§ 7. Duties of department of taxation and finance. The commissioner of
taxation and finance shall receive all moneys paid into the treasury of
the state, pay all warrants drawn by the comptroller on the treasury in
a timely manner, make no payment out of the treasury except on the
warrant of the comptroller, and annually report to the legislature an
exact statement of the balance in the treasury, at the close of the
preceding fiscal year, with a summary of the receipts into and payments
from the treasury during such year.