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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-24 - Retirement for service and age

43:13-24. Retirement for service and age
In all cities of the fourth class any member of the life guard force, whether employed as an officer or a guard, who has or shall have served on such force for a period of twenty years, and shall have attained the age of forty-five years, and for a period of ten years preceding his application has been continuously in such service, may, either by the governing body of any such city or upon his own application, be retired upon half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-25 - Retirement for disability

43:13-25. Retirement for disability
An officer or member of the life guard force who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty shall, upon the certificate of the beach surgeon, or other physician designated by the governing body, be retired on a pension equal to one-half of his salary at the time of retirement.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-26 - Widow's, children's or dependent's pension

43:13-26. Widow's, children's or dependent's pension
The widow of a life guard, officer or member of the life guard force who loses his life in the performance of his duty, dies from natural causes or has been retired on pension shall receive a pension, so long as she remains unmarried equal to one-half of the amount of the annual salary of her husband at the time of his death. At her death, or if there is no widow or she remarries, her minor child or children shall receive the pension for their support until the youngest reaches sixteen years of age. If there are no children under sixteen years of age, the pension shall be paid to the dependent parent or parents of such life guard officer or life guard.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-27 - Pension fund

43:13-27. Pension fund
For the purpose of paying the pensions hereunder, a fund shall be created as follows:
a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to each member of the life guard force in the city four per cent of the amount thereof.
b. The city shall raise by taxation and pay into the fund yearly an amount equal to four per cent of the total salaries paid to members of the life guard force.
c. Any fines imposed upon a member of the force, money given or donated for the purpose of the fund, money deducted from the salary of a member of the force because of absence or loss of time and half of any reward paid to the force or any member thereof shall be added to the fund.
If at any time there is not sufficient money in the pension fund for the purposes thereof, the governing body shall include in any tax levy a sum in addition to amounts theretofore contributed which shall be sufficient to meet the requirements of the fund. This sum shall be raised by tax levy no longer than is necessary to meet the requirements of the fund. Whenever the fund exceeds an amount which the governing body by resolution from time to time determines to be adequate for the fund, no moneys, except the four per cent of salaries and the fines, donations and rewards specified in this section, shall be paid into the fund unless and until the fund falls below the amount so determined to be adequate.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-28 - Pension commission

43:13-28. Pension commission
The mayor or chief executive officer shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the governing body of the city, a life guard pension commission of four members. One member shall be a superior officer of the life guard force, one a life guard and two citizens who are not members of the force. They shall serve for a term of four years and until their successors are appointed and have qualified and shall not receive any compensation for their services. Each person so appointed shall take an oath of office before the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-29 - Management and control of fund; treasurer; investments; payments

43:13-29. Management and control of fund; treasurer; investments; payments
The life guard pension commission shall have the management and control of the fund and may make all necessary rules and regulations not inconsistent with this article.
All moneys belonging to the fund shall be paid over to the city treasurer, who shall give bond in such amount, from time to time, as the governing body of the city determines. All moneys not needed for the immediate payment of the pensions shall be invested by the life guard pension commission in interest bearing bonds of the city or in other interest bearing securities in which savings banks of this state may invest their funds. No moneys shall be paid out of the fund by the treasurer except upon the warrant of the life guard pension commission, to be signed by such member or members of the commission as shall be designated by the commission.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-30 - Retirement for service and age

43:13-30. Retirement for service and age
Any employee of the water department of any municipality, including any employee having supervision or regulation of the water department, who shall have served honorably in the department for a period of twenty-five years and reached the age of sixty years, shall, upon his own application, be retired on half pay. Any such employee who shall have served honorably for a period of twenty years and reached the age of sixty-five years shall be retired on half pay.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-31 - Retirement for disability

43:13-31. Retirement for disability
Any employee of the water department who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty, shall, upon certificate of the surgeon or physician designated for that purpose by the pension commission, be retired on a pension equal to one-half of his salary at the time of his retirement.
Where, however, a person desires to retire by reason of injury or disease, he shall apply in writing to the pension commission for retirement. Thereupon the pension commission shall call to its aid a surgeon or physician who shall represent the commission and the applicant may call to his aid a regularly licensed and practicing physician or surgeon. If these two physicians or surgeons fail to agree upon the physical condition of the applicant, the pension commission may call a third disinterested licensed and practicing physician or surgeon and the determination of the majority of such three physicians, they being first duly sworn in the case, shall be reduced to writing and signed by them. The president of the pension commission may administer an oath to such physicians or surgeons or any other person called regarding the matter before the commission. The commission shall determine, by resolution, whether the applicant is entitled to the benefits of this article, and shall consider the physicians' or surgeons' determination in arriving at its decision.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-32 - Widow of employee

