[Adopted 4-1-1957 by Ord. No. 85 (Ch.
17 of the 1976 Code)]
The Town Council as constituted at any given
time shall be the Board of Recreation, and the Town Council acting
in the capacity of the Board of Recreation may request the Town School
Committee to designate one of its members to serve with the Board
of Recreation as a member ex officio.
The Board of Recreation is vested with the authority
to establish, construct, equip, control and maintain public playgrounds,
athletic fields, swimming pools, bathing places and other community
recreation centers and to conduct and promote recreation, play, sport
and physical training for which admission or other fees may be charged.
To give effect to the authority vested in the
Board of Recreation, the Board of Recreation may conduct its activities
on land and in buildings, adapted or adaptable for such purposes,
owned by the Town, with the consent of the committee or board in control
of such property, or on land or in buildings that may hereafter be
acquired for such purposes by gift, purchase or lease, and may also,
in its discretion, take charge of and use any place or places which
any person may offer the use of for purposes herein enumerated. The
Board of Recreation may employ a Superintendent of Recreation, teachers
and other officers and may fix their compensation. The Board of Recreation
may authorize the use of such property as may be under its control
for any other municipal purpose or by any person, society or other
organizations for such other public, recreational, social or educational
purposes as the Board of Recreation may deem proper.
