General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 32 Retirement Systems and Pensions

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 32, Section 1
  The following words and phrases as used in sections one to twenty-eight inclusive, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Description of systems - Chapter 32, Section 2
  The state employees’ retirement system, the teachers’ retirement system and all county, city and town contributory retirement systems, established under the provisions of this chapter,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Membership - Chapter 32, Section 3
  (1) Kind of Membership. — (a) Membership in a system shall consist of two kinds as follows:— (i) Member in Service.— Any member who is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ineligible employees; deferred compensation program - Chapter 32, Section 3A
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, a person receiving compensation from the commonwealth for services performed for the commonwealth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Creditable service - Chapter 32, Section 4
  (1) Qualifications for Credit for Service. — (a) Any member in service shall, subject to the provisions and limitations of sections one to twenty-eight inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Superannuation retirement - Chapter 32, Section 5
  (1) Conditions for Allowance. — (a) Any member in service or any member inactive on authorized leave of absence classified in either Group 1 or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wellness program - Chapter 32, Section 5A
  Any city, town, district or other governmental unit which accepts the provisions of this section shall establish a wellness program for employees referred to in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Early intervention plans; rehabilitation plans - Chapter 32, Section 5B
  (a) Every employer in the commonwealth who employs persons who are members of a retirement system established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ordinary disability retirement - Chapter 32, Section 6
  (1) Conditions for Allowance. — Any member in service who is unable to perform the essential duties of his job and that such inability is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accidental disability retirement - Chapter 32, Section 7
  (1) Conditions for Allowance. — Any member in service classified in Group 1, Group 2 or Group 4, or any member in service classified in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Evaluation and reexamination of members retired for disability - Chapter 32, Section 8
  (1) Evaluations and Reexamination of Members:— (a) The commission shall require, after consultation with the local board, any member retired for disability under the provisions...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accidental death benefit - Chapter 32, Section 9
  (1) Conditions for Allowance. — If the board, upon receipt of proper proof, finds that any member in service died as the natural and proximate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Resignation, failure of reappointment, removal or discharge - Chapter 32, Section 10
  (1) Right to a Superannuation Retirement Allowance. — Any member classified in Group 1, Group 2 or Group 4 who after completing twenty or more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Return of accumulated total deductions and amounts due beneficiaries of deceased members - Chapter 32, Section 11
  (1) Return of Accumulated Total Deductions to Members. — (a) A member entitled to a return of the member’s accumulated total deductions as provided for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Options on retirement - Chapter 32, Section 12
  (1) Election of Option. — Any member who is retired for superannuation under the provisions of section five or who applies for a retirement allowance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of allowances to certain beneficiaries pending determination of accidental death benefits - Chapter 32, Section 12A
  Any person, or the legal guardian of any person, who may be entitled to accidental death benefits under the provisions of section nine may, during...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Spouse and children; survivor benefits - Chapter 32, Section 12B
  If a member in service, as described in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision (1) of section three, including such a member in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Widow and children survivor benefits; manner of payment; contributions - Chapter 32, Section 12C
  The benefits provided for a widow and children under section twelve B shall be paid in like manner to the widow and children of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of benefits in accordance with requirements of Internal Revenue Code - Chapter 32, Section 12D
  A retirement system subject to this chapter shall pay all benefits in accordance with the requirements of section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of allowances - Chapter 32, Section 13
  (1) Amounts, Conditions and Intervals of Payments. — (a) Payments under any annuity, pension or retirement allowance provided for under this chapter and in effect...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of workers’ compensation benefits - Chapter 32, Section 14
  (1) Retention of Rights of a Member in Service. — (a) Any employee who was a member in service at the time of sustaining an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Third party recovery - Chapter 32, Section 14A
  Third Party Recovery. If a member or beneficiary entitled to a pension under the provisions of section six, seven or nine, also has a right...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dereliction of duty by members - Chapter 32, Section 15
  (1) Misappropriation of Funds. — Any member who has been charged with the misappropriation of funds or property of any governmental unit in which or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Involuntary retirement; right to a hearing; right of review or appeal - Chapter 32, Section 16
  (1) Involuntary Retirement and Right to a Hearing. — (a) Any head of a department who is of the opinion that any member employed therein...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action on behalf of incompetent members - Chapter 32, Section 17
  Any option, election or right existing in any member may be exercised or enforced, if such member is incompetent or for any other reason is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filing of statements and reports; protection against fraud - Chapter 32, Section 18
