All boards, commissions, committees and departments shall submit
their budgets to the Town accountant not less than 10 working days
before January 31. The Town Accountant shall at once make these budgets
available to the Town Administrator and to the Finance Committee.
Any person holding an appointive or elective office may resign
his office by filing a resignation with the Town Clerk, and such resignation
shall be effective immediately, unless a time certain is specified
therein when it shall take effect.
Any person appointed to an office, board, commission or committee
may be removed for cause by the appointing authority. Where the appointing
authority consists of three positions a majority vote of the full
membership shall be required for removal of an appointee. Where the
appointing authority consists of five positions, a vote of four members
for removal shall be required to remove the appointee. Removal procedures
for individual positions specified by the General Laws shall supersede
those in this section if a difference exists.
Elections and appointments to all boards, commissions and committees
consisting of more than one member and where terms are greater than
one year shall be made in a manner that all terms of all incumbents
do not expire in the same year. Wherever possible, an equal number
of members of each board, commission and committee shall come to the
end of their terms of office in each year.
Town Meeting approval for appointive positions, as set forth
in § C4-2 of this Charter, shall not be required for positions
established before the date this Charter becomes effective. Said positions
shall continue to be established unless discontinued by Town Meeting
or other legitimate authority.
Where provisions of this Charter conflict with provisions of
Town bylaws, rules, regulations, orders and special laws the Charter
provisions shall govern. All provisions of Town bylaws, rules, regulations,
orders and special laws not superseded by this Charter shall remain
in force.
If any provisions of this Charter are held invalid, the other
provisions of the Charter shall not be affected thereby. If the application
of the Charter or any of its provisions to any person or circumstance
is held invalid, the application of this Charter and its provisions
to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
To the extent that any specific provision of this Charter shall
conflict with any provision expressed in general terms, the specific
provision shall prevail.
Copies of this Charter and the Town bylaws shall be made available
for purchase by the general public in the office of the Town Clerk.
An amount not to exceed the actual cost per copy may be charged. The
Town Clerk shall republish the Town bylaws to reflect changes adopted
since the last date of publication at intervals not to exceed five
years in duration.
All elected and appointed officials shall be qualified by the
Town Clerk within 15 days of their election except where a different
period is specified in the General Laws. If an appointed official
is not qualified in this period his appointment shall terminate and
the appointing authority shall be so notified by the Town Clerk.
A.
Amendments to this Charter relating in any way to the composition
of the Town Meeting or the composition or mode of election or terms
of office of the Board of Selectmen may be proposed only by a Charter
Commission elected under Chapter 43B of the General Laws.
B.
Amendments to the Charter relating to other matters may be proposed
by a two-thirds vote at a duly called Town meeting in accordance with
said General Law.
C.
Proposed amendments under this Charter shall be acted upon by ballot
of the whole Town at a regular or special election of Town officers
in accordance with the General Laws.
Terms of appointment shall end on June 30 except for appointments
whose terms are specified by General Law.
All Town officials who receive remuneration shall be compensated
in an amount approved annually by Town Meeting.
The Town Seal in existence at the time this Charter is adopted,
unless the Town Meeting shall adopt another, shall continue to be
the Town Seal and shall be kept in the custody of the Town Clerk.
Papers or documents issued from any office or board of the Town may
be attested by use of said Seal.
Unless otherwise specified by the General Laws all fees or other
revenues collected by a Town officer or employee other than constables
shall be paid into the treasury of the Town and shall not accrue to
the benefit of any individual.
