43:4-2. Retirement of veterans; pension to widow
43:4-2. When an honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine or an honorably discharged member of the American Merchant Marine who served during World War II and is declared by the United States Department of Defense to be eligible for federal veterans' benefits has or shall have been for 20 years continuously or in the aggregate in office, position or employment of this State or of a county, municipality or school district or board of education, the body, board or officer having power to appoint his successor in case of vacancy may, with his assent, order his retirement from such service, or he shall be retired on his own request.
When an honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine having 40 years of continuous service in office, position or employment in this State shall, while serving in the war between the United States and Germany and Japan, lose his life in the performance of his duties, there shall be paid to his widow, during the term of her natural life, or so long as she remains a widow, a pension to which such veteran would have been entitled had he retired under the provisions hereof. This act shall be retroactive to include such veterans who lost their lives in the performance of duty within one year prior to the passage hereof. Such pension shall be calculated and paid in the manner provided by section 43:4-3 of the Revised Statutes. There shall be deducted from such pension payments any pension payment made or made available to such widow from the United States Government on account of the services of such veteran or because of the loss of his life in the performance of such duty.
Amended 1943,c.87; 1944,c.191; 1947,c.279; 1991,c.389,s.27.
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