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MA Gen L ch 32 § 22f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 22f - Revised Retirement System Funding Schedule

Section 22F. (a) A system, other than the state employees' retirement system and the teachers' retirement system, which conducts an actuarial valuation of the retirement system as of January 1, 2009, or later, may establish a revised retirement system funding schedule, subject to the approval of the actuary, which reduces the unfunded actuarial liability of the system to zero not later than June 30, 2040, as long as: (1) the payment in a year under the revised schedule or a subsequent schedule is not less than the payment in a prior fiscal year under the then current schedule until the system is fully funded; and (2) the increase in the amortization component of the appropriations required by the schedule from year to year does not exceed 4 per cent and is so designed that the funding schedule and any updates to it reduce the unfunded actuarial liability of the system to zero on or before June 30, 2040.  (b) If an updated actuarial valuation allows for the development of a revised schedule with reduced payments, the revised schedule shall be adjusted to reduce the unfunded liability of the system to zero by an earlier date to the extent required to ensure that the appropriation required for a particular year under the new schedule shall not be less than the amount identified for that year under the prior schedule established under this section.  (c) If a schedule established under this section would result in an appropriation in the first fiscal year of the schedule that is greater than 8 per cent more than the appropriation in the previous fiscal year, the requirement of clause (2) of subsection (a) may be adjusted with the approval of the public employee retirement administration commission.  (d) Systems may establish a schedule under this section that provides for an increase in the maximum base amount on which the cost-of-living adjustment is calculated pursuant to section 103, in multiples of $1,000. Acceptance of this subsection shall be in accordance with paragraph (j) of section 103.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 24 - Violations of Contributory Retirement Laws

Section 24. (1) Enforcement of Provisions. — If the public employee retirement administration commission determines that any governmental unit, any officer or employee thereof, or the state board of retirement, the teachers' retirement board, or any other board subject to the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive, or any member or employee of any such board, has violated or neglected to comply with any provisions of such sections, or the rules and regulations established thereunder, he shall give notice thereof to the governor, county commissioners, the mayor, the board of selectmen, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, the Massachusetts Port Authority, the Blue Hills Regional Vocational School System, the Greater Lawrence Sanitary District, or the Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School District, as the case may be, and to the board and, thereafter, if such violation or neglect continues, shall forthwith present the facts to the attorney general who shall take appropriate action. The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity upon petition of the public employee retirement administration commission or any interested party to compel the observance and to restrain the violation of any provision of sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive, and of the rules and regulations established thereunder.  (2) Penalties for Violations. — Any person who wilfully refuses or neglects to comply with any provision of sections one to twenty-eight inclusive, or any rule or regulation established thereunder, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 28a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 28a - Retirement of Certain Officers in Department of State Police

Section 28A. Any provision in sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive, to the contrary, notwithstanding, any officer of the department of state police appointed under section ten of chapter twenty-two C who has performed service in said department for not less than twenty years shall, at his own request, be retired by the state retirement board.  The retirement allowance under this section shall be the same as that provided for in paragraph (c) of subdivision (3) of section twenty-six.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 28i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 28i - State Employees Serving on Interstate Commission; Continuance as Members of Retirement System

Section 28I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an employee of the commonwealth and a member of its retirement system selected to serve with an interstate commission on which the commonwealth is represented and to which the commonwealth contributes, shall, while serving with such interstate commission, continue in membership of the appropriate retirement system, and shall contribute each month to the retirement fund in an amount which he would have contributed had he remained in the service of the commonwealth, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of the retirement system, as though he continued to be paid from a state pay roll.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 28k (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 28k - Commonwealth Employees; Leave of Absence as Representative of Employee Organization; Creditable Service

Section 28K. Any employee of the commonwealth or its political subdivisions who is a representative of an employee organization, which has included in its membership employees of the commonwealth or its political subdivisions shall, while on a full-time or part-time leave of absence for the purpose of acting as a representative of said employee organization, be considered on leave of absence, without pay, for the period of the employee's assignment as a representative of such employee organization. Such employee shall, however, be credited with the creditable service the employee would have received had the employee been in active service for the full or part-time leave and shall contribute each month to the retirement fund in an amount which the employee would have contributed had the employee remained in the service of the commonwealth or its political subdivisions. Such employee of the commonwealth or its political subdivisions shall be entitled to all benefits and privileges, except the payment of salary as provided under this chapter and chapters 30 and 31 during the leave of absence.  An employee who fulfills the requirements of the preceding paragraph shall be credited with creditable service for any period after January 1, 1975 and shall contribute to the retirement fund an amount which he would have contributed had such employee remained in the service of the commonwealth or a political subdivisions thereof, together with regular interest thereon, under the terms and conditions defined by the retirement system of which he is a member. This paragraph shall take effect for the members of a retirement system by majority vote of the board of such system, subject to the approval of the legislative body. For the purposes of this section, ''legislative body'' shall mean the town meeting for the purposes of a town system, the city council subject to the provisions of its charter in a city system, the district meeting in a district system, the county commissioners in a county system and the governing body of an authority in an authority system. Acceptance shall be deemed to have occurred upon the filing of a certificate of acceptance with the commission.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 28m (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 28m - Department of Correction Employees; Retirement

