AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:
Paragraph (g) of subdivision (2) of section 3 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-
A municipality may elect to place in Group 4 uniformed employees of a municipal or public emergency medical service who are certified at any level by the department of public health as an emergency medical technician. This section shall take effect in a municipality upon its acceptance in the following manner: in a city having a Plan D or Plan E charter, by majority vote of its city council and approved by the manager; in any other city by majority vote of the city council and approved by the mayor; in a town, by vote of the board of selectmen.
Approved January 9, 2009