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MA Gen L ch 35 § 40 (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 40 - Fines; Accounting; Returns

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 and money, to make the returns thereof, specifying the laws requiring the same. He shall annually, in July, return to the director of accounts a sworn statement of all such items received by him in criminal matters during the preceding fiscal year, from whom received, and the name of each magistrate or officer failing to comply, and what proceedings have been taken by reason thereof. He shall also, annually, on or before July fifteenth, make a return to the commissioner of correction, upon blanks to be provided by said commissioner, of all amounts paid or received by him on account of any jail or house of correction for the fiscal year ending with the preceding June thirtieth.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 41 (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 41 - Payments to Treasurers; Sworn Statements

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 such other details as the director of accounts may prescribe, transmitting forthwith a duplicate to him.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 42 (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 42 - Auditor of Boston; Additional Duty

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.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 43 (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 43 - Exchange of Order Instruments for Bearer Instruments; Penalty for Noncompliance

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 by the sinking fund commissioners of a county, shall, at the request of such commissioners, issue in exchange therefor a bond, note or certificate to the same effect, payable to such commissioners by name; provided, that the county desiring such exchange shall, if requested, furnish the blank form for the bond, note or certificate therefor in the same general form as that furnished by the commonwealth under section thirty-nine of chapter twenty-nine. Any county, city, town, district or corporation neglecting or refusing to comply with this section shall be subject to a penalty of not more than fifty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 43a (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 43a - Surety Bonds of Officers and Employees; Payment of Premiums

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 company authorized to transact business in the commonwealth, as surety. Unless otherwise provided by law, every such bond shall be approved as to form by the superior court, which may require to be included in such bond such terms, provisions and conditions as, in its opinion, will carry into effect the intent of the law requiring the giving of such bond. The premium on such bond shall in every case, except in the case of the treasurer of Suffolk or Nantucket county, be paid by the county.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 43b (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 43b - Recovery on Surety Bonds of Officers and Employees; Effect of Acceptance by County of Additional Annual Bond

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 a fidelity bond covering his entire term of office, and subsequent to such filing he is required by law to file such a bond annually, the acceptance of such an annual bond shall preclude recovery, under any such bond previously filed and accepted, whether for the term of one year or for a longer term, for any default occurring during the term of any such bond subsequently filed and accepted.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 47 (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 47 - Penalty for Noncompliance With Orders

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 ten consecutive days, refuses or neglects to enter in the cash book prescribed by the director of accounts all money received or expended by him in his official capacity or on account of the same, or refuses or neglects to give any information within his knowledge required by said director or his representative shall be reported by the director to the attorney general, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 48 (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 48 - Establishment of Board; Membership; Election; Tenure, Etc.

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 be elected by and from the county commissioners of Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties; one to be elected by and from the county commissioners of Essex, Middlesex and Worcester counties; and one to be elected by and from the county commissioners of Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk and Plymouth counties, provided that in the election of such member from the last named counties, the chairman of the county commissioners of each of the counties of Nantucket and Dukes County shall be entitled to one vote. The commissioner first elected from the county commissioners of Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties shall serve for a term of one year, the commissioner first elected from the county commissioners of Essex, Middlesex and Worcester counties shall serve for a term of two years, and the commissioner first elected from the county commissioners of Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk and Plymouth counties shall serve for a term of three years. The members first elected as aforesaid shall be elected not later than the first day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty, and their several terms shall run from said date. On or before August first of the year in which the term of a member of the board will expire, his successor shall be elected in the same manner at a time and place, to be designated by the director of accounts, to serve for a term of three years from the first day of the September following. The retirement of any member of the board as a county commissioner shall thereupon create a vacancy in the board. All vacancies in the board shall be filled in the same manner as the original election for the unexpired term, and all commissioners elected to said board shall serve until the qualification of their respective successors. Each member of the board shall receive as compensation the sum of twenty-five dollars for each day's attendance at board meetings, in addition to his salary as county commissioner, and shall be reimbursed for expenses actually incurred in the transaction of the business of the board; provided, that the total amount paid for compensation as aforesaid shall not exceed twelve hundred and fifty dollars annually.  In case of the absence or disability of a member of the board, the other members may designate an acting member from among the county commissioners of the counties represented by such member, to serve during his absence or disability, and such acting member shall receive compensation at the same rate as a member of the board.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 49 (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 49 - Classification of Positions; ''salary'' Defined

