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MA Gen L ch 32 § 76 (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 76 - Amount of Pension; Counties Liable; Apportionment

Section 76. Every person retired under section seventy-five shall receive an annual pension equal to one half of the compensation received by him at the time of his retirement, to be paid by the county in which he has performed his duties, or if he has performed such duties in more than one county, it shall be apportioned by the superior court among such counties; provided, that no person so retired upon attaining the age of seventy shall be entitled to such pension unless, during the fifteen years immediately preceding retirement, he has given his whole time to the duties of the office of probation officer and has faithfully performed such duties.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 76a (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 76a - Amount of Pension; Counties Liable; Apportionment

Section 76A. Any person retired under the provisions of section seventy-five shall receive an annual pension equal to one half of the regular annual compensation received by him at the time of his retirement; provided, that any such person who is retired after attaining age sixty-five and who has given his whole time to the duties of the office of probation officer and has faithfully performed such duties for a period of not less than twenty consecutive years immediately preceding his retirement shall receive an annual pension equal to one half of the regular annual compensation received by him at the time of his retirement and an additional yearly amount equal to one per cent of said compensation for each year after the first twenty, the total yearly amount of his pension not to exceed sixty-five per cent of said regular annual compensation. Such pension shall be paid by the county in which such person has performed his duties, or if he has performed such duties in more than one county, it shall be apportioned by the superior court among such counties.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 77a (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 77a - Superannuation Retirement; Options for Payment of Pension

Section 77A. Any employee in the employ of a city or town, who is eligible for superannuation retirement under the provisions of section seventy-seven in effect in the city or town in which he is employed shall have the right at the time of retirement to elect one of the following options for the payment of his pension:—  Option A. The full yearly amount of pension payable to such employee on the date of his retirement.  Option B. A lesser amount of yearly pension which shall be payable to such employee during his lifetime, with a provision that one half 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 time of his retirement; provided, however, that the surviving spouse shall receive not less than one half of the pension such employee 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 employee 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 laborer, as defined in section seventy-seven, has served continuously for not less than twenty years in such city or town and dies before being retired, his widow shall receive the same yearly amount which she would have received had he been in the employ of such city or town for twenty-five years, had his retirement taken place on the date of his death and had he elected to be retired under the provisions of option B. Said yearly amount shall be paid to such widow so long as she remains unmarried; provided, that she has been married to such employee 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 such employee and the widow under the provisions of this option shall be subject to supervision and verification by an actuary appointed by the public employee retirement administration commission and the expenses for such service shall be paid by the city or town in which such employee was employed. The provisions of this section shall become effective in a city having Plan D or Plan E charter by the affirmative vote of two thirds of all 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.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 77b (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 77b - Amount of Pensions; Effective Date

Section 77B. In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, as hereinafter provided, any laborer retired under section seventy-seven shall receive an annual pension equal to one half of his annual rate of regular compensation for full-time service as a laborer at his retirement, and if he has completed more than twenty years of service an additional amount equal to one per cent for each year of service after the first twenty; provided, that the total amount of such pension shall in no case exceed sixty-five per cent of said compensation.  This section shall take effect in a city or town 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.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 77c (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 77c - Persons Promoted to Supervisory Positions

Section 77C. In any city or town to which section seventy-seven applies and which accepts this section, in the manner hereinafter provided, a laborer who was in the employ of any department of such city or town prior to July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and on or after said date was promoted to a supervisory position in the same department, shall not by reason of the acceptance of such promotion be deemed to have forfeited his right, if any, to a non-contributory pension under the provisions of said section seventy-seven.  This section shall take effect 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.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 77d (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 77d - Retirement of Laborers Not in Contributory Retirement System; Authorization; Amount of Pension

