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MA Gen L ch 35 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 34 - Expenses and Liabilities Incurred Prior to Appropriations; Limitations; Exceptions

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 commissioners and other officers authorized to incur liabilities payable by the county may incur liability for general maintenance and operation of regular county activities at a rate of expenditure which does not exceed in any month the sum spent for a similar purpose in any one month in the preceding year; provided, that said commissioners or officers may expend in any one month for any office or board created by law an amount not exceeding one twelfth of the estimated cost for said year for said office or board. Payments therefor may be made from any available funds in the county treasury, to be charged to the regular appropriation when made. No new or unusual expense shall be incurred, or permanent contract made, or salary increased, until an appropriation sufficient therefor has been made by the advisory board on county expenditures; except that salary increases in accordance with the salary schedule may be granted as set forth in section fifty-one B, and contracts made by a county for the exercise of its corporate powers or for any purpose as provided in sections fourteen and seventeen of chapter thirty-four may during any fiscal year, at the time of, or after, the making thereof, be extended without an appropriation, upon like or more favorable terms and conditions, for the whole or any part of the next fiscal year up to December thirty-first of that year or up to sixty days after passage of the budget of the next fiscal year, whichever date is later, provided that in no event shall the average monthly liability incurred with respect to the next fiscal year exceed the average monthly liability for such contract during the last six months of the then current fiscal year. Rentals and leases of real property may be entered into for a period not to exceed five years, provided that such limitation shall not apply to leases with the judicial branch of the commonwealth.  Notwithstanding the foregoing limitations upon the authority of the county commissioners and other officers to incur liabilities during said interval, such county commissioners and other officers may incur liabilities and make payments therefor from any available funds in the treasury to such extent as may be necessary for the purpose of contracting and paying for group insurance in accordance with the provisions of chapter thirty-two B.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 34a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 34a - Expenses Incurred Prior to Appropriation; Highway Agreements Excepted

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 of funds for highway maintenance and construction in accordance with the provisions of chapters eighty-two and eighty-four for such year; provided, that the aggregate amounts so allocated by any county shall not exceed the amount appropriated for highways for such county in the appropriation act for the previous fiscal year; and provided further that any unexpended balance of such allocations remaining at the end of a fiscal year may be expended under such agreements until September thirtieth of the following fiscal year.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 35 - Enforcement of Provisions; Conditions

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 or in equity enforce sections eleven, thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty-five to thirty, inclusive, and thirty-two to thirty-four, inclusive, of this chapter, and sections fourteen and seventeen of chapter thirty-four.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 36 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 36 - County Receipts, Cash on Hand and Expenditures; Monthly Account

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 hand and expenditures for the prior month, and when approved and allowed by them, shall deliver it to their clerk.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 36a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 36a - Emergency Borrowing for Extraordinary Expenditures

Section 36A. For the purpose of providing funds for any county for any emergency purpose approved by the majority of the members of the municipal finance oversight board, hereinafter referred to as said board, such county may borrow money in such amount and for such period not exceeding two years as may be determined by said board, and may issue a note or notes therefor, signed by the county treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the county commissioners, which may be sold at such interest or discount as the county commissioners deem proper, any discount to be treated as interest paid in advance. All applications for approval by said board shall be submitted by the county commissioners, but if any such application is made for funds for use for a purpose connected with a county institution in charge of trustees or with a reservation, supported in whole or in part by county funds, in charge of a special board or commission, such application shall not be approved by said board unless it is supported by a written request for such funds from said trustees or said special board or commission, as the case may be. The proceeds of any borrowing hereunder shall be expended by the county commissioners for the purpose for which made; except that, if such a borrowing is made for use for a purpose connected with a county institution in charge of trustees or with a reservation, supported in whole or in part by county funds, in charge of a special board or commission, the proceeds thereof shall be expended for the purpose for which made by said trustees or said special board or commission, as the case may be. As used in this section, the words ''emergency purpose'' shall mean a purpose arising from a sudden, unavoidable event or series of events which could not reasonably have been foreseen or anticipated at the time of submission of the annual budget for approval. It shall not be deemed to include the funding of collective bargaining agreements or such items as were previously disapproved by the appropriating authority for the fiscal year in which such borrowing is sought.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 37 - Borrowing Funds in Anticipation of Tax Income

