New Jersey § 18a:66-182

§ 18a:66-182.

a. Any person entitled to become a participant in an alternate benefit program shall

not be allowed any of the group life and disability insurance benefits if on the date

he files an application for participation he is 60 or more years of age or if he makes

application for participation in an alternate benefit program beyond the year after

he first became eligible for participation, regardless of age, unless the participant

furnishes satisfactory evidence of insurability and on the effective date of his participation

is actively at work and performing all his regular duties at his customary place of

employment. The effective date of coverage for such benefits shall be the first day of the month

which immediately follows the date when such evidence is determined to be satisfactory. b. Such evidence of insurability will not be required of any person becoming a participant

of an alternate benefit program upon transfer from the Teachers' Pension and Annuity

Fund, the Public Employees' Retirement System, other State-administered retirement

system or the Group Annuity Plan, if such system provided benefits of a similar nature

and the transferring employee was covered by such benefits at the time of the transfer. If such transferring employee was not covered by such benefits at the time of the

transfer, he may be allowed the benefits under the group policy or policies subject

to the provisions of subsection a. of this section; provided, however, that any such

participant must furnish satisfactory evidence of insurability under the provisions

of subsection a. of this section, if he had been unable or failed to give such evidence

as a member of the system from which he transferred. c. Any person who must furnish satisfactory evidence of insurability under the provisions

of this section and who ceases to be a participant of an alternate benefit program

without such evidence having been given, shall continue to be subject to the same

requirement if he subsequently becomes a participant.