Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 18A:66-171

  • Employment: includes employment in a position. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • Higher education: means that education which is provided by any or all of the public institutions of higher education as herein defined and any or all equivalent private institutions. See New Jersey Statutes 18A:1-1
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Those faculty members, who are ineligible for participation in the alternate benefit program, and all other employees of all of the public institutions of higher education in the State, except physicians and dentists holding employment in positions titled intern, resident or fellow on or after the effective date of this amendatory act, shall be enrolled in the Public Employees’ Retirement System if they are otherwise eligible. Such eligibility shall extend to all part-time faculty members whose services have been renewed for the succeeding school year.

L.1969, c. 242, s. 5, eff. July, 1969. Amended by L.1982, c. 126, s. 2, eff. Sept. 2, 1982.