Chap. 520. ordinance adopted by the city council of said city on December twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, retroactive to January first, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven. Section 2. Said city of Brockton is hereby further authorized to appropriate the sum of two hundred seventy-five thousand three hundred and twenty-six dollars and forty-one cents for the payment of said pay increase; provided, however, that said appropriation is charged to the tax levy for the year nineteen hundred and sixty-eight. Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved July 9, 1968. Chap. 520. An Act making appropriations for the maintenance OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY, ITS DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND INSTITUTIONS, OF SUNDRY OTHER SERVICES, FOR CERTAIN PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS, FOR INTEREST AND DEBT REQUIREMENTS, AND TO MEET CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS OF LAW AND GRANTING A COUNTY TAX FOR SAID COUNTY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. To provide for the maintenance of Plymouth county, its departments, boards, commissions and institutions, of sundry other services, for certain permanent improvements, for interest and debt requirements, and to meet certain requirements of law, the following sums for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in section two are hereby appropriated, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of county funds and the approval thereof for the year nineteen hundred and sixty-eight: Plymouth County. Item 1. For interest on county debt........'............ 2. For reduction of county debt.................. 3. For county commissioners, salaries and expenses. . 4. For transportation and expenses of county and acting commissioners....................... 5. For clerk of courts, salaries and expenses........ 6. For county treasurer, salaries and expenses...... 7. For sheriff, salary and expenses................ 8. For registry of deeds, salaries and expenses..... 8a. For registry of probate, salaries and expenses. . . . 9. For law library, salaries and expenses........... 10. For highways, including state highways, bridges and land damages.......................... 11. For examination of dams...................... 12. For criminal costs in superior court............. 13. For civil expenses in supreme judicial, superior, probate and land courts, including auditors, masters and referees........................ 14. For district courts, salaries and expenses........ 15. For medical examiners and commitments of insane 16. For jail and house of correction, maintenance and operation................................. $75,435 91 232,001 82 45,132 95 900 00 113,766 28 37,621 80 15,330 00 262,845 04 19,293 80 10,305 30 319,635 00 1,000 00 242,513 95 171,544 20 627,126 21 37,375 00 521,389 17 424 Acts, 1968.— Chap. 520. Item 17. For training school........................... $30,000 00 18. For court houses and registry buildings, mainte- nance and operation,....................... 161,684 63 19. For construction of county buildings and purchase of land.................................... 25,000 00 20. For agricultural school or county aid to agriculture, maintenance and operation.................. 105,908 34 24. For noncontributory pensions.................. 24,000 00 25. For contributory retirement system and super- visory expenses ........................... 128,079 26 26. For miscellaneous and contingent expenses...... 20,048 45 27. For unpaid bills of previous years.............. 27,057 33 28. For reserve fund............................. 35,000 00 30. For forest fire patrol.......................... 6,550 00 31. For police radio system....................... 250 00 32a. For maintenance, forest fire apparatus.......... 1,120 00 33. For police training school and bureau of criminal investigation.............................. 30,896 05 38. For county airplane.......................... 1,720 00 39. For group insurance......................... 28,275 00 Total amount of appropriations............ $3,358,805 49 Less estimated amount available for reduction of county tax................................ 637,795 05 And the county commissioners of Plymouth County are hereby authorized to levy as the county tax of said-county for the current year, in the manner provided by law, the sum of...... $2,721,010 44 Section 2. Sums appropriated in section one are based upon detailed schedules approved by the joint committee on counties, copies of which are deposited with the director of accounts. Said director shall file with the county commissioners and the county treasurer of Plymouth county a certification of the amounts above appropriated as set forth in the approved schedules. Except as provided by this act or except as otherwise provided by law, no liability may be incurred and no expenditure shall be' made in excess of the amount available in an existing appropriation for a function, a main group, a class or a subclass. Transfers within an appropriation from a main group to another main group may be made upon written request of the authorized official of the organization unit with the written approval of the county commissioners, and copies of said request and approval shall be filed with the county treasurer; provided, however, that no transfer shall be made from the main groups "personal services", "equipment", "structures and improvements" or "improvements to land" to another main group nor shall any transfer be made from any other main group into any of the aforementioned main groups. Transfers within an appropriation between classes and between subclasses within a main group may be made by the authorized official of Acts, 1968.—Chap. 520. the organization unit whenever in his opinion public necessity and convenience so requires; provided, however, that no transfer shall be made within the classes of the main groups "personal services" or "equipment". Amounts included for permanent positions in sums appropriated in section one for personal services are based upon schedules of permanent positions and salary rates as approved by the joint committee on counties, and, except as otherwise shown by the files of said committee, a copy of which shall be deposited with the county personnel board, no part of sums so appropriated in section one shall be available for payment of salaries of any additional permanent positions, or for payments on account of reallocations of permanent positions, or for payments on account of any change of salary range or compensation of any permanent positions, notwithstanding any special or general law to the contrary. Moneys appropriated under this act for the purchase of equipment shall be expended for the purposes specified in the schedules as approved by the joint committee on counties and for no other purpose. Section 3. No expense incurred for mid-day meals by county officers and employees, other than those who receive as part of their compensation a noncash allowance in the form of full or complete boarding and housing, and those county officers and employees who are stationed beyond commuting distance from their homes for a period of more than twenty-four hours, shall be allowed; provided that officers or employees who have charge of juries or who have the care and custody of prisoners, insane persons or other persons placed in their charge by a court or under legal proceedings for, transfer to or from court to an institution or from institution to institution and persons certified by a district attorney as engaged in investigation shall be reimbursed for the expense of midday meals when necessarily engaged on such duty; and provided, further, that county officers and employees in attendance at meetings and conferences called by or for any group or class on a statewide basis shall be so reimbursed. Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, not more than two employees of a county may be reimbursed for meals and other expenses incurred in attendance at a meeting or conference called by or for any group or class on a statewide basis. No moneys appropriated under this act shall be expended by county officers or employees for monthly telephone service furnished to such officers or employees at places other than regular offices. No moneys appropriated under this act shall be approved by the county commissioners and expended by the county treasurer for any unpaid bills of previous years which were incurred prior to January first of nineteen hundred and sixty-seven. Section 4. The allowance to county officers and employees for expenses incurred by them in the operation of motor vehicles owned by them or by any member of their immediate families and used in the performance of their official duties shall not exceed eight cents a mile, except in cases where a higher allowance is specifically provided by statute; provided that in the case of commitments of the insane the justice of the court ordering the commitment may order a higher rate, but not to exceed forty cents a mile one way. No expenditures shall be 426 Acts, 1968.—