HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 94831        FILED ON: 7/7/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4831

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act providing full evidentiary hearings for contributory retirement appeals..

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

The second paragraph of subdivision (4) of section 16 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the third sentence the following  2 sentences:- A hearing assigned under this section shall, at the election of a party involving a claim hereunder, be subject to a full evidentiary hearing; provided, however, that such claims may be subject to summary procedure only at the request of any such party; and provided further, that the summary procedure shall be governed by the standard rules promulgated under section 9 of chapter 30A without addition or substitution thereto.  The division of administrative law appeals may impose a reasonable administrative fee for the initiation of a claim under this section for the purpose of employing magistrates.