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EXHIBIT 18

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1 "[Public Acts 1971, N0. 524 § 1; General Statutes] Sec. 7-433c. BENEFITS FOR
POLICEMEN OR FIREMEN DISABLED OR DEAD AS A RESULT OF HYPERTENSION
OR HEART DISEASE. In recognition of the peculiar problems of uniformed members of paid
fire departments and regular members of paid police departments, and in recognition of the
unusual risks attendant upon these occupations, including an unusual high degree of
susceptibility to heart disease and hypertension, and in recognition that the enactment of a statute
which protects such fire department and police department members against economic loss
resulting from disability or death caused by hypertension or heart disease would act as an
inducement in attracting and securing persons for such employment, and in recognition, that the
public interest and welfare will be promoted by providing such protection for such fire
department and police department members, municipal employers shall provide compensation as
follows: Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 568 or any other general statute, charter,
special act or ordinance to the contrary, in the event a uniformed member of a paid municipal fire
department or a regular member of a paid municipal police department who successfully passed
a physical examination on entry into such service, which examination failed to reveal any
evidence of hypertension or heart disease, suffers either off duty or on duty any condition or
impairment of health caused by hypertension or heart disease resulting in his death or his
temporary or permanent, total or partial disability, he or his dependents, as the case may be, shall
receive from his municipal employer compensation and medical care in the same amount and the
same manner as that provided under chapter 568 if such death or disability was caused by a
personal injury which arose out of and in the course of his employment and was suffered in the
line of duty and within the scope of his employment, and from the municipal or state retirement
system under which he is covered, he or his dependents, as the case may be, shall receive the
same retirement or survivor benefits which would be paid under said system if such death or
disability was caused by a personal injury which arose out of and in the course of his
employment, and was suffered in the line of duty and within the scope of his employment. If
successful passage of such a physical examination was, at the time of his employment, required ·
I as a condition for such employment, no proof or record of such examination shall be required as
evidence in the maintenance of a claim under this section or under such municipal or state
retirement systems. As used in this section, the term 'municipal employer' shall have the same
meaning and shall be defined as said term is defined in section 7 -467."