  (1) Filing of Statements and Penalties for Failure to File. — Any employee or member upon request from the board shall file with it such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption from taxation, attachments and assignments; exception - Chapter 32, Section 19
  The funds of each system established under the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive, so far as they are invested in personal property, shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment of retirement allowances for payment of certain subscriber premiums, income taxes or support orders; deduction for payment of premiums for coverage under chapter 32B - Chapter 32, Section 19A
  Any employee of the commonwealth, a city, town, district or other member unit of a retirement system who is retired under this chapter shall, upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Withholding for payment of insurance premiums; certification of eligible members; death; payment of benefits - Chapter 32, Section 19B
  (1) The state treasurer shall withhold from the monthly pension, annuity, or retirement allowance of every member of the teachers’ retirement system or surviving spouse,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annuity, retirement allowance, etc. subject to child support obligations; payments to IV-D agency - Chapter 32, Section 19C
  The annuity, retirement allowance, pension, return of accumulated total deductions or payment to any person pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or similar annuity,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administration by boards - Chapter 32, Section 20
  (1) State Employees’ Retirement System. — (a) The contributory retirement system for state employees shall be known as the “state employees’ retirement system” and all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Civil action against board member; expenses and damages; indemnification - Chapter 32, Section 20A
  In any city, town or other entity which accepts the provisions of this section, in a city, by a vote of the city council with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Indemnification - Chapter 32, Section 20B
  Indemnification.—In any civil action brought against a member, employee or the investment committee of the state retirement board, the teachers’ retirement board, or any member...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement board member statement of financial interest - Chapter 32, Section 20C
  Retirement Board Member Statement of Financial Interest. — (a) Every member of a retirement board shall file a statement of financial interests for the preceding...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Supervision by public employee retirement administration commission - Chapter 32, Section 21
  (1) Duties of public employee retirement administration commission. — (a) The public employee retirement administration commission shall prescribe and supervise methods of accounting and recordkeeping...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Debarment or suspension of contractors or vendors - Chapter 32, Section 21A
  Debarment or Suspension of Contractors or Vendors. — (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Methods of financing - Chapter 32, Section 22
  All the assets of each system as they exist at the commencement of business on January first, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and all the assets...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1983, 661, Sec. 16A - Chapter 32, Section 22A
  Repealed, 1983, 661, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reduction of unfunded pension liability - Chapter 32, Section 22B
  In each fiscal year, the governor shall recommend to the general court an appropriation to be set aside in the PRIT Fund to reduce the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commonwealth’s Pension Liability Fund; funding schedules; appropriations - Chapter 32, Section 22C
  (1) In each fiscal year, there shall be transferred from the General Fund by the comptroller, without further appropriation, to the Commonwealth’s Pension Liability Fund...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement system funding schedule; establishment; annual pension funding grants - Chapter 32, Section 22D
  (1) Systems other than the state employees’ retirement system and the teachers’ retirement system, upon notification by the legislative body of a governmental unit of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Review, evaluation and financial impact of statutory adjustments to the commonwealth pension liability - Chapter 32, Section 22E
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 21, Sec. 19.] (a) For the purposes of this section, “statutory adjustment to the commonwealth pension liability”...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revised retirement system funding schedule - Chapter 32, Section 22F
  (a) A system, other than the state employees’ retirement system and the teachers’ retirement system, which conducts an actuarial valuation of the retirement system as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Management of funds - Chapter 32, Section 23
  (1)(a) The funds of the state employees’ retirement system and the teachers’ retirement system and the assets of the State-Boston retirement system attributable to teachers...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 315, Sec. 13 - Chapter 32, Section 23A
  Repealed, 1996, 315, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requirements applicable to retirement board contracts for the procurement of investment, actuarial, legal and accounting services - Chapter 32, Section 23B
  (a) This section shall apply to every retirement board contract for the procurement of investment, actuarial, legal and accounting services. (b) As used in this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of contributory retirement laws - Chapter 32, Section 24
  (1) Enforcement of Provisions. — If the public employee retirement administration commission determines that any governmental unit, any officer or employee thereof, or the state...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Guarantees; effects of amendments or repeal; mandamus - Chapter 32, Section 25
  (1) Guarantee of Minimum Allowances. — (a) Any member in service who was a member on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and forty-five, and who, having...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of officers in department of state police - Chapter 32, Section 26
