Whenever any person holding public office, position or employment, whose compensation is paid by this State or any county, municipality, school district or other political subdivision of this State, or by any board, body, agency or commission thereof, shall indicate in writing to the proper disbursing officer his desire to have any deduction made from his compensation for the purpose of purchasing war bonds of the United States government, such disbursing officer shall make such deduction from the compensation of such person and such disbursing officer shall deposit all such deductions in a separate trust account and accumulate them until such time as the amount of the deductions will permit the purchase, for said person, of a war bond of the United States government, at which time such disbursing officer shall draw on such trust account, make such purchase and deliver such bond to said person.
N.J.S. § 52:14-15.5