43:13-32. Widow of employee
The widow of an employee of the water department, who shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and shall have lost his life in the performance of his duty or died from causes other than injuries received in the performance of duty, shall, if she shall have married her deceased husband prior to his having reached sixty years of age, receive a pension equal to one-half of his salary at the time of his death, but not exceeding one thousand dollars. If a widow entitled to a pension hereunder remarries, the pension shall cease and shall not be paid to her or her children.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-33 - Widow of retired employee

43:13-33. Widow of retired employee
If any retired employee of the water department, who, while an employee of the department shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and continued so to do after his retirement until his death, shall have died from causes other than injuries received in the performance of duty, his widow, if she was married to him before the date of his retirement and before he reached sixty years of age, shall, so long as she remains unmarried, receive a pension equal to one-half of her deceased husband's pay at the time of his retirement, but not exceeding one thousand dollars for the use of herself.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-34 - Pension fund

43:13-34. Pension fund
For the purpose of paying the pensions a fund shall be created as follows:
a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to any employee of the water department in the municipality who shall have entered the service on or before the age of thirty-five years, two per cent of the amount thereof, and if he shall have entered the service after reaching thirty-five years of age, the percentage shall be increased to such an amount as the pension commission determines to correspond to the risk arising by his additional age.
b. The municipality shall raise by taxation and pay into the fund yearly, an amount equal to four per cent of the total salaries paid to the employees of the water department.
c. All moneys given or donated to the fund and moneys deducted from the salary of any employee of the department because of absence or loss of time shall be added to the fund.
If there is not sufficient money in this fund, the governing body shall include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of the fund for the time being.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-35 - Pension commission; organization

43:13-35. Pension commission; organization
There shall be established in all municipalities in which this article takes effect a pension commission of five members consisting of the mayor or other chief executive of the municipality, the chief financial officer of the municipality and two employees of the water department. These employees shall be nominated at a meeting or meetings held by the employees of the department in November and elected by them for a term of two years at a meeting held about the middle of December of each year at a date to be fixed by each body. The fifth member of the commission shall be a citizen who is not holding office under the municipality and shall be selected by the other four members of the pension commission. He shall hold office for the term of one year. In case of a vacancy for any cause, the commission may fill it until the next election.
The commission shall hold its first and annual meeting on January first, in each year, and elect its president from its members and a secretary from the employees of the department or anyone from outside of the department, as the commission sees fit. The commission may fix the secretary's compensation.
All retirements and pensions provided for by this article shall be made and allowed by the commission.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-36 - Rules and regulations; treasurer; payments

43:13-36. Rules and regulations; treasurer; payments
The pension commission shall have control and management of the fund and of the retirement of the employees of the water department and may make all necessary rules and regulations regarding the same not inconsistent with this article.
All moneys belonging to the pension fund shall be received and paid over to the treasurer of the municipality, whose official bond shall cover the same. No moneys shall be paid out of the fund except upon a warrant of the commission, signed by its president and secretary.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37 - Referendum

43:13-37. Referendum
The question of the adoption of this article shall be submitted to the voters of any municipality by the governing body at any general election or special election held for that purpose, upon the presentation of a petition for its adoption, signed by at least ten per cent of the legal voters, but which shall not be submitted to such an election until at least thirty days after the date of filing the petition. The question of the adoption of this article shall, through action of the governing body, be placed upon a ballot at any general election or be submitted at a special election, in the manner required by law in such cases. If a majority of the legal voters voting at the election adopt this article, it shall take effect immediately, but the organization and establishment of the funds shall not take place until January first following the election.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.1 - Pension fund in certain towns in counties of first class; pension fund commission; membership; meetings