  (1) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:— “Department”, the department of state police....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of funds as of January 1, 1946 - Chapter 32, Section 27
  All the assets of each system as they exist at the commencement of business on January first, nineteen hundred and forty-six, shall, as of such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of act - Chapter 32, Section 28
  (1) Acceptance by Towns. — At the state election in nineteen hundred and forty-six and at each state election thereafter, sections one to twenty-eight inclusive...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of certain officers in department of state police - Chapter 32, Section 28A
  Any provision in sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive, to the contrary, notwithstanding, any officer of the department of state police appointed under section ten of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 35 - Chapter 32, Section 28B
  Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1948, 589, Sec. 1 - Chapter 32, Section 28C
  Repealed, 1948, 589, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 634, Sec. 1 - Chapter 32, Section 28D
  Repealed, 1952, 634, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 634, Sec. 2 - Chapter 32, Section 28E
  Repealed, 1952, 634, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1987, 697, Sec. 98 - Chapter 32, Section 28F
  Repealed, 1987, 697, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1950, 813, Sec. 2 - Chapter 32, Section 28G
  Repealed, 1950, 813, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 634, Sec. 3 - Chapter 32, Section 28H
  Repealed, 1952, 634, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - State employees serving on interstate commission; continuance as members of retirement system - Chapter 32, Section 28I
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an employee of the commonwealth and a member of its retirement system selected to serve with an interstate commission...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 634, Sec. 4 - Chapter 32, Section 28J
  Repealed, 1952, 634, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commonwealth employees; leave of absence as representative of employee organization; creditable service - Chapter 32, Section 28K
  Any employee of the commonwealth or its political subdivisions who is a representative of an employee organization, which has included in its membership employees of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 35A - Chapter 32, Section 28L
  Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Department of correction employees; retirement - Chapter 32, Section 28M
  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive, to the contrary, any employee of the department of correction, classified under Group 4, whose major...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Correction or jail officers employed by county sheriffs’ offices; retirement - Chapter 32, Section 28N
  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive, to the contrary, any correction or jail officer employed by county sheriffs’ offices who has performed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 658, Sec. 1 - Chapter 32, Section 29 to 32
  Repealed, 1945, 658, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1936, 400, Sec. 4 - Chapter 32, Section 33
  Repealed, 1936, 400, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 658, Sec. 1 - Chapter 32, Section 34 to 38A
  Repealed, 1945, 658, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Association for providing pensions - Chapter 32, Section 39
  Employees, officers and agents of any person and the person by whom they are employed may form an association for the purpose of providing annuities,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - By-laws and statements - Chapter 32, Section 40
  The by-laws of every such association shall be approved by the public employee retirement administration commission, and shall prescribe the manner in which and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption from taxation; exception - Chapter 32, Section 41
  The property of every such association, the right of an employee to an annuity, pension or endowment, and all his rights in the funds of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pension fund for the retirement of teachers - Chapter 32, Section 42
  In any city or town, except Boston, which accepted chapter four hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and eight, the pension fund...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of teacher if incapacitated - Chapter 32, Section 43
  The appropriate city or town retirement board, established under section twenty, upon the recommendation of the school committee of any such city or town may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of school janitors if incapacitated - Chapter 32, Section 44
  The appropriate city or town retirement board, established under section twenty, upon the recommendation of the school committee, official, board or other body having control...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of janitors not in contributory retirement system; authorization; amount of pension - Chapter 32, Section 44A
  A city having a plan D or plan E charter by a two thirds vote of all the members of its city council, any other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - School janitors; options; widows; approval - Chapter 32, Section 44B
  Any school janitor who is eligible for superannuation retirement under the provisions of section forty-four or section forty-four A shall have the right at the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dental assistants, retirement by cities or towns - Chapter 32, Section 44C
  A city having a plan D or plan E charter by the affirmative vote of two thirds of all the members of the city council,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of Sec. 44 to city of Boston; acceptance by other cities and towns - Chapter 32, Section 45
  Section forty-four shall not apply to Boston, but shall apply to any other city upon its acceptance prior to January first, nineteen hundred and forty-six...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount of pension payable to person retired under Sec. 44 - Chapter 32, Section 45A
  In any city or town to which section forty-four applies and which accepts this section in the manner set forth in section forty-five, the pension...
