Chap. 0281 An Act relative to membership in the teachers' retirement association of teachers employed in the county agricultural schools.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloios:

Section 1. Section six of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out, in the twenty-second line, the word "twenty-four" and inserting in place thereof the word: - thirty-seven, - so that the paragraph contained in lines twenty to twenty-three, inclusive, will read as follows: - "Public school", any day school conducted in the commonwealth under the superintendence of a duly elected school committee, also any day school conducted under sections one to thirty-seven, inclusive, of chapter seventy-four;.
Section 2. Section twenty of said chapter thirty-two is hereby amended by inserting after the word "service" at the end of the tenth line the words: -, except teachers employed in any day school conducted under sections twenty-five to thirty-seven, inclusive, of chapter seventy-four, - so that the paragraph contained in lines nine and ten will read as follows: - "Employees", permanent and regular employees in the direct service of the county whose sole or principal employment is in such service, except teachers employed in any day school conducted under sections twenty-five to thirty-seven, inclusive, of chapter seventy-four;.
Section 3. Teachers in the Bristol county agricultural school, the Essex county agricultural school and the Norfolk county agricultural school when this act takes effect, and persons who were teachers in such schools prior to such time, shall be deemed to have been public school teachers within the meaning of sections six to nineteen, inclusive, of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws during the entire time they shall have been employed as teachers in said schools. Approved April 22, 1924.