43:13-37.1. Pension fund in certain towns in counties of first class; pension fund commission; membership; meetings
There shall be established, in all towns in counties of the first class of this State whose charter was granted between the years one thousand eight hundred and eighty and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine and also still have a councilmanic form of government and in which towns have established by referendum under subtitle three, Title 11, Civil Service, a pension fund. The said fund shall be administered by a commission of five members consisting of the mayor of such town who shall be president of such pension fund commission, the town treasurer of such town who shall be treasurer of such pension fund commission, two municipal employees of such town who shall be nominated and elected at a meeting to be held by the aforesaid town employees, which meeting shall be held at the call of the mayor of the town within thirty days aforesaid. The town employees shall hold such office until their successors are nominated and elected at a meeting of such employees to be held on the third Wednesday of the following December, and thereafter two town employees shall be nominated and elected as members of such pension fund commission in the same manner on the third Wednesday of December every second year, and the terms of office of said members so to be elected by the town employees shall be for two years commencing January first following their election. The fifth member of said commission shall be a citizen of the town who is not holding any public office or position, shall be selected by the other four members of the commission and shall hold office for the term of one year expiring on January first each year. In case of vacancy for any cause the commission shall have power to fill such vacancy until the next election. The said commission shall hold its annual meetings between the first and fifteenth days of January in each year and elect such officers as it shall deem advisable for the term of one year or until their successors are elected, and shall also have power to select a secretary whose duties and compensation the commission shall have power to fix and who shall serve for a period of one year or until his successor is appointed. The commission shall have the power to employ from time to time such clerical assistance as it shall deem necessary and to purchase such office supplies and equipment as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and to pay for the same out of the pension fund hereinafter provided for. The pension fund commission shall be known as "the town employees" pension fund commission of the town of in the county of .
L.1943, c. 189, p. 522, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.2 - Powers and duties of pension fund commission

43:13-37.2. Powers and duties of pension fund commission
The said pension fund commission shall have control and management of the pension fund hereafter referred to and they are hereby empowered to make rules, by-laws and regulations regarding the same not inconsistent with this act. Said commission shall have power to determine the question of dependency of the surviving beneficiaries under this act. It shall have the right to sue and be sued and to have, hold, purchase, sell, assign and transfer any of the securities in which any part of the said fund may be invested and any moneys belonging to said fund. All moneys belonging to said pension fund shall be received and paid over to the treasurer of such pension fund commission, whose official bond as town treasurer shall cover same. All moneys paid out of such pension fund shall be paid by the treasurer of said pension fund commission under warrants signed by the president and secretary of such pension fund commission, or such other officers as said commission shall designate.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 523, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.3 - Execution of releases, acquittances or discharges of indebtedness; deposits; interest and income

43:13-37.3. Execution of releases, acquittances or discharges of indebtedness; deposits; interest and income
The president and secretary shall, on behalf of the said pension fund commission, execute any and all releases, acquittances, receipts or discharges of any and all written evidences of indebtedness to said pension fund commission; said pension fund commission shall deposit such fund in any of the banks or trust companies of such town, and shall have power to invest the same in bonds of the United States or of this State, or of any county or municipality in this State. All income, interest, earnings or dividend which shall be paid or agreed to be paid on account of any loan or deposit shall belong to and constitute a part of said pension fund.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 524, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.4 - Annual reports

43:13-37.4. Annual reports
The pension fund commission shall make an annual report of the conditions of such fund and the manner in which the fund is invested and file the same with the mayor and town council of such town.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 524, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.5 - Fund created; deductions from compensation; contributions by town; temporary loans where funds inadequate; exemption of pensions; no refunds

