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CHAPTER 192 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE RIGHTS OF DETECTIVES IN CERTAIN CITIES TO A FAIR HEARING.

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

Section 4H of chapter 7 of the General Laws, as amended by section 21 of chapter 23 of the acts of 1988, is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraph:-

Detectives, in a city which employs more than three hundred and fifty police officers and where the detectives employed in the police department of said city are entitled to a hearing, other than one provided under chapter thirty-one, concerning their transfer from the rank of detective, shall be entitled to a hearing before an administrative magistrate of the division of administrative law appeals, to determine whether said transfer is for just cause.

Approved June 30, 1989.