43:10-26 - Pension to widow when death occurs after retirement - New Jersey Statutes

43:10-26.  Pension to widow when death occurs after retirement
    If any county detective, after having been retired on 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,  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 county detective at the time of his retirement, or in case of  his death before said action by the board of chosen freeholders, 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 43:10-23 and 43:10-24 of this  title finding him physically unfit or incapacitated for further duty.