Section 9F. After the close of each monthly accounting period, the comptroller shall notify the secretary of administration and finance and each officer having charge of an office, department or undertaking which receives a periodic appropriation, of the amount and per cent of each such appropriation which had been expended at the close of the preceding month for that month and for the year-to-date, of the amount available for each such appropriation and of the amount and per cent of each appropriation, if any, for the same purpose expended during the corresponding period in the preceding fiscal year.

Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws ch. 29 sec. 9F

  • 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
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
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