Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 41, § 108E (2026)

Policemen; schedule of minimum annual compensation

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Section 108E. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the minimum annual compensation of each regular police officer of the police department of any city or town shall be not less than the following:

For the first year of service four thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.

For the second year of service five thousand and thirty dollars.

For the third and each succeeding year of service five thousand five hundred dollars.

This section shall become effective when accepted in a city having a plan E charter by the affirmative vote of a majority of all the members of the city council, and, in the case of other cities by vote of the city council, subject to the provisions of the charter, and in a town by majority vote at an annual town meeting.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 1961–1982 · leading case: Minnie v. City of Chicopee, 184 N.E.2d 325 (Mass. 1962).

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Minnie v. City of Chicopee, 184 N.E.2d 325 (Mass. 1962). · cites it 2× “Members of the police department of Chicopee seek declaratory relief to determine whether they are entitled to additional compensation because of action by the board of aldermen (the board) in November and December, 1959, with respect to the acceptance by Chicopee of G. L. c.…”

O'Shea v. City of Holyoke, 186 N.E.2d 608 (Mass. 1962). “On November 17, 1959, the board of aider-men of Holyoke voted to pass an order by which Holyoke purported to accept G. L. c. 41, § 108E, inserted by St. 1959, *176 c.”

Doherty v. Mayor of Everett, 431 N.E.2d 263 (Mass. App. Ct. 1982). “50, 51-52 (1961), which considered acceptance by a city council of G. L. c. 41, § 108E, a statute closely related to the statute in the case at bar, and decided “that the acceptance of the statute .”

Fisher v. City of Holyoke, 175 N.E.2d 393 (Mass. 1961). “” So far as it relates to cities, the second sentence is very similar to the second sentence of G. L. c. 41, § 108E, inserted by St. 1959, c.”

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