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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:17-41 - State association continued; conduct of affairs; expenses

43:17-41. State association continued; conduct of affairs; expenses
43:17-41. The New Jersey State Firemen's Association organized pursuant to an act entitled "An act concerning firemen's relief associations," approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five (L.1885, c.122, p.144), and the amendments thereof and supplements thereto, is continued as heretofore, and there shall not be more than one such State association.
The delegates and alternates of the local firemen's relief associations, elected as hereinafter provided, and the chief or next highest ranking officer, representing the local relief associations, together with the delegates and alternates from exempt firemen's associations of this State, elected as hereinafter provided, and those recognized by the New Jersey State Firemen's Association, or who may hereafter be elected by it as life members under its by-laws and constitution, so long as they remain members, and the officers of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association, shall conduct the affairs of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
The New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall have the same rights, powers and privileges as the local firemen's relief associations, including providing for the distribution of any fund for the relief of disabled or needy firefighters and their families. The expense of maintaining the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall be borne equally by all of the local firemen's relief associations in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Amended 1996, c.151, s.33.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:17-42 - Delegates, representatives of local firemen's relief associations.

43:17-42 Delegates, representatives of local firemen's relief associations.
43:17-42. On or before May 1st in each year, the board of representatives of each duly incorporated local firemen's relief association in this State shall choose, out of the whole body of the membership thereof, three delegates to the convention or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association and three alternates, one or more of whom shall act in the place of any delegate so chosen who may be unable to attend the convention or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. They, together with the chief, or if there is no chief the next highest ranking officer, shall represent the local association at the conventions or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
Amended 1996, c.151, s.34; 2008, c.64, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:17-43 - Delegates of exempt firemen's association.

43:17-43 Delegates of exempt firemen's association.
43:17-43. On or before May 1st in every year, each duly incorporated exempt firemen's association shall choose, by ballot, one delegate and one alternate who shall act in the place of the delegate who may be unable to attend the convention or meeting of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association out of the whole body of the membership thereof, who shall represent and vote for the local exempt firemen's association at the convention or meetings of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. This delegate or alternate shall have the same rights, powers and privileges as the delegates elected to the New Jersey State Firemen's Association by the local firemen's relief associations.
Amended 1996, c.151, s.35; 2008, c.64, s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:17-44 - Annual convention; election of officers

43:17-44. Annual convention; election of officers
43:17-44. At each annual convention of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association, there shall be elected, by ballot, a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, first assistant secretary, second assistant secretary, executive committee and such other officers as the constitution and by-laws adopted by the New Jersey State Firemen's Association require. The president, secretary and other officers and such other persons or committees as the constitution and by-laws of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association provide, shall constitute the executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. The president and secretary, after each election, shall file with the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance a sworn statement of the fact of the election and of the names of the officers so elected. The first certificate filed after March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, which contained a reference to the act entitled "An act concerning firemen's relief associations," approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five (L.1885, c.122, p.144), stated the intention to incorporate thereunder and had thereon an impression of the common seal of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall be deemed to be the certificate of incorporation of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
The executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association has the power to adopt and revise the constitution and by-laws from time for time in accordance with R.S.43:17-35.
At each annual convention the New Jersey State Firemen's Association may adopt for its use and government any amendment submitted by any local association or the executive committee to amend the constitution and by-laws as seem best for its uses and purposes.
Amended 1996, c.151, s.36.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:17-45 - Executive committee powers; annual report

43:17-45. Executive committee powers; annual report
43:17-45. The executive committee of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall have the supervision and power of control of the funds and other property of all firemen's relief associations, shall see that the same are properly guarded and legally invested and expended and shall examine the annual reports of each association. It shall report to the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, on or before June 10th in each year, a list of all associations which have complied with the law in all respects. Only associations so reported shall be entitled to the pro rata share of the moneys arising from the two per cent on premiums.
Amended 1996, c.151, s.37.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:17-46 - Field examiner, examination of books

43:17-46. Field examiner, examination of books
43:17-46. For the purpose of proper supervision and control of the funds and property of the local firemen's relief associations, the executive committee may, each year, elect a field examiner, who shall, by virtue of his office, be a member of the executive committee. The field examiner shall examine the books, bonds and property of any association whenever it may seem necessary for the proper care, safety and custody of the funds and property thereof, and for that purpose may demand and receive, for examination, all bonds and papers necessary to a full and fair examination thereof.
Amended 1996, c.151, s.38.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:17-47 - Annual certificate, filing; share in relief fund

