Massachusetts General Laws
Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions
Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions

Section 11 - Return of Accumulated Total Deductions and Amounts Due Beneficiaries of Deceased Members - Section 11. (1) Return of Accumulated Total Deductions to Members....

Section 12 - Options on Retirement - Section 12. (1) Election of Option. — Any member who...

Section 12a - Payment of Allowances to Certain Beneficiaries Pending Determination of Accidental Death Benefits - Section 12A. Any person, or the legal guardian of any...

Section 12b - Spouse and Children; Survivor Benefits - Section 12B. If a member in service, as described in...

Section 12c - Widow and Children Survivor Benefits; Manner of Payment; Contributions - Section 12C. The benefits provided for a widow and children...

Section 12d - Payment of Benefits in Accordance With Requirements of Internal Revenue Code - Section 12D. A retirement system subject to this chapter shall...

Section 13 - Payment of Allowances - Section 13. (1) Amounts, Conditions and Intervals of Payments. —...

Section 14 - Effect of Workers' Compensation Benefits - Section 14. (1) Retention of Rights of a Member in...

Section 14a - Third Party Recovery - Section 14A. Third Party Recovery. If a member or beneficiary...

Section 15 - Dereliction of Duty by Members - Section 15. (1) Misappropriation of Funds. — Any member who...

Section 16 - Involuntary Retirement; Right to a Hearing; Right of Review or Appeal - Section 16. (1) Involuntary Retirement and Right to a Hearing....

Section 17 - Action on Behalf of Incompetent Members - Section 17. Any option, election or right existing in any...

Section 18 - Filing of Statements and Reports; Protection Against Fraud - Section 18. (1) Filing of Statements and Penalties for Failure...

Section 19 - Exemption From Taxation, Attachments and Assignments; Exception - Section 19. The funds of each system established under the...

Section 19a - Assignment of Retirement Allowances for Payment of Certain Subscriber Premiums, Income Taxes or Support Orders; Deduction for Payment of Premiums for Coverage Under Chapter 32b - Section 19A. Any employee of the commonwealth, a city, town,...

Section 19b - Withholding for Payment of Insurance Premiums; Certification of Eligible Members; Death; Payment of Benefits - Section 19B. (1) The state treasurer shall withhold from the...

Section 19c - Annuity, Retirement Allowance, Etc. Subject to Child Support Obligations; Payments to Iv–d Agency - Section 19C. The annuity, retirement allowance, pension, return of accumulated...

Section 20 - Administration by Boards - Section 20. (1) State Employees' Retirement System. — (a) The...

Section 20a - Civil Action Against Board Member; Expenses and Damages; Indemnification - Section 20A. In any city, town or other entity which...

Section 20b - Indemnification - Section 20B. Indemnification.—In any civil action brought against a member,...

Section 20c - Retirement Board Member Statement of Financial Interest - Section 20C. Retirement Board Member Statement of Financial Interest. —...

Section 21 - Supervision by Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission - Section 21. (1) Duties of public employee retirement administration commission....

Section 21a - Debarment or Suspension of Contractors or Vendors - Section 21A. Debarment or Suspension of Contractors or Vendors. —...

Section 22 - Methods of Financing - Section 22. All the assets of each system as they...

Section 22b - Reduction of Unfunded Pension Liability - Section 22B. In each fiscal year, the governor shall recommend...

Section 22c - Commonwealth's Pension Liability Fund; Funding Schedules; Appropriations - Section 22C. (1) In each fiscal year, there shall be...

Section 22d - Retirement System Funding Schedule; Establishment; Annual Pension Funding Grants - Section 22D. (1) Systems other than the state employees' retirement...

Section 22e - Review, Evaluation and Financial Impact of Statutory Adjustments to the Commonwealth Pension Liability - Section 22E. (a) For the purposes of this section, ''statutory...

Section 22f - Revised Retirement System Funding Schedule - Section 22F. (a) A system, other than the state employees'...

Section 23 - Management of Funds - Section 23. (1)(a) The funds of the state employees' retirement...

Section 23b - Requirements Applicable to Retirement Board Contracts for the Procurement of Investment, Actuarial, Legal and Accounting Services - Section 23B. (a) This section shall apply to every retirement...

