Section 27 Expenses and increases regulated - Massachusetts Statutes

Section 27. Notwithstanding any provision of general law, no department, office, commission and institution shall incur an expense, increase a salary, or employ a new clerk, assistant or other subordinate, unless an appropriation by the general court and an allotment by the governor, sufficient to cover the expense thereof, shall have been made. Appropriations by the general court, and any allotments by the governor, shall be expended only in the amounts prescribed in subsidiary accounts, if any, established for the several appropriation accounts in schedules established by, and on file with, the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided, however, that amounts prescribed in subsidiary accounts for personal services shall be available for the payment of such other forms of compensation as may be due under existing statutes or under the provisions of rules and regulations made in accordance with said statutes. Said house and senate committees on ways and means, as soon as may be after the general appropriation bill or any other appropriation bill has the force of law conformably to the constitution, shall file with the comptroller and with the budget director, a certified copy of the schedules aforesaid which relate thereto.