43:17-47. Annual certificate, filing; share in relief fund
43:17-47. On or before June 1st in each year, the field examiner of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association shall file in the Office of the Secretary of State a sworn certificate, countersigned by the president of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association, stating the name and address of the treasurer of each local firemen's relief association which has complied with the requirements of this chapter.
No firemen's relief association or any of the officers thereof, shall share in the distribution of or be entitled to have or receive any part of any fund for the relief of needy or disabled firefighters, unless the association and officers shall have complied with R.S.43:17-31, and shall be so certified to the Secretary of State.
Amended 1996, c.151, s.39.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-2 - Procedure

43:18-2. Procedure
For the purpose of forming such a corporation, the health officer or other chief officer or person in charge of such employees, shall notify every employee of the local board or department of health to attend a meeting to be held not less than five days after the giving of the notice, to consider the formation of a corporation in accordance with this chapter. The notice shall be in writing and specify the time and place of the meeting of the employees. If two-thirds of the employees present at the meeting vote in favor of forming the corporation they shall adopt a resolution to that effect and choose a name for the corporation. They shall organize by electing three persons selected from the employees of such board or department, who, together with the executive head of the board or department having charge or control of the public health in the city, and the health officer or other chief officer or person in charge of the employees, the latter two being ex-officio members, shall constitute a board of trustees. The first trustees created hereunder shall prepare and sign a certificate reciting the adoption of the resolution by the employees as hereinbefore directed, the name adopted, the appointment of trustees, the organization and the name of officers and execution of the certificate, for the purpose of forming a corporation under this chapter, for the purposes herein set forth, which certificate shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county wherein the corporation is organized, and filed in the office of the commissioner of banking and insurance, at Trenton. Thereupon such trustees, their associates and successors, shall be a corporation with all the powers incident thereto.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-3 - Trustees; filling vacancy of trustee or officer; bond of trustee or officer

43:18-3. Trustees; filling vacancy of trustee or officer; bond of trustee or officer
The first board of trustees, selected as provided in section 43:18-2 of this title, shall serve until the month of January following the incorporation of the association. At such time three members of the association shall be elected as trustees in place of the three selected as provided in said section 43:18-2, by a majority vote of the members of the association as follows: One for the term of one year, one for the term of two years and one for the term of three years, who shall serve for the respective terms for which they each were chosen. Thereafter annually, in the month of January in each year, a member of the board of trustees shall be chosen for a full term of three years to serve in the place of the trustee whose term shall have then expired, so that the term of office of only one member shall expire in each year. A vacancy occurring in any manner in the board of trustees or in the office of any officer of the corporation shall be filled in the manner provided for in the by-laws, and in the absence of such provision by the board of trustees.
The trustees and officers of the corporation shall give bonds, with a duly authorized surety company as surety thereon, for the faithful performance of their duties in such sum or sums as the corporation's by-laws fix.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-4 - Organization

43:18-4. Organization
The board of trustees shall, at the first annual meeting thereof, and at each annual meeting thereafter, elect a chairman, secretary, treasurer and any other officers it deems necessary. The secretary may be a member of the board, or the clerk of the local board or department of health. The board of trustees shall fix the compensation of the secretary and treasurer. The chairman shall serve without compensation.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-5 - Payments; deposits; investments

43:18-5. Payments; deposits; investments
All moneys paid out of the pension fund shall be paid by the treasurer of the corporation upon warrants signed by the chairman of the board of trustees and countersigned by the secretary thereof, and no warrant shall be drawn except by the order of the board upon a yea and nay vote recorded in the minutes of the board. The board of trustees may deposit the fund in any of the banks or trust companies of such cities, and may invest the same in bonds secured by first mortgages on improved property worth at least twice the amount loaned, or in bonds of the United States or of this state, or any city or county in this state. All income, interest or dividend which shall be paid or agreed to be paid on account of any loan or deposit shall belong to and constitute a part of the fund.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-6 - Reports

43:18-6. Reports
The board of trustees shall make a semiannual report of the condition of the fund and the manner in which it is invested to the local board or department of health of the city, in the months of January and July in each year, and at such other times as it may be requested so to do by the local board or department.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-7 - Membership

