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FILED ON: 2/22/2024
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4437
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)
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An Act correcting the membership date of a certain police officer in the town of North Reading
relative to their membership in the Middlesex county retirement system.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision
2(2) of section 7 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, the annual amount of pension payable to
3Thomas Romeo, a retired police officer of the police department of the town of North Reading
4who has been determined to be totally and permanently incapacitated from performing the
5essential duties of a police officer, shall be amended and re-calculated as if his membership date
6with Middlesex county retirement system was January 10, 1985.
7 SECTION 2. The pension and annuity of Thomas Romeo shall not be subject to the 75
8per cent limitation on such pension and annuity pursuant to said clause (ii) of said paragraph (a)
9of said subdivision (2) of said section 7 of said chapter 32.
10 SECTION 3. The recalculation by the Middlesex county retirement system shall be
11retroactive to Thomas Romeo's effective retirement date of January 20, 2023.
12 SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.