Town of Easton, MA
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2022-11-28
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Division 1 Charter
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Chapter C Charter
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Article 2 Legislative Branch
- Division 1 Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Ch C Art 2 Legislative Branch
- § C-2-1 Town Meeting.
- § C-2-2 Presiding officer.
- § C-2-3 Time of Meeting.
- § C-2-4 Availability of town officials at Town Meetings.
- Division 2 Bylaws
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Audit Committee
- Ch 4 Budget Subcommittee
- Ch 6 Capital Planning Committee
- Ch 8 Collector of Taxes
- Ch 11 Contracts and Purchasing
- Ch 14 Council on Aging
- Ch 16 (Reserved)
- Ch 18 Agricultural Commission
- Ch 20 Easton Affordable Housing Trust Fund
- Ch 22 Finance Committee
- Ch 26 Financial Affairs
- Ch 39 Legal Affairs
- Ch 44 Meetings
- Ch 50 Noncriminal Disposition of Violations
- Ch 56 Personal Property, Sale of
- Ch 59 Personnel
- Ch 65 Records and Reports
- Ch 73 Tree Warden
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 89 Advertising, Outdoor
- Ch 93 Alarms
- Ch 96 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 100 Amusement Devices
- Ch 104 Animals
- Ch 112 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 114 Building Demolition Permit Review
- Ch 117 Cable Television
- Ch 121 Cigarette Rolling Paper
- Ch 128 Earth Removal
- Ch 132 Entertainment
- Ch 136 Excavations
- Ch 141 Fire Lanes
- Ch 147 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 150 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 152 Local Historic District
- Ch 156 Junk, Old and Precious Metals and Secondhand Articles
- Ch 162 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 168 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 175 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 179 (Reserved)
- Ch 183 Public Gatherings
- Ch 186 Public Property, Destruction of
- Ch 188 Marijuana
- Ch 189 Right to Farm
- Ch 193 Sales, Yard
- Ch 195 Smoking Ban
- Ch 198 Solid Waste
- Ch 200 Stormwater Management
- Ch 202 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 203 Stretch Energy Code
- Ch 206 Swimming Pools
- Ch 215 Vehicles, Sale of
- Ch 218 Vehicles, Unregistered
- Ch 223 Water
- Ch 224 Sewer District; Board of Sewer Commissioners
- Ch 227 Wetlands Protection
- Ch 235 Zoning
- Division 3 Board of Health
- Ch 304 Backyard Composting
- Ch 308 Body Art
- Ch 316 Floor Drains
- Ch 320 Food Service Establishments
- Ch 329 Manure and Animal Waste Management
- Ch 332 Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
- Ch 337 Pasteurization
- Ch 343 Sanitary Landfill
- Ch 346 Sanitation Facilities
- Ch 350 Sewage Disposal Systems, On-Site
- Ch 355 Solid Waste
- Ch 360 Swine
- Ch 364 Tobacco Products, Sale of
- Ch 369 Wells, Private
- Division 4 Zoning Board of Appeals
- Ch 400 Comprehensive Permits
- Ch 401 (Reserved)
- Ch 402 (Reserved)
- Division 5 Rules and Regulations
- Ch 500 Plan Approval Authority Rules and Regulations
- Ch 501 Subdivision Rules and Regulations
- Ch 502 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 503 Wetlands Regulations
- Ch 504 Regulations for Use of Conservation Land
- Ch 505 Sewer Use Regulations
- Ch 506 Mobile Home Park Rules and Regulations
- Ch 507 Building Demolition Review Regulations
- Ch 508 Local Historic District Rules and Regulations
- Appendix
- Ch 800 Acceptances of General Laws
- Ch 801 Special Acts
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The legislative powers of the town shall continue to be exercised
by a Town Meeting open to all voters.
[Amended by Chapter 163 of
the Acts of 2020]
The Moderator, as provided in § C3-3, shall preside
at all sessions of the Town Meeting. At the first town meeting session
at which the moderator presides following the moderator's election,
the moderator shall appoint a deputy moderator to serve as acting
moderator in the event of the moderator's temporary absence or disability.
The appointment of a Deputy Moderator shall be subject to ratification
by the Town Meeting.
Subject to the provisions of the Charter and such bylaws regarding
committees as may be provided by the Town Meeting, the moderator shall
appoint the members of such committees of the Town Meeting, special
or standing, as may from time to time be established.
The moderator shall perform such other duties as may from time
to time be assigned to the office of Moderator by bylaw or other vote
of the Town Meeting.
The regular Annual Town Meeting of the Town of Easton for the
transaction of business relating to the prudential affairs of the
town shall be held on such date as may from time to time be fixed
in the bylaws of the town.[1]
[Amended by Chapter 163 of
the Acts of 2020]
Every town officer, the head of each department and the head
of each division within the said departments shall attend all sessions
of the Town Meeting for the purpose of providing the Town Meeting
with information pertinent to matters appearing in the warrant.
In the event any town officer, department head or division head
is to be absent due to illness or other reasonable cause, the town
officer, department head or division head shall designate a deputy
to attend in place of the town officer, department head or division
head.
