New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 17 - TREASURY - GENERAL
Chapter 4 - POLICE AND FIREMEN'S RETIREMENT SYSTEM
Subchapter 6 - RETIREMENT
Section 17:4-6.7 - Disability determination

1. The applicant was considered a member in service at the time of filing the application for a disability retirement allowance. A "member in service" means that the member or the employer was making pension contributions to the retirement system at the time of filing the application for a disability retirement allowance. It may also mean that the member was on an approved leave of absence, paid or unpaid, or suspension, paid or unpaid, at the time of filing the application for a disability retirement allowance, and it has not been more than the time frames permitted by 43:16A-9(5) a for active membership since the member's last contribution to the retirement system. If the member had pending litigation for wrongful termination filed against the employer, the member has 30 days from the date the litigation is resolved to file for disability retirement in order to be considered a "member in service";

2. The member is physically or mentally incapacitated for the performance of duty;

3. The member is not eligible for accidental disability since the incapacity is not a direct result of a traumatic event occurring during and as a result of the performance of the member's regular or assigned duties; and

4. The member meets the service requirement for ordinary disability.