Massachusetts Statutes

Section 64E. (a) As used in this section, the term "not-for-profit employer'' shall include eligible organizations incorporated under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, that are established, organized or chartered under the laws of the commonwealth and doing business in…

Section 65. The secretary having charge of any of the executive offices established by chapters 6A and 7 may by rule or regulation not inconsistent with the law delegate to 1 officer within the office of the secretary, in whole or in part, the authority to exercise in the secreta…

Section 66. Any officer or employee who knowingly violates, authorizes or directs another officer or employee to violate this chapter, or any rule or regulation promulgated under this chapter, or any other law relating to the incurring of liability or expenditure of public funds,…

Section 6B. (a) The comptroller, in consultation with the secretary of administration and finance, shall promulgate regulations which shall not be subject to chapter 30A to govern notice requirements for applications for federal grants by a state agency and the receipt and expend…

Section 6C. In addition to information required by section 6 to be included in the budget submitted by the governor, said budget shall also include the following information: (a) a description of and the amount of expenditure by state agencies from trust funds and bond funds anti…

Section 6D. Each appropriation contained in the general appropriations or any supplemental appropriations acts shall include the following information: (a) the line-item number of the appropriation; (b) the purpose of the appropriation and other restrictive language; and (c) the …

Section 6E. The governor shall recommend, the general court shall enact and the governor shall approve a general appropriation bill which shall constitute a balanced budget for the commonwealth. No supplementary appropriation bill shall be approved by the governor which would cau…

Section 71. This chapter shall not be construed to affect the obligation of the state treasurer to withhold from the receipts, distributions, reimbursements or other assistance payable to any city, town or other local governmental unit under any reimbursement, grant, assistance o…

Section 7H. The governor shall submit to the general court annually, within 3 weeks after the general court convenes in regular session, an operating budget for the commonwealth. In the first year of the term of office of a governor who has not served in the preceding year, the g…

Section 7I. All requests and recommendations for appropriations or authorizations for expenditures by the commonwealth, other than those submitted by the governor to the general court under section 2 of Article LXIII of the Amendments to the Constitution, shall be submitted by th…

Section 7L. A law making an appropriation for expenses of the commonwealth shall not contain provisions on any other subject matter. As used in this section, expenses of the commonwealth shall include expenses of the executive, legislative and judicial departments, interest, paym…

Section 7M. The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate may transfer funds, as needed, among items of appropriation for the house of representatives and the senate, respectively.

Section 7N. The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, acting jointly, may transfer funds, as needed, among the items of appropriation for joint legislative expenses.

Section 7O. The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, acting jointly, may transfer funds, as needed, from the items of appropriation for joint legislative expenses to the items of appropriation for the house of representatives and the senate.

Section 9B. Any monies made available by appropriation to state agencies under the control of the governor or a secretary, but not including the courts, the office of the governor and the office of the lieutenant governor, shall be expended only in such amounts as may be allotted…

Section 9C. Whenever, in the opinion of the secretary of administration and finance, budgeted revenues as determined by the secretary from time to time during any fiscal year under section 5B will be insufficient to meet all of the expenditures authorized to be made from any budg…

Section 9D. Whenever it appears probable to any officer having charge of any office, department or undertaking, that amounts to be received from the federal government or any other sources for the purposes of such office, department or undertaking will be less than the amounts pr…

Section 9E. Whenever it appears to any officer having charge of any office, department or undertaking that any appropriation therefor will be insufficient to meet all of the expenditures required in the current fiscal year by any law, rule, regulation or order not subject to the …

Section 9F. After the close of each monthly accounting period, the comptroller shall notify the secretary of administration and finance and each officer having charge of an office, department or undertaking which receives a periodic appropriation, of the amount and per cent of ea…

Section 9G. Sums made available by appropriation or otherwise to offices, departments or undertakings for studies, plans, designs, construction, acquisition, purchase or repair of capital facilities, of highway improvement facilities, such as a highway, bridge or tunnel, and of t…

Section 1. All costs of maintenance and operation of the judicial branch shall be paid by the commonwealth. The operation of a registry of deeds and office of an assistant recorder of the land court in connection therewith shall not constitute a court operation. As used in this c…

Section 2. All books, papers, equipment, furnishings, uniforms, supplies, records and documents purchased by the counties and in the custody of or maintained primarily for the use of the judicial branch are hereby declared to be the property of the commonwealth, and shall be unde…

