§ 10. Compromise of old judgments and debts. The attorney-general and comptroller, or either of them, may acknowledge satisfaction of a judgment in favor of the people of the state when the same is settled or discharged. The comptroller, with the approval of the attorney-general, may compromise, settle, release and discharge any judgment or contract […]
§ 11. Gifts, devises and bequests. Whenever any gift or bequest of money is lawfully made to the state, or to any department, board, bureau or officer thereof, the amount of such gift or bequest shall be paid to the department of taxation and finance to be held by such department in trust for the […]
§ 12. Annual reports to legislature by institutions entitled to receive money from state. All institutions and societies entitled by law to receive money from the state shall make an annual report to the legislature on or before the fifteenth day of January in each year, and no such money shall be paid in any […]
§ 13. Boards of visitors. A member of the board of visitors, a manager, trustee or officer of any state charitable or other institution receiving moneys from the state treasury for maintenance and support shall be entitled to actual and necessary traveling expenses when attending meetings of the board at the office of the institution […]
§ 14. Departmental statements. In addition to the annual department reports prescribed by law, the head of each department of the state, on or before the fifteenth day of October in each year, shall submit to the governor a statement of the sources, amounts and disposition of all money received by such department, its divisions, […]
§ 14-a. Tax audit reporting system. 1. The department of taxation and finance shall establish and maintain a comprehensive tax audit reporting system which shall provide the governor and the legislature with a systematic method to evaluate the progress made by the department in achieving revenue targets. In order to ensure that the reporting system […]
§ 14-b. Capital projects and maintenance statements. The head of each state agency shall furnish the governor, at the time and in the form he requires but in no event later than December first of each year, a statement for which plans prepared to meet other existing statutory requirements may be accepted as a partial […]
§ 15. Fees to be charged for certain documents. 1. Except as herein otherwise provided, no blank, report, pamphlet or other document printed pursuant to law by or under the supervision and direction of a state department, or a division, officer, board, bureau, commission or other state agency, included within such department, shall be furnished […]
§ 16. Rate of interest on judgments and accrued claims against the state. The rate of interest to be paid by the state upon any judgment or accrued claim against the state shall not exceed nine per centum per annum.
§ 17. Reports on financed equipment acquisitions. Within thirty days following the close of each calendar quarter, beginning with the calendar quarter ending on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight, the director of the budget shall, to the extent practicable, provide a report to the chairs of the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and […]
§ 18. Interest and collection fees assessed on debts owed to the state. 1. As used in this section: (a) “state agency” shall mean any state department, board, bureau, division, commission, committee, public authority, public benefit corporation, council, office, or other governmental entity performing a governmental or proprietary function for the state; (b) “debt” shall […]
§ 19. Returned check charge. 1. As used in this section, (a) “state agency” shall mean any state department, board, bureau, division, commission, committee, public authority, public benefit corporation, council, office, or other governmental entity performing a governmental or proprietary function for the state; and (b) “dishonored check” shall mean a check, draft or like […]
* § 19-a. Parking facilities; support for electric vehicle charging stations. 1. For purposes of this section: (a) the term “construction project” shall mean construction work involving or including the construction of a new parking facility done under contract which is paid for in whole or in part out of public funds as such term […]
§ 2-a. Additional definitions. As used in subdivisions two-b and two-c of section eight of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. “Internal control”. A process that integrates the activities, plans, attitudes, policies, systems, resources and efforts of the people of an organization working together, and that is designed to provide […]
§ 7. Duties of department of taxation and finance. The commissioner of taxation and finance shall receive all moneys paid into the treasury of the state, pay all warrants drawn by the comptroller on the treasury in a timely manner, make no payment out of the treasury except on the warrant of the comptroller, and […]
§ 8. Duties of the comptroller. The comptroller shall: 1. Superintend the fiscal concerns of the state. 2. Keep, audit and state all accounts in which the state is interested, and keep accurate and proper books, showing their conditions at all times. 2-a. Operate and maintain and at his discretion revise and modify a state […]
§ 8-a. Deviations from generally accepted accounting principles. In carrying out the accounting and financial reporting responsibilities assigned to him by subdivisions two, two-a, nine and nine-a of section eight of this chapter, the comptroller is authorized to interpret and, if he deems it necessary, deviate from generally accepted accounting principles, provided that any deviations […]
§ 8-b. Additional duties of the comptroller. 1. The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to assess fringe benefit and central service agency indirect costs on all non-general funds, and on the general fund upon request and at the sole discretion of the director of the budget, and to charge such assessments to such funds. […]
§ 8-c. Enterprise fraud prevention and detection system. 1. In furtherance of the comptroller’s constitutional and statutory functions, duties and responsibilities, the comptroller may, within his or her discretion, establish, implement and update as necessary an electronic data analytical enterprise fraud prevention and detection system for the prevention of fraud, waste and abuse in state […]
§ 9. Subpoenas; oaths. The comptroller, deputy comptrollers and assistant deputy comptroller, or either of them, may issue a subpoena or subpoenas requiring a person or persons to attend before the comptroller, a deputy comptroller or assistant deputy comptroller and be examined in reference to any matter within the scope of the inquiry or investigation […]
