43:17-3 - Objects of association
43:17-3 Objects of association.43:17-3. a. The object of associations incorporated under this article shall be to establish, provide for and maintain a fund for the relief, support or burial of:
(1)needy firefighters and their families;
(2)any persons and the families of any persons who are injured or die in the course of doing public fire duty, or who may become needy or disabled or die as the result of doing such duty or be prevented by the injury or by illness arising from doing such duty, from attending to their usual occupation or calling; and
(3)the families of any persons doing public fire duty who die as the result of an act of terrorism committed against the United States of America while such persons were serving as federal, State or local law enforcement officers.
b.In addition to any other benefits provided, the associations incorporated under this article which provide line of duty death benefits also shall provide these benefits to the families of any qualified persons who die under the circumstances set forth in paragraph (3) of subsection a. of this section.
c.The relief, support or burial benefit shall be granted in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
L.1996, c.51, s.3; amended 2004, c.99.
43:17-4.Reorganization, reincorporation of associations existing prior to March 25, 1885
43:17-4. Any association organized prior to March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, for the purposes intended by this article, whether incorporated or not, shall be reorganized and incorporated or reincorporated under this article, except corporations which have been created or continued by special act of the legislature. A corporation incorporated by special act may, if it sees fit, be reorganized and reincorporated under this article. In case of incorporation or reincorporation, the president and secretary shall sign, record and file a certificate as provided in R.S.43:17-2. Thereupon the association or corporation shall be a corporation under this article and shall have all the powers and privileges conferred by this article on corporations formed under it, and no other powers or privileges. A corporation reorganized and reincorporated under this article shall succeed to and be seized of all the right, title and interest in any property belonging to it under its former organization. The representatives, trustees and other officers of any association or corporation reorganized and incorporated or reincorporated under this article, shall continue to serve as such until the election following the reorganization, and until their successors are respectively elected, and not thereafter, and the membership thereof shall be subject to the same conditions and have the same rights as provided in R.S.43:17-9. If any such association or corporation shall not have been reorganized and incorporated or reincorporated under this article within one year after March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, it shall be deemed to have forfeited its charter.
Amended 1996, c.151, s.4.