Massachusetts § 85A Retirement of members of fire and police department in certain towns

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 85A — Retirement of members of fire and police department in certain towns

Massachusetts § 85A

Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

Title IVCIVIL SERVICE, RETIREMENTS AND PENSIONS

Ch. 32RETIREMENT SYSTEMS AND PENSIONS

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Bluebook

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 85A (2026).

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Section 85A. In any town which accepted this section prior to January first, nineteen hundred and forty-six, the provisions of section eighty-five or section eighty-five E, whichever is in force therein, relative to the retirement of permanent members of the fire department and police department for incapacity shall apply to call members of its fire department and to police officers appointed under section ninety-six of chapter forty-one, except that a person retired hereunder shall annually receive from the town a pension at such rate, not exceeding five hundred dollars a year, as the town may authorize.

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Section 85A. In any town which accepted this section prior to January first, nineteen hundred and forty-six, the provisions of section eighty-five or section eighty-five E, whichever is in force therein, relative to the retirement of permanent members of the fire department and police department for incapacity shall apply to call members of its fire department and to police officers appointed under section ninety-six of chapter forty-one, except that a person retired hereunder shall annually receive from the town a pension at such rate, not exceeding five hundred dollars a year, as the town may authorize.