§ A700-2. Acts and resolves: General Laws accepted (post 1920).

Chapter	Section	Description	Date Accepted
6A 6A 6A 159 159 159 166 166 166	18 1st. par. 18A-F 18A Note 19 19A 19A Note 14A 14A Note 15E	Enhanced 911	June 17, 1991
12	12	District Attorneys being members of the bar	November 7, 1922
31	47	Laborers, etc., designated as labor service placed under Civil Service Laws; see Ch. 31, Sec. 51	January 3, 1939
32	1 Note 3 Note 6 Note 7 Note 12 Note 14 Note 15 Note 22 Note 158B Note	Allows the pension of an Option C retiree to revert back to a full Option A benefit upon the death of their beneficiary	September 8, 1998
32	3 subd. 2 par. g gp. 4 4 subd. 1 par. h 3 Note 4 Note	Retirement—armed forces	November 4, 1996
32	9 subd. 2 par. D	Accidental death benefit surviving children	September 5, 2006
32	9 subd. 2 par. D cl. ii	Regional Retirement Board Advisory Council	September 5, 2006
32	10 subd. 2 par. A 10 Note	To approve the calculation of retirement allowance to include a pension equal to a sum of not less than 1/3 of average annual rate of regular compensation received during any period of 3 consecutive years of creditable service	December 7, 1998
32	20 subd. 6	Retirement Board pay	August 7, 1995
32	20A	Civil action against board members; expenses, damages; indemnification	March 3, 1997
32	21 subd. 3 par. F 22D subd. 1 1st par. 102 par. A 102 par. A-E 103	Relative to annual cost-of-living adjustment for retirees	January 5, 1999
32	22D	Retirement funding schedule; annual pension funding grants	May 1, 1989
32	25	An act making applicable increases in retirement allowances to those persons retired after January 1, 1946, with a minimum allowance	February 19, 1951
32	26-31H	Contributory retirement systems for cities	November 3, 1936
32	56-60	Retirement if incapacitated Spanish and World War veterans	July 29, 1937
32	52C	Increasing the retirement allowance of police and firemen who retired under Veterans Retirement Act	February 19, 1968
32	77A	Laborers retiring under Sec. 77, Right to elect option (Option B), to provide for widows	July 2, 1962
32	80	Relative to retirement allowances of firemen, as amended, with the exception that call firemen or substitute call firemen are specifically excluded from the acceptance of this section and may not be retired	October 5, 1938
32	81	Relative to retirement of firemen, as amended, with the exception that call firemen or substitute call firemen are specifically excluded from the acceptance of this section and may not be retired hereunder	October 5, 1938
32	81A 81B	Covering retirement for firemen	October 7, 1946
32	81B	Increasing the amount of noncontributory pension payable to certain firemen and policemen	February 19, 1968
32	83	Pensions of police in cities	November 2, 1925
32	83A	Covering retirement for policemen	October 7, 1946
32	85E	Increasing amount of noncontributory pension payable to certain firemen and policemen	February 19, 1968
32	85J	Pensions for police and firefighters or their widows (right to elect option)	June 15, 1959
32	89A	Increasing annuities to dependents of certain public employees killed or dying from injuries received or hazards undergone in the performance of duty	March 20, 1950
32	95A	Pensions for widows of noncontributory pensioners	July 2, 1962
32	102G 103H	Annual cost-of-living adjustment to noncontributory retirees	Jun. 7, 1999
32B	All	Contributory group general or blanket insurance for persons in the service of countries, cities, towns and districts and their dependents	October 6, 1958
32B	4, 9, 9F	Further regulating group life insurance	April 19, 1988
32B	8A	Dividends and refunds; deposit in employees' group insurance trust funds; administrative costs; effective date	February 20, 1979
32B	9A	To permit the City to pay 50% of the monthly health and life insurance premiums for those qualified persons who retired since 10-6-1958 and the provisions of Ch. 647, Acts of 1962, G.L., which would permit the City to pay 50% of monthly hospital and medical insurance premiums for those persons who retired prior to 10-6-1958	June 7, 1965
32B	9I	Employees on military leave of absence	December 18, 2001
32B	18	Medicare extension plans	February 6, 2006
32B	20	Other Post-Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund	December 19, 2016 December 17, 2018
