43:13-7 - Retirement for disability - New Jersey Statutes

43:13-7.  Retirement for disability
    Any municipal employee of any city of the first class who shall have received permanent disability in the performance of his duty, or shall be suffering from permanent injury or disease, shall, upon the certificate of a physician designated for that purpose by the pension commission, be retired on a pension equal to one-half of his salary at the time of his retirement.

    Where, however, any such municipal employee shall desire to retire by reason  of such injury or disease, he shall apply in writing to the pension commission  for such retirement.  The pension commission shall, thereupon, call to its aid  a regularly licensed and practicing surgeon or physician and the applicant may  also call to his aid a regularly licensed and practicing surgeon or physician.   If the two surgeons or physicians so called fail to agree on the physical  condition of the applicant, the pension commission may call a third and  disinterested, licensed and practicing surgeon or physician. The determination  of the majority of the three surgeons or physicians, who shall first be duly  sworn, shall be reduced to writing and signed by them. The president of the  pension commission may administer oaths to such surgeons, physicians or other persons called regarding the matter before the commission.  The commission shall determine, by resolution, whether the applicant is entitled to the benefits of this article and shall consider the determination of the surgeons  or physicians in reaching its decision.