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

43:16A-18. False statements or records; punishment; correction of errors Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement system in any attempt to defraud such system as a result of such ac…

43:16A-19. Other laws inapplicable No other provision of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the State of New Jersey or of any county or municipality in the State for pensions or retirement benefits for policemen or firemen or county policem…

43:16A-2 Retirement system established. 2. A retirement system is hereby established in the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits for policemen and firemen under the provisions of this act. It shall have the powers and pr…

43:16A-20. Application of act The provisions of this act shall apply in such municipalities as at the effective date of this act there shall have been established a pension fund for policemen and firemen and in such counties as there shall have been established a pension fund for…

43:16A-22. Other laws not affected 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 act, nor shall anything in this act contained be construed to in anywise l…

43:16A-23. Violation of departmental regulations; convictions No member who shall have served honorably in any such police or fire department for a period of twenty-five years and attained age fifty-five shall be deprived of his pension privileges under this act because of any vi…

43:16A-24. Partial invalidity If any provision, section or part of any section of this act is declared to be unconstitutional, the same shall not be held to affect any other section or provision of this act, and the remainder of this act shall in nowise thereby be invalidated. L.…

43:16A-25. Effective date of act This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four. L.1944, c. 255, p. 857, s. 25.

43:16A-26. Referendum; notice of adoption Upon the filing of a petition signed by at least ten per centum (10%) of the legal voters of any county, municipality or political subdivision thereof with the clerk of such county, municipality or political subdivision, as the case may b…

43:16A-27. Duties of chief financial officer and of board of trustees as to referendum; fiscal statement Whenever the question of the adoption of the act of which this act is an amendment and supplement is to be submitted to the voters at the general election in any year, the chi…

43:16A-28. Publication of fiscal statement; notice; hearing; resolution as to method of payment The governing body shall publish on or before September fifteenth of said year, in at least one newspaper having general circulation in such county, municipality or political subdivisi…

43:16A-29. Election to become member; prior service certificate Any policeman or fireman in service in any county, municipality or political subdivision thereof prior to the date upon which this act becomes effective in such county, municipality or political subdivision thereof b…

43:16A-3. Membership; termination; return of contributions; continuance on return (1) After the date of the establishment of this retirement system, any person becoming a full-time policeman or fireman in a county or municipality or fire district located in a township where, prio…

43:16A-3.1. Service defined 1. Service with a law enforcement unit or firefighting unit to which the provisions of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.) apply in an appointive capacity with administrative or supervisory duties over policemen or firemen or any combination thereof b…

43:16A-3.10. Credit for transferred service 3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1 of this supplementary act, a policeman or fireman who is eligible pursuant to paragraph (1) or paragraph (8) of subsection a. of that section to become a member of PFRS and who transfers…

43:16A-3.11. Liability of State, municipality for certain employer contributions 4. a. The State shall be liable, during their membership following transfer from PERS to PFRS, for the difference between what the employer would pay under PERS and what the employer would pay under …

43:16A-3.12. Noneligibility for additional benefits 5. A person transferring to PFRS under this supplementary act shall not be eligible to receive any benefit provided under P.L.1993, c.99 unless the person receives full credit toward benefits under PFRS for the transferred PERS …

43:16A-3.13. Liability of State for contributions on members for PFRS adopted after 1991 and before August 9, 1993 6. For municipalities in which the provisions of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.) took effect on or after January 1, 1992 and prior to the effective date of this…

43:16A-3.14. Full credit toward PFRS benefits for transferred PERS service 1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1993, c.247 (C.43:16A-3.8 et seq.) to the contrary, a member or retiree of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey (PFRS), established pursuant …

43:16A-3.15 Certain firemen eligible for enrollment in PFRS; credit for PERS service, certain. 1. a. Upon the approval by the municipal governing body, any fireman employed by a municipality on the effective date of this act who (1) was not eligible for membership in the Police a…

43:16A-3.2. Purchase of prior service credit 2. Any such person presently serving in any of said capacities may purchase prior service credit for the period of time he has so served by paying to the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey an amount equal to the contr…

43:16A-3.3. Payment by employer The employer of any such person purchasing prior service credit as provided by this act shall pay to the retirement system the employer's accrued liability obligation on behalf of such person. L.1965, c. 186, s. 3.

