Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter three hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-three is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. In any city or town which accepts this act, any firefighter or police officer, whose employment was terminated in nineteen hundred and eighty-one or nineteen hundred and eighty-two due to a reduction in force and subsequently was reinstated to his former position on or before July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-three, shall be credited with active service for such period of unemployment. Such credited service shall be included as part of his length of service, and shall be applied to his seniority, promotional examinations and retirement; provided, however, that said firefighter or police officer shall be required to pay into the Annuity Savings Fund of the retirement system in one sum, or in installments upon conditions as the retirement board shall prescribe, an amount equal to the accumulated regular deductions otherwise payable by him had he remained an active member in service during said period of unemployment at the rate of compensation he was receiving at the time of the aforesaid termination of employment together with the regular interest thereon to his date of reinstatement; and provided, further, that said firefighter or police officer shall be required to pay into the Annuity Savings Fund of the retirement system in one sum, or in installments upon conditions as the retirement board shall prescribe, an amount equal to the accumulated regular deductions withdrawn by him, if any, with the regular interest to the date of his reinstatement.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.