New Jersey § 43:15a-156
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 43:15a-156, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 43:15a-156.
a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, prosecutors shall be members of
the Prosecutors Part, established pursuant to P.L.2001, c. 366 ( C.43:15A-155 et seq. ), of the Public Employees' Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1954, c.
84 ( C.43:15A-1 et seq. ), and shall be subject to the same membership and benefit provisions as State employees,
except as provided by P.L.2001, c. 366 . Membership in the retirement system shall be a condition of employment for service
as a prosecutor . Any service credit which has been established in the Public Employees' Retirement
System prior to the effective date of this act , P.L.2021, c. 226, 1 shall be established in the Prosecutors Part without further assessment of cost to
the prosecutor; provided, however, any service credit which has been established
in the Public Employees' Retirement System and the Judicial Retirement System not deferred pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2019, c. 287 ( C.43:6A-11.1 ) by a member of the retirement system in any position prior to service as a county
prosecutor, nominated and appointed pursuant to Article VII, Section II, paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution , shall be established in the Prosecutors Part without further assessment of cost
to the prosecutor. Any county prosecutor or acting county prosecutor enrolled in the Defined Contribution
Retirement Program as a county prosecutor or acting county prosecutor shall be eligible
for service credit in the Prosecutors Part, except that the county prosecutor or acting
county prosecutor shall first pay the amount equivalent to that amount contributed
pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2007, c. 92 ( C.43:15C-3 ) during each fiscal year of membership in the Defined Contribution Retirement Program
to be credited. b. All outstanding obligations, such as loans, purchases and other arrearage, shall
be satisfied by a prosecutor as previously scheduled for payment to the Public Employees'
Retirement System. 1
L.2021, c. 226, eff. Sept. 24, 2021.
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