Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 41, § 99A (2026)

Members of regular police or fire department and fire alarm division; residence outside city or town

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Section 99A. Any member of the regular police or fire department and fire alarm division of a city or town appointed subsequent to August first, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight shall reside within fifteen miles of the limits of said city or town. Said distance shall be measured from the closest border limits of said city or town in which said member is employed to the closest border limits of the city or town in which said member lives; provided however, if any said city or town by local ordinance or by-law to which the provisions of paragraph (d) of section seven of chapter one hundred and fifty E of the General Laws shall apply, or by collective bargaining agreement shall require the members of a regular police or fire department appointed on or after August first, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight to be residents of such city or town, the provision of such local ordinance, by-law or collective bargaining agreement shall supersede the provision of this section and provided further such local ordinance, by-law or collective bargaining agreement shall apply only to those members of a regular police or fire department appointed subsequent to the adoption of such local ordinance, by-law or collective bargaining agreement.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 7 cases, 1967–2003 · leading case: Doris v. Police Comm'r of Boston, 373 N.E.2d 944 (Mass. 1978).

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Doris v. Police Comm'r of Boston, 373 N.E.2d 944 (Mass. 1978). · cites it 3× “His complaint sought injunctive and declaratory relief based on the alleged unconstitutionality of G. L. c. 41, § 99A, under various provisions of the Massachusetts and United States Constitutions.”

Burke v. Chief of Police of Newton, 373 N.E.2d 949 (Mass. 1978). “His complaint recited that the defendant police chief of Newton had informed all police officers on March 9, 1976, that the provisions of G. L. c. 41, § 99A, and G. L. c. 31, § 48A, 1 and certain police regulations were to be construed so as to require all officers to live…”

City of Boston v. Boston Police Patrolmen's Ass'n, 717 N.E.2d 667 (Mass. App. Ct. 1999). · cites it 2× “In effect, the city sought thereby to take advantage of a statute, G. L. c. 41, § 99A, providing that a city, either by ordinance or collective bargaining agreement, may require that members of the regular police department hired thereafter must be residents of the city.”

Raynor v. Russell, 231 N.E.2d 563 (Mass. 1967). “Russell refused to give a deed when he learned that Cambridge had accepted G. L. c. 41, § 99A, inserted by St. 1965, c.”

Mulrain v. Bd. of Selectmen, 430 N.E.2d 831 (Mass. App. Ct. 1982). · cites it 2× “A District Court judge sitting by statutory authority in the Superior Court made amended findings on the basis of a stipulation of essentially the facts already stated and ruled that the 1960 by-law was valid, and that the case was governed by G. L. c. 41, § 99A, as appearing in…”

Brockton Police Ass'n v. City of Brockton, 785 N.E.2d 702 (Mass. App. Ct. 2003). “The agreement was executed on May 27, 1998, and the plaintiffs claim that G. L. c. 41, § 99A (see note 3, infra), only permits application of the residency requirement to police officers appointed subsequent to that date.”

Mulrain v. Bd. of Selectmen of Leicester, 479 N.E.2d 745 (Mass. App. Ct. 1985). “Section 99A, by its terms, is superseded by the Leicester by-law with respect to its application to Mulrain.”

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