Section 24 - Violations of Contributory Retirement Laws - Section 24. (1) Enforcement of Provisions. — If the public...

Section 25 - Guarantees; Effects of Amendments or Repeal; Mandamus - Section 25. (1) Guarantee of Minimum Allowances. — (a) Any...

Section 26 - Retirement of Officers in Department of State Police - Section 26. (1) As used in this section, the following...

Section 27 - Disposition of Funds as of January 1, 1946 - Section 27. All the assets of each system as they...

Section 28 - Acceptance of Act - Section 28. (1) Acceptance by Towns. — At the state...

Section 28a - Retirement of Certain Officers in Department of State Police - Section 28A. Any provision in sections one to twenty-eight, inclusive,...

Section 28i - State Employees Serving on Interstate Commission; Continuance as Members of Retirement System - Section 28I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an employee...

Section 28k - Commonwealth Employees; Leave of Absence as Representative of Employee Organization; Creditable Service - Section 28K. Any employee of the commonwealth or its political...

Section 28m - Department of Correction Employees; Retirement - Section 28M. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight,...

Section 28n - Correction or Jail Officers Employed by County Sheriffs' Offices; Retirement - Section 28N. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight,...

Section 39 - Association for Providing Pensions - Section 39. Employees, officers and agents of any person and...

Section 40 - By-Laws and Statements - Section 40. The by-laws of every such association shall be...

Section 41 - Exemption From Taxation; Exception - Section 41. The property of every such association, the right...

Section 42 - Pension Fund for the Retirement of Teachers - Section 42. In any city or town, except Boston, which...

Section 43 - Retirement of Teacher if Incapacitated - Section 43. The appropriate city or town retirement board, established...

Section 44 - Retirement of School Janitors if Incapacitated - Section 44. The appropriate city or town retirement board, established...

Section 44a - Retirement of Janitors Not in Contributory Retirement System; Authorization; Amount of Pension - Section 44A. A city having a plan D or plan...

Section 44b - School Janitors; Options; Widows; Approval - Section 44B. Any school janitor who is eligible for superannuation...

Section 44c - Dental Assistants, Retirement by Cities or Towns - Section 44C. A city having a plan D or plan...

Section 45 - Applicability of Sec. 44 to City of Boston; Acceptance by Other Cities and Towns - Section 45. Section forty-four shall not apply to Boston, but...

Section 45a - Amount of Pension Payable to Person Retired Under Sec. 44 - Section 45A. In any city or town to which section...

Section 45b - School Janitors and School Custodians in Certain Cities and Towns - Section 45B. In any city or town which has accepted...

Section 45c - Amount of Pension Payable to Person With More Than 20 Years of Service Retired Under Sec. 44 - Section 45C. In any city or town which has accepted...

Section 46 - Officers and Employees of Correctional Institutions; Prerequisites to Retirement - Section 46. The state board of retirement upon the recommendation...

Section 47 - Computation of Time of Service - Section 47. An officer, instructor or employee in any institution...

Section 48 - Amount of Pension - Section 48. An officer, instructor or employee who is retired...

Section 52 - Veterans of Indian Wars in Municipal Service - Section 52. A veteran of the Indian wars who has...

Section 53 - Veterans of Indian Wars Employed Jointly by Two Municipalities - Section 53. A veteran of the Indian wars who is...

Section 54 - Acceptance of Two Preceding Sections - Section 54. The two preceding sections shall be in effect...

Section 55 - Acceptance of Secs. 52 and 53 Subject to Mayor's Veto - Section 55. The action of any city council in regard...

Section 56 - Retirement of Veteran if Incapacitated - Section 56. A veteran, as defined in section one, in...

Section 57 - Retirement of Veteran After Ten Years' Service - Section 57. A veteran, including an army nurse, who has...

Section 57a - Certain Provisions of Secs. 6, 8 and 16 Applicable to Certain Veterans - Section 57A. The provisions of subdivision (3) of section six,...

Section 57b - Retirement of Police or Fire Department Members Under Secs. 56 to 60; Creditable Service; Effective Date of Section - Section 57B. A member of a police or fire department...

Section 58 - Retirement of Veteran After Thirty Years' Service - Section 58. A veteran who has been in the service...