• Massachusetts General Laws - School janitors and school custodians in certain cities and towns - Chapter 32, Section 45B
  In any city or town which has accepted sections forty-four and forty-five A in the manner set forth in section forty-five and which accepts this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount of pension payable to person retired under Sec. 44 - Chapter 32, Section 45C
  In any city or town which has accepted sections forty-four and forty-five A in the manner set forth in section forty-five and which accepts this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Officers and employees of correctional institutions; prerequisites to retirement - Chapter 32, Section 46
  The state board of retirement upon the recommendation of the commissioner of correction may retire from active service and place upon a pension roll any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Computation of time of service - Chapter 32, Section 47
  An officer, instructor or employee in any institution named in section forty-six shall, for the purpose of retirement thereunder, be credited with all the time...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount of pension - Chapter 32, Section 48
  An officer, instructor or employee who is retired under section forty-six shall be allowed a pension equal to one half of the salary which he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 627, Sec. 9 - Chapter 32, Section 49 to 51
  Repealed, 1954, 627, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Veterans of Indian wars in municipal service - Chapter 32, Section 52
  A veteran of the Indian wars who has been in the service of any city or town for ten years, if incapacitated for active duty,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Veterans of Indian wars employed jointly by two municipalities - Chapter 32, Section 53
  A veteran of the Indian wars who is employed jointly by two municipalities, if incapacitated for active duty, may be retired from active service by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of two preceding sections - Chapter 32, Section 54
  The two preceding sections shall be in effect in any city which by vote of the city council or in any town which at a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of Secs. 52 and 53 subject to mayor’s veto - Chapter 32, Section 55
  The action of any city council in regard either to the acceptance of sections fifty-two and fifty-three or to the retiring of any veteran under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of veteran if incapacitated - Chapter 32, Section 56
  A veteran, as defined in section one, in sections fifty-six to sixty, inclusive, called a veteran, who is in the service of the commonwealth, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of veteran after ten years’ service - Chapter 32, Section 57
  A veteran, including an army nurse, who has been in the service of the commonwealth, or of any county, city, town or district or any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certain provisions of Secs. 6, 8 and 16 applicable to certain veterans - Chapter 32, Section 57A
  The provisions of subdivision (3) of section six, the provisions of section eight and the provisions of subdivision (4) of section sixteen, shall apply to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of police or fire department members under Secs. 56 to 60; creditable service; effective date of section - Chapter 32, Section 57B
  Any member of a police or fire department of a city or town, who retires under the provisions of sections fifty-six to sixty, inclusive, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of veteran after thirty years’ service - Chapter 32, Section 58
  A veteran who has been in the service of the commonwealth, or of any county, city, town or district or any housing authority or any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wartime service in armed forces as creditable service - Chapter 32, Section 58A
  A veteran eligible to retirement under section fifty-six, fifty-seven or fifty-eight, who was employed in the service of the commonwealth, or any county, city, town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Election of option for benefit of surviving spouse or other beneficiary of veteran - Chapter 32, Section 58B
  A veteran who is entitled to be retired under the provisions of section fifty-eight may, on or before the date of his written application for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement allowances of policemen and firemen retiring under Sec. 58 - Chapter 32, Section 58C
  In any city, town or district which accepts this section, if any veteran who retires under section fifty-eight is a member of the police department...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement allowances of employees retiring under Sec. 58 other than policemen and firemen - Chapter 32, Section 58D
  In any city or town which accepts this section, if any city or town employee, other than a member of the police department or a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - “Retiring authority” defined - Chapter 32, Section 59
  The words “retiring authority”, as used in sections fifty-six to sixty, inclusive, shall mean as to the commonwealth, the state board of retirement; as to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Part of service in governmental unit other than retiring unit; reimbursement - Chapter 32, Section 59A
  If a retired veteran or the widow of a veteran receives a pension from the commonwealth or from a political subdivision thereof under the provisions...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of Secs. 56 to 59; minimum period of creditable service - Chapter 32, Section 60
  Sections fifty-six to fifty-nine, inclusive, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law relating to retirement allowances, be in effect in any county,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 627, Sec. 15 - Chapter 32, Section 60A
  Repealed, 1954, 627, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1937, 409, Sec. 2 - Chapter 32, Section 61 to 65
  Repealed, 1937, 409, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement or resignation of justices or judges - Chapter 32, Section 65A
  A chief justice or any associate justice of the appeals court, or any justice of the trial court of the commonwealth, who was appointed to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions for special justices of district courts - Chapter 32, Section 65B
  A special justice of a district court, including the municipal court of the city of Boston, and a special justice of a juvenile court, who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Surviving spouses of judges - Chapter 32, Section 65C
