Code of Massachusetts Regulations
815 CMR - COMPTROLLER'S DIVISION
Title 815 CMR 4.00 - Late Penalty Interest
Section 4.02 - Definitions

(1) Contract - A legally enforceable agreement between a vendor and a department for the provision of goods and/or services in consideration of compensation to be paid by the Commonwealth, executed in the name of the Commonwealth by a department thereof.

(2) Department - Any department, office, board, commission or institution of the Executive, Judicial or Legislative branches including the constitutional offices.

(3) General Appropriation Bill - A bill enacted annually by the Legislature to set apart from public revenues a specific amount of money to be used by officers of the Commonwealth's departments for particular purposes to implement and maintain programs the Legislature has established for the state fiscal year.

(4) Invoice - A bill submitted by a vendor on a form determined by the contract between the department and the vendor, or if no form is specified, MMARS Form PV, which specifies the goods and/or services delivered and the price.

(5) MMARS - The Massachusetts Management Accounting and Reporting System is the acronym for the Automated Financial Management and Accounting System of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

(6) Medical Assistance Provider - (hereinafter Medicaid Providers) constitutes any agency, person, or group qualified under the laws of the Commonwealth to perform or provide medical care or services eligible for financial assistance from the department for all or part of the cost of eligible medical care and services pursuant to 42 USCA § 1396 et seq.

(7) Office of the Comptroller - A department established pursuant to M.G.L. c. 7A within the Executive Office for Administration and Finance.

(8) Vendor - A party, whether an individual, a partnership, a corporation, or other form of business entity, who is registered to do business with the Commonwealth and is listed on the Commonwealth's vendor file with the Office of the Comptroller, but excluding state employees, "03" employees, recipients of public assistance, and cities and town and other instrumentalities designated as governmental jurisdictions on the Commonwealth's vendor file.

(9) Warrant Date - The date of the weekly meeting of the Governor's Council, usually a Wednesday but if a holiday falls on a Wednesday, then the Tuesday, during which the Governor's Council approves expenditures under M.G.L. c. 7A, § 3.