43:18-7. Membership
Except as hereinafter in this section provided the employees of any such local board or department of health who shall be entitled to accept the provisions of this chapter shall be the health officer or chief inspector employed by such board or department, all persons employed in the sanitary department of any such board, all persons regularly employed by any such board in the care of any tuberculosis or any other hospital which is or may be under the control of any such board, all persons actually engaged as physicians, nurses, or otherwise, in taking care of patients in any such tuberculosis or any other hospital, excepting visiting physicians not on the regular staff of any such hospital, and all persons employed in any dispensary or laboratory under the control and management of any such board, including chemists regularly employed by any such board; it being the intent of this paragraph to include under the provisions thereof all persons and employees on the payroll of any such department of health.
Every employee or officer as above defined, appointed after June second, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, shall automatically become a member of the pension fund corporation from the date of appointment for service in the health department or city hospital, providing such employee or officer has been passed by the corporation's physician as mentally and physically eligible for membership.
No employee or officer who has attained the age of forty years, shall be eligible to become a member of such pension fund corporation.
The terms of this chapter shall not serve to involuntarily enroll any employee eligible to membership who is already entitled by virtue of qualifying prior military service to pension benefits established by law for war veterans.
All persons employed by any such board or department of health who are eligible to membership in the pension fund shall be permitted to take the immediate advantage of this chapter.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-9 - Application for membership

43:18-9. Application for membership
Any employee of the board or department of health hereinbefore mentioned may avail himself of the benefits of the pension fund by applying in writing for membership therein and paying in the fund the monthly assessments levied by the board of trustees.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-10 - Physical examination as prerequisite to membership

43:18-10. Physical examination as prerequisite to membership
Any employee applying for membership in a corporation created under this chapter and the benefits thereof, must have passed, at the time he entered service, a physical examination satisfactory to and conducted by a physician designated by the board of trustees of the pension fund or shall pass a physical examination satisfactory to and conducted by such a physician at the time of his application for membership in the corporation and the benefits of this chapter. The applicant shall produce a certificate of good health signed by such a physician before being admitted to membership and the benefits of this chapter.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-11 - Pension fund

43:18-11. Pension fund
The pension fund shall be created and sustained as follows:
a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to each employee not less than four per cent and not more than six per cent of the amount thereof, as determined by the board of trustees, if such employee entered such service on or before the age of thirty-five years, and, if after such age, then such percentage shall be increased to such an amount as shall be determined by the board of trustees to correspond to the risk arising by the additional age of such employee.
b. The city shall raise by taxation and pay into said fund yearly an amount equal to four per cent of the total salaries paid to such employees.
c. All fines, if any, imposed on any employee, all fines and penalties, collected for the violation of any statute relating to the public health, or ordinance of the board of health, and all moneys deducted from the salary of any such employee on account of absence or loss of time.
d. All moneys given or donated to such fund by any person or corporation in any manner or form whatsoever.
In case there shall not be sufficient money in the pension fund created as aforesaid, the governing body shall include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of such fund for the time being.
The board of trustees of any such pension corporation may assess and collect from each and every employee of such board or department, who is a member of such pension corporation the per cent of his annual salary, as shall be determined by the board of trustees, to be paid semimonthly to the treasurer of such corporation, and such assessment and collection shall be in manner and form as may be provided in the by-laws of such corporation.
The board of trustees is hereby empowered, in its judgment, to make it a condition of membership that each member shall sign an order on the city treasurer, or other disbursing officer, directing the retention of the amount of the assessment levied hereunder, to be paid over directly to such corporation by retention from his salary or wages, and the city treasurer or other disbursing officer is hereby directed to make such retention and payment; but such retention and payment shall only become operative in the event of the same being authorized by the by-laws of such corporation.
The fund shall be under the control and management of the board of five trustees.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-13 - Refunding dues paid upon death within five years, resignation or dismissal

43:18-13. Refunding dues paid upon death within five years, resignation or dismissal
On or after June fifth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, if any person then a member, or thereafter or hereafter becoming a member of such pension corporation, having paid into such fund, shall die not having served five years as an employee or officer, or shall resign voluntarily or be dismissed from service or is transferred outside the jurisdiction of the fund, all dues paid by such person shall be refunded to him or her without interest.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-14 - Application for retirement

43:18-14. Application for retirement
An applicant for retirement shall apply therefor in writing to the board of trustees of the pension fund. The application shall be granted if it is acted upon favorably by a majority of the board and if all charges and dues against the applicant, as shown by the books of the fund, have been paid in full.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-15.1 - Pensions to widows in certain cases