  A chief justice, justice, associate justice, judge, associate judge, or special justice, hereinafter in this section called judge, who is retired or who resigns and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement or resignation of judges appointed on or after Jan. 2, 1975 - Chapter 32, Section 65D
  [Introductory paragraph applicable as provided 2010, 131, Sec. 197.] A chief justice or any associate justice of the appeals court or any justice of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Election of appointed justice to membership in service of a retirement system - Chapter 32, Section 65D1/2
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2011, 176, Sec. 63.] Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, any member inactive of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retired justices of supreme judicial court; benefits; temporary service - Chapter 32, Section 65E
  (a) A chief justice or any associate justice of the supreme judicial court, who is retired from his office may notify the chief justice of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retired justices of appeals court; benefits; temporary service - Chapter 32, Section 65F
  (a) A chief justice or any associate justice of the appeals court, who is retired from his office may notify the chief justice of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Justices of trial court; benefits; temporary service - Chapter 32, Section 65G
  (a) Any justice of a department of the trial court who is retired from his office may notify the chief justice of the supreme judicial...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Early retirement allowance for judges - Chapter 32, Section 65H
  A chief justice, administrative justice, justice, associate justice, judge, associate judge, or special justice, hereafter in this section and in section sixty-five I called judge,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disability retirement for judges - Chapter 32, Section 65I
  Any judge may, voluntarily and on his own initiative, apply for an allowance under the provisions of section six or seven, and, if found eligible...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retiring judges; payments for unused vacation allowance and sick leave credit - Chapter 32, Section 65J
  Upon retirement, a judge shall be paid an amount equal to the vacation allowance as earned in the vacation year prior to such retirement; provided,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions for court officers - Chapter 32, Section 66
  Any court officer of the supreme judicial or superior court who, in the judgment of the sheriff of his county, is disabled for useful service...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of pensions granted under Sec. 66 and expenses - Chapter 32, Section 67
  Pensions granted under the preceding section and all expenses connected therewith shall be paid by the commonwealth and the several counties to the same extent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 35B - Chapter 32, Section 68
  Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 658, Sec. 1 - Chapter 32, Section 68A to 68C
  Repealed, 1945, 658, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 35B - Chapter 32, Section 69
  Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1939, 441, Sec. 4 - Chapter 32, Section 70
  Repealed, 1939, 441, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annuities to dependents of member of metropolitan police department killed while in performance of duties - Chapter 32, Section 71
  Subject to the requirement of election set forth in the last paragraph of section eighty-nine, if any permanent or call officer of said police department...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appropriations for pensions - Chapter 32, Section 72
  Pensions and annuities granted under the three preceding sections and any expenses connected therewith shall, except as hereinafter provided, be paid out of the appropriations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 148 - Chapter 32, Section 73
  Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Scrubwomen in state house - Chapter 32, Section 74
  Any woman who entered the continuous employ of the superintendent of buildings or the sergeant-at-arms as a cleaner and scrubwoman prior to July first, nineteen...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions for probation officers - Chapter 32, Section 75
  Any probation officer whose whole time is given to the duties of his office shall, at his request, be retired from active service and placed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount of pension; counties liable; apportionment - Chapter 32, Section 76
  Every person retired under section seventy-five shall receive an annual pension equal to one half of the compensation received by him at the time of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount of pension; counties liable; apportionment - Chapter 32, Section 76A
  Any person retired under the provisions of section seventy-five shall receive an annual pension equal to one half of the regular annual compensation received by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions for laborers; qualifications; acceptance of provisions by cities or towns - Chapter 32, Section 77
  (a) Any laborer in the employ of a city or town, except Boston, which accepted chapter five hundred and three of the acts of nineteen...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Superannuation retirement; options for payment of pension - Chapter 32, Section 77A
  Any employee in the employ of a city or town, who is eligible for superannuation retirement under the provisions of section seventy-seven in effect in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount of pensions; effective date - Chapter 32, Section 77B
  In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, as hereinafter provided, any laborer retired under section seventy-seven shall receive an annual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons promoted to supervisory positions - Chapter 32, Section 77C
  In any city or town to which section seventy-seven applies and which accepts this section, in the manner hereinafter provided, a laborer who was in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of laborers not in contributory retirement system; authorization; amount of pension - Chapter 32, Section 77D
  A city having a plan D or plan E charter by a two thirds vote of all the members of its city council, any other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Laborers in fire, water and sewerage districts or employed by joint water boards - Chapter 32, Section 78