Section 58a - Wartime Service in Armed Forces as Creditable Service - Section 58A. A veteran eligible to retirement under section fifty-six,...

Section 58b - Election of Option for Benefit of Surviving Spouse or Other Beneficiary of Veteran - Section 58B. A veteran who is entitled to be retired...

Section 58c - Retirement Allowances of Policemen and Firemen Retiring Under Sec. 58 - Section 58C. In any city, town or district which accepts...

Section 58d - Retirement Allowances of Employees Retiring Under Sec. 58 Other Than Policemen and Firemen - Section 58D. In any city or town which accepts this...

Section 59 - ''retiring Authority'' Defined - Section 59. The words ''retiring authority'', as used in sections...

Section 59a - Part of Service in Governmental Unit Other Than Retiring Unit; Reimbursement - Section 59A. If a retired veteran or the widow of...

Section 60 - Acceptance of Secs. 56 to 59; Minimum Period of Creditable Service - Section 60. Sections fifty-six to fifty-nine, inclusive, shall, notwithstanding the...

Section 65a - Retirement or Resignation of Justices or Judges - Section 65A. A chief justice or any associate justice of...

Section 65b - Pensions for Special Justices of District Courts - Section 65B. A special justice of a district court, including...

Section 65c - Surviving Spouses of Judges - Section 65C. A chief justice, justice, associate justice, judge, associate...

Section 65d - Retirement or Resignation of Judges Appointed on or After Jan. 2, 1975 - Section 65D. A chief justice or any associate justice of...

Section 65d1/2 - Election of Appointed Justice to Membership in Service of a Retirement System - Section 65D1/2. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the...

Section 65e - Retired Justices of Supreme Judicial Court; Benefits; Temporary Service - Section 65E. (a) A chief justice or any associate justice...

Section 65f - Retired Justices of Appeals Court; Benefits; Temporary Service - Section 65F. (a) A chief justice or any associate justice...

Section 65g - Justices of Trial Court; Benefits; Temporary Service - Section 65G. (a) Any justice of a department of the...

Section 65h - Early Retirement Allowance for Judges - Section 65H. A chief justice, administrative justice, justice, associate justice,...

Section 65i - Disability Retirement for Judges - Section 65I. Any judge may, voluntarily and on his own...

Section 65j - Retiring Judges; Payments for Unused Vacation Allowance and Sick Leave Credit - Section 65J. Upon retirement, a judge shall be paid an...

Section 66 - Pensions for Court Officers - Section 66. Any court officer of the supreme judicial or...

Section 67 - Payment of Pensions Granted Under Sec. 66 and Expenses - Section 67. Pensions granted under the preceding section and all...

Section 71 - Annuities to Dependents of Member of Metropolitan Police Department Killed While in Performance of Duties - Section 71. Subject to the requirement of election set forth...

Section 72 - Appropriations for Pensions - Section 72. Pensions and annuities granted under the three preceding...

Section 74 - Scrubwomen in State House - Section 74. Any woman who entered the continuous employ of...

Section 75 - Pensions for Probation Officers - Section 75. Any probation officer whose whole time is given...

Section 76 - Amount of Pension; Counties Liable; Apportionment - Section 76. Every person retired under section seventy-five shall receive...

Section 76a - Amount of Pension; Counties Liable; Apportionment - Section 76A. Any person retired under the provisions of section...

Section 77 - Pensions for Laborers; Qualifications; Acceptance of Provisions by Cities or Towns - Section 77. (a) Any laborer in the employ of a...

Section 77a - Superannuation Retirement; Options for Payment of Pension - Section 77A. Any employee in the employ of a city...

Section 77b - Amount of Pensions; Effective Date - Section 77B. In any city or town which accepts the...

Section 77c - Persons Promoted to Supervisory Positions - Section 77C. In any city or town to which section...

Section 77d - Retirement of Laborers Not in Contributory Retirement System; Authorization; Amount of Pension - Section 77D. A city having a plan D or plan...

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...

Section 78a - Laborers Subject to Provisions; Continuity of Service - Section 78A. No laborer whose employment begins after June thirtieth,...

Section 79 - Existing Pensions - Section 79. All pensions which were payable under chapter five...

