RSA 100-A:52 Payment by Retirement System; Group II.

I. The New Hampshire retirement system shall pay the cost for permanent group hospitalization, hospital medical care, surgical care and other medical and surgical benefits, in the employer-sponsored plan provided for active employees of a retiree's former employer, subject to the provisions of RSA 100-A:55, for the following persons:
(a) Any person retired as a group II member of the New Hampshire retirement system on service or disability retirement, provided that such person shall be entitled to retirement on the basis of group II creditable service without including any credit for service as a group I member of the retirement system, or any person retired on or before July 1, 1991, as a group I member whose service retirement benefit is based upon the provisions of RSA 100-