  Any laborer employed by any fire, water or sewerage district, or a joint water board of two or more municipalities, hereinafter called a water board,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Laborers subject to provisions; continuity of service - Chapter 32, Section 78A
  No laborer whose employment begins after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be subject to the provisions of section seventy-seven, seventy-seven D or seventy-eight....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Existing pensions - Chapter 32, Section 79
  All pensions which were payable under chapter five hundred and three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve or chapter six hundred and seventy-one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions for firemen in cities; applicability of law - Chapter 32, Section 80
  In cities, except Boston, which have accepted this section or corresponding provisions of earlier laws by vote of the city council, the appropriate retirement board,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount of pension - Chapter 32, Section 81
  Any permanent member of a fire department retired under the preceding section shall receive an annual pension, payable weekly or monthly, equal to one half...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Alternative provisions for retirement of firemen - Chapter 32, Section 81A
  In cities, except Boston, which have accepted this section and section eighty-one B by vote of the city council subject to the provisions of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount of pensions under Sec. 81A - Chapter 32, Section 81B
  Any permanent member of a fire department retired under the provisions of subdivision (a) of section eighty-one A shall receive an annual pension equal to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions for call members - Chapter 32, Section 82
  All call members of fire departments of cities, except Boston, which accept this section or have accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, by vote of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions for police in cities - Chapter 32, Section 83
  In every city, except Boston, which has accepted this section or corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the appropriate retirement board, established under section twenty, shall,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Alternative provisions for retirement of police in cities - Chapter 32, Section 83A
  In cities, except Boston, which have accepted this section by vote of the city council, subject to the provisions of the city charter, the appropriate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of injured police officers in cities and towns having no pension systems - Chapter 32, Section 84
  In cities which, by vote of the city council, and in towns which, by vote of the inhabitants at an annual town meeting, accept this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions for policemen and firemen in towns - Chapter 32, Section 85
  In any town which accepts this section prior to January first, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of members of fire and police department in certain towns - Chapter 32, Section 85A
  In any town which accepted this section prior to January first, nineteen hundred and forty-six, the provisions of section eighty-five or section eighty-five E, whichever...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of park board police of cities and towns - Chapter 32, Section 85B
  In any city or town having a police force serving in its park department and which has accepted this section, the appropriate retirement board, established...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Policemen and firemen excepted from law - Chapter 32, Section 85C
  No policeman or fireman whose employment begins after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be subject to the provisions of sections eighty-three to eighty-five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retirement of call members in certain towns - Chapter 32, Section 85D
  In any town which accepted this section prior to January first, nineteen hundred and forty-six, the provisions of section eighty-five or section eighty-five E, whichever...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Alternative retirement provisions for policemen and firemen in towns - Chapter 32, Section 85E
  The appropriate retirement board, established under section twenty, or, if there is no such board, the selectmen of every town which has accepted this section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination by medical panel prerequisite to disability retirement - Chapter 32, Section 85F
  No police officer shall be retired for either accidental or ordinary disability under section sixty-nine, and no police officer or fireman shall be retired therefor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service credit on retirement of former reserve officers - Chapter 32, Section 85G
  Any member of a police or fire department who is hereafter retired under the provisions of sections eighty to eighty-five F, inclusive, and who was...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disability retirement of call or volunteer fire fighters and reserve police officers - Chapter 32, Section 85H
  The selectmen of every town may retire from active service any call fire fighter or reserve, special or intermittent police officer who becomes permanently disabled...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disability retirement compensation in cities, towns or fire districts with no permanent police or fire department members - Chapter 32, Section 85H1/2
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section eighty-five H or any other general or special law to the contrary, in any city, town or fire district which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Creditable service in retirement of certain members - Chapter 32, Section 85I
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section eighty-five G, any member of a police or fire department of a city or town which accepts this section in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions for policemen and fire fighters or their widows; optional provisions - Chapter 32, Section 85J
  Any policeman or fire fighter who is eligible for superannuation retirement under sections eighty to eighty-five, inclusive, or section eighty-five E in effect in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1950, 395 - Chapter 32, Section 86
