Section 44: Retirement of school janitors if incapacitated

Summary

Section 44 authorizes the retirement of public school janitors in cities and towns that have accepted this section. Retirement is available to janitors who are age 60 with 25 years of service and are physically incapacitated, or who have 15 years of service and are physically incapacitated due to a job-related injury. The pension equals one-half of the last year's full-employment compensation, capped at $750 per year, paid from school appropriations. Critically, this section applies only to janitors whose employment began before July 1, 1937; those hired after that date are not eligible.

Statutory Text

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.