Section 9G Authorization of expenditures - Massachusetts Statutes

Section 9G. Sums made available by appropriation or otherwise to offices, departments or undertakings for studies, plans, designs, construction, acquisition, purchase or repair of capital facilities, of highway improvement facilities, such as a highway, bridge or tunnel, and of transportation improvement facilities, such as a mass transportation or other public transit facility, shall be expended only in such amount as may be authorized for obligation or expenditure from time to time by the governor, the commissioner of administration when designated for such purpose by the governor or said commissioner’s approved designee. The officer in charge of each office, department or undertaking shall submit to the said commissioner, in such form and at such times as he shall prescribe, such information as may be required by the governor or him for making such authorizations; provided that before any such information relating to an office, department or undertaking within any of the executive offices established by chapter six A of the General Laws has been so submitted, it shall first be submitted to the secretary having charge of such executive office, who shall review the same and make such additions thereto, deletions therefrom and modifications therein as he deems appropriate.

The commissioner of administration is hereby authorized and directed to issue directives governing expenditure from bond authorizations; such directives shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) such measures as determined by said commissioner to be necessary to regulate the rate of expenditure from any or all bond authorizations, and (2) such measures as determined by said secretary to be necessary to ensure compliance with such directives, including requiring prior written approval of said commissioner before the award of contract or grants.