Section 3. All fees, fines, forfeitures, penalties and any other receipts or income of any kind paid to or received by any of the courts, clerks, registers, recorders or other officers or employees of the judicial branch shall be paid into the general fund of the commonwealth exc…

Section 3A. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in section three or any other general or special law, the trial court and the appeals court are hereby authorized to establish a fee-based system and a schedule of fees for electronic access and retrieval of information by…

Section 4. The judicial branch may lease buildings and land owned by a county, city, or town to provide suitable quarters and space for court facilities and necessary related activities such as parking. The judicial branch may, in the alternative, lease such buildings and land fr…

Section 5. If all or substantially all of any building owned by a county, city or town is occupied by the judicial branch, then the chief justice of the supreme judicial court, upon the recommendation of the court administrator of the trial court, if applicable, may recommend to …

Section 6. There is hereby established a court facilities council. The membership of the council shall consist of the following persons: the court administrator for the trial court or his designee, who shall serve as chairman of the council; the administrative justices of the sup…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following meanings: ''Board'', the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust. ''Bond act'', any general or special law authorizing a local govern…

Section 10. (a) Any local governmental unit may apply to the trust for a loan to assist in financing the cost of a water pollution abatement project. At the option of the trust, loans may be unsecured or may be secured by local governmental obligations for delivery to the trust t…

Section 11. (a) In addition to other remedies of the trust under any loan agreement, if any local government unit other than a regional local governmental unit shall fail to pay to the trust when due and after demand any principal, interest or other charges payable under a loan o…

Section 12. (a) In order to provide for the collection and enforcement of fees, rates, rents, assessments and other charges for the operation of any water pollution abatement project, the system of which it is a part and any other revenue producing facilities from which the local…

Section 13. (a) Local governmental obligations issued by a local governmental unit shall be dated, may bear interest at such rate or rates, including rates variable from time to time subject to such minimum or maximum rate, if any, as may be determined by such index or other meth…

Section 14. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, when authorized by a two-thirds vote as defined in section one of chapter forty-four or by such other vote as is authorized by the applicable bond act, local governmental obligations may be issued as limited …

Section 15. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, when authorized by a two-thirds vote as defined in section one of chapter forty-four or by such other vote as is authorized by the applicable bond act, any local governmental obligations may be secured by…

Section 16. The trust and its existence shall continue until terminated by law; provided, however, that no such law shall take effect so long as the trust shall have bonds outstanding unless adequate provision has been made for the payment or satisfaction thereof. Upon terminatio…

Section 17. The board, in cooperation with the state treasurer, shall, at all times keep full and accurate accounts of all receipts, expenditures and disbursements from the fund and all assets and liabilities of the trust which shall be open to inspection by any officer or duly a…

Section 18. (a) In addition to the powers and duties of the board otherwise provided in this chapter, the trust is hereby designated as the instrumentality of the commonwealth to establish and administer within the Drinking Water Revolving Fund, the state revolving fund pursuant …

Section 19. There shall be a separate fund to be known as the Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund. The fund shall be subject to this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this section. There shall be credited to the fund revenue from appropriations or other money author…

Section 2. (a) An unpaid board of trustees consisting of the state treasurer, ex officio, the secretary of the executive office for administration and finance, ex officio, and the commissioner of the department of environmental protection, ex officio, is hereby constituted as a p…

Section 20. There shall be a Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund Management Board that shall consist of 1 person to be appointed by each board of selectmen or town council in each municipality that is a member of the Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund; provided, ho…

Section 3. (a) The purposes for which the trust is created and for which the fund shall be received, held, administered and disbursed by the board of trustees shall be the provision of financial assistance, in the manner contemplated by Title VI of the Clean Water Act, to local g…

Section 4. (a) The board of trustees shall receive in trust, hold, administer and disburse in and from the fund exclusively for the benefit of the beneficiaries thereof the following monies: (i) notwithstanding the provisions of sections two B and two C of chapter twenty-nine, al…

Section 5. Subject to limitations in other law respecting the use of particular monies in the fund and the provisions of any trust agreement for bonds of the trust, the board may apply and disburse monies and revenues of the fund or any segregated account therein: (i) to make, an…

Section 6. (a) Subject to limitations in other laws respecting the use of particular monies in the fund and any trust agreement for bonds of the trust, the board may also apply and disburse monies and revenues in the fund or segregated accounts therein: (i) after taking account o…