Massachusetts Statutes

Section 89E. (a) Notwithstanding section 27C of chapter 29 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, any city, town, or district that utilizes volunteer emergency service providers shall provide 1 of the following 3 accidental death benefits for the…

Section 9. (1) Conditions for Allowance. — If the board, upon receipt of proper proof, finds that any member in service died as the natural and proximate result of a personal injury sustained or a hazard undergone as a result of, and while in the performance of, his duties at som…

Section 90. No provision of sections forty-one to forty-five, inclusive, of chapter thirty-one, or of section three of chapter two hundred and forty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, shall apply in cities or towns in the case of members of police or fire depar…

Section 90A. Any city or town or the Massachusetts Port Authority which accepts the provisions of this section in the manner hereinafter provided may, in the case of a city by two thirds vote of the city council and with the approval of the mayor, or, in the case of a town, by tw…

Section 90B. Any person retired from the service of the commonwealth, or any of its political subdivisions, under any provision of any general or special law or any person claiming under any such retired employee whether as beneficiary, dependent or otherwise, may waive and renou…

Section 90C. Any city, town or district or the Massachusetts Port Authority which accepts the provision of this section in the manner hereinafter provided may, in the case of a city by two thirds vote of the city council and with the approval of the mayor, or in the case of a tow…

Section 90D. Any city, town or district or the Massachusetts Port Authority which has accepted the provisions of section ninety C, and accepts the provisions of this section in the manner hereinafter provided, may, in the case of a city by a two thirds vote of the city council an…

Section 90E. If the classification under which a former employee retired has been abolished since his retirement, a city, town or district or the Massachusetts Port Authority, which accepts the provisions of sections ninety A, ninety C or ninety D, may increase the retirement all…

Section 90J. In any city, town, county, district or authority retirement system accepting the provisions of this section, the retirement system shall pay the costs for the annual physical and mental examination of any member serving beyond age seventy pursuant to the provisions o…

Section 91. (a) No person while receiving a pension, disability pension or retirement allowance from the commonwealth, or from any county, city, town, district or authority shall, after the date of his retirement be paid for any service rendered to the commonwealth or any county,…

Section 91A. Every person pensioned or retired under any general or special law for disability, including accidental disability, shall in each year on or before April fifteenth subscribe, under the penalties of perjury, and file with the commission a statement, in such form as th…

Section 91B. To facilitate the enforcement of the provisions of section ninety-one A by the public employee retirement administration commission, there shall be a wage reporting system and computer match file, which shall be operated in accordance with the provisions of this sect…

Section 91C. The public employee retirement administration commission is hereby deemed to be an agency required to have access to criminal record offender information pursuant to clause (b) of section one hundred and seventy-two of chapter six. On at least an annual basis, the co…

Section 92. Any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer of any right, claim or interest in any pension, annuity or retirement allowance from the commonwealth or any county, city, or town shall be void, except such assignment made in writing by a retired person authorizing …

Section 92A. In the event that a court of competent jurisdiction shall make an order for the support of the wife, child and children of a recipient of a pension or annuity or retirement allowance under this chapter, and such recipient removes from the commonwealth and resides wit…

Section 93. Persons who, at the time when chapter three hundred and fifty of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteen took effect, were appointed to or employed by an office, board, commission or other governmental organization or agency abolished by said chapter and wer…

Section 94. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary affecting the non-contributory or contributory system, any condition of impairment of health caused by hypertension or heart disease resulting in total or partial disability or death to a uni…

Section 94A. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary affecting the non-contributory or contributory retirement system, any condition of impairment of health caused by any disease of the lungs or respiratory tract, resulting in total disability…

Section 94B. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any condition of cancer affecting the skin, breasts or the central nervous, lymphatic, digestive, hematalogical, urinary, skeletal, oral, reproductive or prostate systems, lung or respi…

Section 95. For the purpose of promoting the public good and in consideration of long and meritorious service of any official or employee who is not entitled to a retirement allowance or pension under the provisions of any general or special law, a city or town may grant an annui…

Section 95A. For the purpose of promoting the public good and in consideration of the long and meritorious service of any official or employee who was retired or pensioned under the provisions of any noncontributory retirement law or who was qualified for retirement under the pro…

