43:13-5 - Payments to dependents of employee who served five years or more - New Jersey Statutes

43:13-5.  Payments to dependents of employee who served five years or more    If a municipal employee, who was not previously retired or pensioned, who has paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and who shall have served in the municipal employ for five years,  shall die from causes other than injuries or illness received or incurred in  the performance of his duties, twenty-five per cent of the pension which would  have been paid if he had served in the city for twenty years shall be paid to  the surviving widow, husband, minor children or dependent parents, as the case  may be.  For each additional year of such service thereafter the proportionate  amount of the pension to be so paid shall be increased to the extent of five  per cent over and above such twenty-five per cent per annum for each additional  year of service up to and including twenty years.