The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PETITION OF:
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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
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(g) of subdivision (2) of section 3 of chapter 32 of the General Laws is hereby
amended by striking out Group 2, as amended by section 443 of chapter 194 of
the acts of 1998 and inserting in place thereof the following Group:—
Group 2. Public works building police; permanent watershed guards and permanent
park police; University of Massachusetts police; state college police appointed
under the provisions of section 18 of chapter 73; employees of the
Massachusetts Port Authority, comprising guards, guard sergeants, head guard
and chief of waterfront police; officials and employees of the department of
public safety having police powers; employees of a municipal department who are
employed as fire or police signal operators or signal maintenance repairmen;
ambulance attendants of a municipal department who are required to respond to
fires and perform duties assigned to them; employees of a city or town who are
employed as licensed electricians and elevator maintenance men employed by a
county; employees of Cushing hospital; employees of the trial court of the
commonwealth who hold the position of chief probation officer, assistant chief
probation officer, probation officer in charge or probation officer, chief
court officer, assistant chief court officer or court officer, officers and
employees of the general court having police powers; employees of the
commonwealth or of any county, regardless of any official classification,
except the sheriff, superintendent, deputy superintendent, assistant deputy
superintendent and correction officers of county correctional facilities, whose
regular and major duties require them to have the care, custody, instruction or
other supervision of prisoners; and employees of the commonwealth or of any
county whose regular and major duties require them to have the care, custody,
instruction or other supervision of parolees or persons who are mentally ill or
mentally defective or defective delinquents or wayward children and employees
of Cushing hospital; provided, that no member who attains age sixty-five while
classified in Group 1 may thereafter be classified in Group 2, irrespective
of change of employment.