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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 35 County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances.
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County Treasurers.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Qualifications; election; tenure - Chapter 35, Section 1
In Suffolk county the treasurer of Boston, and in Nantucket county the treasurer of the town of Nantucket, shall be the county treasurer. In all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant treasurer; bond; duties - Chapter 35, Section 2
In any county, except Suffolk and Nantucket, the county treasurer may appoint an assistant in his office, who has served therein for at least one...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Oaths; bonds - Chapter 35, Section 3
County treasurers, except in Suffolk and Nantucket counties, shall be sworn before the county commissioners, who shall make a record thereof. Each treasurer shall give...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Salaries; source of payment - Chapter 35, Section 4
The salaries of county treasurers shall be payable by their respective counties.
- Massachusetts General Laws - 6. Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 5 - Chapter 35, Section 5
Chapter 35: Section 5, 6. Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 5
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioners acting by appointment; compensation; travel expenses - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Traveling expenses - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Wilful violation of duty; penalties - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Collection and disbursement of county funds; investment of funds - Chapter 35, Section 10
The treasurer shall collect, receive and safely keep all money belonging to the county, and disburse it according to law. He shall not make payments...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disbursement of matching funds for federally funded programs - Chapter 35, Section 10A
The county treasurer may disburse sums appropriated as matching funds for federally funded programs approved by the county commissioners.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of expenses, etc.; restrictions - Chapter 35, Section 11
No payments, except payments of expenses in criminal prosecutions or for assignment of counsel by a court, in either case as authorized by law, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenses of court sittings; court costs for indigent parties; delivery of bills to treasurer - Chapter 35, Section 12
Original bills or vouchers for services and expenses incident to the sittings of the supreme judicial or superior court under section eight of chapter two...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Filing of bills - Chapter 35, Section 13
Bills, vouchers and other evidences of county indebtedness shall be carefully filed and safely kept by the treasurer, so as to be accessible for future
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statement of law authorizing payment of accounts; liability for payments; exceptions - Chapter 35, Section 14
The treasurer may, before payment of an account rendered against the county by a county officer, in writing require of him a written statement of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Accounts; form and contents - Chapter 35, Section 15
The treasurer shall keep a full and accurate account stating when, from or to whom, and on what account money has been received or paid....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fiscal year - Chapter 35, Section 16
The fiscal year of each county shall be the year beginning with July first and ending with the following June thirtieth; but the treasurer shall,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 4 - Chapter 35, Section 17
Chapter 35: Section 17. Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 4
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suffolk and Nantucket counties; applicability of laws - Chapter 35, Section 18
Sections ten, fourteen, twenty-five to twenty-nine, inclusive, and forty-four shall not apply to Suffolk county, nor shall sections fifteen, sixteen, twenty-five to thirty, inclusive, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - County salaries; payment; payroll deductions; deposits to employee bank accounts authorized - Chapter 35, Section 19
County salaries shall, except as otherwise provided, be payable in monthly installments on the first day of the month. No county treasurer shall pay any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Accumulated vacation allowance; payment upon death or separation from service - Chapter 35, Section 19A
In any county which accepts this section by vote of the county commissioners, advances of pay may be made to any county officer or employee...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deceased officers and employees; payment of salary to next of kin; effect - Chapter 35, Section 19B
Whenever any officer or employee or former officer or employee of a county dies, and such county owes his estate any sum or sums by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deposits in credit union; pension or retirement allowances - Chapter 35, Section 19C
Any county treasurer may deduct from the pension or retirement allowance of a retired person who was a member of such county retirement system, such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prosecution of suits upon bonds, notes, etc.; joinder of treasurer as party - Chapter 35, Section 20
A county treasurer may prosecute suits upon bonds, notes and other securities given to or held by the county or its treasurer. He may also...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delinquency of officers as to money payments; notification of district attorney - Chapter 35, Section 21
If a public officer, or other person, required by law to account with and pay money to a county treasurer, fails so to do for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of surplus money; deposits; investments; interest - Chapter 35, Section 22
