New Jersey · statute · N.J. Stat. tit. 43 · 1,405 active provisions
Any person of the age of 40 years or over, who accepts any employment in the State or any county or municipality thereof shall not be eligible to join any pension fund maintained by the State or any county or municipality thereof, except that such person may join the pension fund established pursuant to the "Public Emp…
When the qualifications for eligibility for membership in any existing pension fund or retirement system of this State or of any county, municipality, school district or other political subdivision of this State, or of any board, body, agency or commission of this State, or of any county, municipality or school distric…
No pension or subsidy shall be paid by this State or by any municipality or school district of this State to any person for the period during which he is confined in a penal institution as a result of conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, and such person shall lose all right to so much pension or subsidy as…
1. a. The receipt of a public pension or retirement benefit is hereby expressly conditioned upon the rendering of honorable service by a public officer or employee. b. The board of trustees of any State or locally-administered pension fund or retirement system created under the laws of this State is authorized to order…
2. a. A person who holds or has held any public office, position, or employment, elective or appointive, under the government of this State or any agency or political subdivision thereof, who is convicted of any crime set forth in subsection b. of this section, or of a substantially similar offense under the laws of an…
3. The board of trustees of any State or locally-administered pension fund or retirement system created under the laws of this State may subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance, and also may require the production of books, papers or documents in a matter concerning the rendering of honorable service by a public…
4. A State, county or local employer participating in a State or locally-administered pension fund or retirement system shall be responsible for reimbursement to the pension fund or retirement system of all pension costs incurred by a State or locally-administered pension fund or retirement system following any settlem…
2. A county or municipal prosecutor shall inform the Director of the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety in writing whenever a prosecution is commenced, or a conviction entered, against any person who the prosecutor knows, or has reason to believe, is a member of a State or locally-a…
3. Whenever any State or local public employer takes formal disciplinary action against an officer or employee who is a member of any State or locally-administered pension fund or retirement system by removing that officer or employee from office or employment, it shall inform the board of trustees of the fund or syste…
Any officer or employee who is a member of and entitled to benefits in any retirement system or pension fund operated wholly or partly by the state, and in which system or fund the member contributes thereto, including employees of municipalities and counties who have or shall become members of any such system or fund,…
When a member of any such retirement system or pension fund of this state changes his office or employment or is transferred in such manner as to require his withdrawal from any such retirement system or pension fund, and the change or transfer is to an office or position which entitles him to become a member of anothe…
The board, body or person administering the second retirement system or pension fund may appropriate and expend any sum of money necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. The state treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, may honor requisitions made pursuant hereto by the administrative board, body or…
Any employee of any school district in this State, who was or is a member of the teachers' pension and annuity fund, and who has ceased, or shall cease, to be an employee of such school district and who has taken, or shall take, an office, position or employment in the service of any municipality or county in this Stat…
Said applicant shall notify the administrative head of the teachers' pension and annuity fund, at the time of his application to such retirement system or pension fund, of his intention to withdraw from the teachers' pension and annuity fund and to enter such retirement system or pension fund and thereupon the administ…
Such applicant shall be entitled as a member of such retirement system or pension fund to such credit by way of pension and annuity as is provided by law in such retirement system or pension fund with prior service credit to which he was originally entitled in the teachers' pension and annuity fund.
In the event of a change or transfer of a Superior Court Judge assigned to the Law Division to another county, division of the Superior Court, or court in the State judicial system, any law secretary or secretary-stenographer then serving such Superior Court Judge who is a member of a county retirement system shall be…
In case any person holding office, position or employment in the service of the State, and being a member, in good standing, of any pension or retirement system or fund to which the State is a contributor, has been or shall be absent from the place of his last known residence for a period of not less than two months, u…
The board of trustees of any such pension or retirement system or fund shall, after the receipt of such certificate, make payment of any pension which would have been payable to the dependent or dependents of such person, if proof of his actual death were submitted to such trustees, from the time so certified as the da…
If, thereafter, it shall be proved that the said person was alive at any time when any sums were paid by way of pension to dependent or dependents of any person so presumed to be dead, pursuant to this act, the said board of trustees shall include the amount of such payment or payments made during the time when such pe…
As used in this act: a. "Retirant" means any person who was employed by the State of New Jersey, any of its instrumentalities, any of its political subdivisions or any of the instrumentalities of its political subdivisions, retired from such employment and, as a result of such employment, is receiving a retirement allo…
2. The monthly retirement allowance or pension originally granted to any retirant and the pension or survivorship benefit originally granted to any beneficiary shall be adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this act provided, however, that: a. The maximum retirement allowance, without option, shall be considere…
For retirants and beneficiaries, the percentage of adjustment which shall apply to the retirement allowance, survivorship benefit or pension originally granted to a retirant or beneficiary shall be calculated in accordance with the following percentages as determined by the calendar year in which the retirement became…
Except in the case of retirants and beneficiaries of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, each employer shall bear the cost of the adjustment in the retirement allowances or pensions payable to retirants who retired from the employ of such employer and the cost of the adjustment in the survivorship benefits or pensi…
Notwithstanding the provisions of the "Pension Adjustment Act," P.L. 1969, c. 169 (C. 43:3B-1 et seq.), pension adjustment benefits provided under the act for members and beneficiaries of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund shall be paid by the retirement system. The Director of the Division of Pensions shall annual…
If, in any year, the State does not appropriate the amount required under section 4 of P.L.1958, c. 143 (C. 43:3B-4), no adjustments in benefits may be paid under any other law of New Jersey in the subsequent calendar year to retirants or beneficiaries of active or retired members of any retirement system or program wh…