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. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, and in order to promote the public good, the retirement board of the city of Chelsea is hereby authorized and directed to retire police officer Leslie A. Haskell, of the police department of the city of Chelsea, who is totally and permanently incapacitated for further service as a police officer. The annual amount of pension payable to said Leslie A. Haskell shall be fixed in an amount equal to the regular rate of benefits that he would have been paid had he been retired for ordinary disability pursuant to section six of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws. The annual pension payable by said city to said Leslie A. Haskell under the provisions of this act shall be reduced by the amount of any compensation he may receive from any gainful employment after the effective date of his retirement. Said Leslie A. Haskell shall be entitled to and shall receive all annual cost-of-living adjustments, in his annual pension, granted under the provisions of any general or special law. Said Leslie A. Haskell shall also be entitled to and shall receive all other benefits, such as medical insurance coverage, received by individuals now retired under section six of said chapter thirty-two.

SECTION 2. Benefits payable hereunder shall date from the passage of this act and shall not be retroactive to any past date.

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