33	59	No loss of pay or vacations to certain state and municipal employees in militia, etc.	August 21, 1950
39	23D	Adjudication proceedings	March 3, 2008
40	6B	An act allowing cities to appropriate money for purchase of uniforms for members of their police and fire departments	November 15, 1943
40	6J	Purchase stormy weather work clothes, City employees	November 16, 1970
40	8A	An act authorizing cities and towns to establish commissions to promote business and industry and to appropriate money therefor	February 7, 1955
40	8B	Providing for the development of a Local Office of the Council of Aging	May 1, 1961
40	8C	Providing for the establishment of a Conservation Commission of the City of Gardner	November 6, 1967
40	8D	Establishment of an Historical Commission	February 19, 1974
40	8H, 8I	Cities and towns establishing an Energy Resources Commission	November 17, 1980
40	15C	Designating "Old Eaton Street" as a scenic road	June 17, 1991
40	22F	Setting of fees and charges by licensing authorities	February 2, 2009
40	32A	Publications of City ordinances	August 1, 2005
40	39K	Water Enterprise Fund	July 1, 1991
40	39K	Sewer Enterprise Fund	July 1, 1991
40	42A-F	Collection of water rates (water lines)	July 5, 1927
40	42A-F	Relative to liens for water rates and charges	January 21, 1963
40	42G	Distribution of water; payment of costs for special assessments	December 19, 1988
40	57	Collection of overdue monies due to the City of Gardner	February 22, 1994
40	57	Local licenses and permits denial, etc., for failure to pay municipal taxes	February 22, 1994
40B	All	Montachusett Regional Planning District: Pursuant to provisions of Chapter 40B of G.L., and by vote of the City Council, the City of Gardner shall be a member of Montachusett Regional Planning District	December 19, 1966
40D 23A	All 11, 13	Authorizing Mayor to create an Industrial Development Financing Authority	June 17, 1968
40D 23A	All 11, 13	Establishing an Industrial Development Financing Authority	August 5, 1968
41	19F	Clerk of the City Council: additional compensation	September 21, 2009
41	25A	Authorizing Assessors to appoint and remove assistants	March 12, 1921
41	41B	Payment of employees by direct bank credits	September 15, 1997
41	45	Watkins Scholarship Trust, the income of which is to be used as a scholarship fund to assist girls graduating from Gardner High School in furthering their education	February 7, 1967
41	69B	Water Commissioners' powers and duties	September 7, 1999
41	81A-Y	Municipal planning	September 15, 1952
41	91	Appointment of Constables	March 19, 1923 February 4, 1924 January 12, 1931
41	103	Purchasing department in cities	November 2, 1965
41	108L	Police Career Incentive Pay Program	February 17, 2004
41	111B	Providing sick leave for foreman, laborer, workmen, or mechanic regularly employed by the City; not more than 15 days in any year; may be accumulated for 60 days use in subsequent years	October 17, 1949
43D	All	Expedited local permitting	October 15, 2007
44	8A	Question of approving or disapproving orders authorizing the issue of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness for certain purposes	November 4, 1941
44	16A	Use of Mayor's facsimile on certain bonds	August 12, 1974
44	31	Expenditures in excess of appropriations — major disaster	December 15, 2008
44	31D	Relative to snow and ice removal	March 15, 1993 January 16, 1996 February 18, 1997 February 22, 2000 March 6, 2000 February 5, 2001 March 19, 2007 April 17, 2007 January 22, 2008 February 19, 2008 April 7, 2008 February 2, 2009 March 16, 2009 February 1, 2010 April 4, 2011 February 18, 2014
44	44	Advances of pay for regular vacation	August 5, 1957
44	53 1/2	Animal shelter donations	November 21, 2000
44	53E	Agencies, boards, etc.; annual operating costs; offset by estimated receipts of user fees	June 30, 1982
44	53 1/2	Gardner Municipal Golf Course Enterprise Fund	March 15, 1993
44	53F 1/2	Sewer Enterprise Fund	September 7, 1993
44	53F 1/2	Solid Waste Enterprise Fund	June 25, 2007
44	53F 1/2	Water Enterprise Fund	September 7, 1993
44	64	To allow payment of bills incurred in excess or appropriations	February 1, 1993
48	42-44	Fire Department	March 12, 1921
48	58A	Forty-eight-hour work week, Ord. No. 453, Establishing hours of duty of permanent firemen	April 21, 1970
48	58A	An act further regulating the hours of duty of permanent members of fire departments in certain cities and towns. (seventy-hour week) (not approved by the Mayor)	October 5, 1942
