New Jersey · statute · N.J. Stat. tit. 38 · 140 active provisions
38:16-1. No person now holding any employment, position or office under the government of this State, or the government of any county or municipality, including any person employed by a school board or board of education, or who may hereafter be appointed to any such employment, office or position, whose term of employ…
Before any person mentioned in section 38:16-1 of this title shall be dismissed from any position or office mentioned in such section, charges shall be preferred against him, a copy of which shall be served upon him and a time set for the hearing of same. The person so accused shall have the right to be represented by…
No governing body of any state department, or of any county, municipality or school district, shall abolish any position or office held by a person mentioned in section 38:16-1 of this title or change the title of such position, office or employment or reduce the emoluments thereof for the purpose of terminating the se…
1. No person now holding any employment, position or office under a commission, elected or appointed by the governing bodies of two or more municipalities, which, by legislative authority, have entered into an agreement for the election or appointment of such commission, whose term of employment, office or position is…
No such commission shall abolish any position or office held by a person mentioned in paragraph one of this act, or change the title of such position, office or employment, or reduce the emoluments thereof for the purpose of terminating the service of such person.
Any time spent by any member of a police or fire department of any municipality or county of this State or by any State motor vehicle inspector in the armed forces of the United States during the present war shall be counted as time spent in the active service of the police or fire department of such municipality or co…
38:17-1. The board of chosen freeholders in each of the counties shall designate a proper authority, other than that designated by law for the care of paupers and the custody of criminals, who shall cause to be interred the bodies of all veterans of the United States Armed Forces discharged under conditions other than…
38:17-2. The board of chosen freeholders in each of the counties shall appoint a suitable person who shall be a resident of the county, as supervisor of veterans' interment; provided, that in making such appointment an honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine who served in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the Un…
2. The county medical examiner, or a designee, shall be responsible for the positive identification of an unidentified indigent deceased person. The supervisor of veterans' interment or county medical examiner, as appropriate, shall contact the Department of Veterans Affairs upon receipt of an unclaimed indigent deceas…
38:17-3. Any interment provided for by sections 38:17-1 to 38:17-8 of this title shall not be made in any cemetery or plot used exclusively for the burial of pauper dead, but may be made in a county veterans' cemetery or, if appropriate, the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans' Memorial Cemetery or a National C…
38:17-4. The expense of the burial or cremation and headstone shall be borne and paid by the county in which the deceased shall be resident at the time of death, up to a cost of $250. The State shall provide additional funds for such expenses, if necessary, through an annual appropriation and subject to the availabilit…
The board of chosen freeholders of the several counties shall annually place in the tax levy a sum sufficient for the purposes aforesaid.
If the graves of such veterans mentioned in section 38:17-1 of this title, in any of the counties, shall be in a state of dilapidation or decay, or shall not be marked with headstones, or any county shall not own burial lots in which the bodies of such veterans may be interred, and the board of chosen freeholders shall…
If in the judgment of any board of chosen freeholders the amount required for the purposes mentioned in section 38:17-6 of this Title, if placed in the tax levy for one fiscal year, would be too burdensome on the taxpayers of such county, such board may issue bonds to raise the funds to accomplish the purposes aforesai…
The bonds mentioned in section 38:17-7 of this Title shall be issued and sold in accordance with Title 40, chapter one, of the Revised Statutes. No board shall issue bonds in excess of one hundred thousand dollars, for the purposes aforesaid. Amended by L.1939, c. 24, p. 39, s. 2, eff. March 25, 1939.
The supervisor of veterans' interment shall annually, on the thirtieth day of May known as Memorial Day or as near to such day as possible decorate, or cause to be decorated with suitable flags the graves in which are interred the bodies of deceased veterans of any war. The expense of carrying out the provisions of thi…
The governing body of any municipality may appropriate money for the purpose of maintaining cemetery or burial grounds within the municipality in which the remains of at least ten soldiers of the revolutionary war shall have been interred for a period of at least one hundred years. Such cemetery or burial ground shall…
The governing body of any such municipality may enter into an agreement with any duly incorporated patriotic, historic or civic society or association for the purpose of co-operating with such society or association or a branch or chapter thereof, for the maintenance and care of such cemetery or burial ground, and to s…
The Division of Veterans' Services of the Department of Economic Development shall distribute the registration records, formerly maintained by the State service officer, of veterans' graves in each county to the supervisor of veterans' interment in each county. Such records shall be maintained by such supervisor of vet…
38:18-1. As used in this chapter the word "soldier" means and includes any officer, soldier, sailor, marine, airman, nurse or any other person, male or female, regularly enlisted or inducted, who was or shall have been a part of the military or naval forces of the United States, and who took part in any war in which th…
38:18-2. A soldier, who has sustained a total loss of sight as a result of his service during any of the wars mentioned in R.S.38:18-1, shall be paid for the term of his life, and upon his death his surviving spouse shall be paid, provided that the soldier or surviving spouse shall continue as a resident of this State,…
38:18-3. Evidence of the service and disability mentioned in R.S.38:18-1 shall be furnished to the Department of Veterans Affairs, which shall examine the same and upon being satisfied that the service was performed and the soldier has been rendered totally blind as a result thereof, shall so certify to the Director of…
Any soldier or surviving spouse receiving compensation pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 38:18-1 et seq. and who is required to, and who does, move without the State for reasons of health or employment shall notwithstanding such nonresidence be entitled to continue to receive such compensation. In the event such soldi…
1. As used in this act, the word "veteran" means and includes any officer, soldier, sailor, marine, airman, nurse, or any other person, male or female, regularly enlisted or inducted, who was or shall have been a part of the active military or naval forces of the United States, and who took part or shall have taken par…
2. A veteran who served in the active military or naval forces of the United States and who has paraplegia and permanent paralysis of both legs and lower parts of the body, or who has osteochondritis and permanent loss of the use of both legs, or who has hemiplegia and permanent paralysis of one leg and one arm or eith…