[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of
the Town of Walpole as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted as Articles XXI, XXII and XXIII
of the 1973 General Bylaws, as updated through 2002]
Every violation of the provisions of the foregoing
bylaws shall be punished as provided herein or as provided by the
General Laws of the Commonwealth.
The provisions of these bylaws are severable.
If any provision of these bylaws is held invalid, the other provisions
of these bylaws shall not be affected thereby.
These bylaws may be repealed or amended at an
Annual Town Meeting or at any other Town Meeting specially called
for the purpose, an article or articles for such purpose having been
inserted in the Warrant for such meeting.
These bylaws shall go into effect upon their
acceptance by the Town of Walpole, and the approval and publication
in the manner required by law and all bylaws heretofore existing are
hereby repealed.
[Adopted 5-5-2008 SATM, Arts. 21 and 22[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: Articles 21 and 22 were approved by the Attorney
General 7-15-2008.
The Town voted to renumber and accept revisions to the 1973
Town of Walpole General Bylaws of the Town by: a) assigning a chapter
number to each of the General Bylaws; b) renumbering each section
of each bylaw accordingly; c) inserting chapter, article and section
titles; and d) updating internal references to reflect the new numbering
system, all as set forth in the document on file in the office of
the Town Clerk entitled "Town of Walpole Massachusetts General Code
Draft" dated October 2007 February/March 2008, prepared by General
Code, LLC.
The Town voted to enact the following global changes to the
text of the 1973 General Bylaws of the Town of Walpole, all as set
forth in the document on file in the office of the Town Clerk entitled
"Town of Walpole Massachusetts General Code Draft" dated October 2007
February/March 2008 prepared by General Code, LLC:
A.
To cite statutory
references to the Massachusetts General Laws in a consistent manner,
to read in the form MGL c___§____, by revising former citations
that previously took any of the following or similar forms:
B.
To consistently
capitalize the word "Town" when it refers to the Town of Walpole.
C.
To consistently
capitalize the terms "Annual Town Meeting: and "Special Town Meeting"
and the term "Warrant" when referring to the Warrant for a Town Meeting.
D.
To consistently
spell the word "noncriminal" without a hyphen.
E.
To consistently
spell and capitalize the word "bylaw," as follows: Where "by-law"
is hyphenated or two words, to standardize the spelling as "bylaw";
and to lowercase capitalized references to "this Bylaw" which are
not proper nouns (however, references to "Bylaw" in titles of laws
or other proper nouns shall remain capitalized).
