43:13-22.52 Members and conditions for membership.

3. The members and conditions of membership in the retirement system created by this act shall be as follows:

(a) Any person who shall become an employee of the city after the effective date of P.L.1964, c.275 (C.43:13-22.50 et seq.) and prior to his attainment of the age of 40 years, shall become a member of the retirement system, as a condition of his employment, unless the person is a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System, pursuant to P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 et seq.), in which that person shall remain enrolled; provided that he shall submit to and pass the physical and mental examinations required by the commission and shall provide such evidence of good health, at said time, as the commission shall require.

(b) Upon written application made to the commission within 6 months after the effective date of this act, any employee of the city who became such on or before said date and prior to his attainment of the age of 40 years who is not a member of the pension fund in effect in said city under and by virtue of article 2, chapter 13, Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, shall be entitled to become a member of the retirement system. Such member shall receive credit for all of his prior service in the employ of said city provided that payments are made by such member in an amount or amounts calculated in accordance with the rules of the commission as may be necessary to provide the entire actuarial cost of such prior service credit. In the event that such member retires before he completes the payment for all of his prior service credit, credit for such service shall be given in direct proportion as the amount paid bears to the total amount of the obligation.

(c) Any employee who on the effective date of this act is a member of the pension fund in effect in said city under and by virtue of article 2, chapter 13, Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, shall, upon such date, automatically become a member of the retirement system, and any such employee shall be deemed to agree and consent to such transfer of his membership.

(d) Upon written application made to the commission within 6 months after the effective date of this act, any employee of the city as of such date, with or without veteran's status, who has not attained the age of 60 years and who has 20 or more years of prior service credit in the Public Employees' Retirement System of the State of New Jersey or in the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund of the State of New Jersey, or who has less than 20 years of such prior service credit and whose present age reduced by the total years of such prior service credit is less than 40 years, who shall become a member of the retirement system may transfer such prior service credit to the retirement system. Such transfer shall become effective upon the remittance to the retirement system by the said State pension systems of all accumulated member's contributions, with interest, standing to the credit of the member and of that portion of the actuarial reserve accumulated on his account provided for by contributions of the city.

(e) Upon written application made to the commission within 6 months after the effective date of this act, any permanent employee of the city who became such on or before February 22, 1965 and prior to his attainment of age 50 but on or after his attainment of age 40, who was not a member of the pension fund in effect in said city under and by virtue of article 2, chapter 13, Title 43 of the Revised Statutes, shall be entitled to become a member of the retirement system. Such member shall receive credit for all or any part of his prior service, as he may elect, in the employ of said city provided that payments are made by such member in an amount or amounts as may be necessary to provide the entire actuarial cost of such prior service credit.

(f) The failure of any member to comply with the rules and regulations prescribed by the commission, pursuant to this act, shall result in the suspension or termination of membership in, or benefits of, this retirement system as may be provided from time to time by the commission.

L.1964, c.275, s.3; amended 1966, c.158, s.2; 2013, c.282, s.2.