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:

The Belmont Firemen's Relief Association Inc., a corporation duly established under the provisions of chapter one hundred and seventy-six of the General Laws, is hereby authorized to pay any member in good standing who retires or who retired after January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, after serving as a permanent firefighter in the fire department of the town of Belmont, if he so elects by a writing filed by him with the secretary of said corporation within sixty days after his retirement, from the death benefit fund of said corporation, a sum equal to one-half of said death benefit as a retirement payment, and he shall remain a member of said corporation, subject to a member's obligations and entitled to a member's benefits, except that the death benefit payable upon his death shall be an amount equal to the difference between the amount so received as such retirement payment and the amount of the death benefit then provided by the by-laws of said corporation.