Chap. 462.          AN   ACT   RELATIVE   TO   POLICE   CADETS   IN   THE
CITY OF BOSTON.
Be  it enacted,   etc.,   as follows:
Section 1 of chapter 174 of the acts of 1978 is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence, as amended by section 1 of chapter 560 of the acts of 1979, and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, any person who has completed not less than two years of service as a police cadet or who has completed any such service as a cadet prior to nineteen hundred and seventy-three, provided such person has also completed at least two years of service as a civilian employee of said department performing the same or similar function as performed while a cadet in the police department of the city of Boston under the provisions of section twenty-one A of chapter one hundred and forty-seven of the General Laws may, subject to a program established by the police commissioner of said city and approved by the personnel administrator of the state division of personnel administration and the Massachusetts criminal justice training council, be appointed to fill a vacancy in a position in the lowest grade in the police force of said city without certification from an eligible list prepared under the provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws; provided, however, that such person either is on a police entrance eligible list prepared under said chapter thirty-one or passes a qualifying examination to be given by said personnel administrator.
Approved    October    15,     1981.