SECTION 1. Section 60 of chapter 31 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2014 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following:-


In any city or town having an intermittent or reserve police or fire force to which the civil service law and rules are applicable, original appointments to the lowest title in the regular police or fire force shall be made from among the members of such intermittent or reserve police or fire force, as the case may be, whose names are certified by the administrator to the appointing authority. All intermittent and reserve lists shall expire on the same day the active eligible list expires and the administrator certifies a new eligible list. Any city or town establishing a new intermittent or reserve list, while an active eligible lists exists, must exhaust the active intermittent or reserve list or the new intermittent or reserve list must contain the members from the previous intermittent or reserve list in the order provided by the appointing authority at the time the active intermittent or reserve list was created.