Section 80 - Pensions for Firemen in Cities; Applicability of Law - Section 80. In cities, except Boston, which have accepted this...

Section 81 - Amount of Pension - Section 81. Any permanent member of a fire department retired...

Section 81a - Alternative Provisions for Retirement of Firemen - Section 81A. In cities, except Boston, which have accepted this...

Section 81b - Amount of Pensions Under Sec. 81a - Section 81B. Any permanent member of a fire department retired...

Section 82 - Pensions for Call Members - Section 82. All call members of fire departments of cities,...

Section 83 - Pensions for Police in Cities - Section 83. In every city, except Boston, which has accepted...

Section 83a - Alternative Provisions for Retirement of Police in Cities - Section 83A. In cities, except Boston, which have accepted this...

Section 84 - Retirement of Injured Police Officers in Cities and Towns Having No Pension Systems - Section 84. In cities which, by vote of the city...

Section 85 - Pensions for Policemen and Firemen in Towns - Section 85. In any town which accepts this section prior...

Section 85a - Retirement of Members of Fire and Police Department in Certain Towns - Section 85A. In any town which accepted this section prior...

Section 85b - Retirement of Park Board Police of Cities and Towns - Section 85B. In any city or town having a police...

Section 85c - Policemen and Firemen Excepted From Law - Section 85C. No policeman or fireman whose employment begins after...

Section 85d - Retirement of Call Members in Certain Towns - Section 85D. In any town which accepted this section prior...

Section 85e - Alternative Retirement Provisions for Policemen and Firemen in Towns - Section 85E. The appropriate retirement board, established under section twenty,...

Section 85f - Examination by Medical Panel Prerequisite to Disability Retirement - Section 85F. No police officer shall be retired for either...

Section 85g - Service Credit on Retirement of Former Reserve Officers - Section 85G. Any member of a police or fire department...

Section 85h - Disability Retirement of Call or Volunteer Fire Fighters and Reserve Police Officers - Section 85H. The selectmen of a town and the prudential...

Section 85h1/2 - Disability Retirement Compensation in Cities, Towns or Fire Districts With No Permanent Police or Fire Department Members - Section 85H1/2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eighty-five H or...

Section 85i - Creditable Service in Retirement of Certain Members - Section 85I. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eighty-five G, any...

Section 85j - Pensions for Policemen and Fire Fighters or Their Widows; Optional Provisions - Section 85J. Any policeman or fire fighter who is eligible...

Section 88 - Pensions for Dependents of Persons Killed While Aiding Police Officers or Firefighters - Section 88. The selectmen of any town which accepts this...

Section 89 - Annuities to Dependents of Policemen, Firemen, etc., Killed in Performance of Duty - Section 89. If a member of the police or fire...

Section 89a - Annuities to Dependents of Public Employees Killed or Dying From Injuries in Performance of Duties - Section 89A. If an employee of the commonwealth, or of...

Section 89b - Annuities to Dependents of Police Officers or Fire Fighters Killed in Performance of Duty - Section 89B. If a member of the police or fire...

Section 89c - Annuities to Widows of Employees of Cities and Towns Killed in Line of Duty - Section 89C. The widow of any employee of a city...

Section 89d - Annuities to Widows of Employees of Cities and Towns Killed in Line of Duty - Section 89D. In any city or town which accepts the...

Section 89e - Accidental Death Benefits for Volunteer Emergency Service Providers - Section 89E. (a) Notwithstanding section 27C of chapter 29 of...

Section 90 - Aged Police Officers Not Subject to Certain Laws - Section 90. No provision of sections forty-one to forty-five, inclusive,...

Section 90a - Increasing Allowance of Former Employees Retired for Accidental Disability - Section 90A. Any city or town or the Massachusetts Port...

Section 90b - Waiver of Pension or Retirement Allowance - Section 90B. Any person retired from the service of the...

Section 90c - Increasing Allowance of Former Employees Retired on Superannuation - Section 90C. Any city, town or district or the Massachusetts...

Section 90c1/2 - Increasing Allowance of Former Employees Retired With at Least Twenty-Five Years of Creditable Service - Section 90C1/2. A state employee or member of the state...

Section 90c3/4 - Increasing Allowance of Former State Police Officers Retired After at Least Twenty Years of Service - Section 90C3/4. A former state or metropolitan district police officer,...