Section 77D. 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 laborer 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, and any laborer in the employ of such city or town who has been in such employ for not less than fifteen years and has become physically or mentally incapacitated for labor by reason of any injury received in the performance of his duties for such city or town; and if so retired he shall receive from the city or town for the remainder of his life an annual pension equal to seventy-two per cent of his annual rate of regular compensation for full time service as a laborer at his retirement.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 78 (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 78 - Laborers in Fire, Water and Sewerage Districts or Employed by Joint Water Boards

Section 78. Any laborer employed by any fire, water or sewerage district, or a joint water board of two or more municipalities, hereinafter called a water board, which accepts this section prior to January first, nineteen hundred and forty-six, or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, who has reached the age of sixty and has been in the employ of such district or water board for not less than twenty-five years and has become physically or mentally incapacitated for labor, and any laborer in the employ of any such district or water board who has been in such employ for a period of not less than fifteen years and has become physically or mentally incapacitated for labor by reason of any injury received in the performance of his duties for such district or water board, may, at his request, with the approval of the prudential committee, water commissioners, water board or sewerage commissioners be retired from service; and if so retired he shall receive from the district or water board, for the remainder of his life, an annual pension equal to one half of the average annual rate of regular compensation for full time service paid to him as a laborer at his retirement. Any laborer in the employ of such a district or water board who has reached the age of sixty-five and has been in such employ for not less than twenty-five years shall be retired from service, and shall receive from the district or water board an annual pension computed in the manner hereinbefore set forth. In the event that a district or water board has succeeded or shall succeed to the water or sewage disposal works of any city or town, the time of service of any laborer on any such works, who has become or shall become an employee of such district or water board, shall be computed as having been rendered to the district or water board. This section shall take effect in any fire, water or sewerage district if accepted as aforesaid by the district at a meeting, and shall take effect with respect to a water board if accepted as aforesaid by such board.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 78a (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 78a - Laborers Subject to Provisions; Continuity of Service

Section 78A. No laborer whose employment begins after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be subject to the provisions of section seventy-seven, seventy-seven D or seventy-eight. Wherever in said section seventy-seven, seventy-seven D or seventy-eight a number of years of service is specified as a requirement of eligibility to receive a pension, such service need not be continuous.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 79 (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 79 - Existing Pensions

Section 79. All pensions which were payable under chapter five hundred and three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve or chapter six hundred and seventy-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen by any city or town to former employees of a fire or water district therein which accepted chapter three hundred and fifty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen at the annual meeting of the district held next after the passage thereof, shall be paid by the district.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 80 (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 80 - Pensions for Firemen in Cities; Applicability of Law

Section 80. In cities, except Boston, which have accepted this section or corresponding provisions of earlier laws by vote of the city council, the appropriate retirement board, established under section twenty, shall retire from active service and place upon the pension roll any fireman, call fireman or substitute call fireman of the city whom the city physician certifies in writing to be permanently disabled, mentally or physically, by injuries sustained or illness incurred through no fault of his own in the actual performance of duty, from further performing duty as such member; or any permanent member of said department who has performed faithful service therein for not less than twenty-five years as such or as a call member and permanent member of said department, if in the judgment of said board such member is disabled for useful service in the department; provided, that any permanent member of said department who has performed faithful service therein for twenty-five years as aforesaid shall, at any time after attaining the age of sixty and before attaining the age of seventy, be retired at his request and shall, on attaining the age of seventy, be retired without any request on his part, and no other permanent member of said department shall remain in service after he has attained or shall attain the age of seventy. Any acceptance of this and the following section may be limited by the vote of acceptance to any one or more of the classes of firemen hereinbefore set forth.  No fireman 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 § 81 (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 81 - Amount of Pension

Section 81. Any permanent member of a fire department retired under the preceding section shall receive an annual pension, payable weekly or monthly, equal to one half of the highest salary or other compensation received by him while he was holding the grade held by him at his retirement. The pension of any call or substitute call fireman retired under said section shall be the same as that of a permanent member of the first grade of the same department in which he served, or, if there be no grades, his compensation shall be that of a permanent member of the department performing duties like those which he performed.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 81a (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 81a - Alternative Provisions for Retirement of Firemen

