Massachusetts Statutes

Section 58. As used in sections 57 to 61, inclusive, of this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless a contrary intent is clearly indicated:- ''Affirmative marketing program'', the program focused on increasing minority and women owned business part…

Section 58A. There shall be a supplier diversity office which shall be an office within the executive office for administration and finance.

Section 59. SDO shall have an executive director and such other specialists as may be authorized. The executive director shall have all necessary authority, subject to the direction, control and supervision of the secretary of the executive office for administration and finance, …

Section 61. (a) SDO shall adopt regulations and policies for the establishment and management of the office's diverse business certification process, including regulations and policies governing the streamlining, approval, denial or revocation of any such certification and for cr…

Section 62. The executive office for administration and finance shall report annually to the house and senate committees on bonding, capital expenditures and state assets and the house and senate committees on ways and means, not later than November 1, a list of all capital proje…

Section 6F. There shall be a coordinator of flexible hours employment within the human resources division who shall work on the development, implementation and oversight of plans for the utilization, within all executive agencies, of persons who choose to be employed for a reduce…

Section 7. The secretary shall, on or before the first Wednesday in December of each year ending in an even number, submit a report to the governor listing and discussing the proposals which have been made and the accomplishments which have been achieved during the preceding two …

Section 7A. The secretary may on behalf of the commonwealth enter into agreements for fire protection with municipalities adjacent to cities and towns in which institutions of the various departments of the commonwealth are located when such agreement is deemed necessary by the s…

Section 8. On the request of either branch of the general court or of the ways and means committee of either branch, or of the governor, the secretary shall make a report of such of the estimates of departments, officers and commissions made to the budget director under sections …

Section 9. On request of either branch of the general court or of the ways and means committee of either branch or of the governor, the secretary shall make a special examination of, and give to them any information in the secretary's possession relative to, any matter affecting …

Section 9A. The secretary shall promulgate regulations governing the use of state passenger vehicles and light duty pickup trucks. Said regulations shall be aimed at proscribing the purchase or lease of such passenger vehicles and light duty pickups unless documentary evidence av…

Section 1. There shall be an office of the comptroller which shall be an independent state agency. The comptroller shall be the administrative and executive head of said office and shall be appointed by the governor for a term coterminous with the governor's. The person so appoin…

Section 10. The comptroller shall establish policies and procedures that require all accounting statements included in reports of departments, offices and commissions to reconcile to the official books and records of the commonwealth before the publication of such reports. No suc…

Section 11. The office of the comptroller shall be properly equipped, subject to appropriation, and shall furnish to the agencies within the executive office of administration and finance, to the house and senate committees on ways and means, and to other state agencies and other…

Section 12. (a)(1) All reports published under this section shall be filed with the governor, the secretary of administration and finance, the house and senate committees on ways and means and the clerks of the house and senate and any other parties specified in general or specia…

Section 13. In the exercise of the budget director's functions relative to the preparation of the budget, the records, resources and full co-operation of the office of the comptroller shall be available.

Section 14. The comptroller or any employee in the office of the comptroller who knowingly violates, authorizes or directs another employee to violate any provision of this chapter or chapter twenty-nine shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by impr…

Section 15. Subject to prior review by the advisory board to the comptroller, the comptroller is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out his responsibilities under the provisions of this chapter or other applicable laws. Such rules and regulations shall…

Section 16. The comptroller, in consultation with the secretary of administration and finance and the attorney general, shall administer the Liability Management and Reduction Fund established in section 2TT of chapter 29. The comptroller may appoint a liability manager of said f…

Section 17. The comptroller shall administer an account the purpose of which shall be to fund terminal leave payments for employees whose salaries were paid from federal funds immediately prior to their leaving state service and to fund certain liabilities resulting from the agre…

Section 18. (a) The comptroller may exclude from his certificate pursuant to section 3 any amount otherwise due to any person owing an overdue debt to a city or town or to an agency of a city or town, a housing authority, or to a state authority as defined in section 1 of chapter…

Section 19. (a) As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Debt'', a delinquent state tax or nontax debt certified by the treasurer and receiver general or a federal nontax debt certified by a fe…

