N.J. Stat. § 38:23B-7
For the purpose of this act, a "veteran" shall mean any bona fide resident of the State who has or shall have served in the active military or naval service of the United States at any time after September sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty, and prior to December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, or at any time after June twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, and prior to December sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, or during a period of national emergency, and who shall have been discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable after active service of ninety days or more, or has or shall have been discharged or released therefrom after less than ninety days of service for disability incurred in line of duty; except that no person shall be eligible for the benefits of this act by reason of service from which he has or shall have been discharged or released on his own initiative to accept employment unless he had served outside the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska.
As used in this act, the term "national emergency" shall mean the existence of a national emergency as proclaimed by the President of the United States on December sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, and shall include the period of time following such proclamation and until the termination, suspension or revocation thereof, or termination of the existence of such national emergency by appropriate action of the President or Congress of the United States.
N.J.S. § 38:23B-7