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:

Notwithstanding the provisions of section eighty-five H of chapter thirty-two, section one hundred and eleven F of chapter forty-one of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the town of Templeton is hereby authorized to make payments in the event that one or more of its volunteer or call firefighters is injured and disabled, or killed, in the line of duty. Such payments shall be the amounts which would otherwise be authorized by law as if such firefighters salary were that of a full time entry level permanent firefighter in Worcester county, such amount to be the average of such salaries in the city of Gardner, towns of Ashburnham and Westminster at the time pertinent, and the town of Templeton is also hereby authorized to provide such compensation directly or through insurance.