New Jersey § 43:9a-3

§ 43:9a-3.

A person so retired shall be entitled to receive, for and during his natural life,

a pension of such sum as the board of chosen freeholders determines by resolution,

but not less than one-half of the salary then being received by him for his service. The widow of a person so retired, or the widow of a clerk or deputy clerk of a county

district court of a county of the first class having a population of over eight hundred

thousand who shall have been for twenty-five years continuously in such office or

position and in the office or position of clerk and assistant clerk of a district

court of a city within such county and who shall have died while in such office or

position shall be entitled to receive, for and during her natural life, or so long

as she remains unmarried, a pension of such sum as the board of chosen freeholders

determines by resolution, but not less than one-half of the salary being received

by the said clerk or deputy clerk for his service at the time of his death or retirement; provided, however, that no pension shall be paid to such a widow except if she married such employee

prior to the retirement of such employee and prior to the time when such employee

reached the age of fifty years. No such surviving spouse shall be eligible for any benefit hereunder who was or

shall be more than fifteen years younger than the employee at the time of their marriage,

if such marriage occurs hereafter. The foregoing provision for payment of a pension to the widow of such clerk or deputy

clerk shall become effective provided such clerk or deputy clerk shall pay to the

county treasurer a sum equal to two per centum (2%) of the amount of his salary from

the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five, to the date of the

approval of this act; and an additional sum of two per centum (2%) of the amount

of his salary in addition to three per centum (3%) provided for in section six of

the act 1 of which this act is amendatory in the same manner as is provided for the payments

to be made by virtue of such section six. The pension shall be paid in the same manner and in the same installments as his salary

was theretofore payable. 1

N.J.S.A. § 43:9A-6.