[ Text of section effective until January 1, 2013. For text effective January 1, 2013, see below.]

  Section 66. Any officer or employee who knowingly violates, authorizes or directs another officer or employee to violate any provision of this chapter, or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, or any other provision of law relating to the incurring of liability or expenditure of public funds, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than one year, or both. Any sheriff who expends funds in excess of the budget approved by the county government finance review board pursuant to section twelve of chapter sixty-four D shall be punished as provided in this section.

Chapter 29: Section 66. Violation of state finance laws; penalties

[ Text of section as recodified by 2012, 165, Sec. 112 effective January 1, 2013. See 2012, 165, Sec. 137. For text effective until January 1, 2013, see above.]

  Section 66. Any officer or employee who knowingly violates, authorizes or directs another officer or employee to violate this chapter, or any rule or regulation promulgated under this chapter, or any other law relating to the incurring of liability or expenditure of public funds, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than 1 year, or both.