43:18-15.1. Pensions to widows in certain cases
The widow of any member of any pension fund corporation existing under the provisions of the chapter to which this act is a supplement shall be entitled to receive the pension provided for by section fifteen of said chapter, notwithstanding that her marriage to said member took place after said member reached the age of fifty years; provided, such marriage took place prior to March twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven; and provided, further, that such member at the time of his death, was or shall be in good standing in said corporation.
L.1938, c. 327, p. 838, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-16 - Dishonesty to bar benefit hereunder

43:18-16. Dishonesty to bar benefit hereunder
Any employee of the board or department of health, included in the provisions of this chapter, who unlawfully retains any of the moneys, funds, properties or effects of a corporation organized under this chapter shall be forever debarred from receiving any relief or benefit from the pension fund.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:18-17 - Change in form of government not to affect corporation

43:18-17. Change in form of government not to affect corporation
In the event of a change in the method of government heretofore or hereafter adopted in any city in which a pension corporation has been incorporated under this chapter, the corporation shall not thereby become inoperative, but shall extend to and continue in force and effect in so far as the provisions of this chapter may be consistent with such change and rearrangement of the duties and positions of the members of the pension corporation. The provisions hereof shall apply to any new board, body or authority which shall be charged with the supervision of the department or departments under which the members of any such pension corporation are employed.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-2 - Procedure

43:19-2. Procedure
For the purpose of forming the corporation the chief engineer or other chief officer or person in charge of the employees of such board shall notify each employee of the board holding any position of permanent or seasonal employment, not including laborers, unless such labor work is paid on a weekly, monthly or annual salary basis for a continuous employment thereof, and recognized as permanent appointees of the board, it being the intent to exclude transient labor employment from the operation of this chapter, to attend a meeting to be held not less than five days after the giving of the notice, to consider the formation of a corporation in accordance with this chapter. The notice shall be in writing and shall specify the time and place of the meeting of the employees. If two-thirds of the employees present at the meeting vote in favor of forming the corporation they shall adopt a resolution to that effect and shall choose a name therefor. They shall organize by electing three persons selected from the employees of such board, who, together with the executive head of the board or department having charge or control of the streets and public improvements in the city and the chief engineer, or person in charge of the employees, the latter two being ex-officio members, shall constitute a board of trustees. The first trustees so created shall prepare and sign a certificate reciting the adoption of the resolution by the employees as so directed, the name adopted, the appointment of trustees, the organization and the names of officers and execution of the certificate, for the purpose of forming a corporation under this chapter for the purposes herein stated. The certificate shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county wherein the corporation is organized, and filed in the office of the commissioner of banking and insurance, at Trenton. Thereupon the trustees, their associates and successors, shall be a corporation with all the powers incident thereto.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-3 - Board of trustees

43:19-3. Board of trustees
The first board of trustees selected as provided in section 43:19-2 of this title shall serve until the month of January following the incorporation hereunder. At such time three members of the corporation shall be elected to serve as trustees in place of the three selected as provided in said section 43:19-2, by a majority vote of the members of the corporation, as follows: One for the term of one year, one for the term of two years and one for the term of three years, who shall serve for the respective terms for which they were chosen, and thereafter annually in the month of January a member of the board of trustees shall be chosen for a full term of three years to serve in the place of the trustee whose term shall have then expired, so that the term of office of but one member shall expire in each year. If any trustee so elected resigns or dies during the term for which he was elected, the remaining trustees shall select from the members of the association a trustee in the place of and for the unexpired term of such trustee.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-4 - Organization; officers' compensation

43:19-4. Organization; officers' compensation
The board of trustees shall, at its first meeting and at each annual meeting thereafter, elect a chairman, secretary and treasurer and any other officers it deems necessary. The board may fix a compensation for the secretary and treasurer, but the chairman of the board shall serve without compensation.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-5 - Bonds of trustees and officers

43:19-5. Bonds of trustees and officers
The trustees and all officers of the corporation shall give bonds with a duly authorized surety company as surety thereon, for the faithful performance of their duties, in such sum or sums as the corporation's by-laws fix.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-6 - Payments; deposits; investments

