18A:29-11 - Credit for military services - New Jersey Statutes

18A:29-11.  Credit for military services
    Every member who, after July 1, 1940, has served or hereafter shall serve, in the active military or naval service of the United States or of this state, including active service in the women's army corps, the women's reserve of the naval reserve, or any similar organization authorized by the United States to serve with the army or navy, in time of war or an emergency, or for or during any period of training, or pursuant to or in connection with the operation of any system of selective service, shall be entitled to receive equivalent years of employment credit for such service as if he had been employed for the same period of time in some publicly owned and operated college, school or institution of learning in this or any other state or territory of the United States, except that the period of such service shall not be credited toward more than four employment or adjustment increments.

    Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to reduce the number of  employment or adjustment increments to which any member may be entitled under  the terms of any law, or regulation, or action of any employing board or  officer, of this state, relating to leaves of absence.
 
L.1967, c.271.