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the sum of three thousand three-hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty-five cents; said bills being legally unenforceable against said city by reason of their being incurred in excess of available appropriations.
Section 1A. No bill shall be approved by the city auditor of said city for payment or paid by the treasurer thereof under authority of this act unless and until a certificate has been signed and filed with said city auditor, stating under the penalties of perjury that the goods, materials or services for which said bill was submitted were ordered by an official or an employee of said city, and that such goods and materials were delivered and actually received by said city or that such services were rendered to said city, or both.
Section IB. Any person who knowingly files a certificate required
by section one A, which is false and who thereby receives payment for
goods, materials or services which were not received by or rendered to
v said city, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one
year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, or both.
Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved June 10,1971.
Chap. 384.   An Act authorizing the city of chicopee to appbopbi-
ATE  MONEY  FOE  THE  PAYMENT OF, AND  TO  PAY,  CEETAIN UNPAID BILLS.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. The city of Chicopee is hereby authorized to appropriate money for the payment of, and after such appropriation the treasurer of said city is hereby authorized to pay, the following unpaid bills:—one hundred thirty-two dollars to Baxter Sand & Gravel, Inc., three hundred twenty-one dollars to the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, one thousand sixty-eight dollars to L & S Trucking Co., Inc., three hundred seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents to J. F. Partyka & Son, Inc., four hundred forty-six dollars and sixty cents to Braun's Welding Service, Inc., three hundred sixty-five dollars to Stanley A. Soja, Inc., and two thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars to Theodore Ondrick, General Contractor, of the city of Chicopee, for services and materials rendered to said city in the year nineteen hundred and seventy, which bills are legally unenforceable against said city by reason of their being incurred in excess of available appropriations.
Section 2. No bill shall be approved by the city auditor of said city for payment or paid by the treasurer thereof under authority of this act unless and until a certificate has been signed and filed with said city auditor, stating under the penalties of perjury that the materials or services for which said bill has been submitted were ordered by an official or an employee of said city, and that such materialswere delivered to and actually received by said city, or that such services were rendered to said city, or both.
Any person who knowingly files a certificate, required by section two, which is false and who thereby receives payment for materials or services which were not received by or rendered to said city shall be
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punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, or both. Section 3.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved June 10,1971.