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 48 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1986 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following section:-

Section 90. For the purposes of chapter 268A, a fire district shall be considered a municipal agency and each part-time firefighter of such fire district and any person who performs professional services for such a fire district on a part-time, intermittent or consultant basis, shall be considered a special municipal employee.

SECTION 2. Section 20 of chapter 268A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1986 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 33 to 38, the words "(d) to a special municipal employee who files with the clerk of the city or town a statement making full disclosure of his interest and the interests of his immediate family in the contract, if the city council or board of aldermen if there is no city council or the board of selectmen approve the exemption of his interest from this section," and inserting in place thereof the following words:- (d) to a special municipal employee who files with the clerk of the city, town or district a statement making full disclosure of his interest and the interests of his immediate family in the contract, if the city council or board of aldermen, if there is no city council, board of selectmen or the district prudential committee, approve the exemption of his interest from this section,.

SECTION 3. Said section 20 of said chapter 268A, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by striking out, in lines 42 to 50, the words "(f) to a municipal employee if the contract is for personal services in a part-time, call, or volunteer capacity with the police, fire, rescue, or ambulance department of a town or any city with a population of less than thirty-five thousand inhabitants; provided, however, that the head of the contracting agency makes and files with the clerk of the city or town a written certification that no employee of said agency is available to perform such services as part of his regular duties, and the city council, board of selectmen or board of aldermen approve the exemption of his interest from this section" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- (f) to a municipal employee if the contract is for personal services in a part time, call or volunteer capacity with the police, fire, rescue or ambulance department of a fire district, town or any city with a population of less than thirty-five thousand inhabitants; provided, however, that the head of the contracting agency makes and files with the clerk of the city, district or town a written certification that no employee of said agency is available to perform such services as part of his regular duties, and the city council, board of selectmen, board of aldermen or district prudential committee approve the exemption of his interest from this section.