City of Springfield, MA
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2024-03-18
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The Code
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 42 Finances
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Article I Claims Against City
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration
- Ch 10 Assessors
- Ch 16 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 23 Deeds, Leases and Mortgages
- Ch 25 Departmental Revolving Funds
- Ch 27 Departments
- Ch 32 Elections
- Ch 34 Emergency Services
- Ch 38 Ethics
- Ch 42 Finances
- Ch 42 Art I Claims Against City
- § 42-1 Approval by Auditor required.
- § 42-2 Mayor's order required.
- § 42-3 Department heads to certify and forward bills to Auditor.
- § 42-4 Payrolls to be sworn to by department heads.
- § 42-5 Filing of claims with Auditor; transmission to Collector.
- § 42-6 Uncollectible claims.
- Ch 49 Historic Districts
- Ch 61 Mayor and Council; School Committee
- Ch 67 Officers and Employees
- Ch 73 Personnel
- Ch 78 Planning
- Ch 82 Purchasing and Contracts
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 100 Alarms
- Ch 105 Amusements
- Ch 110 Animals
- Ch 115 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 118 Awnings, Canopies and Signs
- Ch 123 Biomedical Research
- Ch 131 Body Art Establishments
- Ch 140 Building Construction
- Ch 143 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 149 Buses
- Ch 154 Community Gardens
- Ch 157 Curfew
- Ch 165 Drugs and Drug Products
- Ch 172 Excavations
- Ch 173 Facial Recognition Surveillance Technology
- Ch 175 Fees
- Ch 178 Fire Prevention
- Ch 182 Foreclosures
- Ch 184 Fortunetellers
- Ch 190 Gang Activity
- Ch 201 Graffiti
- Ch 208 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 213 Health and Sanitation
- Ch 218 Historic Preservation
- Ch 229 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 235 Lodging and Rooming Houses
- Ch 238 Short-Term Rentals
- Ch 240 Loitering
- Ch 245 Marijuana
- Ch 247 Massage Businesses
- Ch 248 Military Leave
- Ch 259 Noise
- Ch 265 Parking, Valet
- Ch 270 Pawnbrokers and Junk Dealers
- Ch 275 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 279 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 282 Plastic Bag Reduction
- Ch 285 Property Maintenance
- Ch 300 Sewers
- Ch 304 Sex Offenders
- Ch 311 Skateboards and Scooters
- Ch 316 Smoking
- Ch 322 Snow and Ice
- Ch 327 Solid Waste
- Ch 334 Storm Drains
- Ch 336 Stormwater Management
- Ch 338 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 347 Swimming Pools
- Ch 351 Tag/Garage Sales
- Ch 355 Taxation
- Ch 362 Tobacco Products
- Ch 368 Tree Protection
- Ch 379 Vehicles, Abandoned and Unregistered
- Ch 385 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 390 Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 401 Waste Hauling Services
- Ch 405 Water
- Ch 412 Weapons and Explosives
- Ch 417 Wetlands
- Appendix
- Ch A450 Special Acts and Resolves
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted as Title 4, Ch. 4.16, of the 1986 Code]
No claim shall be paid by the City Treasurer unless it shall
have been approved by the City Auditor.
No money shall be drawn out of the City Treasury without the
written order of the Mayor. The Mayor, and in case of his absence
or inability, the Acting Mayor, is authorized to draw orders on the
City Treasurer for the payment of all accounts and claims allowed
and certified by the City Auditor.
Heads of departments shall certify to the correctness of all
bills incurred by them and, after approval thereof by the committee,
commission or board authorized to approve their department expenditures,
shall forward the same without delay to the City Auditor not later
than the fourth day of each month.
Every payroll, bill or account for salary or compensation to
any person in the service or employment of the City shall be sworn
to by the head of the department or by the person who is immediately
responsible for the appointment, employment, promotion or transfer
of the persons named therein, or in case of the absence or disability
of the head of the department or of such person, then by a person
designated by the head of the department and approved by the Mayor.
All departments of the City government shall file with the City
Auditor itemized bills, duly approved, of all claims as they become
due the City in the several departments, giving full names and addresses
of the debtor. The City Auditor shall examine and record such claims
and transmit them to the City Collector for collection.
A.
When the City Collector is unable to collect a claim by means other
than court action, he may notify the City Solicitor of the pendency
of such claim and the City Solicitor, after investigation, is authorized
to take such appropriate action that he may deem advisable to collect
such claim or, if in his opinion the claim is uncollectible, to recommend
abatement to the proper department head.
B.
Copies of all claims which the City Collector refers to the City
Solicitor shall be filed with the City Auditor.
