Monday, May 18, 2020

Massachusetts General Law, chapter 40:

Section 49: Annual town reports; publication; penalty for noncompliance

Section 49. The selectmen, before the annual town meeting, shall at the expense of the town make available the annual town report for the use of the inhabitants containing the report of the selectmen for the calendar or fiscal year preceding said meeting, the report of the school committee, statements in tabulated form prepared under section sixty of chapter forty-one unless otherwise printed as provided in said section, the annual report of the town accountant for the preceding fiscal year as provided in section sixty-one of chapter forty-one, the annual report of the town treasurer as provided in section thirty-five of chapter forty-one, and except as otherwise provided by vote or by-law of the town, of such other officers and boards as consider it expedient to make a report, the jury list as required by chapter two hundred and thirty-four, and such other matters as the law, or the town by vote or by-law, requires or as the selectmen consider expedient. If the selectmen neglect or refuse to make the annual report, they shall severally forfeit fifty dollars.
A town may by by-law provide for the printing of such fiscal year reports as it deems suitable within ninety days of the close of the fiscal year. A copy of such fiscal year reports shall be transmitted by the town clerk to the state library before the first day of November. A town may also by by-law provide for the printing of all reports of town officers and boards, committees and commissions on a fiscal year basis in place of the calendar year report required by this section.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:17 PM

    I want to know the town assets as to yearly incomes subject by line
    i want to know the town debt outstanding debts subject by line
    i want list of all employment personal and their yearly cost .
    i like the union address ,

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  2. Anonymous2:25 PM

    penalty for non compliance is not even an incentive to perform .. its more like a joke 50.00 sound more like DARE YOU , who cares $$ pay in pennies over time who will enforce this ? more importantly who is the palindrome ? particularly interested in who this may be still waiting to see aggressive action on 20 year complaint ,

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