Section 14. The comptroller or any employee in the office of the comptroller who knowingly violates, authorizes or directs another employee to violate any provision of this chapter or chapter twenty-nine shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in a jail or a house of correction for not more than one year, or both. In addition, if convicted of such violation the comptroller shall forfeit the bond required pursuant to section one.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth
Chapter 7a - Office of the Comptroller
Section 1 - Office of the Comptroller; Appointment; Removal; Vacancies
Section 2 - Advisory Board; Membership; Terms; Expenses; Duties
Section 3 - Examination of Accounts and Demands; Overdue Debts; Certificates of Amounts Due
Section 5 - Bills and Vouchers; Certified Copies; Regulations
Section 5a - Late Penalty Interest Payments; Adoption of Rules and Regulations
Section 7 - Accounting System; Forms and Books of Account
Section 8 - General Books of Account; Systems of Accounts; Treatment of Debtors; Late Charges
Section 9a - Audit of Commonwealth Financial Operations; Procedures
Section 11 - Furnishing of Accounting Statements
Section 13 - Budget Preparation; Co-Operation of Comptroller's Office
Section 15 - Rules and Regulations
Section 16 - Administration of the Liability Management and Reduction Fund
Section 17 - Account to Fund Terminal Leave Payments; Federal Grant Funds.