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 through county officials, excluding the offices of county commissioners, the register of deeds and the assistant registers of deeds for the county of Suffolk, the sheriff of the county of Suffolk, and excluding offices and positions filled by appointment of the governor with the advice and consent of the council, and offices and positions payable under chapter twenty-nine A, shall be classified by the board in the manner provided by sections forty-eight to fifty-six, inclusive, and every such office and position, now existing or hereafter established, shall be allocated by the board to its proper place in such classification. Offices and positions in the service of any department, board, school or hospital principally supported by the funds of the county or counties, or in the service of a hospital district established under sections seventy-eight to ninety-one, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and eleven, shall likewise be subject to classification as aforesaid. The word ''salary'', as used in this section, shall include compensation, however payable; but nothing in sections forty-eight to fifty-six, inclusive, and nothing done under authority thereof, shall prevent any person from continuing to receive from a county such compensation as is fixed under authority of other provisions of law or as is expressly established by law.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 51a (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 51a - Definitions

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 county personnel board;  ''Class'' or ''title'', a group of positions forming part of the classified service established by sections forty-eight to fifty-five, inclusive, and sufficiently similar in respect to duties and responsibilities that the same descriptive title may be used to designate all positions allocated to the class, the same general entrance qualifications may be required of incumbents of positions in the class, the same general tests of fitness may be used to choose qualified employees and the same schedule of pay may be made to apply under the same or substantially the same employment conditions;  ''Class allocation'', the official initial placing of a class in a job group in the salary schedule;  ''Class reallocation'', the official subsequent placing of a class in a job group in the salary schedule;  ''Employee'', employee or officer, unless the latter is otherwise specifically exempted;  ''Increment'', the amount of dollars between any two consecutive steps-in-range in the same job group in the salary schedule;  ''Job group'', a unit of the salary schedule which includes all classes in the position classification plan which are sufficiently comparable in value as regards duties and responsibilities, irrespective of the field of work of which they form a part, so that the same salary range may be made to apply to all classes in the same unit of the salary schedule;  ''Position'', a job which may be held by an individual employee. There may be more than one position in the same class;  ''Position allocation'', the initial official placing of a position in a class forming part of the position classification plan;  ''Position classification plan'', the plan resulting from position allocations pertaining to the personal services of the counties;  ''Position reallocation'', any subsequent official placing of a position in a class forming part of the position classification plan;  ''Salary range'', a range of salaries from a specified minimum to a specified maximum amount as applied to a job group;  ''Specification'', a description of the characteristic duties and requirements of a single class;  ''Step-in-range'' or ''increment step'', one of the divisions of a salary range in a job group at which an employee is compensated.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 52 (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 52 - Classification and Allocation of Offices and Positions; Review

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 responsibilities. The classification shall be established by specifications defining for each office or position or class of offices or positions the title, duties and responsibilities thereof. The titles used in such classification shall be used for pay rolls, in the records of county commissioners, county treasurers, the director of accounts and of the board, and in all budget and appropriation records, but for working and administrative purposes within a department and for public convenience other titles may be used. Incumbents of offices and positions so classified shall perform, as far as practicable, the duties prescribed for the class to which they are assigned, but nothing in sections forty-eight to fifty-six, inclusive, shall be construed to limit or to restrict the county commissioners or other administrative authorities having charge of a department in assigning other work to such incumbents.  Any person aggrieved by the allocation or classification of his office or position or by any other action or by any failure to act, under any provision of sections forty-eight to fifty-five, inclusive, may appeal in writing to the board. Such appeal shall be filed with the county commissioners of the county in which the office or position is established, who shall forward the appeal to the board, accompanied by a report and their recommendations thereon. The board shall refer the appeal to the director of accounts, who shall investigate the merits thereof and report to the board. The board, after giving all parties interested an opportunity to be heard, shall pass upon the appeal and its decision shall be final and binding upon all such parties, including the county commissioners and the person appealing.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 53 (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 53 - County Commissioners; Powers and Duties

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 county, furnished by the director under section fifty; (2) receive and forward to the board, with their report and recommendations thereon, appeals, as provided in section fifty-two; (3) receive and act upon recommendations for salary increases, as provided in section fifty-four, and (4) perform such other functions and duties as may be imposed upon them by said sections forty-eight to fifty-six, inclusive. They may also recommend to the board amendments to the classification and compensation plans and to the rules relating thereto. They shall be entitled to be heard in the determination of questions of classification and allocation on appeal to the board, or otherwise.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 54 (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 54 - Newly Elected Officers, etc., to Receive Minimum Rate; Exceptions; Recommendations for Promotions, Etc.