43:16A-3.4. Election to public office; contributions a. Any member elected to public office may continue to be a member during the time he remains in such public office. The member's rate of contribution to the retirement system as applied to his salary as an elected official sha…

43:16A-3.5 Member who becomes sheriff or undersheriff; election to remain member. 1. Any member of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey who has been or shall be elected to the position of sheriff or who has accepted or shall accept appointment to the office or…

43:16A-3.6. County sheriff; ineligibility for benefits of L.1983, c. 439, if 37 or older No county sheriff shall qualify for membership in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey pursuant to this amendatory and supplementary act if he has reached the age of 37 ye…

43:16A-3.7 Transfer of membership for eligible officers. 3. Any officer eligible to become a member pursuant to the amendatory provisions of this act who is enrolled in the Public Employees' Retirement System (P.L.1954, c.84, C. 43:15A-1 et seq.) or any county pension fund establ…

43:16A-3.8. Eligibility for membership in PFRS, transfers from PERS 1. a. The following are eligible, regardless of age, to become members of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System of New Jersey (PFRS) as provided in this supplementary act: (1) any policeman or fireman employ…

43:16A-3.9. Enrollment required 2. A policeman or fireman employed after the effective date of this supplementary act by a municipality, which was not required to participate in PFRS under section 3 of P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-3) and has not adopted that act, and a fireman emplo…

43:16A-30. Costs for accrued liability on prior service certificates The county, municipality or political subdivision thereof shall be liable to the board of trustees for the whole costs for the accrued liability on account of service credited on all prior service certificates i…

43:16A-31. Certification of normal contribution and contribution for accrued liability for prior service credits The board of trustees shall certify to the chief financial officer of the county, municipality or political subdivision thereof, adopting the act, on or before the fir…

43:16A-32. Information transmitted to board The chief financial officer of each county, municipality or political subdivision having employees who are members of this fund shall transmit to the board of trustees such information as the board shall, from time to time, require. L.1…

43:16A-33. County police departments; application for membership The board of chosen freeholders of any county maintaining a county police department may pass a resolution requesting the board of trustees to permit the members of such police department to become members of the fu…

43:16A-34. Fiscal statement; publication; hearing on application The board of chosen freeholders shall thereupon within thirty days after receipt of such fiscal statement publish the same in at least one newspaper having general circulation in such county and also publish a notic…

43:16A-35. Election to become member; statement and certificate of prior service Any member of such county police department may become a member by filing with the board of trustees his election in writing to become such member on or before the date upon which this act becomes ef…

43:16A-36. Liability of county on prior service certificates The county shall be liable to the board of trustees for the whole costs for the accrued liability on account of service credited on all prior service certificates issued to any member of a county police department emplo…

43:16A-37. Contributions certified to county The board of trustees shall certify to the chief financial officer of the county on or before the first day of February following, for the then current fiscal year and thereafter on or before the first of December of each year for the …

43:16A-38. Chief financial officer of county; information to board of trustees The chief financial officer of each county having employees who are members of this fund shall transmit to the board of trustees such information as the board shall, from time to time, require. L.1946,…

43:16A-39. First or second class counties--Police employees of county park commission; admission The board of trustees may by resolution admit as members into the retirement system the police employees of any county park commission in counties of the first or second class. Whenev…

43:16A-4 Creditable service within act. 4. a. Only service as a policeman or fireman paid for by an employer, which was rendered by a member since that member's enrollment, or since that member's last enrollment in case of a break in service, plus service, if any, covered by a pr…

43:16A-4.1. Borough of Barrington; contributions Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of P.L.1944, c. 255 (C. 43:16A-4) all persons presently employed as policemen by a borough having a population between 8,400 and 8,500 inhabitants according to the 1970 census, and locate…

43:16A-4.2. Policeman member of retirement system; credit for service as chanceman application Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of P.L.1944, c. 255 (C. 43:16A-4), any person who on the effective date of this act and as a result of service in the police department of a …

43:16A-4.3. Disposition of application by board; credit for service; liability of employer The board shall, upon receiving such application and such evidence, advise the employer of the submission of such application and request the employer to submit such evidence of a return of…

43:16A-40. First or second class counties over 300,000; admission of park police as members; fiscal statement The park commission in any county of the first class or county of the second class having a population not in excess of 300,000 created pursuant to the provisions of the …

43:16A-41. Publication of fiscal statement; hearing Such county park commission shall thereupon within thirty days after the receipt of such fiscal statement publish the same in at least one newspaper having general circulation in such county and also publish a notice that a publ…

43:16A-42. Election to become member; statement; prior service certificate Any police employee of any such county park commission may become a member by filing with the board of trustees his election in writing to become such member at any time within 6 months after this act beco…

43:16A-43. Accrued liability for service credited on prior service certificates, costs for The county park commission shall be liable to the board of trustees for the whole costs for the accrued liability on account of service credited on all prior service certificates issued to …