2017 New Jersey Revised Statutes
TITLE 43 - PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
Section 43:10-80 - Pension to widow when death occurs after retirement
43:10-80. Pension to widow when death occurs after retirement
If any sergeant at arms or court crier, after having been retired upon one-half pay, shall die, or having made application for retirement shall die pending the completion of his papers and action thereon by the board of chosen freeholders or the judge of the court, as the case may be, leaving him surviving a widow who was his wife at the time of his retirement, or application for retirement, such widow, so long as she shall remain unmarried, shall receive a pension equal to one-half the amount of the annual salary of such sergeant at arms or court crier at the time of his retirement, or in case of his death before said action by the board of chosen freeholders or the judge of the court, as the case may be, then at the time of his death; provided, however, that before his death he shall have been examined by the board of physicians and their certificates shall have been made in accordance with the provisions of sections 43:10-77 and 43:10-78 of this title finding him physically unfit or incapacitated for further duty.