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 or position has been allocated. Recommendations for increases in the salaries of officers and employees under the salary schedule, shall be submitted in the first instance to the county commissioners of the various counties by the proper authority, and if approved by them and by said board shall take effect upon notice by said commissioners to said board. If said proper authority fails or refuses to recommend step-rate increases as provided in the salary schedule he shall notify said commissioners giving his reasons for such failure or refusal and shall present a copy of such notice to each employee affected. If said commissioners do not approve a proposed increase in salary under the salary schedule, they shall report the recommendation of the head of the department or institution with their own recommendation to said board whose decision shall be final, except that said board shall not grant an increase in salary greater than that recommended by the head of the department or institution.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 55 (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 55 - Salaries to Be Full Compensation; Overtime Pay, Etc.

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 chapter two hundred and twenty-one, shall be in full compensation for all services rendered, and every officer or employee shall pay all fees and other moneys received directly or indirectly in the course of his public employment, into the county treasury; provided, that nothing contained in said sections shall prevent the reimbursement of actual and other expenses necessary for the transaction of public business or the payment of overtime approved by the county commissioners, upon evidence of necessity therefor.
MA Gen L ch 35 § 56 (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 56 - Suffolk County; Applicability of Act; Classification Agencies in Other Counties

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 city of Boston, subject to the provisions of the charter of said city; the duties prescribed by sections forty-nine to fifty-five, inclusive, for the director of accounts shall be performed by the budget commissioner of said city, and all other duties prescribed and powers conferred by said sections forty-nine to fifty-five shall be performed by the mayor of said city. Any other county is hereby authorized, subject in all respects to the approval of the governor and council, to establish agencies for the purpose of establishing and administering classification and compensation plans in accordance with the provisions of sections forty-nine to fifty-five, inclusive, and agencies so established shall have the powers granted by said sections to the board and the director of accounts. Upon the establishment of such agency, such county shall cease to be represented in the board or to participate in the election of its members, and its obligation to contribute toward the expenses incurred by the board and by the director under section fifty shall terminate.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 1 - Registry Districts

Section 1. The counties of Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Middlesex and Worcester are for the registry of deeds severally divided into the following districts:  In Berkshire, the middle district, with its office in Pittsfield, comprising Pittsfield, Becket, Dalton, Hinsdale, Lee, Lenox, Otis, Peru, Richmond, Stockbridge, Tyringham and Washington; the northern district, with its office in Adams, that portion of the county lying north of the middle district; and the southern district, with its office in Great Barrington, that portion of the county lying south of the middle district.  In Bristol, the southern district, with its office in New Bedford, comprising, New Bedford, Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven and Westport, the Fall River district, with its office in Fall River, comprising Fall River, Freetown, Somerset and Swansea; and the northern district, with its office in Taunton, the remainder of said county.  In Essex, the northern district, with its office in Lawrence, comprising Lawrence, Andover, Methuen and North Andover; the southern district, with its office in Salem, the remainder of said county.  In Middlesex, the northern district, with its office in Lowell, comprising Lowell, Billerica, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford and Wilmington; the southern district, with its office in Cambridge, the remainder of said county.  In Worcester, the northern district, with its office in Fitchburg, comprising Fitchburg, Ashburnham, Leominster, Lunenburg and Westminster; the Worcester district, with its office in Worcester, the remainder of said county.  Each of the other counties of the commonwealth shall have an office for the registry of deeds in a shire town thereof.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 2 - Election; Qualification; Tenure

Section 2. In each such district and in each county not divided into districts, a register of deeds, who shall be a resident of such district or county, shall be elected, as provided in section one hundred and fifty-seven of chapter fifty-four, for the term of six years, beginning with the first Wednesday of January following his election, and until his successor is qualified.
MA Gen L ch 36 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds|Section 3 - Oath of Office; Bond

Section 3. Each register of deeds shall be sworn before the county commissioners, or in Suffolk county before the city council of Boston, and prior to being sworn, and thereafter, at intervals of not more than one year, so long as he continues to hold such office, shall give bond to the county, in such sum as the commissioners or said council, respectively, shall approve, conditioned to perform faithfully his own official duties, with a surety company authorized to transact business in the commonwealth, as surety.