N.J. Admin. Code § 17:1-11.1
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Child" means a deceased volunteer firefighter's, emergency medical technician's, or first aid or rescue squad worker's unmarried child or children who are:
1. Under the age of 18;
2. Eighteen years of age or older and enrolled in a secondary school;
3. Under the age of 24 and enrolled in a degree program in an institution of higher education for at least 12 credit hours in each semester; or
4. Of any age who, at the time of the volunteer emergency worker's death, is disabled because of a mental or physical incapacity, is unable to do any substantial, gainful work because of the disability, and the disability has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, as certified by a licensed medical doctor.
"Dependent parent(s)" means the parent of the volunteer emergency worker who is receiving at least one-half of his or her support from the volunteer emergency worker in the 12-month period immediately preceding the volunteer emergency worker's death in the course of volunteer service. The dependency of such a parent will be considered terminated by marriage of the parent subsequent to the death of the volunteer emergency worker.
"Division" means the Division of Pensions and Benefits, the agency charged by the Treasurer with responsibility for administering the Volunteer Emergency Workers Survivors Pension.
"First aid" or "rescue squad" means any duly incorporated first aid and emergency or volunteer ambulance and rescue squad association providing volunteer public first aid, ambulance or rescue services within the municipality.
"Survivor's pension" means the benefit payable pursuant to 43:12-28.1.
"Volunteer emergency worker" means a volunteer firefighter, emergency medical technician, or first aid or rescue squad worker who has died as the result of injuries sustained in the course of performance of duty, not as a result of willful negligence, after January 1, 2000.
"Widow" means the woman to whom the volunteer emergency worker was married on the date of the volunteer emergency worker's death and who has not remarried.
"Widower" means the man to whom the volunteer emergency worker was married on the date of the volunteer emergency worker's death and who has not remarried.
N.J. Admin. Code § 17:1-11.1