Except as otherwise provided, county treasurers, clerks of the courts, clerks of district courts, sheriffs and superintendents of jails and houses of correction, probation officers,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deposit of funds restricted - Chapter 35, Section 22A
County treasurers, court clerks, sheriffs and superintendents of jails and houses of correction, probation officers, registers of probate and insolvency and registers of deeds shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Money paid into courts; disposition; interest - Chapter 35, Section 23
Money paid into the courts in any county shall, if possible be placed at interest by the clerks thereof, and the interest shall be available...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unclaimed funds; disposition - Chapter 35, Section 23A
County officers holding funds unclaimed after two years from the time of receipt thereof and not otherwise subject to statutory disposition shall pay over such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Overdue accounts; interest charge - Chapter 35, Section 24
If a time is fixed for payment of money due a county or a county retirement system, the debtor shall, if notified by the county...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report; contents - Chapter 35, Section 25
Immediately after July tenth, the county treasurer shall annually prepare a report of the county receipts and expenditures for the preceding fiscal year, stated separately...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report of county commissioners; contents - Chapter 35, Section 26
Immediately after July tenth, the county commissioners shall annually prepare a report on county affairs, showing their acts during the preceding fiscal year, so as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Capital facilities and capital facility projects; jurisdiction of capital planning and operations division - Chapter 35, Section 26A
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections ten, fourteen, seventeen, twenty-five of chapter thirty-four or any other general or special law to the contrary, county capital facilities...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual reports; publication and distribution - Chapter 35, Section 27
The county commissioners shall at the expense of the county print the annual county report containing the report of the county commissioners, statements in tabulated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Treasurer and custodian of certain funds - Chapter 35, Section 27A
The county treasurer of each county shall act as the treasurer and custodian of the funds of every institution, organization, board, commission or other public...
County Finances.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Estimates of county receipts and expenditures; preparation; recordation - Chapter 35, Section 28
(a) The head of each department or institution, and each board or other agency whose activities are maintained or supported wholly or in part by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 143 - Chapter 35, Section 28A
Chapter 35: Section 28A. Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 143
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory board for county expenditures; action on proposed budget; public hearing; capital improvement fund - Chapter 35, Section 28B
(a) In every county other than Suffolk and Nantucket, there shall be an advisory board on county expenditures consisting of the city manager or his...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 145 - Chapter 35, Section 28C
Chapter 35: Section 28C. Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 145
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 145A - Chapter 35, Section 29
Chapter 35: Section 29. Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 145A
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taxes; approval; computation - Chapter 35, Section 30
The amount which the county commissioners of each county, except Suffolk and Nantucket, shall levy as the county tax shall be as voted by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taxes; apportionment, assessment and collection - Chapter 35, Section 31
The county commissioners shall apportion and assess all county taxes among and upon the several cities and towns according to the most recent equalization and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Provisions of appropriation acts for counties and county hospitals; approved schedules; certification; transfers; purposes; expenditures in excess of appropriations; reserve fund - Chapter 35, Section 32
Sums appropriated in appropriation acts for counties and in appropriation acts for the care, maintenance and repair of county hospitals shall be based upon detailed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contributory retirement systems; anticipated costs; recovery of pension costs - Chapter 35, Section 32A
In order to offset the anticipated costs for funding for the contributory retirement systems, upon the recommendation of the county retirement board advisory council, a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1960, 282, Sec. 2 - Chapter 35, Section 33
Chapter 35: Section 33. Repealed, 1960, 282, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenses and liabilities incurred prior to appropriations; limitations; exceptions - Chapter 35, Section 34
On and after July first in each year and before the regular appropriations have been made by the advisory board on county expenditures, the county...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenses incurred prior to appropriation; highway agreements excepted - Chapter 35, Section 34A
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections thirty-two and thirty-four, county commissioners may in any fiscal year enter into agreements with cities and towns for the allocation...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of provisions; conditions - Chapter 35, Section 35
The supreme judicial court, upon the suit of the attorney general or petition of one or more taxable inhabitants of a county, may in law...
