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Plymouth urges state to reclassify harbor masters as first responders for pensions
Summary
Plymouth officials asked the Joint Committee on Public Service to advance a home rule petition (H.2749) to reclassify its harbor master staff into a higher retirement group, saying the employees perform law‑enforcement and emergency response duties comparable to police.
Representative Kathleen LaNatra urged the Joint Committee on Public Service on behalf of Plymouth to support House Bill 2,749, a home rule petition to reclassify Plymouth harbor masters and harbor master division employees into Group 4 for retirement purposes. The proposal would align their retirement classification with police and firefighters and make prior years of service count toward the higher classification.
The change matters because Plymouth’s harbor master division is a unit of the Plymouth Police Department and its members are POST‑certified officers, the witnesses said. “We are duly appointed as harbor masters and police officers,…
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