43:13-37.5. Fund created; deductions from compensation; contributions by town; temporary loans where funds inadequate; exemption of pensions; no refunds
A fund shall be created in the following manner for the purpose of paying the benefits provided by this act, to wit:
There shall be deducted by disbursing officers of town funds and paid to said pension fund commission from every payment of salary or compensation to every town employee who shall be entitled to benefits under this act, three per centum (3%) of the amount thereof; provided, however, that in the case of a person hereafter entering the service of any such town after reaching the age of forty years, the said percentage of his salary to be deducted shall in the judgment of the pension fund commission be fixed and determined at not less than three per centum (3%), and such employee, upon notice from said commission of the decision of the commission, shall have the privilege to participate in the benefits of this act or decline to come within its provisions. In addition thereto, there shall be annually raised by the town council of such town in the town budget and contributed semiannually to such pension fund commission an amount equivalent to three per centum (3%) of such "town employees" salary or compensation. Additional sums shall be appropriated and paid to said pension fund commission by said town council as occasion demands to carry out the provision of this act. Where town funds are not available or adequate, or should there be no such town funds, such additional sums shall be raised by temporary loans or notes, certificates of indebtedness or temporary loan bonds to be issued as otherwise provided and limited by law for towns of this State, and the amounts necessary to pay such obligations shall be placed in the town budget for the next ensuing fiscal year. All pensions granted under this act shall be exempt from any State or municipal tax, levy and sale, garnishment or attachment, or any other civil process, and shall be unassignable. No refund of moneys deducted from the salary or compensation of any such employee shall be made.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 524, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.6 - "Town employee" and "employee" defined; persons entitled to participate in benefits

43:13-37.6. "Town employee" and "employee" defined; persons entitled to participate in benefits
The words "town employee" or "employee" as used in this act shall mean and include all employees and officers now or hereafter in service of any town in counties of the first class of this State having a population of not less than forty thousand nor more than forty-one thousand according to the census of one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and of any town board, body or commission maintained directly or indirectly, wholly or partially, out of town funds, whose term of office or position is not fixed or limited by law, not including casual or transient laborers unless such labor work is recognized as a permanent appointment by such pension fund commission, it being the intent to exclude casual or transient labor from the operation of this act. The words "town employee" or "employee" shall not be held to include office holders elected by the voters of the town nor shall it include any member of any police department or fire department whose salary or compensation is paid directly or indirectly, wholly or partially, out of the town funds. All other persons, except the casual or transient laborers hereinabove referred to, officers elected by the voters of the town and police and fire officers, now in the service of the town, not included in the foregoing provisions, shall have the privilege, in their discretion, to participate in the benefits of this act by written notice to the said pension fund commission, which notice shall be delivered within thirty days after the organization of said commission. All persons, except the casual or transient laborers hereinabove referred to, officers elected by the voters of the town and police and fire officers, hereafter entering the service of the town, not included in the foregoing provision, shall participate in the benefits of this act. The pension fund commission, in addition to the powers herein conferred, shall have power to determine what persons are included in the meaning of this act.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 525, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.7 - Persons not entitled to receive benefits of act

43:13-37.7. Persons not entitled to receive benefits of act
No one who is receiving or is or shall hereafter be entitled to receive any benefits under any other law of this State providing for contributions to a pension fund out of the compensation of town employees shall be entitled to receive the benefits of this act.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 526, s. 7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.8 - Retirement on half pay; dependents after death

43:13-37.8. Retirement on half pay; dependents after death
Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, any town employee who shall have served or who shall hereafter have served in the employ of such town continuously or in the aggregate for a period of twenty years, and who shall have attained the age of sixty years, shall, upon his application, be retired on half pay. In the event that such town employee shall have retired and pensioned under the provisions of this act and shall have continued to pay into said pension fund or have deducted for the benefits of such pension fund the full amount of his percentage based on the amount of his pension after his retirement and until his death, then, in such event and subject to the limitation hereinafter provided, an amount equal to one-half of the salary or compensation received by such town employees at the time of his retirement shall be paid each year to the dependent widow, dependent children under the age of sixteen years or dependent parent or parents, as the case may be.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 526, s. 8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.9 - Death of employee after 20 years of service; pensions to dependents

43:13-37.9. Death of employee after 20 years of service; pensions to dependents
In the event that any such town employee entitled to the benefits of this act, who having had deducted from his salary or compensation the percentage provided in this act, shall die as the result of injury or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duty, or in the event that such town employee shall have served in the employ of the town continuously or in the aggregate for twenty years and who has had deducted from his salary or compensation the percentage provided for in this act, shall die from cause other than injury or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duty, subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, there shall be paid each year to his dependent widow, dependent child or children under the age of sixteen years, or dependent parent or parents, a sum equal to one-half the compensation or salary received by such town employee at the time of his death.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 527, s. 9.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.10 - Death of employee after 5 years of service; pensions to dependents

