Chap. 338.  An Act increasing the retirement allowance of
CERTAIN   CITY  OR  TOWN  EMPLOYEES  WHO   RETIRE  UNDER THE   VETERANS  RETIREMENT ACT.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 32 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 58C, inserted by section 1 of chapter 400 of the acts of 1967, the following section: —
Section 58D. In any city or town which accepts this section, if any city or town employee, other than a member of the police department or a permanent member of the fire department, who is a veteran, retires under section fifty-eight, he shall, in lieu of the retirement allowance provided in said section fifty-eight, receive a retirement allowance, if he retires before attaining age sixty, equal to seventy per cent, after attaining age sixty and before attaining age sixty-one, equal to seventy-one per cent, or after attaining age sixty-one, equal to seventy-two per cent, of the highest annual rate of compensation, including any bonuses paid in lieu of additional salary or as a temporary wage increase in addition to his regular compensation, and including any maintenance allowance, payable to him while he was holding the grade held by him at his retirement, and payable from the same source. \f Section 2. In any city or town which accepts section fifty-eight D of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, inserted by section one of this act, any person who had been retired as a veteran under the provisions of section fifty-eight of said chapter thirty-two prior to the date of such acceptance and who at the time of his retirement was an employee of such city or town, other than a member of the police department or a permanent member of the fire department prior to the date of such acceptance, shall have his retirement allowance adjusted so as to conform, from and after the date of such acceptance, to the provisions of said section fifty-eight D.                                       Approved May 24, 1968.