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USA Statutes : new_jersey
Title : TITLE 43 PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
Chapter : 43:16-17
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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 paid or part-paid fire department or county police department or a paid or part-paid fire department of a fire district located in a township and who has contributed to the pension fund established under chapter 16 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes and shall hereafter contribute to said fund.
(2) ~Active member~ shall mean any ~member~ who is a police officer, firefighter, detective, line person, driver of police van, fire alarm operator or inspector of combustibles and who is subject to call for active service or duty as such.
(3) ~Employee member~ shall mean any ~member~ who is not subject to call for active service or duty as a police officer, firefighter, detective, line person, driver of police van, fire alarm operator or inspector of combustibles.
(4) ~Commission~ shall mean the board having the general responsibility for the proper operation of the pension fund created by this act, subject to the provisions of chapter 70 of the laws of 1955.
(5) ~Physician or surgeon~ shall mean the medical board composed of physicians who shall be called upon to determine the disability of members as provided by this act.
(6) ~Employer~ shall mean the county, municipality or agency thereof by which a member is employed.
(7) ~Service~ shall mean service rendered while a member is employed by a municipal police department, paid or part-paid fire department, county police department or paid or part-paid fire department of a fire district located in a township prior to the effective date of this act for such service to such departments thereafter.
(8) ~Pension~ shall mean the amount payable to a member or the member@s beneficiary under the provisions of this act.
(9) ~Average salary~ shall mean the average salary paid during the last three years of a member@s service.
(10) ~Beneficiary~ shall mean any person or persons, other than a member, receiving or entitled to receive a pension or benefits, as provided by this act.
(11) ~Parent~ shall mean the parent of a member who was receiving at least one-half of that parent@s support from the member in the 12-month period immediately preceding the member@s death or the accident which was the direct cause of the member@s death. The dependency of such a parent will be considered terminated by marriage of the parent subsequent to the death of the member.
(12) ~County police~ shall mean all police officers having supervision of regulation of traffic upon county roads.
(13) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1989, c.78.)
(14) ~Surviving spouse~ shall mean the person to whom a member was married before the date of retirement or at least two years before the date of the member@s death and whose marriage to the member continued until the member@s death.
(15) ~Child~ shall mean a deceased member@s unmarried child either (a) under the age of 18 or (b) of any age who, at the time of the member@s death, is disabled because of mental retardation or physical incapacity, is unable to do any substantial, gainful work because of the impairment and whose impairment has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, as affirmed by the examining physicians of the fund.
(16) ~Regular interest~ shall mean interest as determined by the State Treasurer, after consultation with the Directors of the Divisions of Investment and Pensions, the commission and the actuary. It shall bear a reasonable relationship to the percentage rate of earnings on investments based on the market value of the assets but shall not exceed the assumed percentage rate of increase applied to salaries plus 3%, provided however that the commission shall not set the average percentage rate of increase applied to salaries below 6%.
(17) ~Final compensation~ shall mean the compensation received by the member in the last 12 months of service preceding retirement.
(18) ~Compensation~ shall mean the base salary, for services as a member as defined in this act, which is in accordance with established salary policies of the member@s employer for all employees in the same position but shall not include individual salary adjustments which are granted primarily in anticipation of the member@s retirement or additional remuneration for performing temporary duties beyond the regular workday.
L.1944,c.253,s.12; amended 1946,c.284,s.4; 1947,c.234,s.5; 1966,c.307,s.3 (1966,c.307, title amended 1967,c.286,s.10); 1967,c.286,s.11; 1968,c.154,s.2; 1970,c.57,s.16; 1971,c.179,s.4; 1971,c.439,s.1; 1984,c.127,s.3; 1989,c.78; 1992,c.41,s.22; 1992,c.125,s.12.
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 served as an active member of said police or fire department, as the term ~active member~ is defined in section 12 of the act of which this act is a supplement, shall be deemed to be service as an active member under and for all the purposes of the provisions of chapter 16 of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, notwithstanding whether or not such person is or has been granted a leave of absence from his office, position or employment in or with said police or fire department to serve in any of said capacities.
L.1965, c. 142, s. 1.
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