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 been granted, such loans shall not exceed its amount; otherwise they shall not exceed the amount of the previous annual tax. They may issue therefor county notes maturing within one year after the date when the debt for which they are issued was incurred. Such notes, if issued for less than one year, may be renewed from time to time; provided, that the period from the date of the original loan to the date of maturity of any refunding loan shall not be more than one year. Notes issued hereunder may be sold at such discount as the commissioners may deem proper, the discount to be treated as interest paid in advance. Such notes shall be signed by the treasurer, countersigned by a majority of the commissioners, and shall expressly be made payable from the taxes of the current fiscal year, but shall nevertheless be negotiable. Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, neither county commissioners nor county treasurers, except in Suffolk and Nantucket counties, may borrow money or negotiate loans upon the credit of the county. Notes may also be issued between July first and July tenth, in accordance with this section, in anticipation of assessments payable to the county by cities, towns or corporations, under statutory provisions and unpaid at the end of the preceding fiscal year, in cases in which the total cost of the project for which the assessment is levied was paid by the county in the first instance.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 37a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 37a - Bonds and Notes; Method of Payment; Use of Proceeds; Limitations

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 anticipation of revenue or in anticipation of reimbursement from cities and towns, by such annual payments as will extinguish the same at maturity, and so that the first of such annual payments on account of any loan shall be made not later than one year after the date of the bond or note issued therefor, and so that the amount of such annual payment in any year on account of such debt, so far as issued, shall not be less than the amount of the principal payable in any subsequent year. The proceeds of any sale of bonds or notes, except premiums and accrued interest, shall be used only for the purposes specified in the authorization of the loan, and may also be used for costs of preparing, issuing and marketing such bonds or notes; provided, that the proceeds of any sale of bonds or notes for building, altering, furnishing or repairing public buildings or the construction or repair of public works may be used to pay management consultants hired under the provisions of chapter thirty B; and provided, further, that unexpended amounts may be applied to maturing annual payments of the same loan, and provided, further, that so much of such proceeds as has not been so applied at the expiration of two years from the completion of the project for which the loan was authorized shall become part of the next general unappropriated balance established under section twenty-nine or, if such loan was made on behalf of a district, shall be applied in reduction of assessments to be made upon it by the county. A treasurer of a county may invest not more than eighty per cent of the proceeds from the issue of bonds or notes prior to their application to the payment of liabilities incurred for the purposes specified in the authorization of the loan, in certificates of deposit in trust companies or national banks or in United States treasury bills. Any premium received upon such bonds or notes, less the cost of preparing, issuing and marketing them, shall be applied to the payment of the principal of the first bonds or notes to mature and any accrued interest received upon the delivery of said bonds or notes shall be applied to the payment of the first interest due thereon.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 37b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 37b - Temporary Notes; Refunding; Payment

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 payable in not more than two years from their dates, in anticipation of the issue of serial bonds or notes under any general or special law, but the time within which such serial bonds or notes shall become due and payable shall not, by reason of such temporary notes, be extended beyond the time fixed by such general or special law. Temporary notes issued under this section for a shorter period than two years may be refunded by the issue of other temporary notes, provided that the period from the date of issue of the original temporary notes to the date of maturity of the refunding notes shall not be more than two years. Any notes issued in anticipation of serial bonds or notes shall be paid from the proceeds thereof. If a balance remains in the proceeds of a loan issued in anticipation of a serial loan at the time when the serial loan is issued, said balance shall be applied to the payment of such temporary loan.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 38 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 38 - Sale of Notes or Securities; Bids Required; Exceptions

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 published in said county, if any, and by advertisements in at least three daily newspapers published in Boston. They shall reserve the right to reject any and all bids. The bids shall be publicly opened and noted in their records. If no proposal is made or accepted they may award the whole or any part of the loan to any person. Notes authorized by section thirty-seven, notes or bonds issued to renew or refund indebtedness existing at the time of issue thereof, notes issued for a term of not more than two years in anticipation of a serial loan, notes or bonds in anticipation of reimbursement from cities, towns and others in connection with work temporarily financed by the county, including tuberculosis hospital maintenance notes under section eighty-five A of chapter one hundred and eleven shall be excepted from the requirement of this section as to advertising for bids and may be sold at public or private sale.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 38a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 38a - Bonds Issued Subject to Call and Redemption

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 authorize him, with the approval of the county commissioners, to issue and sell bonds subject to call for redemption at any time or from time to time, with or without premium, as such treasurer determines to be in the best interest of the county.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 39 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 39 - Interest Rates

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 as the county treasurer, with the approval of the county commissioners, may fix, notwithstanding any general or special provision of law enacted prior to said date.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 39a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 39a - Forms for Note Issues; Contents, Etc.