43:13-37.10. Death of employee after 5 years of service; pensions to dependents
Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, in the event of the death of any such town employee who shall die from causes other than injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duties, and who was not previously retired or pensioned and who has had deducted from his salary or compensation the percentage provided for in this act, and who has been in the employ of the town for five years, in that event twelve and one-half per centum (12 1/2 %) of the salary received by such town employee at said death shall be paid each year to the dependent widow, dependent child or children under the age of sixteen years or dependent parent or parents, as the case may be, and for each additional year of service more than five years the amount of said pension shall be increased to the extent of two and one-half per centum (2 1/2 %) of such salary, not exceeding in any event fifty per centum (50%) of said salary.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 527, s. 10.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.11 - Maximum pensions; maximum deductions

43:13-37.11. Maximum pensions; maximum deductions
The pension of any town employee under the provisions of this act shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum and in no event shall there be paid to the widow of any town employee or dependents, under the provisions of this act, an amount in excess of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum. Deduction from the salary or compensation of any such officer or employees entitled to benefits under the provisions of this act shall not exceed any amount paid as such salary or compensation over and above the amount of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00). Any salary or compensation received by, or paid to, any such officer or employee as aforesaid, in excess of the amount of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) shall not be available as the basis of accruing or additional benefits to any such officer or employee, under the provisions of this act.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 528, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.12 - Death of employee leaving no widow; benefits to dependent children

43:13-37.12. Death of employee leaving no widow; benefits to dependent children
In the event that any such town employee shall die leaving no widow, but shall leave a dependent child or children under the age of sixteen years, the amount of the benefits under this act shall be five hundred dollars ($500.00) per annum for each dependent child, but the aggregate amount for such dependent children shall not exceed the amount to which such town employee's widow would have been entitled to under the provisions of this act had she survived him.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 528, s. 12.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.13 - Disability from illness or injury resulting from employment; retirement on pension; determination of disability; death; benefits to dependents

43:13-37.13. Disability from illness or injury resulting from employment; retirement on pension; determination of disability; death; benefits to dependents
In the event that any such town employee entitled to the benefits of this act, who having had deducted from his salary or compensation the percentage provided in this act, shall become permanently and totally disabled as the result of injury or illness received in the performance of his duty, he shall, upon his application to the pension fund commission, be retired on half pay. Where, however, any such town employee shall desire to retire by reason of injury or illness, such employee shall make application in writing to the pension fund commission for such retirement; whereupon the pension fund commission shall call to their assistance the aid of a regularly licensed and practicing surgeon or physician. Upon the filing of a report by such surgeon or physician that in his good judgment and opinion that such town employee is permanently incapacitated, the pension fund commission shall determine by resolution that the said person is entitled to the benefits of this act. In the event that the aforesaid mentioned employee does not agree with the report of the aforesaid mentioned surgeon and physician he may call to his assistance the aid of a regularly licensed and practicing surgeon or physician who shall make a report in writing to the pension fund commission giving his opinion as to whether or not the employee is permanently incapacitated. In the event that the two surgeons or physicians so called as hereinbefore provided, fail to agree upon the physical condition of the applicant, then the pension fund commission may call a third and disinterested, licensed and practicing surgeon or physician and the determination of the majority of said three surgeons and physicians, who shall be first duly sworn, shall be reduced to writing and signed by them, and such report shall be considered as establishing the question of the permanency of such disability. The president of the pension fund commission is authorized to administer an oath to said surgeons or physicians or other persons called in respect to the matter before the commission. The pension fund commission shall have power to determine such permanent total disability and whether or not it occurred or happened in the performance of his duties. In the event of the death of any such town employees retired under the provisions of this section while on pension, his dependents as defined in this act shall be entitled to receive the benefits of this act as provided in section eight hereof.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 528, s. 13.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.14 - Disability from injury, accident or sickness incurred at any time after employment for 5 years; retirement on pension; death; benefits to dependents

43:13-37.14. Disability from injury, accident or sickness incurred at any time after employment for 5 years; retirement on pension; death; benefits to dependents
Any town employee who shall receive a permanent total disability by reason of injury, accident or sickness incurred at any time, who having had deducted from his salary or compensation the percentage provided in this act and who had been in the employ of the town for five years, in that event such town employee upon his application shall be retired on pension equal to twelve and one-half per centum (12 1/2 %) of the salary received by such town employee at the time of such retirement, and for each additional year of service more than five years the amount of said pension shall be increased, to the extent of two and one-half per centum (2 1/2 %) of said salary, not exceeding in any event fifty per centum (50%) of said salary. In the event of the death of any such town employee retired under the provisions of this section while on pension, his dependents as defined in this act shall be entitled to a pension in an amount equal to the pension being received at the time of such town employee's death.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 529, s. 14.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.15 - Certain widows not covered by act

