Section 59: ''Retiring authority'' defined
Summary
Section 59 defines "retiring authority" as used in sections 56–60 for veterans: the state board of retirement for the commonwealth, the appropriate retirement board for counties, cities, towns, districts, and regional school districts, and the selectmen, prudential committee, or relevant authority for towns and districts without a retirement board.
Statutory Text
Section 59: ''Retiring authority'' defined
Section 59. The words ''retiring authority'', as used in sections fifty-six to sixty, inclusive, shall mean as to the commonwealth, the state board of retirement; as to a county, city, town, district or regional school district, the appropriate retirement board established under section twenty, having jurisdiction in the governmental unit in which a veteran was employed at the time of his retirement or death, or, if there is no such board in the case of a town, the selectmen; or, in the case of a district, the prudential committee; or, in the case of a regional school district, the regional district school committee; or, in the case of a housing authority, the housing authority; or in the case of any redevelopment authority, the redevelopment authority.