43:13-9. Pension fund; exemption from taxation and process
For the purpose of paying the pensions a fund shall be created in each city where this article takes effect, as follows:
a. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to a municipal employee benefited by this article 3% of the amount thereof and if any employee shall hereafter enter the service of the municipality after reaching the age of 35 years, such percentage shall be increased to such an amount as shall be determined by the pension commission to correspond to the risk arising by the age of such employee.
b. The city shall raise by taxation and pay into the fund yearly an amount equal to 4% of the total salaries paid to the employees who shall benefit by this article.
c. There shall be added to such fund all fines imposed upon any such employee, all moneys given or donated to the fund, all moneys deducted from the salary of such employee because of absence or loss of time due to suspension and 1/2 of all rewards paid for any purpose to such employees.
If there shall not be sufficient money in the fund so created, the governing body of such city shall include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of the fund for the time being.
All pensions granted under this article shall be exempt from any State or municipal tax, levy and sale, garnishment or attachment or any other process whatsoever, and shall be unassignable, except for the purpose and to the extent necessary to authorize, with the member's or pensioner's consent, deductions of premiums for group hospitalization and medical-surgical insurance.
Amended by L.1959, c. 84, p. 210, s. 1.