43:19-6. Payments; deposits; investments
All moneys paid out of the pension fund shall be paid by the treasurer of the corporation upon warrants signed by the chairman of the board of trustees and countersigned by the secretary thereof. No warrant shall be drawn except by the order of the board upon a yea and nay vote recorded in the minutes thereof. The board may deposit the fund in any bank or trust company of such city, and may invest the same in bonds secured by first mortgages on improved property worth at least twice the amount loaned, or in bonds of the United States, of this state or any city or county in this state. All income, interest or dividend paid or agreed to be paid on account of any loan or deposit shall belong to and constitute a part of the fund.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-10 - Membership; eligibility

43:19-10. Membership; eligibility
Persons employed by the board of street and water commissioners at the time of the creation of the pension corporation in accordance with this chapter, and persons coming into the employ of the board of street and water commissioners, or its successor, subsequent to the formation of the pension corporation, shall be eligible to become members of the corporation by a majority vote of the board of trustees of the corporation, and compliance with the terms and conditions of membership fixed by the board of trustees.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-11 - Perjury

43:19-11. Perjury
A person who shall willfully or knowingly swear falsely in an oath for the purpose of obtaining or procuring a pension or the payment thereof, under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be punished by law for such crime.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-12 - Application for membership; automatic membership

43:19-12. Application for membership; automatic membership
Any employee of the board of street and water commissioners who entered such employ prior to July first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, may avail himself of the benefits of the pension fund by applying in writing for membership therein and paying into the fund monthly the assessments levied by the board of trustees. All such employees who desire to take advantage of this chapter after the formation of the corporation or the creation of the pension fund shall conform with section 43:19-10 of this title.
Every person who may be employed on and after July first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and who is eligible or who may become eligible to membership in the corporation, shall automatically become a member of such corporation immediately upon the establishment of his eligibility.
Nothing in this section shall serve to involuntarily enroll any employee, eligible to membership, who is already entitled, by virtue of prior military service, to pension benefits established by law for world war veterans.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-13 - Dishonesty a bar to benefit hereunder

43:19-13. Dishonesty a bar to benefit hereunder
Any employee of the board of street and water commissioners included in the provisions of this chapter who unlawfully retains any of the moneys, funds, properties or effects of any corporation organized hereunder shall be forever debarred from receiving any benefit or relief from the pension fund.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-14 - Payments to dependents

43:19-14. Payments to dependents
If any member of the pension corporation who shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions dies as a result of injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of duty; or if any such member who shall have served in the city's employ in the aggregate for twenty years and paid into the fund the full amount of annual assessments or contributions, dies from causes other than injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of duty; or if any such member shall after July fourth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, have been retired and pensioned under this chapter and subsequently dies, then and in each of such events, as hereinafter provided, a pension in an amount equal to one-half of the salary received by such member at the time of death, and in those cases where a member has been retired and pensioned prior thereto one-half of the salary received by such member at the time of retirement, shall be paid to the widow or husband for the benefit of herself or himself and minor children, if any, under the age of sixteen years or dependent parents as the case may be. The pension so paid shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars annually. The pension shall be paid to the surviving spouse during his or her natural life and so long as he or she shall remain unmarried, but no pension shall be paid to the widow or husband of any member who shall, after July fourth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, marry the member after such member has reached the age of fifty years. If there is no surviving spouse of the member, or no surviving spouse qualified to take under this chapter, or if the surviving spouse subsequently dies or remarries, and the member shall have left him or her surviving as heirs at law and next of kin, minor children under the age of sixteen years, payments to such minor children shall be made as follows: If there be one child, the sum of twenty-five dollars shall be paid to such child monthly until he or she arrives at the age of sixteen years; if there are two or more children the pension equal in amount to one-half of the salary received by such member at the time of death or retirement, but not exceeding in the aggregate one thousand dollars annually shall be paid to such children who have not attained the age of sixteen years in equal shares but in no event shall any one child receive more than the sum of twenty-five dollars monthly. If there is no widow, dependent husband and no children under the age of sixteen years, at the time of the death of such municipal employee, then such pension shall be paid to the dependent parents, if any, of such deceased municipal employee.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-15 - Death of member after five years' service; payments

43:19-15. Death of member after five years' service; payments
In case any such member dies from causes other than injuries or illness received or incurred in the performance of his duties and he shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and served in the employ of the city for five years, then twenty-five per cent of the pension which would have been paid if the deceased member had served in the employ of the city for twenty years, shall be paid to the surviving spouse or minor children, as the case may be. For each additional year of service thereafter, the proportionate amount of the pension to be paid to the surviving spouse or minor children as the case may be, shall be increased to the extent of five per cent over and above such twenty-five per cent for each additional year of service up to and including twenty years.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-16 - Dependency condition to payment of certain pensions