  Repealed, 1950,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1930, 182, Sec. 5 - Chapter 32, Section 87
  Repealed, 1930, 182, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1928, 402, Sec. 4 - Chapter 32, Section 87A
  Repealed, 1928, 402, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions for dependents of persons killed while aiding police officers or firefighters - Chapter 32, Section 88
  The selectmen of any town which accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws by a two thirds vote at an annual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annuities to dependents of policemen, firemen, etc., killed in performance of duty - Chapter 32, Section 89
  If a member of the police or fire force, or a forest warden, of a city or town is killed, or dies from injuries received,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annuities to dependents of public employees killed or dying from injuries in performance of duties - Chapter 32, Section 89A
  If an employee of the commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof is killed, or dies from injuries received, or dies as a natural and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annuities to dependents of police officers or fire fighters killed in performance of duty - Chapter 32, Section 89B
  If a member of the police or fire force of any city or town is killed or dies from injuries received, or dies as a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annuities to widows of employees of cities and towns killed in line of duty - Chapter 32, Section 89C
  The widow of any employee of a city or town who was killed, or who died from injuries received, or died as the natural and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annuities to widows of employees of cities and towns killed in line of duty - Chapter 32, Section 89D
  In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section the widow of any employee who was killed, or who died from injuries...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accidental death benefits for volunteer emergency service providers - Chapter 32, Section 89E
  (a) Notwithstanding section 27C of chapter 29 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, any city, town, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Aged police officers not subject to certain laws - Chapter 32, Section 90
  No provision of sections forty-one to forty-five, inclusive, of chapter thirty-one, or of section three of chapter two hundred and forty-two of the acts of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increasing allowance of former employees retired for accidental disability - Chapter 32, Section 90A
  Any city or town or the Massachusetts Port Authority which accepts the provisions of this section in the manner hereinafter provided may, in the case...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Waiver of pension or retirement allowance - Chapter 32, Section 90B
  Any person retired from the service of the commonwealth, or any of its political subdivisions, under any provision of any general or special law or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increasing allowance of former employees retired on superannuation - Chapter 32, Section 90C
  Any city, town or district or the Massachusetts Port Authority which accepts the provision of this section in the manner hereinafter provided may, in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increasing allowance of former employees retired with at least twenty-five years of creditable service - Chapter 32, Section 90C.5
  Section 90C1/2. A state employee or member of the state teachers' retirement system who has been retired under the provisions of this chapter or similar...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increasing allowance of former state police officers retired after at least twenty years of service - Chapter 32, Section 90C3/4
  A former state or metropolitan district police officer, retired before July 1, 1992, who has been retired under this chapter or similar provision or earlier...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increasing allowance of former employees retired on ordinary disability - Chapter 32, Section 90D
  Any city, town or district or the Massachusetts Port Authority which has accepted the provisions of section ninety C, and accepts the provisions of this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increasing allowance of member retired on superannuation, accidental disability or ordinary disability with at least 25 years of creditable service - Chapter 32, Section 90D1/2
  Any retirement system of a city, town, county, region, district or authority may, upon the majority vote of the board of such system and by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increasing allowance of former employees whose classification has been abolished - Chapter 32, Section 90E
  If the classification under which a former employee retired has been abolished since his retirement, a city, town or district or the Massachusetts Port Authority,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2000, 123, Sec. 25 - Chapter 32, Section 90F to 90G1/2
  Repealed, 2000, 123, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees age seventy or over; continuation of retirement benefits; retirement system board and local legislative body approval - Chapter 32, Section 90G3/4
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any member continuing in service pursuant to said sections after having attained the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2000, 123, Sec. 28 - Chapter 32, Section 90H 90I
  Repealed, 2000, 123, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees age seventy or over; payment of annual physical and mental examination costs; retirement system board and local legislative body approval - Chapter 32, Section 90J
  In any city, town, county, district or authority retirement system accepting the provisions of this section, the retirement system shall pay the costs for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of pensioners for services after retirement - Chapter 32, Section 91
  [Paragraph (a) applicable as provided by 2011, 176, Sec. 65.] (a) No person while receiving a pension, disability pension or retirement allowance from the commonwealth,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adjusted pension or retirement allowances - Chapter 32, Section 91A
  Every person pensioned or retired under any general or special law for disability, including accidental disability, shall in each year on or before April fifteenth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of Sec. 91A; wage reporting system and computer match file - Chapter 32, Section 91B