Section 28M. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive, to the contrary, any employee of the department of correction, classified under Group 4, whose major responsibilities include the care and custody of prisoners, and any transportation officer working within the department of correction, who has performed services in the department of correction for not less than twenty years shall, at his own request, be retired by said retirement board. Upon retirement under the provisions of this section a member shall receive a retirement allowance to become effective on the date of his retirement. Payments under such allowance shall be made as provided for in section twelve and thirteen and the normal yearly amount thereof shall be equal to one-half of the annual average rate of his regular compensations during the twelve-month period of his creditable service immediately preceding the date his retirement allowance becomes effective; provided, however, that the total amount of the allowance shall be increased by one-twelfth of one percent for each full month of service in excess of twenty years' service and prior to the last day of the month in which such member will attain the age of retirement. Any member retired under the provisions of this section who is a veteran as defined in section one shall receive an additional yearly retirement allowance of fifteen dollars for each year of creditable service or fraction thereof; provided, however, that the total amount of said additional retirement allowance shall not exceed three hundred dollars in any case.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 28n (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 28n - Correction or Jail Officers Employed by County Sheriffs' Offices; Retirement

Section 28N. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive, to the contrary, any correction or jail officer employed by county sheriffs' offices who has performed services in said office for not less than twenty years shall, at his own request, be retired by said retirement board. Upon retirement under the provisions of this section a member shall receive a retirement allowance to become effective on the date of his retirement. Payments under such allowance shall be made as provided for in sections twelve and thirteen and the normal yearly amount thereof shall be equal to one-half of the annual average rate of his regular compensation during the twelve-month period of his creditable service immediately preceding the date his retirement allowance becomes effective; provided, however, that the total amount of the allowance shall be increased by one-twelfth of one percent for each full month of service in excess of twenty years service and prior to the last day of the month in which such member will attain the age of retirement. Any member retired under the provisions of this section who is a veteran as defined in section one shall receive an additional yearly retirement allowance of fifteen dollars for each year of creditable service or fraction thereof; provided, however, that the total amount of said additional retirement allowance shall not exceed three hundred dollars in any case.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 39 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 39 - Association for Providing Pensions

Section 39. Employees, officers and agents of any person and the person by whom they are employed may form an association for the purpose of providing annuities, pensions or endowments for employees retiring from their employment on account of age, under a system by which the participating employees contribute to the funds of the association a percentage or portion of their salaries or wages as fixed by the by-laws of the association, to be deducted by the employer and paid to the association, and the employer contributes to the funds of the association in the manner and to the extent fixed in said by-laws. The funds so provided shall be held by trustees independently of other funds of the employer, for the purchase or payment of annuities, pensions or endowments to participating employees upon their retirement from service on account of age, for the payments to the representatives or appointees of any participator dying before reaching the age of retirement, for the payment to any participator retiring from service before becoming entitled to a pension or annuity and for the payment of the expenses of the administration. An association formed under the authority of this section shall not be subject to chapter one hundred and seventy-five or to such other provisions of law as relate to insurance companies or associations, except as provided by this and the following section. Such an association may include employees, officers and agents of a group of two or more corporations engaged in the same or directly related fields of enterprise and under the same or substantially the same management.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 40 - By-Laws and Statements

Section 40. The by-laws of every such association shall be approved by the public employee retirement administration commission, and shall prescribe the manner in which and the officers and agents by whom the association may be conducted and the manner in which its funds may be invested and paid out. Such association shall be deemed to be formed when its by-laws have been approved and agreed to by the employer and by the employees by vote of two-thirds of all employees present and voting at a meeting called by the employer for the purpose, and have been approved by said public employee retirement administration commission. Such association shall annually, on or before March first, report to the commission such statements of its membership and financial transactions for the year ending on the preceding thirty-first day of December as the commission may consider necessary to show its business and standing. Said commission may verify such statement by an examination of the books and papers of the association; and whoever, having charge or custody of said books and papers, neglects to comply with this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 41 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 41 - Exemption From Taxation; Exception

Section 41. The property of every such association, the right of an employee to an annuity, pension or endowment, and all his rights in the funds of the association, shall be exempt from taxation and from the operation of any law relating to bankruptcy or insolvency, and shall not be attached or taken on execution or other process to satisfy any debt or liability of the employer or of any member of the association.  No assignment of any right in or to said funds or of any pension, annuity or endowment payable under section thirty-nine or forty shall be valid.  Nothing in this section shall prevent an employee's annuity, pension, or endowment from being attached, taken on execution, assigned, or subject to other process to satisfy a support order under chapter two hundred and eight, two hundred and nine, or two hundred and seventy-three.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 42 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 42 - Pension Fund for the Retirement of Teachers