Section 81A. In cities, except Boston, which have accepted this section and section eighty-one B by vote of the city council subject to the provisions of the city charter, the appropriate retirement board, established under section twenty, shall retire from active service:  (a) Any fireman, call fireman or substitute call fireman who becomes permanently disabled, mentally or physically, by injuries sustained or illness incurred through no fault of his own in the actual performance of duty, from further performing duty as such member.  (b) Any permanent member of the fire department who has performed faithful service therein for not less than twenty years continuously, who becomes permanently incapacitated for further duty as such member before attaining the age of sixty.  (c) Any permanent member of said department, at his request, at any time after attaining the age of sixty and before attaining the age of sixty-five if he has performed faithful service therein for not less than twenty years continuously.  (d) Any permanent member of said department on attaining the age of sixty-five without any request on his part. No permanent member of said department shall remain in service after he has attained or shall attain the age of sixty-five.  No fireman whose employment began after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven shall be subject to the provisions of this section and section eighty-one B.  The provisions of sections eighty and eighty-one, or of any special law authorizing the granting of non-contributory pensions to members of the fire department thereof, shall no longer apply in any city which accepts this section and section eighty-one B.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 81b (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 81b - Amount of Pensions Under Sec. 81a

Section 81B. Any permanent member of a fire department retired under the provisions of subdivision (a) of section eighty-one A shall receive an annual pension equal to seventy-two per cent of the highest annual rate of compensation or salary received by him while holding the grade held by him at the time of his retirement. The pension of any call fireman or substitute call fireman retired under the provisions of said paragraph (a) shall be the same as that of a permanent member of the first grade of the same department in which he served, or, if there be no grades, his compensation shall be that of a permanent member of the department performing duties like those which he performed.  Any permanent member of a fire department retired under the provisions of subdivision (b), (c) or (d) of said section eighty-one A shall receive an annual pension equal to sixty per cent of the highest annual rate of compensation received by him while holding the grade held by him at the time of his retirement if he has completed twenty years of service, and an additional amount equal to one per cent of said annual compensation for each year of service after the first twenty; provided, that the total amount of such pension shall in no case exceed seventy-two per cent of said annual compensation.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 82 (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 82 - Pensions for Call Members

Section 82. All call members of fire departments of cities, except Boston, which accept this section or have accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, by vote of the city council, with the approval of the mayor, who were retired for disability previous to May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall receive the same pension provided for call members of fire departments placed on the retired list under section eighty.
MA Gen L ch 32 § 83 (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 83 - Pensions for Police in Cities

Section 83. In every city, except Boston, which has accepted this section or corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the appropriate retirement board, established under section twenty, shall, at his own request or at the request of the chief or superintendent of police if, in the judgment of said board, he is disabled for useful service in said department, retire from active service and place upon a pension roll any member of the police department of such city whom the city physician of such city certifies in writing to be permanently disabled, mentally or physically, by injuries sustained through no fault of his own in the actual performance of duty, from further performing duty as such member, or any member of said department who has performed faithful service therein for not less than twenty years continuously if, in the judgment of said board, such member is disabled for useful service in the department; provided, that any permanent member of said department who has performed faithful service therein for twenty-five years as aforesaid shall, at any time after attaining the age of sixty and before attaining the age of seventy, be retired at his request and shall, on attaining the age of seventy, be retired without any request on his part, and no other permanent member of said department shall remain in service after he has attained or shall attain the age of seventy. Every member so retired shall annually receive as a pension one half the amount of the highest compensation paid since May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one for the grade held by him at his retirement, such amount to be paid by the city, which shall appropriate money therefor.  The board of police, or the mayor in cities having no such board, may in an emergency call upon any person so pensioned for such temporary service in the department as he may be fitted to perform, and during such service he shall be entitled to full pay.