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 shall state the amount thereof, the date of issue, which shall be construed as the date from which interest is payable, the interest which it bears, the date when it will become due, and such other matter as the director may deem necessary; and a record of every such note shall be kept by said treasurer in such form as the director may designate. The director may place upon notes submitted to him for certification such denominations as will show the purpose for which they are issued and as may be required by law to appear thereon.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 39b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 39b - Notes; Procedure for Issuance

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 proposed loan, and shall use one or more, in serial order, of the forms provided for in section thirty-nine A, with the blank spaces properly filled in. County notes shall be signed by the treasurer thereof, and a majority of the county commissioners shall countersign and approve each note in the presence of the clerk of the courts, who shall certify to the fact on the face thereof and affix thereon the county seal, unless the facsimile of such seal is engraved or printed thereon. The treasurer of the county, after making a record of the transaction in accordance with section thirty-nine A, shall forward, with the fee required by section thirty-nine E, every such note to the director, with a copy of said record and a copy of the vote authorizing the loan, certified by the clerk of the courts, and a certification by said clerk that the person whose signature appears upon the note as treasurer was the duly authorized treasurer of the county when such signature was made, and that the persons whose signatures appear upon the note as those of a majority of the county commissioners were duly qualified as such when such signatures were made; and the treasurer of such county shall furnish such other information with reference to the financial condition of the county as the director may require to enable him properly to certify the note. If upon examination the note appears to the director to have been duly issued in accordance with the vote of the county commissioners authorizing it, or in accordance with an act of the general court, and to have been signed by the duly qualified officials of the county, he shall so certify and shall thereupon return the note by registered mail to the treasurer of such county or shall deliver it in hand to such treasurer or to his duly authorized agent; but, under such regulations as he may prescribe, if so authorized by the county treasurer, with the approval of the county commissioners, the director may deliver a certified note to the payee thereof or deliver it to a bank or trust company to be credited to the account of such treasurer. He may certify to the issue of the note on any date not earlier than five days prior to the date of issue appearing on the note, if the other conditions of this chapter have been complied with. He shall not certify a note payable on demand nor shall he certify any note unless the laws relating to county indebtedness have been complied with, or if it appears that the proceeds of the note are not to be used for the purpose specified in the vote authorizing the loan for which the note is issued.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 39c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 39c - Bearer Notes; Procedure for Issuance

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 the director as being properly complied with in so far as it relates to the proper filling in of the space provided for the name of the purchaser of the loan, and he may certify such notes; provided, that before certification there shall be filed with him by the county treasurer the name of the purchaser of such loan.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 39d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 39d - Payment of Notes; Notice

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 such payment was made.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 39e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 39e - Certification Fee; Refunds

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 the amount of any fee deposited with him by said director for the certification of any note which may be cancelled before money is obtained thereon.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 39f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 39f - Effect of Certification

Section 39F. The certification of county notes by the director shall be prima facie evidence of the liability of such county therefor.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 39g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 39g - Facsimile of County Seal on Bonds, etc.; Validity

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 and effect as though such seal were impressed thereon.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 39h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 39h - Facsimile of County Seal on Bonds, etc.; Authorization of Making and Use

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 county, which writing shall be open to public inspection, may authorize said treasurer to cause to be engraved or printed on any bond which said county is authorized to issue, facsimiles of their signatures, and such facsimiles so engraved or printed shall have the same validity and effect as their written signatures.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 39i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances|Section 39i - Facsimile of County Seal on Bonds or Notes; Validity of Signatures of Officers Leaving Office Before Delivery of Bonds or Notes

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 purposes as if such officer had remained in office until such delivery.