General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 7A Office of the Comptroller

• Massachusetts General Laws - Office of the comptroller; appointment; removal; vacancies - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory board; membership; terms; expenses; duties - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of accounts and demands; overdue debts; certificates of amounts due - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 73 - Chapter 7A, Section 4
  Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bills and vouchers; certified copies; regulations - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Late penalty interest payments; adoption of rules and regulations - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 76 - Chapter 7A, Section 6
  Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accounting system; forms and books of account - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - General books of account; systems of accounts; treatment of debtors; late charges - Chapter 7A, 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,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Distinct accounts - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Audit of commonwealth financial operations; procedures - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reconciliation of accounting statements included reports with official books and records - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Furnishing of accounting statements - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual reports - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Budget preparation; co-operation of comptroller’s office - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administration of the Liability Management and Reduction Fund - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Account to fund terminal leave payments; federal grant funds. - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusion of debtors; report - Chapter 7A, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal Treasury Offset Program; agreement for collection of debts owed to the commonwealth from federal payments - Chapter 7A, 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...

Last modified: September 11, 2015