SECTION 1.Section 20 of Chapter 32 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1998 official Edition is hereby amended by inserting after section (5) (l) the following:
(m) Upon receiving a petition signed by a majority of the public safety dispatchers in a municipality so requesting, the Retirement Board shall direct the System’s actuary to determine the actuarial cost of designating said public safety dispatchers as fire or police signal operators or signal maintenance repairmen within Retirement Group 2, as specified in Chapter 32, Section 3. The most recent actuarial valuation of the Retirement System shall be used as the basis of the actuarial calculation. For purposes of this section, “public safety dispatchers” shall be defined as any civilian, not functioning in the capacity of a sworn police officers, who is dispatching police officers and/or fire fighters.
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