Section 42. In any city or town, except Boston, which accepted chapter four hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and eight, the pension fund established for the retirement of teachers in the public schools shall be derived from such revenues as may be assigned thereto by the city council of a city or by direct appropriation by a town. The treasurer of the city or town shall be the custodian of the fund and shall make monthly payments therefrom to such persons and of such amounts as shall be certified to him by the school committee.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 43 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 43 - Retirement of Teacher if Incapacitated

Section 43. The appropriate city or town retirement board, established under section twenty, upon the recommendation of the school committee of any such city or town may retire from active service and place upon the pension roll any teacher of such city or town who is sixty or over or who, in the judgment of said committee, is incapacitated for useful service, and who has faithfully served such city or town for twenty-five years. The amount of the annual pension allowed to any person under this and the preceding section shall not exceed one half of the annual compensation received by such person at the time of such retirement, and in no case shall it exceed twelve hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 44 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 44 - Retirement of School Janitors if Incapacitated

Section 44. The appropriate city or town retirement board, established under section twenty, upon the recommendation of the school committee, official, board or other body having control of janitors employed in the public schools of any city or town which has accepted this section or corresponding provisions of earlier laws, may retire, with an annual pension, any janitor so employed who has reached the age of sixty, after completing a service of not less than twenty-five years, and is physically incapacitated, and any janitor so employed, who has completed a service of not less than fifteen years, and is physically incapacitated by reason of injury received in the performance of his duties for such city or town. The pension shall be one half the compensation to which the pensioner would have been entitled for full employment during the last year of his service, but not more than seven hundred and fifty dollars a year, and shall be payable out of the appropriation for the support of public schools, maintenance of school buildings or payment of janitors.  No school janitor whose employment begins after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be subject to the provisions of this section.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 44a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 44a - Retirement of Janitors Not in Contributory Retirement System; Authorization; Amount of Pension

Section 44A. A city having a plan D or plan E charter by a two thirds vote of all the members of its city council, any other city by a vote of the city council subject to the provisions of its charter and a town by a majority vote at an annual town meeting may direct the appropriate city or town retirement board to retire at his own request any janitor whose employment began before July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and who has been in such employ for not less than thirty-five years, or who has reached the age of sixty and has been in such employ for not less than twenty-five years and has become physically or mentally incapacitated for labor, or who has completed a service of not less than fifteen years and is physically or mentally incapacitated for labor by reasons of injury received in the performance of his duties for such city or town; and if so retired his pension shall be equal to seventy-two per cent of the annual rate of compensation payable to such employee on the date of his retirement and shall be payable out of the appropriation for the support of public schools, maintenance of school buildings or payment of janitors.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 44b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions|Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions|Section 44b - School Janitors; Options; Widows; Approval

Section 44B. Any school janitor who is eligible for superannuation retirement under the provisions of section forty-four or section forty-four A shall have the right at the time of his retirement to elect one of the following options for the payments of his pension:—  Option A.—The full yearly amount of pension payable under the provisions of said section forty-four or forty-four A to such school janitor on the date of his retirement.  Option B.—A lesser amount of yearly pension which shall be payable to such school janitor during his lifetime, with a provision that two thirds of the yearly amount of such lesser pension shall be continued during the lifetime of and paid to his widow who was his spouse at the time of his retirement; provided, however, that the surviving spouse shall receive not less than two thirds of the pension such school janitor is receiving at the time of his death. The yearly amount of such lesser pension shall be determined so that the value, on the date the retirement and pension becomes effective, of the prospective payments to such school janitor and to such widow shall be the actuarial equivalent of the value on such date of the full pension specified in option A of this section.  If a school janitor who has served continuously for not less than twenty years in any city or town, where he would be eligible for retirement under the provisions of section forty-four or forty-four A, dies before being retired, his widow shall receive two thirds of the yearly amount of said option B allowance to which such school janitor would have been entitled had he attained age sixty and had his retirement taken place on the date of his death. Said yearly amount shall be paid to such a widow so long as she remains unmarried; provided, that she has been married to such school janitor not less than ten years prior to his death, and that they were living together at the time of his death, or living apart for justifiable cause other than desertion or moral turpitude on the part of the wife. The computation of the actuarial equivalent of the pension payable to any school janitor and the widow under the provisions of said option shall be subject to the supervision and verification by the actuary appointed by the commission in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-one, and the expenses for such service shall be paid by the city or town in which such school janitor was employed.  The provisions of this section shall become effective in a city having a Plan D or Plan E charter by the affirmative vote of two thirds of all the members of the city council, and in the case of any other city by vote of the city council subject to the provisions of its charter, and in a town by a majority vote at an annual town meeting.