New Jersey § t:18a-schedule - § 6-32 (18 § 5-50.14 to 18 § 5-50.16)

§ t:18a-schedule. § 6-32 (18 § 5-50.14 to 18 § 5-50.16)

1. Any person holding office, position or employment under the government of any public

school district or county vocational school system of this State or in any public

educational institution under the control of the Commissioner of Education or the

State Board of Education, who, after July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty,

has entered, or hereafter shall enter, full time service of the American Red Cross,

in time of war or an emergency, shall be entitled to all of the benefits and privileges

concerning tenure and pensions as in this act provided. 2. Any such person who at the time of such entry was or is a member in good standing

of the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, if he was or shall be granted leave of

absence to enter such service, shall not be subject to subsections “a” and “b” of

section 18:13-41 of the Revised Statutes, and shall not lose his membership status

which he enjoyed at the time of entering the service of any of said organizations

providing he terminates his service with such organization within two years after

the termination of such state of war or of emergency and resumes service under the

government of any public school district or county vocational school system or in

any public institution under the control of the Commissioner of Education or the State

Board of Education within six months after the date of the termination of his service

with the American Red Cross, and such person may contribute to said fund on the same

basis as if said person had not entered said service or such contributions may be

made for him by the board of education of said school district or by the board of

education of said county vocational school system or by the State, as the case may

be, during his said absence and until he shall resume the office, position or employment

held by him as provided in this act or such person may within six months after resuming

such office, position or employment make such contribution to said fund as may be

requisite to complete his contributions to said fund to the date of the making of

such contribution. 3. Any such person, being under tenure at the time of entering the service of the

American Red Cross, who was or shall be granted a leave of absence by his employer

or employing body for the length of such service; provided , he terminates such service within two years of the termination of such state of

war or of emergency, and for six months after the date of the termination of his service

and shall be protected in the tenure rights which he possessed at the time of entering

such service and shall be entitled to resume the office, position or employment, held

by him at the time he entered such service, within three months from the time of making

application therefor, provided such application is made within three months from the

date of the termination of such service and provided that he terminates such service

within two years after the termination of such state of war or of emergency.