Title 43, Title 43: PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

43:16-12. Determining years of service for firemen as members of pension fund In any municipality in which this subtitle has taken effect under section 43:16-10 of this title, if before this subtitle became effective a paid fire department had not been regularly constituted and o…

43:16-13. Member with twenty years' service not to be deprived of pension privileges; fine, reprimand or discharge No member of the police or fire department in any municipality or county in this State who shall have served honorably in any such department for a period of twenty …

43:16-17 Definitions. 12. The following words and phrases as used in this act, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings: (1) "Member" shall mean a person who on July 1, 1944, was a member of a municipal police department or …

43:16-17.2. Service in administrative or supervisory capacity; service as an active member Service with a municipal police or fire department in an appointive administrative or supervisory capacity or any combination thereof by any person who immediately prior to such service ser…

43:16-18. Effective date of act This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four. L.1944, c. 253, p. 833, s. 14.

43:16-19 Waiver of payment. 1. Any member or any beneficiary who has been or, in the future, may be retired, or receive a pension, benefit, or retirement allowance, including an annuity, pursuant to the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement, may, by filing writt…

43:16-2. Retirement for disability Any member of such police or paid or part-paid fire department who shall have received permanent disability as a direct result of a traumatic event occurring while performing his regular or assigned duties shall be retired upon an accidental dis…

43:16-2.1. Applicability of increases The increases under this act shall apply only to pensions payable on account of retirements or deaths occurring after January 11, 1956; provided, however, that such increases shall be applicable only to payments becoming due after the month i…

43:16-20 Reduced payments. 2. Upon the receipt of such a waiver, and until the same is withdrawn, altered, or revoked by a subsequent written request, similarly filed, the Division of Pensions and Benefits shall pay a reduced pension, benefit, retirement allowance, or annuity, as…

43:16-21. No refund or credit of waived moneys Upon withdrawal, alteration, or revocation of such a waiver the member or beneficiary shall not be entitled to a refund or credit for such moneys as shall have been waived during the period such waiver has been in effect. L.1955, c. …

43:16-3. Pension to dependents (a) Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who shall not have died while on duty, there shall be paid to the member's surviving spouse a pension of 50% of the member's average salary, for the use of herself or himself, to continu…

43:16-4. Pension to dependents for loss of life while on duty (a) Upon the receipt of proper proofs of the death of a member who shall have lost his life while on duty, there shall be paid to his widow or dependent widower a pension of 70% of the member's average salary, for the …

43:16-4c. Pension to widow who married member after 50 years of age The widow of any member who died prior to June 15, 1965, shall receive a pension in the amount prescribed by the act to which this act is a supplement if she is otherwise eligible for such pension notwithstanding…

43:16-5. Consolidated Police and Firemen's Pension Fund 43:16-5. For the purpose of paying the pensions provided by this chapter, all pension funds heretofore created and in existence pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled "An act providing for the retirement of policemen …

43:16-6.2 Actuarial evaluation of fund, legal advice. 7. The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall keep, in convenient form, such data as may be necessary for the actuarial evaluation of the fund committed to its charge and to serve as a record…

43:16-7 Division designated trustee of funds. 43:16-7. The Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of the Treasury shall be the trustee of all the funds established by this act. The division shall have the general responsibility for the proper operation of the pension…

43:16-7.1. Local commissions to transfer money and assets to state commission Promptly after it has organized, the commission shall give notice in writing not later than September first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, to the pension commission of each municipality and c…

43:16-7.2. Effective date This section and section five of this act shall take effect immediately. Sections one, seven and eight shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two. Sections two, three, four and six shall take effect July first, one thousand nin…

43:16-8. Existing boards vacated; fund placed under this subtitle When there is established in any municipality a fund for the retiring and pensioning of members of the police or fire departments thereof, all boards or bodies having control thereof are hereby vacated, and all pen…

43:16-9. State firemen's fund and association unaffected The state firemen's relief fund and the state firemen's association and the laws by virtue of which they exist and operate shall not be affected by the provisions of this subtitle.