Sec. 7-323b. Acceptance of part.
Sec. 7-323b. Acceptance of part. Any municipality may, by ordinance, accept the
provisions of this part, as to its policemen or firemen, or both, but such acceptance shall
not repeal, amend or replace, or affect the continuance of, any pension system established
in such municipality by or under the authority of any special act or charter provision
and all such special acts or charter provisions shall remain in full force and effect until
repealed or amended by the General Assembly or as provided by chapter 99. When such
ordinance has been adopted by the legislative body of any municipality, a certified
copy thereof shall be forwarded to the Retirement Commission by the clerk of such
municipality. The effective date of participation shall be the first day of July at least
ninety days subsequent to the receipt by the Retirement Commission of the certified
copy of such ordinance or resolution. The Retirement Commission shall furnish to any
municipality contemplating acceptance of this part, at the expense of such municipality,
an estimate of the probable cost to such municipality of such acceptance. If any municipality accepts the provisions of this part as to its policemen or firemen, or both, and
such municipality provides survivors' benefits for such policemen or firemen, or both,
under authority of any special act or charter provision, any such policeman or fireman
of such municipality for whom such benefits are provided may elect to be covered under
the provisions of this part, provided such election shall be made within ninety days
from the date upon which the municipality accepts the provisions of this part for such
policeman or fireman and such election shall be in writing and filed with the clerk of the
municipality and with the Retirement Commission. Upon such election, the survivors'
benefits for such policeman or fireman provided under special act or charter provision
shall cease, and only those benefits provided under the provisions of this part shall be
available.
(1963, P.A. 390, S. 2; February, 1965, P.A. 197, S. 1.)
History: 1965 act specified section may be applied either to policemen or firemen or both instead of only to both and
added provisions concerning election of benefits under policemen and firemen survivors' benefit fund rather than benefits
provided under special act or charter provision.