43:19-16. Dependency condition to payment of certain pensions
No pension shall be paid to the surviving husband of a deceased member of the pension corporation unless he is and continues to remain dependent upon the income which the member was receiving at the time of her death, nor unless he is and continues to remain physically or mentally incapable of pursuing a gainful occupation, nor shall any pension be paid to a minor child under the age of sixteen years of a female member unless the child is dependent upon the income which the member was receiving at the time of her death and continues to be so dependent. The board of trustees shall determine the question of the dependency of the surviving husband or minor child as well as the ability of a surviving husband to pursue a gainful occupation.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:19-18 - Provision in case method of city government changed

43:19-18. Provision in case method of city government changed
In case of a change in the method of government of any city of the first class in which a pension corporation has been incorporated in accordance with this chapter, the corporation shall not thereby become inoperative, but shall extend to and continue in force and effect in so far as the provisions of this chapter may be consistent with the change and rearrangement of the duties and positions of the members of the pension corporation, and the provisions hereof shall apply to any new board of body charged with the supervision of the several departments under which the members of the pension corporation are employed.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:21-2 - Declaration of state public policy

43:21-2. Declaration of state public policy
As a guide to the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of this state is declared to be as follows: economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this state. Involuntary unemployment is therefore a subject of general interest and concern which requires appropriate action by the legislature to prevent its spread and to lighten its burden which now so often falls with crushing force upon the unemployed worker and his family. The achievement of social security requires protection against this greatest hazard of our economic life. This can be provided by encouraging employers to provide more stable employment and by the systematic accumulation of funds during periods of employment to provide benefits for periods of unemployment, thus maintaining purchasing power and limiting the serious social consequences of poor relief assistance. The legislature, therefore, declares that in its considered judgment the public good, and the general welfare of the citizens of this state requires the enactment of this measure, under the police powers of the state, for the compulsory setting aside of unemployment reserves to be used for the benefit of persons unemployed after qualifying periods of employment.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:21-3.1 - Supplemental unemployment benefits for certain ex-service members.

43:21-3.1 Supplemental unemployment benefits for certain ex-service members.
1. Any individual who is eligible for, and receives, benefits under the unemployment compensation law, R.S.43:21-1 et seq., which are based on wages assigned to New Jersey pursuant to section 8522 of Title 5, United States Code (5 U.S.C. s.8522), shall be, upon the expiration of those benefits, eligible for supplemental benefits pursuant to this section which are equal to 26 times the individual's weekly benefit amount minus the amount of benefits paid to the individual as an ex-service member pursuant to subchapter II of chapter 85 of Title 5, United States Code (5 U.S.C. s.8521 et seq.), regardless of the number of base weeks worked or the amount of contributions paid by the individual or any employer of the individual. The supplemental benefits paid pursuant to this section shall not be paid for any week which occurs prior to the individual exhausting benefits paid pursuant to subchapter II of chapter 85 of Title 5, United States Code (5 U.S.C. s.8521 et seq.) and shall not be charged to any employer.
L.2013, c.102, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:21-4.1 - Worker profiling system; notice to applicant of benefits, services available

43:21-4.1. Worker profiling system; notice to applicant of benefits, services available
2. a. There is established a worker profiling system for the purpose of determining which new claimants for regular benefits are likely to exhaust benefits and therefore have the greatest need for reemployment services to make a successful transition to new employment. Information obtained from the profiling system shall be used in making referrals for reemployment services and may be used in making referrals to other services and benefits, but no individual shall be excluded from seeking or receiving reemployment services or other services or benefits because the individual is not among those determined to be likely to exhaust benefits, unless the exclusion is specifically required by federal law. Nor shall an individual be required to participate, as a condition for receiving regular benefits, in any employment and training services because the individual is among those determined to be likely to exhaust benefits, unless that participation by the individual is specifically required by federal law. A characteristic of an individual shall not be used in making a determination regarding whether the individual is likely to exhaust benefits unless it is demonstrated to be an actual indicator of a high likelihood that benefits will be exhausted.
b. The division shall provide each individual who applies for unemployment compensation with an initial interview which includes:
(1) Notice of the benefits and services available pursuant to the provisions of this 1992 amendatory and supplementary act and the provisions of the "1992 New Jersey Employment and Workforce Development Act," P.L.1992, c.43 (C.34:15D-1 et al.), P.L.1992, c.47 (C.43:21-57 et al.) and the "Job Training Partnership Act," Pub.L. 97-300 (29 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) and of the tuition waivers available pursuant to P.L.1983, c.469 (C.18A:64-13.1 et seq.) and P.L.1983, c.470 (C.18A:64A-23.1 et seq.); and
(2) A review of the individual's rights and responsibilities with respect to the unemployment compensation, including an explanation of the appeal process and of the worker profiling system and its possible impact on the individual.
L.1992,c.46,s.2; amended 1995,c.394,s.8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:21-4.2 - Notification of availability of earned income tax credit, recipients of unemployment compensation.

