[HISTORY: Adopted by the Special Town Meeting 11-12-1974 by Art. 2
as Art. V, Sec. E, of the 1975 Bylaws. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended STM 9-29-1983 by Art. 10; ATM 5-1-2021 by Art. 19]
There shall be an Advisory Board[1] consisting of five (5) voters of the town to be appointed
by the Moderator. The Moderator shall appoint, not later than November
of each year, two (2) members of the Advisory Board for terms of three
(3) years, except that every third year he shall appoint three (3)
members. Each member of the Advisory Board shall be a registered voter
and domiciled in the town, provided that no person who shall have
the care, custody or disposal of town funds or the care, custody or
disposal of town property, either as a town officer or member of any
town committee, or an agent of such officer or town committee, shall
be eligible to serve on said committee. The Moderator shall notify
the Town Clerk of the names and addresses of the persons so selected,
and thereupon the Town Clerk shall notify each such person of such
appointment and shall administer the proper oath of office to each
of them.
[1]
Editor's Note: See MGL C. 6, §§ 97
and 98.
It shall be the duty of this Board to investigate
the financial affairs of the town, including receipts of or expenditures
by the different departments, or of any town officer; the methods
in which the town business is conducted; the general conduct of the
town officers; and all articles in town warrants for Town Meetings
referred to it, and in the discharge of these duties shall have free
access to all books of accounts, books of record and all accounts,
bills and vouchers on which money has been or may be paid from the
town treasury. All articles that may hereafter be inserted in warrants
for any town matters, excepting articles for the choice of officers,
are hereby referred to the Advisory Board.
The Board shall report, in writing, its recommendations
on the articles in the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting referred
to it as herein provided and to verbally report immediately after
the Annual Town Meeting is called to order, under the article calling
for reports of committees, or under each article as it is taken up.
In addition, the Board shall make its recommendations known for articles
in the warrant for Special Town Meetings by making them available
to one (1) or more local newspapers prior to the Special Town Meeting.
