would have been required to complete twenty years of municipal service in order to qualify for a pension, his New Jersey pension shall be five per centum (5%) of one-half of the annual salary from the municipality at the time of termination of his municipal employment, multiplied by the number of years of his municipal service, not exceeding twenty years;
(b) Where, if he had remained in the employ of the municipality, the employee would have been required to complete twenty-five years of municipal service in order to qualify for a pension, his New Jersey pension shall be four per centum (4%) of one-half of the annual salary from the municipality at the time of termination of his municipal employment, multiplied by the number of years of his municipal service, not exceeding twenty-five years;
(c) Where, if he had remained in the employ of the municipality, the employee would have been required to complete forty years of municipal service in order to qualify for a pension, his New Jersey pension shall be two and one-half per centum (2 1/2 %) of one-half of the annual salary from the municipality at the time of termination of his municipal employment, multiplied by the number of years of his municipal service, not exceeding forty years;
Provided, that the formulae above set forth in subparagraphs (a), (b) or (c) shall be adjusted to meet any amendment or supplement to any applicable New Jersey pension act, as hereinbefore defined in section one, subdivision (f); and
Provided, further, that if the payments required to be made under and pursuant to the foregoing subparagraphs (a), (b) or (c) plus the New York retirement allowance shall exceed one-half of the employee's final average salary, then the New Jersey pension shall be reduced by the amount of such excess.
L.1948, c. 250, p. 1107, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:11A-3 - Contributions by employee to cease on termination of municipal employment; refunds on termination of employment before retirement

43:11A-3. Contributions by employee to cease on termination of municipal employment; refunds on termination of employment before retirement
Any contribution required to be made by an employee under an applicable New Jersey pension act shall cease upon the termination of his municipal employment. If a former municipal employee terminates his employment with the Port Authority prior to retirement as herein provided, he shall be entitled to receive any refunds to which he would, under such applicable pension act, have been entitled upon the termination of his municipal employment.
L.1948, c. 250, p. 1108, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:11A-4 - Dependents, rights to benefits

43:11A-4. Dependents, rights to benefits
Any benefit which would have been payable under an applicable New Jersey pension act to the dependents of a former municipal employee upon his decease if he had continued in his municipal employment shall be paid, if he dies while in Port Authority employment, in the same amount, from the same source and in the same manner as if he had so continued; provided, that if such dependents shall receive an annual payment from the New York Retirement System, then they shall receive the amount of such benefits payable under the applicable New Jersey pension act, less the amount of such annual payment from the New York Retirement System.
L.1948, c. 250, p. 1108, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:12-1.12 - Public employees who served as members of general assembly, county prosecutor and elected or appointed city official; widows

43:12-1.12. Public employees who served as members of general assembly, county prosecutor and elected or appointed city official; widows
Any public employee who is at least 70 years of age and who has served as a member of the General Assembly and as a county prosecutor and as an elected or appointed official of a city and which several services in the aggregate have been for upwards of 36 years and who shall be retired, upon application therefor, shall receive a pension for the remainder of his life from his last employer of not less than 3/4 of the salary which said employee was receiving at the time of his retirement. If, after his retirement and receipt of said pension, the said employee shall die leaving him surviving a widow, his said widow shall receive a widow's pension for the remainder of her life, equal to 1/2 of the salary which the said employee was receiving at the time of his retirement. In the event that the said employee shall die before retirement and leaving surviving him a widow, his said widow, upon application therefor, shall receive for the remainder of her life a widow's pension in an amount equal to 1/2 of the salary received by the said employee at the time of his death. Any pension payable under this act to a retired employee or to his widow shall be in lieu of the pension and insurance benefits which would accrue to the said employee and his widow under any retirement system established by the State or any of its political subdivisions.
L.1962, c. 188, s. 1, eff. Dec. 7, 1962.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:12-1.13 - Manner of payment; contributions

43:12-1.13. Manner of payment; contributions
The payment of pensions granted pursuant to this act shall be provided for in the budget of the employer granting the pension. If the employer was contributing to a retirement system on behalf of said employee and his widow, the adoption of the provisions of this act and the payment of pension or widow's benefits provided hereunder shall be considered as a discharge of the employer's liability to the retirement system with respect to such employee and his widow so that a credit for the discharge of such liability shall be reflected in the subsequent valuations of the employer's liabilities under the retirement system for all other employees.
Upon the employee's or his widow's acceptance of the pension granted pursuant to this act, and as a condition thereof, the employee or his widow shall pay over to the employer the value of his contribution and interest which was credited to his account in any retirement system established by the State or any of its political subdivisions in order to defray part of the cost of the pension to be paid by the employer.
L.1962, c. 188, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:12-1.14 - "Public employee" defined

43:12-1.14. "Public employee" defined
For the purposes of this act, the term "public employee" shall be deemed to mean and include a person who holds or has held an office, position or employment in county or municipal government.
L.1962, c. 188, s. 3.