43:21-4.2 Notification of availability of earned income tax credit, recipients of unemployment compensation.
1. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall notify in writing any person who received unemployment compensation pursuant to R.S.43:21-1 et seq. of the availability of the earned income tax credit provided in section 32 of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. s.32, and the New Jersey earned income tax credit provided in section 2 of P.L.2000, c.80 (C.54A:4-7). The written notification shall use the statement developed by the State Treasurer pursuant to section 4 of P.L.2005, c.210 (C.52:18-11.3) for this purpose. The notification shall be distributed in a manner deemed by the commissioner to be the most practicable and cost effective, but that will ensure personal notification of each person. The notification shall be distributed between January 1 and February 15 of each calendar year following the calendar year in which the person received the unemployment compensation.
L.2005,c.210,s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:21-4.3 - Pre-notification of exhaustion of UI benefits.

43:21-4.3 Pre-notification of exhaustion of UI benefits.
1. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall give written notification to any individual receiving unemployment compensation pursuant to R.S.43:21-1 et seq., including any State or federal extension of the unemployment compensation, of the date of the final exhaustion of all unemployment compensation for the individual, not less than four weeks prior to that date. The written notification shall include a referral for services from the Department of Human Services and any other appropriate State agency to counsel and assist the individual to obtain any resources which may be available for the individual and dependents of the individual, including assistance regarding housing, child care, food, mental health, addiction services, and health care coverage. The notification shall be distributed in a manner deemed by the commissioner to be the most practicable and cost effective, but that will ensure timely personal notification of each person.
L.2010, c.118, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 43 - Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation › Section 43:21-5a - Reduction by pension amount; rollover, certain; no reduction.

43:21-5a Reduction by pension amount; rollover, certain; no reduction.
1. The amount of benefits payable to an individual for any week which begins in a period with respect to which such individual is receiving a governmental or other pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or other similar periodic payment which is based on the previous work of such individual shall be reduced, but not below zero, by an amount equal to the amount of such pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or other payment, which is reasonably attributable to such week; provided that such reduced weekly benefit rate shall be computed to the next lower multiple of $1.00 if not already a multiple thereof and that any such reduction in the weekly benefit rate shall reduce the maximum total benefits of the individual during the benefit year; provided further that, if the provisions of the federal Unemployment Tax Act permit, the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development may prescribe in regulations which are consistent with the federal Unemployment Tax Act any of the following:
a. The requirements of this section shall only apply in the case of a pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity, or other similar periodic payment under a plan maintained or contributed to by a base period or chargeable employer as determined under the chapter to which this act is a supplement;
b. The amount of any such reduction shall be determined taking into account contributions made by the individual for the pension, retirement or retired pay, annuity or other similar periodic payment;
c. An individual shall not have his benefits reduced where there has been a transfer of an eligible rollover distribution from a qualified trust to an eligible retirement plan, as defined in section 402(c)(8) of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C.S.402(c)(8), provided that, pursuant to that section, the transfer of payments is made within 60 days of receipt. If, however, any distribution from the qualified trust is made which is subject to federal income tax, then unemployment benefits for which the base year earnings include pay from the employer who paid into the qualified trust shall be reduced by the amount of the distribution if otherwise required by section 3304(a)(15) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C.s.3304(a)(15).
The amount of benefits payable to an individual who is involuntarily and permanently separated from employment prior to the date at which the individual may retire with full pension rights shall not be reduced pursuant to this section because the individual receives a lump sum payment in lieu of periodic pension, retirement or annuity payments, except that the benefits payable to the individual may be reduced during the week in which the individual receives the lump sum payment.
L.1980,c.13,s.1; amended 1984, c.24, s.15; 1993, c.330; 2007, c.34.