SENATE DOCKET, NO. 76        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1208

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to creditable service..

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. Section 4 of Chapter 32 of the General Laws is hereby amended in subdivision (2) paragraph (b) by inserting the following sentence at the end thereof:  Any permanent-intermittent or call firefighter who is appointed as a permanent member of a fire department in a city or town other than the city or town in which he performed duty as a permanent-intermittent or call firefighter shall be entitled to credit for such service; provided that such service shall not be credited until such member has paid into the annuity saving fund of each system, in one sum or installments, upon such terms and conditions as the board shall prescribe, makeup payments, for each year of creditable service sought of an amount equal to ten percent of the regular annual compensation for service as a permanent-intermittent or call firefighter.