43:6A-9.6 - Eligibility for retirement; age 70 with 25 years of public service
43:6A-9.6. Eligibility for retirement; age 70 with 25 years of public service
Any judge of the several courts who shall have served at least 4 years successively as such judge and shall have served at least 25 years in the aggregate in office, position, or employment of this State or of a county, municipality, board of education or public agency of this State, including such service as a judge, shall upon attaining the age of 70 years and upon making application to the State House Commission within 1 year following the effective date of this act be eligible to receive an annual pension during the remainder of his life in an amount equal to one-half of his final salary. Any judge who accepts a judicial pension pursuant to this act shall waive for himself, his heirs and his beneficiaries all of his rights under any other public pension system established under any law of this State.
L.1979, c. 259, s. 1, eff. Dec. 28, 1979.