43:16-12 - Determining years of service for firemen as members of pension fund
43:16-12.Ā Determining years of service for firemen as members of pension fund
In any municipality in which this subtitle has taken effect under section 43:16-10 of this title, if before this subtitle became effective a paid fire department had not been regularly constituted and organized by ordinance of theĀ governing body thereof, but firemen were employed on regular twenty-four-hourĀ duty for pay and two per cent was deducted from every payment of salary to themĀ and the sums so deducted were theretofore paid into a pension fund for theirĀ relief, and upon the taking effect of this subtitle in such municipality, theseĀ sums were added to the pension fund provided for in this subtitle;Ā and whereĀ the governing body thereof continued to deduct from every payment of salary toĀ such paid firemen two per cent of the amount thereof and credited same to theĀ pension fund;Ā and where, prior to March eleventh, one thousand nine hundredĀ and twenty-four, a paid fire department was thereafter constituted and createdĀ in the municipality in the manner provided by law, and all such paid firemenĀ were thereupon appointed to the paid fire department, the age of the paid firemen shall, for the purposes of this subtitle, be reckoned as of the time they were first employed for regular twenty-four-hour duty for pay, and the years of service rendered by them shall, for the purpose of this subtitle, beĀ reckoned from the same time, and not from their reappointment after the creation of the regular paid fire department.
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In any municipality in which this subtitle has taken effect under section 43:16-10 of this title, if before this subtitle became effective a paid fire department had not been regularly constituted and organized by ordinance of theĀ governing body thereof, but firemen were employed on regular twenty-four-hourĀ duty for pay and two per cent was deducted from every payment of salary to themĀ and the sums so deducted were theretofore paid into a pension fund for theirĀ relief, and upon the taking effect of this subtitle in such municipality, theseĀ sums were added to the pension fund provided for in this subtitle;Ā and whereĀ the governing body thereof continued to deduct from every payment of salary toĀ such paid firemen two per cent of the amount thereof and credited same to theĀ pension fund;Ā and where, prior to March eleventh, one thousand nine hundredĀ and twenty-four, a paid fire department was thereafter constituted and createdĀ in the municipality in the manner provided by law, and all such paid firemenĀ were thereupon appointed to the paid fire department, the age of the paid firemen shall, for the purposes of this subtitle, be reckoned as of the time they were first employed for regular twenty-four-hour duty for pay, and the years of service rendered by them shall, for the purpose of this subtitle, beĀ reckoned from the same time, and not from their reappointment after the creation of the regular paid fire department.
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