New Jersey Statutes Title 43. Pensions and Retirement and Unemployment Compensation 43 § 13-33

If any retired employee of the water department, who, while an employee of the department shall have paid into the fund the full amount of his annual assessments or contributions and continued so to do after his retirement until his death, shall have died from causes other than injuries received in the performance of duty, his widow, if she was married to him before the date of his retirement and before he reached sixty years of age, shall, so long as she remains unmarried, receive a pension equal to one-half of her deceased husband's pay at the time of his retirement, but not exceeding one thousand dollars for the use of herself.