Whenever the employees of any county park commission governed by and acting under the provisions of sections 40:37-96 to 40:37-174 of the Revised Statutes have formed or may hereafter form themselves into groups for the purpose of obtaining the advantages of the group plan of life insurance in any one of the plans now in vogue, or any plan which may hereafter be inaugurated, it shall be lawful for the commission, when written petitions and authorizations signed by the employees as individuals are filed with the secretary or other duly designated officer of the commission, to authorize by resolution the deductions from salaries specified in the said written petitions and authorizations and the payment of them to the designated fiscal agent.

L.1945, c. 241, p. 764, s. 1, eff. April 25, 1945.