Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 40A:9-17

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • 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
Whenever any person holding public office, position or employment, whose compensation is paid by any county or municipality or by any board, body, agency or commission thereof, or any board of education, shall indicate in writing to the proper disbursing officer his desire to have any deductions made from his compensation for payment: a. to a credit union, organized under the laws of this State or of the United States, the membership of which is limited to public employees, or b. to an insurance company authorized to do business in this State for the purchase of an individual retirement annuity written on a group or individual basis, as defined by section 408(b) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended (26 U.S.C. § 408(b)), or c. to any State or federally chartered bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association selected by the employer for deposit into an individual retirement account, as defined by section 408(a) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended (26 U.S.C. § 408(a)), such deductions shall be made by the proper disbursing officer, when directed so to do by resolution of the governing body of any county or municipality or by resolution of the board, body, agency or commission or board of education of which he is the disbursing officer, and shall be transmitted to the treasurer of the credit union, insurance company or the bank, savings bank, or savings and loan association. Any such written authorization may be withdrawn upon filing notice of such withdrawal with the proper disbursing officer.

L.1971, c. 200, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971. Amended by L.1983, c. 445, s. 1, eff. Jan. 9, 1984.