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The comptroller's office was established by the second Maryland Constitution of 1851 due to concern for potential fraud and corruption in the administration of the public treasury. [6] Pursuant to this mandate, the comptroller effectively functions as Maryland's chief financial officer .
The Office of the Comptroller General began functioning on September 1, 1923, when Law 42 took effect. The first Comptroller General of the Republic was Eugenio Andrade, who was appointed by President Ospina. The current Comptroller General is Carlos Felipe Córdoba Larrarte.
The Chief Minister of the Comptroller General of the Union (Ministro-chefe da Controladoria-Geral da União) is appointed by the president and serves as a member of the Brazilian cabinet. The branch was created by the former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso and its first minister-inspector was the jurist Anadyr de Mendonça Rodrigues.
Thomas Peter DiNapoli (born February 10, 1954) [1] [2] is an American politician serving as the 54th and current New York State Comptroller since 2007. [3] A member of the Democratic Party, he was appointed by a bipartisan majority of the New York State Legislature to the position of comptroller on February 7, 2007.
The comptroller general's office is housed in the Wade Hampton State Office Building. As of May 31, 2023, the agency is staffed by 27 employees. [13] In the event of a vacancy in the office, the General Assembly is empowered by the constitution to appoint a new incumbent.
The office of C&AG was created by the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866, which combined the functions of the Comptroller General of the Exchequer, who had authorised the issue of public moneys from the Treasury to other government departments, with those of the Commissioners of Audit, who had presented the government accounts to the Treasury). [2]
In June 2018, The Boston Globe reported 467 current and former Massachusetts Department of Transportation employees were using the E-ZPass transponders for free. This employee benefit, that has been going on since at least 2009, costs the Massachusetts taxpayers approximately $1 million per year.
Logo of the "CGR" The General Comptroller of the Republic of Chile (Spanish: Contraloría General de República de Chile) is a constitutionally autonomous body of the Government of Chile based on chapter 10 of the Constitution of Chile and it is in charge of the control of the legal aspects, management, preaudit and postaudit functions of all the activities of the centralized and decentralized ...