43:13-37.15. Certain widows not covered by act
The provisions of this act shall not extend to the widow of any town employees who shall hereafter marry any such town employee after such town employee has attained the age of fifty-five years, nor shall the benefits of this act accrue to the widow of any town employee who shall marry such town employee after he shall have retired under the provisions of this act.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 530, s. 15.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.16 - "Beneficiaries" defined

43:13-37.16. "Beneficiaries" defined
Where the word "beneficiaries" is used in this act it shall refer to a town employee as defined in this act and his dependent widow, dependent child or children or dependent parent or parents.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 530, s. 16.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.17 - "His" defined

43:13-37.17. "His" defined
Where the word "his" is used in this act, it shall be construed to refer to both sexes.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 530, s. 17.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-37.18 - Partial invalidity; repeal

43:13-37.18. Partial invalidity; repeal
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and they are hereby repealed; provided, that if any paragraph or section of this act shall be declared invalid, the invalid paragraph shall be rescinded and the remainder of this act shall remain in full force and effect.
L.1943, c. 189, p. 530, s. 18.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-38 - "Municipal employee" and "employee or officer" defined

43:13-38. "Municipal employee" and "employee or officer" defined
For the purposes of this article, the words "municipal employee" or "employee or officer" mean and include all employees in the competitive class of civil service of any village in counties of the first class, as well as such employees of any village in counties of the first class holding any position of permanent employment, including laborers. Laborers, to be recognized as permanent employees, shall have worked an average of not less than two hundred working days each year from the original date of employment. The words "municipal employee" or "employee or officer" shall not be held to include any member of the police or fire departments eligible for a pension under chapter sixteen of this Title (43:16-1 et seq.). The pension commission herein created shall have power to determine whether or not the employment of any employee or officer as aforesaid is permanent within the meaning of this article.
Amended by L.1949, c. 119, p. 484, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-38.1 - "Salary" and "half pay" defined; maximum pension

43:13-38.1. "Salary" and "half pay" defined; maximum pension
The word "salary," as used in this article, shall mean the average annual salary paid during the last five years of a member's service, or in the event he or she has been employed for less than five years, the average annual salary he or she received during the time that he or she was employed. The words "half pay," as used in this article, shall mean half of the average annual salary paid during the last five years of a member's service, or in the event he or she has been employed for less than five years, the average annual salary he or she received during the time he or she was employed, and all pensions granted under this article shall be based on such average salary, regardless of any other provision of law; provided, however, that no pension shall be paid hereunder in excess of three thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($3,750.00) per annum.
L.1945, c. 213, p. 715, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-39 - Retirement for service and age

43:13-39. Retirement for service and age
Any municipal employee who shall have served either in the employ of a village in a county of the first class continuously or in the aggregate for a period of twenty-five years, who shall have attained the age of sixty years, and who shall have paid his full contributions into the fund since the commencement of said fund or from the date of his employment whichever is the later date, shall upon his own application be retired on half pay.
Any municipal employee who shall have attained the age of seventy years shall be retired forthwith, unless the board of trustees of said village, by resolution annually adopted, shall continue said employee in service. Such employee shall receive a pension equal to two per centum (2%) of his final average salary for each year said employee has served the village, but said pension shall not exceed one-half of his final average salary.
Amended by L.1949, c. 119, p. 484, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-40 - Payments to certain dependents

