43:3A-2 - Payment of pension to dependents from date of presumed death - New Jersey Statutes

43:3A-2.  Payment of pension to dependents from date of presumed death
    The board of trustees of any such pension or retirement system or fund shall, after the receipt of such certificate, make payment of any pension which  would have been payable to the dependent or dependents of such person, if proof  of his actual death were submitted to such trustees, from the time so certified  as the date upon which such person's death is presumed to have occurred until  such time as proof shall be made to them that such person was or is actually  alive or is actually dead, or as a certified copy of a declaration of the death  of such person made by a court of competent jurisdiction of this State, shall  be filed with them and said board of trustees shall be fully discharged and  saved harmless from any and all liability for payment or repayment of any sum  so paid in event that the said person shall be proved to be or to have been  alive at the time when any such payment was made.

     L.1952, c. 215, p. 746, s. 2.