City of Passaic v. Consolidated Police & Firemen's Pension Fund Commission

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vanderbilt, C. J.

The question here presented is whether various sections of N. J. S. A. 43:16-o, as amended by the Laws of 1952, are constitutional.

The statutory amendments involved, which will hereafter be set forth at length, result from legislative efforts extending over many years to establish a workable pension and retirement system for policemen and firemen. In 1885 the Legislature passed the first public pension law permitting cities to provide pensions for policemen who had 20 years of service or who had attained the age of 60 years, or who had…