Section 15A. City and town clerks and clerks of districts shall, as soon as an order or vote appropriating money becomes effective, certify, in a city to the treasurer, assessors and auditor or similar officer, and in a town to the assessors and the town accountant, if any, otherwise to the treasurer, and in a district to the assessors and the accounting officer, if any, otherwise to the treasurer, each appropriation in detail, and the provisions made for meeting the same, if specified in the appropriation order or vote.

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Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws ch. 41 sec. 15A

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • district: as used in this chapter , shall mean a fire, water, sewer, water pollution abatement, refuse disposal, light, or improvement district, or any other district, howsoever named, formed for the purpose of carrying out any of the aforementioned functions, whether established under general law or special act. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 41 sec. 1A
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