Section 85A: Retirement of members of fire and police department in certain towns
Summary
Section 85A extends the incapacity retirement provisions of sections 85 or 85E to call fire department members and appointed police officers in towns that accepted this section before 1946, but limits the pension to a maximum of $500/year.
Statutory Text
Section 85A: Retirement of members of fire and police department in certain towns
Section 85A. In any town which accepted this section prior to January first, nineteen hundred and forty-six, the provisions of section eighty-five or section eighty-five E, whichever is in force therein, relative to the retirement of permanent members of the fire department and police department for incapacity shall apply to call members of its fire department and to police officers appointed under section ninety-six of chapter forty-one, except that a person retired hereunder shall annually receive from the town a pension at such rate, not exceeding five hundred dollars a year, as the town may authorize.