48	58A	Regulating the hours of duty of permanent members of the Fire Department, relating to seventy-hour work week of permanent firemen	July 2, 1945
48	59	Day and night forces - fire vacations and police officers	March 16, 1925
54	16A	Absent election officer appointments	September 6, 2016
54	103A	Absentee balloting at City elections	December 6, 1937
58	1 Note	Relative to qualification of certain Assessors	September 4, 1984
58	7A	To petition State Tax Commission for installation of the State Assessment System in the City of Gardner	March 17, 1969
59	5	Further regulating real estate tax exemptions (amends Sec. 5 of Ch. 59, clause 17C)	August 2, 1982
59	5 cl. 17D	Real estate tax exemptions	January 20, 1987
59	5 cl. 41B	Relative to real estate tax exemptions	October 17, 1983
59	5 cl. 41C	Real estate tax exemptions	January 20, 1987
59	59A	Abatements for environmental cleanup	February 5, 2001
59	5K	Property tax liability reduced for volunteer work	June 21, 2010
60A	1-5 par. 1	Issuance without payment of a fee of distinctive license plates to former prisoners of war	July 5, 1983
64G	3A	Local room occupancy excise at rate of 2%, effective 1-1-1992, and 4%, effective 1-1-1993	March 18, 1991
64N	3	Implementing a 3% tax upon the sale or transfer of marijuana or marijuana products by a marijuana retailer operating within the City	September 18. 2017
71	40	Equal pay for men and women teachers	November 4, 1947
71	71E	Relative to appropriations for and expenditure of receipts for adult education and continuing education programs	September 15, 1980
71	71F	Nonresident or foster care students; deposit of tuition payments and state reimbursements; expenditures and appropriations	December 4, 1989
80	All	Betterments	November 13, 1923
83	16A-F	Making certain unpaid annual sewer charges a tax lien	April 3, 1978
83	34	Planting of trees	August 4, 1922
85	11A	An act relative to the registration and operation of certain bicycles	April 6, 1942
90	18A	Pedestrian control law	May 7, 1973
90	20A 1/2	Determining own system of collection of traffic fines	December 21, 1981
90	20C	Parking violations, tags, fines, Ord. No. 442, Establishing schedule of fines	December 1, 1969
90	22B	Authorizing cities and towns to penalize those who abandon motor vehicles (Sec. 22B, Subsections B-K, Ch. 90)	October 16, 1989
93	74	Authorizing Mimi A. Canu to waive salary as City Councilor	June 22, 1989
101	5	Transient vendor's fee established at $50	September 2, 1924
121C	All	Economic Development Industrial Corporation	June 18, 1973
136	2 21-25 Temp	An act to permit Sunday sports on the Lord's Day	April 5, 1929
136	40	Bowling on Sunday	November 15, 1948
138	33B
140	32G	Relative to mobile home park licenses, etc.	March 4, 1985
140	147A	Assuming responsibility and liability for dog licenses, etc.	February 3, 1986
147	10F	Parking control officers	March 3, 1975
147	11, 12, 13	Reserve police force in cities	February 19, 1923
147	16A	Providing that members of the Police Department shall be excused from duty 1 day out of every 7 without loss of pay	March 4, 1940
147	16B	Granting members of the Police Department 1 day off in 6 instead of the present 1 day off in 7	April 15, 1946
147	16C	Five-day week for police	July 21, 1952
148	26C	Certain public accommodations; automatic smoke or heat detectors	April 5, 1982
148	26E	Residential buildings or structures; time for and manner of installation of smoke detectors	April 5, 1982
148	26G	Nonresidential buildings or additions; automatic suppressant or sprinkler systems	July, 2, 1990
148	26H	Lodging or boarding houses; automatic sprinkler system	July 2, 1990
148	26I	Sprinkler system	May 19, 2008
149	33A	An act authorizing a forty-hour work week for employees of certain cities and towns	December 1, 1947
157	1, 2	Disability retirement	January 17, 2006
164	134	Authorizing City to become aggregator of electric power	May 16, 2016
180	17B	United Way payroll deduction	September 5, 1995
182	1 12 40 40A	Voluntary associations	November 7, 1922
188	12, 13	Equal opportunity grants for Mon. Reg. Voc. Tech.	December 2, 1985
258	13	Indemnity of municipal officials	February 18, 1986
271 271 147	6B 22B 52	Permitting Beano within the City	November 2, 1971
780 CMR	Appendix 120.AA	Massachusetts State Stretch Energy Code	October 4, 2010