Section 90d - Increasing Allowance of Former Employees Retired on Ordinary Disability - Section 90D. Any city, town or district or the Massachusetts...

Section 90d1/2 - Increasing Allowance of Member Retired on Superannuation, Accidental Disability or Ordinary Disability With at Least 25 Years of Creditable Service - Section 90D1/2. Any retirement system of a city, town, county,...

Section 90e - Increasing Allowance of Former Employees Whose Classification Has Been Abolished - Section 90E. If the classification under which a former employee...

Section 90j - Employees Age Seventy or Over; Payment of Annual Physical and Mental Examination Costs; Retirement System Board and Local Legislative Body Approval - Section 90J. In any city, town, county, district or authority...

Section 91 - Payment of Pensioners for Services After Retirement - [Subsections (b) and (c) impacted by 2020, 53, Sec. 14...

Section 91a - Adjusted Pension or Retirement Allowances - Section 91A. Every person pensioned or retired under any general...

Section 91b - Enforcement of Sec. 91a; Wage Reporting System and Computer Match File - Section 91B. To facilitate the enforcement of the provisions of...

Section 91c - Access to Criminal Record Offender Information; Comparison With Retirement Allowances List - Section 91C. The public employee retirement administration commission is hereby...

Section 92 - Pension, Annuity or Retirement Allowance; Pledge, Conveyance or Assignment; Support of Pensioners Becoming Public Charge - Section 92. Any pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer of...

Section 92a - Support of Dependents; Pensioners Residing Outside United States - Section 92A. In the event that a court of competent...

Section 93 - Certain Pensions Not Affected - Section 93. Persons who, at the time when chapter three...

Section 94 - Impairment of Health Caused by Hypertension or Heart Disease, Resulting in Disability or Death of Paid Fire or Police Department Member; Presumption - Section 94. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 94a - Disability or Death Caused by Disease of Lungs or Respiratory Tract; Paid Fire Department Member; Presumption - Section 94A. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 94b - Disability or Death Caused by Certain Conditions of Cancer; Paid Fire Member; Presumption - Section 94B. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or...

Section 95 - Granting Annuities to Certain Officials or Employees Not Entitled to Retirement Allowance or Pension - Section 95. For the purpose of promoting the public good...

Section 95a - Annuities to Widows and Children of Retired Employees - Section 95A. For the purpose of promoting the public good...

Section 95b - Annuities to Widows and Children of Retired Employees - Section 95B. For the purpose of promoting the public good...

Section 96 - Increase in Retirement Allowance, Pension or Annuity; Amount - Section 96. A city, town, district, or county may increase...

Section 97 - Increase in Retirement Allowance, Pension or Annuity; Approval - Section 97. Annuities or increases of retirement allowances, pensions or...

Section 98 - Advance Payments, Period of Processing Application - Section 98. The state treasurer may make advance payments in...

Section 99 - Advance Payments - Section 99. The treasurer of any city, town or county...

Section 100 - Pensions to Surviving Spouses of Firefighters, Police Officers or Corrections Officers Killed in Performance of Duties - [ First paragraph effective until June 3, 2021. For text...

Section 100a - Killed-in-Line-of-Duty Benefits - Section 100A. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter...

Section 101 - Allowance to Widows of Disabled Public Employees; Supplemental Annual Allowance - Section 101. In the event of the death of any...

Section 102 - Cost-of-Living; Annual Determination of Changes; Supplemental Payments; Adjustments in Amounts of Pensions and Annuities - Section 102. (a) The actuary in the commission shall annually...

Section 103 - Systems Other Than State Employees' Retirement System and Teachers' Retirement System; Cost-of Living; Funding Schedule; Annual Determination of Changes; Supplemental Payments - Section 103. (a) Any system other than the state employees'...

Section 104 - Section 401(a)(17) Excess Fund; Section 415 Excess Benefit Fund - Section 104. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter...

Section 105 - Reinstatement - Section 105. (a) Any member retired under section 5 or...

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Massachusetts General Laws Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions

Massachusetts General Laws
Title IV - Civil Service, Retirements and Pensions
Chapter 32 - Retirement Systems and Pensions