43:13-40. Payments to certain dependents
The widow, dependent husband, children under the age of sixteen years or dependent parents, as the case may be, of a municipal employee or officer who shall have:
a. Paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and who dies as a result of injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duties; or
b. Served in the employ of a village in any county of the first class in the aggregate for twenty-five years, and who has paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and who dies from causes other than injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duties; or
c. Been retired and pensioned under this article and continued to pay into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions based on his retirement pay after his retirement and until his death, and who dies--
Shall receive a pension in an amount equal to one-half of the salary received by such employee or officer at the time of his death, and in those cases where an employee or officer shall have been retired and pensioned previous thereto, in an amount equal to one-half of the salary he received at the time of his retirement. The pension so paid shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars annually. No pension shall be paid to a widow or dependent husband if she or he was married to her or his deceased spouse after the date of her or his retirement or after she or he shall have reached fifty-five years of age. The pension shall be paid to the widow or dependent husband during her or his natural life and so long as she or he remains unmarried.
If there is no widow or dependent husband surviving such employee or officer, or no widow or husband qualified to take under this article, or if the widow or husband subsequently dies or remarries and such employee or officer shall have left her or him surviving children under the age of sixteen years, such children shall receive payments as follows: If there is one child, he shall be paid the sum of twenty-five dollars monthly until he reaches sixteen years of age; if two children, each shall be paid twenty-five dollars monthly until he reaches sixteen years of age; if three or more children, such pension equal in amount to one-half of the salary received by the employee at the time of his death or retirement, but not exceeding in the aggregate one thousand dollars annually, shall be paid to the children who have not reached sixteen years of age in equal shares, but no one of such children shall receive more than twenty-five dollars monthly.
If there is no widow, dependent husband and children under sixteen years of age at the time of such employee's or officer's death, the pension shall be paid to any dependent parent or parents of such deceased employee or officer.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-41 - Payments to dependents of employee or officer who served five years or more

43:13-41. Payments to dependents of employee or officer who served five years or more
If a municipal employee or officer, who was not previously retired or pensioned, who has paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and who shall have served in the municipal employ for five years, shall die from causes other than injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duties, twenty per cent of the pension which would have been paid if he had served in the village for twenty-five years shall be paid to the surviving widow, husband, minor children or dependent parents, as the case may be. For each additional year of such service thereafter the proportionate amount of the pension to be so paid shall be increased to the extent of four per cent over and above such twenty per cent per annum for each additional year of service up to and including twenty-five years.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-42 - Dependency condition of payment; determination of

43:13-42. Dependency condition of payment; determination of
No pension shall be paid to the surviving husband of a deceased employee or officer unless he shall be and shall continue to remain dependent upon the income which such employee or officer was receiving at the time of her death, nor unless he shall be and shall continue to remain physically or mentally incapable of pursuing a gainful occupation. No pension shall be paid to any minor child or dependent parent of such female employee or officer unless the minor child or dependent parent shall be and shall continue to remain dependent upon the income which such employee or officer was receiving at the time of her death. The pension commission shall determine the question of the dependency of the surviving husband, minor child or dependent parent, as well as the ability of the surviving husband to pursue some gainful occupation.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:13-43 - Retirement for disability

43:13-43. Retirement for disability
Any municipal employee or officer of any village in any county of the first class who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty shall, upon the certificate of a physician designated for that purpose by the pension commission, be retired on a pension equal to one-half of his salary at the time of his retirement.
Where, however, any such municipal employee or officer shall desire to retire by reason of permanent disability not incurred in the performance of his duty he shall apply in writing to the pension commission for such retirement. The pension commission shall, thereupon, call to its aid a regularly licensed and practicing surgeon or physician and the applicant may also call to his aid a regularly licensed and practicing surgeon or physician. If the two surgeons or physicians so called fail to agree on the physical condition of the applicant, the pension commission may call a third and disinterested, licensed and practicing surgeon or physician. The determination of the majority of the three surgeons or physicians who shall first be duly sworn, shall be reduced to writing and signed by them. The president of the pension commission may administer oaths to such surgeons, physicians or other persons called regarding the matter before the commission. The commission shall determine, by resolution, whether the applicant is entitled to the benefits of this article and shall consider the determination of the surgeons or physicians in reaching its decision. If it is determined that the applicant is entitled to receive a pension in accordance herewith, said pension shall be based on the applicant's years of service with said village. A pension of two per centum (2%) of his final average salary shall be paid for each year the applicant has served the said village, but said pension shall not exceed one-half of his final average salary. Such pension shall be paid notwithstanding the fact that such employee or officer has not paid his annual installments for a period of five years as hereinafter provided.
Amended by L.1949, c. 119, p. 485, s. 3.