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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 43:16A-15.1

  • 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.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • 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
a. In the case of any person who (1) was required to become a member of the retirement system as a condition of employment, and whose application for enrollment in the retirement system or whose application for transfer from one employer to another within the system was filed beyond the effective date for his compulsory enrollment in the system or his transfer within the system or (2) is eligible for membership on the basis of special legislation, such person shall be required to purchase membership credit for his compulsory coverage by paying into the annuity savings fund the amount required by applying, in accordance with section 15 of chapter 255 of the laws of 1944, his full rate of contribution on his current base salary subject to the retirement system for each year of previous service during which he was required to have been a member.

b. If more than 1 year has elapsed from the time that contributions would have been required from such person, 1/2 of the employee’s cost, established by the computation provided by subsection a. of this section, will be required of his employer and shall be included in the next budget subsequent to the certification of this special liability by the retirement system. The amount certified by the system shall be payable by the employer to the pension accumulation fund and shall be due and owing to the system even if the employee is no longer in the employ of the employer by the date such moneys are to be paid to the system.

c. The employee’s obligation may be satisfied by regular installments, equal to at least 1/2 the normal contribution to the retirement system, over a maximum period of 10 years.

d. In the case of any person coming under the provisions of this section, full pension credit for the period of employment for which arrears are being paid by the employee shall be given upon the payment of at least 1/2 of the total employee’s arrearage obligation and the completion of 1 year of membership and the making of such arrears payments, except that in the case of retirement pursuant to section 5 of chapter 255 of the laws of 1944 and sections 16 and 17 of chapter 241 of the laws of 1964, the total membership credit for such service shall be in direct proportion as the amount paid bears to the total amount of the arrearage obligation of the employee.

L.1967, c. 250, s. 29, eff. Dec. 18, 1967. Amended by L.1971, c. 175, s. 17, eff. June 1, 1971.

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