  To facilitate the enforcement of the provisions of section ninety-one A by the public employee retirement administration commission, there shall be a wage reporting system...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Access to criminal record offender information; comparison with retirement allowances list - Chapter 32, Section 91C
  The public employee retirement administration commission is hereby deemed to be an agency required to have access to criminal record offender information pursuant to clause...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pension, annuity or retirement allowance; pledge, conveyance or assignment; support of pensioners becoming public charge - Chapter 32, Section 92
  Any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer of any right, claim or interest in any pension, annuity or retirement allowance from the commonwealth or any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Support of dependents; pensioners residing outside United States - Chapter 32, Section 92A
  In the event that a court of competent jurisdiction shall make an order for the support of the wife, child and children of a recipient...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certain pensions not affected - Chapter 32, Section 93
  Persons who, at the time when chapter three hundred and fifty of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteen took effect, were appointed to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Impairment of health caused by hypertension or heart disease, resulting in disability or death of paid fire or police department member; presumption - Chapter 32, Section 94
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary affecting the non-contributory or contributory system, any condition of impairment of health caused...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disability or death caused by disease of lungs or respiratory tract; paid fire department member; presumption - Chapter 32, Section 94A
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary affecting the non-contributory or contributory retirement system, any condition of impairment of health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disability or death caused by certain conditions of cancer; paid fire member; presumption - Chapter 32, Section 94B
  (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any condition of cancer affecting the skin or the central nervous, lymphatic,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Granting annuities to certain officials or employees not entitled to retirement allowance or pension - Chapter 32, Section 95
  For the purpose of promoting the public good and in consideration of long and meritorious service of any official or employee who is not entitled...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annuities to widows and children of retired employees - Chapter 32, Section 95A
  For the purpose of promoting the public good and in consideration of the long and meritorious service of any official or employee who was retired...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annuities to widows and children of retired employees - Chapter 32, Section 95B
  For the purpose of promoting the public good and in consideration of the long and meritorious service of any official or employee who was retired...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increase in retirement allowance, pension or annuity; amount - Chapter 32, Section 96
  A city, town, district, or county may increase to an amount not exceeding twelve hundred dollars the annual amount of any retirement allowance, pension, annuity...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increase in retirement allowance, pension or annuity; approval - Chapter 32, Section 97
  Annuities or increases of retirement allowances, pensions or annuities under sections ninety-five and ninety-six may be granted in any city by a two thirds vote...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advance payments, period of processing application - Chapter 32, Section 98
  The state treasurer may make advance payments in an amount not to exceed any retirement allowance actually due to employees of the commonwealth who are...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advance payments - Chapter 32, Section 99
  The treasurer of any city, town or county which accepts this section may make advance payments in an amount not to exceed any retirement allowance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pensions to surviving spouses of firefighters, police officers or corrections officers killed in performance of duties - Chapter 32, Section 100
  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any other general or special law to the contrary, if a firefighter while in the performance of his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Killed-in-line-of-duty benefits - Chapter 32, Section 100A
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or any other general or special law to the contrary, there shall be paid a killed in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Allowance to widows of disabled public employees; supplemental annual allowance - Chapter 32, Section 101
  In the event of the death of any former employee who had been retired under the provisions of this chapter after having been found to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cost-of-living; annual determination of changes; supplemental payments; adjustments in amounts of pensions and annuities - Chapter 32, Section 102
  (a) The actuary in the commission shall annually in the month of January file with the clerk of the house of representatives the report prepared...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Systems other than state employees’ retirement system and teachers’ retirement system; cost-of living; funding schedule; annual determination of changes; supplemental payments - Chapter 32, Section 103
  (a) Any system other than the state employees’ retirement system and the teachers’ retirement system may, by accepting the provisions of this section as hereinafter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Section 401(a)(17) Excess Fund; Section 415 Excess Benefit Fund - Chapter 32, Section 104
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, there shall be established with respect to the state employees’ retirement system and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reinstatement - Chapter 32, Section 105
  (a) Any member retired under section 5 or section 10 shall be eligible to be reinstated in a retirement system established under this chapter, if...

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