Chapter 35

Section 39I. If any officer whose signature or a facsimile of whose signature appears on any bonds or notes of a county shall cease to be such officer before the delivery of such bonds or notes, such signature or such facsimile shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all p…

Section 4. The salaries of county treasurers shall be payable by their respective counties.

Section 40. The treasurer of each county shall annually, in May, notify all officers required to account for and pay to him any fines, expenses, forfeitures, fees and money, to make the returns thereof, specifying the laws requiring the same. He shall annually, in July, return to…

Section 41. Public officers or agents shall accompany payments of public funds to county treasurers with a sworn statement, showing the date, amount and purpose thereof, and such other details as the director of accounts may prescribe, transmitting forthwith a duplicate to him.

Section 42. The auditor of Boston shall be the auditor of Suffolk county. No bill against said county shall be paid until audited and allowed by him.

Section 43. A county, city, town or district, or any domestic corporation, which shall have issued any bond, note or certificate of indebtedness payable to bearer, held by the sinking fund commissioners of a county, shall, at the request of such commissioners, issue in exchange t…

Section 43A. Every officer or employee of a county required to furnish a fidelity bond with a surety or sureties shall furnish a bond with a surety company authorized to transact business in the commonwealth, as surety. Unless otherwise provided by law, every such bond shall be a…

Section 43B. Whenever an officer or employee of a county has been elected or appointed to an office the term whereof exceeds one year, and has filed a fidelity bond covering his entire term of office, and subsequent to such filing he is required by law to file such a bond annuall…

Section 47. An officer or person named in section forty-four or forty-five who refuses or neglects to comply with any provision thereof, or who, for more than ten consecutive days, refuses or neglects to enter in the cash book prescribed by the director of accounts all money rece…

Section 48. There is hereby established a county personnel board, in this and the eight following sections called the board, consisting of three county commissioners, one to be elected by and from the county commissioners of Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties; on…

Section 49. Every office and position the salary of which is wholly payable from the treasury of one or more counties, or from funds administered by and through county officials, excluding the offices of county commissioners, the register of deeds and the assistant registers of d…

Section 51. The board shall (a) pass upon and finally adopt and put into effect, with such modifications, changes and additions as it shall deem proper, the classification and compensation plans and rules for their administration proposed by the director of accounts under section…

Section 51A. The following words as used in this and the following sections and in the classification and compensation plans shall have the following meanings:— ''Board'', the county personnel board; ''Class'' or ''title'', a group of positions forming part of the classified serv…

Section 51B. (1) Said classification and compensation plans shall be amended so that each office and position shall be allocated by said board to the proper job group in the following salary schedule; except that, in the case of elected officials, patient help, part time officers…

Section 52. The classification and allocation of offices and positions required to be classified and allocated by section forty-nine shall be according to their respective duties and responsibilities. The classification shall be established by specifications defining for each off…

Section 53. The county commissioners of the several counties shall (1) keep on file in their respective offices the duplicate roster of officers and employees of their county, furnished by the director under section fifty; (2) receive and forward to the board, with their report a…

Section 53A. The county commissioners of each county shall designate or appoint a director of affirmative action who shall be the chief affirmative action officer for their respective county. Said person so designated shall not be a county commissioner. The person so designated s…

Section 54. Except as otherwise specifically provided, newly elected or appointed officers or employees shall receive the minimum rate in the salary grade to which the office or position has been allocated. Recommendations for increases in the salaries of officers and employees u…

Section 55. Except as otherwise expressly provided, all salaries established under the authority of sections forty-eight to fifty-six, inclusive, and the salaries established by section ninety-four of chapter two hundred and twenty-one, shall be in full compensation for all servi…

Section 56. For Suffolk county, the duties prescribed for the board by section fifty-one, except clause (c) thereof, shall be performed by the city council of the city of Boston, subject to the provisions of the charter of said city; the duties prescribed by sections forty-nine t…

Section 57. The treasurer of any county, on behalf of that county, may contract with an employee to defer a portion of that employee's compensation and may, for the purposes of funding a deferred compensation program for said employee, established in accordance with the U.S. Inte…

Section 57A. The treasurer of any county, on behalf of that county, may contract with an employee to make contributions for and in the name of such employee, from amounts otherwise payable to the employee as current compensation, to an Individual Retirement Account (''IRA'') by s…

Section 7. The treasurer shall be provided by the county with an office and shall be allowed such clerical assistance as shall be approved by the county commissioners with compensation payable by the county.

Section 8. The county treasurer shall be paid his actual and proper traveling expenses incurred in the transaction of county business. An itemized statement thereof shall, on the first day of each month, be certified to the commissioners, by whom it shall be audited and approved.

Section 9. For wilful violation of a duty imposed by law, a county treasurer shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, recoverable at the suit of the attorney general to the use of the county.