Section 2. There shall be an advisory board to the comptroller which shall consist of the attorney general, the treasurer, the secretary of administration and finance who shall be the chairman, the auditor, the court administrator of the trial court, and two persons who have expe…

Section 3. The comptroller shall examine all accounts and demands against the commonwealth excepting those for the salaries of the governor and the justices of the supreme judicial court, for the payrolls of the executive council and members of the general court, and those due on…

Section 5. All bills and vouchers on which money has been or may be paid from the treasury upon the certificate of the comptroller or the warrant of the governor shall be kept as prescribed by the office of the comptroller; and all departments, offices, commissions and institutio…

Section 5A. The comptroller shall adopt rules and regulations, providing for the payment by the commonwealth of penalty interest in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-nine B of chapter twenty-nine and the U.S. Cash Management Improvement Act of 1990, 31 U.S.C. 650, …

Section 7. The comptroller shall design and install an accounting system for the commonwealth and prescribe the requisite forms and books of account to be used by each department, office, commission and institution of the commonwealth. No form or book of account other than that p…

Section 8. The comptroller shall keep all general books of account and determine the extent and character of subsidiary accounts to be kept by all departments, offices, commissions and institutions of the commonwealth. He shall have full authority to prescribe, regulate and make …

Section 9. The comptroller shall keep a distinct account, under appropriate headings, of all revenues and expenses. He shall keep an account of all funds and of other public property and of all debts and obligations due to and from the commonwealth; and for such purpose he shall …

Section 9A. The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to work with the state auditor's office and other audit entities as appropriate to ensure the audit of commonwealth financial operations in conformity to generally accepted auditing standards and generally accepted gov…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:— (a) ''Asset'', all property that is in the lawful possession of or otherwise held by a state agency, and shall include without limitation b…

Section 2. (a) There is hereby established an asset management board. The board shall be within but not subject to the control of the executive office of administration and finance. The board shall consist of the secretary of administration and finance or his designee, ex officio…

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Section 4. The asset management board shall have the following powers and duties: (a) The board shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this chapter. Said regulations shall include but not be limited to: (i) establishing standards and procedures to g…

Section 5. Prior to the submission of any project to the asset management board, the state agency making such submission shall first develop an inventory of its assets and identify those assets that are underutilized or might otherwise qualify for management as part of an asset m…

Section 6. Each proposed project may be developed and managed with the assistance of individuals with expertise in the management of assets similar to the assets included in the proposed project; provided, that the board shall examine the proposed relationship between such indivi…

Section 7. Notwithstanding the provisions of section forty E of chapter seven to the contrary, real property, title to which was held in the name of a state agency, or the board of trustees of a facility of a state agency prior to the enactment of said section shall, for the sole…

Section 8. Notwithstanding the provisions of section four F of chapter seven or any other provision of the General Laws to the contrary, at the request of a state agency, the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to establish one or more asset management project trust…

Section 9. The provisions of this chapter are not intended and shall not be construed to limit, override or otherwise modify the procedures, powers and duties of the division of capital asset management and maintenance unless specifically so authorized by the asset management boa…

Section 1. As used in this chapter and chapter 29, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Acquisition'', obtaining by gift, purchase, devise, grant, eminent domain, rental, rental-purchase or otherwise. ''Addition…

Section 10. In order to assist himself in the performance of his functions the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall establish an advisory council on capital asset management and maintenance which shall meet at such times as the commissioner shall set, bu…

Section 11. There shall be located within the division of capital asset management and maintenance an office of programming headed by a director of programming. Said director shall be appointed by the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, with the prior writte…

Section 12. Except as otherwise provided in this section or by any appropriation act, the director of programming shall, in the manner and to the extent provided by this section, have control and supervision of the study and programming of all capital facility projects of state a…

Section 13. There shall be within the division of capital asset management and maintenance an office of project management headed by a director of project management. The director shall be appointed by the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance with the approval…

Section 14. The duties and responsibilities of the director shall include, but not be limited to, the following: review and comment on all long range capital facilities development plans and capital budget requests for building projects by any state agency or building authority f…

Section 15. The contract which the director shall make with the designer appointed under the preceding section shall provide, among other appropriate terms, that the designer shall, in consultation with the using agency and subject to that agency's approval, prepare plans and spe…