- Massachusetts General Laws - County receipts, cash on hand and expenditures; monthly account - Chapter 35, Section 36
On or before the fifteenth day of each month the treasurer shall render to the county commissioners an account of all county receipts, cash on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency borrowing for extraordinary expenditures - Chapter 35, Section 36A
For the purpose of providing funds for any county for any emergency purpose approved by the majority of the members of a board composed of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Borrowing funds in anticipation of tax income - Chapter 35, Section 37
County commissioners may borrow money in anticipation of, and to be repaid from, the county tax of the current fiscal year. If said tax has...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds and notes; method of payment; use of proceeds; limitations - Chapter 35, Section 37A
Counties shall not issue any bonds or notes payable on demand, and they shall provide for the payment of all debts, except those incurred in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary notes; refunding; payment - Chapter 35, Section 37B
The county treasurer of any county, except Suffolk and Nantucket, with the approval of the county commissioners thereof, may issue temporary notes of the county...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of notes or securities; bids required; exceptions - Chapter 35, Section 38
Before issuing notes or securities increasing county indebtedness, the county commissioners shall invite proposals for the purchase thereof by advertisements in two or more newspapers...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds issued subject to call and redemption - Chapter 35, Section 38A
Unless otherwise specifically provided, a provision in any act authorizing the county treasurer of any county to issue and sell bonds of the county shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refunding bonds and notes; issuance; limitations - Chapter 35, Section 38B
Unless otherwise specifically provided, a provision in any act authorizing a county treasurer to issue and sell bonds or notes of the county shall authorize...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interest rates - Chapter 35, Section 39
All bonds, notes and other securities issued by any county after April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twenty, shall bear such rate or rates of interest...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Forms for note issues; contents, etc - Chapter 35, Section 39A
The director shall furnish to the treasurer of every county forms for the issue of notes for money borrowed by the county. Every such note...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notes; procedure for issuance - Chapter 35, Section 39B
Whenever a county determines to borrow money otherwise than by the issue of bonds, the treasurer thereof shall make notes for the amount of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bearer notes; procedure for issuance - Chapter 35, Section 39C
County notes, when issued for a serial loan, may be made payable to “bearer”, and when so issued section thirty-nine B may be construed by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of notes; notice - Chapter 35, Section 39D
Whenever a note issued by a county is paid, the treasurer thereof shall immediately notify the director of such payment, stating the source from which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certification fee; refunds - Chapter 35, Section 39E
The director shall establish a reasonable fee for every note certified, to be turned over monthly to the commonwealth; and the state treasurer may refund...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of certification - Chapter 35, Section 39F
The certification of county notes by the director shall be prima facie evidence of the liability of such county therefor.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Facsimile of county seal on bonds, etc.; validity - Chapter 35, Section 39G
The engraved or printed facsimile of a county seal on a bond, note or certificate of indebtedness of such county shall have the same validity...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Facsimile of county seal on bonds, etc.; authorization of making and use - Chapter 35, Section 39H
In any county a majority of the commissioners by a writing bearing their written signatures and filed in the office of the treasurer of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Facsimile of county seal on bonds or notes; validity of signatures of officers leaving office before delivery of bonds or notes - 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fines; accounting; returns - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payments to treasurers; sworn statements - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Auditor of Boston; additional duty - Chapter 35, 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.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exchange of order instruments for bearer instruments; penalty for noncompliance - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surety bonds of officers and employees; payment of premiums - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recovery on surety bonds of officers and employees; effect of acceptance by county of additional annual bond - Chapter 35, 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...
Supervision of County Accounts.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of accounts of county treasurers. - Chapter 35, Section 44
The director of accounts or his representative shall, unannounced, examine the books and accounts of each county treasurer and all original vouchers for the expenditures...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations of accounts of other county officers - Chapter 35, Section 45
The said director or his representative shall also visit, unannounced, at least once a year, all other county officers receiving money payable to the county,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report of commissioner of revenue - Chapter 35, Section 46
The commissioner of revenue shall annually, on or before August first, make a report to the governor and to the general court, which shall include...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for noncompliance with orders - Chapter 35, 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...
County Personnel Board and Classification of County Salaries, Offices and Positions.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of board; membership; election; tenure, etc - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Classification of positions; "salary" defined - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Director of accounts; powers and duties - Chapter 35, Section 50
The director of accounts shall (a) prepare and submit to the board classification and compensation plans, together with such rules for the administration thereof as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Personnel board; powers and duties; discharge of employees, etc - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Salary schedules - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Classification and allocation of offices and positions; review - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - County commissioners; powers and duties - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Director of affirmative action; affirmative action plan; reports - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Newly elected officers, etc., to receive minimum rate; exceptions; recommendations for promotions, etc - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Salaries to be full compensation; overtime pay, etc - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suffolk county; applicability of act; classification agencies in other counties - Chapter 35, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deferred compensation program for employees; authorized investments; requisites; limitations - Chapter 35, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employee individual retirement accounts - Chapter 35, 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...
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