New Jersey § 43:15a-97
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 43:15a-97, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 43:15a-97.
“ Law enforcement officer ” shall mean any permanent and full-time employee of the State of New Jersey holding
one of the following titles: motor vehicles officer, motor vehicles sergeant, motor
vehicles lieutenant, motor vehicles captain, assistant chief, bureau of enforcement,
and chief, bureau of enforcement in the Division of Motor Vehicles, and highway patrol
officer, sergeant highway patrol bureau, lieutenant highway patrol bureau, captain
highway patrol bureau, assistant chief highway patrol bureau, chief highway patrol
bureau in the Division of State Police, and inspector, investigator, and administrative
inspector in the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, and inspector recruit alcoholic
beverage control, inspector alcoholic beverage control, senior inspector alcoholic
beverage control, principal inspector alcoholic beverage control, supervising inspector
alcoholic beverage control in the Division of State Police, and conservation police officer, assistant district conservation police officer and district conservation police officer in the Division of Fish and Wildlife in the Department of Environmental Protection , and assistant chief marine police and senior marine patrolman in the Division of
Resource Development, and marine police officer, senior marine police officer, principal
marine police officer in the Division of State Police, and inspector, officer, senior
inspector, and principal inspector in the Division of Shell Fisheries, any permanent
and full-time active county detective, lieutenant of county detectives, captain of
county detectives, chief of county detectives, and county investigator in the offices
of the county prosecutors, and sheriff's officer, sergeant sheriff's officer, lieutenant
sheriff's officer, captain sheriff's officer, chief sheriff's officer, and sheriff's
investigator in the offices of the county sheriffs , and any patrolman or other police officer of the Board of Commissioners of the Palisades
Interstate Park appointed pursuant to R.S.32:14-21 . If the Prison Officers' Pension Fund is terminated as provided in section 10 hereof, 1 “ law enforcement officer ” shall also mean any permanent and full-time active employee of the State of New
Jersey holding the title of correction officer, correction sergeant, correction lieutenant,
correction captain or deputy keeper in the Division of Correction and Parole, or any
member of the Prison Officers' Pension Fund on the date of such termination. 1
N.J.S.A. § 43:15A-106.
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