Section 95B. For the purpose of promoting the public good and in consideration of the long and meritorious service of any official or employee who was retired or pensioned under the provisions of any noncontributory retirement law or who was qualified for retirement under the pro…

Section 96. A city, town, district, or county may increase to an amount not exceeding twelve hundred dollars the annual amount of any retirement allowance, pension, annuity or other benefit, payable by it under any general or special law, to any former official or employee, inclu…

Section 97. Annuities or increases of retirement allowances, pensions or annuities under sections ninety-five and ninety-six may be granted in any city by a two thirds vote of all the members of the city council and the approval of the mayor or city manager, as the case may be; a…

Section 98. The state treasurer may make advance payments in an amount not to exceed any retirement allowance actually due to employees of the commonwealth who are eligible for, and who have filed application for, retirement, during such period as is necessary for the processing …

Section 99. The treasurer of any city, town or county which accepts this section may make advance payments in an amount not to exceed any retirement allowance actually due to employees of such city, town or county who are eligible for, and who have filed applications for, retirem…

Section 1. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a program of group life insurance, group accidental death and dismemberment insurance for certain persons in the service of the commonwealth, and group general or blanket hospital, surgical, medical, dental and other health ins…

Section 10. The commission shall require that, upon retirement of an employee, the policy or policies of insurance as set forth in section six, except the optional group life insurance referred to therein, shall provide that the $10,000 of group life insurance, the $10,000 of gro…

Section 10A. Each employee insured for the minimum amounts of group life and group accidental death and dismemberment insurance provided in section six may, subject to such conditions as the commission shall approve, be insured for amounts of group life insurance and group accide…

Section 10B. The commission shall negotiate with and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the commonwealth, certain political subdivisions that have accepted the provisions of this section, and the elderly governmental retirees and their dependents, fr…

Section 10C. The commission shall negotiate with and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the commonwealth, certain political subdivisions that have been approved by the commission for inclusion under this section, and the active and retired employees …

Section 10D. The commission shall establish a plan of disability insurance on such terms and conditions as it deems to be in the best interest of the commonwealth and its employees. With respect to any disability insurance which is in effect for an employee there shall be withhel…

Section 10E. The health and insurance benefits including, without limitation, policies of group life insurance group accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and the group general or blanket hospital, surgical, medical, dental and other health insurance as provided in this c…

Section 11. Upon the death of an employee or retired employee insured under this chapter, the surviving spouse, or the surviving dependent if there is no surviving spouse, or the surviving dependent if the surviving spouse subsequently dies, may continue the group general or blan…

Section 11A. (a) In the event of the granting of a judgment absolute of divorce or of separate support to which an employee or retiree who has health insurance or coverage under a plan or contract authorized by this chapter is a party, the person who was the spouse of said employ…

Section 12. The commission shall negotiate with and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interests of the commonwealth, the political subdivisions that have accepted the provisions of this section as of April 1, 2018 and teachers retired from such political subdiv…

Section 13. Upon receipt of application from a political subdivision of the commonwealth having accepted the provisions of section eleven E of chapter thirty-two B, the commission shall determine whether the addition of the retired teachers, including dependents and surviving spo…

Section 14. The commission may enter into a contract, hereinafter described, to make available the services of a health care organization to certain eligible active and retired employees and dependents, including the surviving spouse and dependents of such active and retired empl…

Section 15. The commission may negotiate with and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the commonwealth and its active and retired employees and their dependents eligible under this chapter, from one or more insurance carriers authorized to sell health…

Section 16. (a) An employee, in addition to the right of a deferred retiree status, or, conversion of insurance coverages to a non-group policy as provided in this chapter, and upon his involuntary termination of employment due to lack of funds, lack of work, or abolition of the …

Section 17. The commission shall, subject to appropriation, establish a plan of benefits for certain employees which shall, subject to the procedures and conditions established by the commission, reimburse these employees for eligible dental and vision expenses up to but not exce…

Section 17A. The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth who is insured under the group insurance commission coverage for nonprescription enteral formulas for home use for which a physician has issued a written order and which are medically …