53:5A-16 - Group life insurance;  purchase to provide for death benefits

53:5A-16.  Group life insurance;  purchase to provide for death benefits
    The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and permitted to purchase from one  or more life insurance companies, as determined by him, group life insurance  coverage to provide for the death benefit specified in sections 8c, 9c, 10c,  12d, 13d, 14e, 15, 27b and 28b.  Such group life insurance coverage may be  provided under one or more policies issued to the State Treasurer specifically  for this purpose, in the discretion of the State Treasurer, under one or more  policies issued to the State Treasurer which provide group life insurance  coverage for members of one or more other retirement systems of the State of  New Jersey.  Whenever such policy or policies of group insurance shall be in  effect, the benefits payable thereunder shall be in lieu of the above mentioned  death benefits provided by said sections.  Any dividend or retrospective rate  credit allowed by an insurance company shall be credited in an equitable manner  to the special insurance funds from which premiums are paid.

     L.1965, c. 89, s. 16.  Amended by L.1966, c. 153, s. 8.