N.J. Stat. tit. 43, ch. 2

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N.J. Stat. § 43:2-1 Transfer upon certain changes of office or employment

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, may transfer his membership to another retirement system upon accepting an office or position in another branch of service and thereby make it possible for him to participate in the other system, when such transfer of office or employment would make it impossible for him to continue in the retirement system or pension fund of which he has been a member.

N.J. Stat. § 43:2-2 Entry into other system or fund; credits and contributions

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 another retirement system or pension fund, he shall notify the administrative head of the retirement system of which he is a member, prior to or at the time of his withdrawal therefrom, of his intention to enter the other retirement system or pension fund. Upon his entry into the other system or fund he shall be admitted with the credit for prior service to which he was entitled in the system or fund from which he shall have withdrawn and he shall be permitted to deposit in the second retirement system or pension fund the total amount of his contributions so withdrawn from the first retirement system, and the board or administrative head of the first retirement system may transfer to the second retirement system or fund the funds or credit to which the withdrawing member was entitled. He shall, thereupon, as a member of the second retirement system, be entitled to such credit in the way of pension and annuity as is provided by law in the second retirement system or fund, with the prior service credit to which he was originally entitled in the first retirement system.

N.J. Stat. § 43:2-3 Expenses to effectuate chapter

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 person, if such funds have been appropriated and placed at the disposal of the pension fund or retirement system as otherwise provided by law.

N.J. Stat. § 43:2-4 School district employees taking employment with municipality or county

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 State, which has not adopted the provisions of chapter fifteen of Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, shall, upon application to the retirement system or pension fund of said municipality or county, appropriate to his office, position or employment, be entitled to membership therein upon complying with the provisions of this act. L.1949, c. 149, p. 531, s. 1.

N.J. Stat. § 43:2-5 Notice of intention to transfer membership

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 administrative head of the teachers' pension and annuity fund shall remit to such retirement system or pension fund the total amount which otherwise would be payable to him upon his withdrawal therefrom. L.1949, c. 149, p. 532, s. 2.

N.J. Stat. § 43:2-6 Credit

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. L.1949, c. 149, p. 532, s. 3.

N.J. Stat. § 43:2-7 Law secretary or secretary-stenographer of Superior Court Judge; transfer from county to State retirement system

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 transferred to the State Employees' Retirement System, with full credit for past service, and the total amount credited to such law secretary or secretary-stenographer by reason of payments theretofore made by the member and by the county, together with interest, shall be transferred by the county to the State Employees' Retirement System. Any member so transferred shall be admitted to the State Employees Retirement System at the rate of deduction applicable to his age at the time of such transfer. L.1952, c. 183, p. 609, s. 1.

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