Town of Dartmouth, MA
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2022-10-18
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Division 1: General By-laws
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 65 Officers and Employees
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Article V Town Counsel
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Division 1: General By-laws
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 6 Affordable Housing Trust Fund
- Ch 9 Aging, Council on
- Ch 12 Agricultural Commission
- Ch 18 Capital Planning Committee
- Ch 22 Community Preservation Committee
- Ch 25 Conservation Commission
- Ch 34 Finance Committee
- Ch 37 Financial Procedures
- Ch 44 Historic District Commission
- Ch 60 Noncriminal Disposition
- Ch 65 Officers and Employees
- Ch 65 Art V Town Counsel
- § 65-8 Appointment and duties.
- § 65-9 Other counsel.
- § 65-10 Term of contract.
- § 65-11 Assistant Town Counsel.
- § 65-12 Authority.
- Ch 76 Residency Requirements
- Ch 82 Select Board
- Ch 87 Soil Conservation Board
- Ch 95 Town Meeting
- Ch 104 Waterways Management Department
- Ch 109 Wire Department
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 122 Alarms
- Ch 125 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 129 Amusements and Entertainment
- Ch 134 Animals
- Ch 146 Boating and Waterways
- Ch 153 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 156 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 162 Business Hours
- Ch 177 Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 184 Earth and Soil Removal
- Ch 192 Farming
- Ch 196 Fees and Charges
- Ch 209 Historic Preservation
- Ch 220 Junk, Old Metals and Secondhand Articles
- Ch 231 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 250 Noise
- Ch 259 Paintball Guns
- Ch 265 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 271 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 276 Plastic Bags
- Ch 298 Signs and Lighting
- Ch 305 Soliciting and Canvassing
- Ch 311 Storage Tanks
- Ch 313 Stormwater Management
- Ch 315 Streets, Sidewalks and Public Property
- Ch 328 Transient Vendors
- Ch 340 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 344 Vehicles, Junk
- Ch 352 Waste Management
- Ch 356 Water
- Ch 360 Wetlands
- Ch 363 Floodplain Management
- Division 2: Zoning By-law
- Ch 375 Zoning
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 5-25-1982, approved
9-7-1982; amended 5-27-1997, approved
8-1-1997; 6-7-2011, approved 9-15-2011
(Art. 39 of the 2011 General By-Laws)]
The Select Board shall appoint some competent lawyer to act
as Town Counsel. Town Counsel shall have the care of all legal actions
that are authorized to be brought or defended by the Town, except
for those matters which are assigned to the Town Agent.
The Select Board, after consultation with Town Counsel, may
retain other legal counsel for Town labor negotiations and related
contract issues as well as particular issues where a conflict of interest
exists or where specialized legal expertise is required.
[Amended 6-3-2014 ATM
by Art. 29, approved 6-24-2014]
The Select Board is authorized to contract for Town Counsel
services on terms not to exceed three years.
The Select Board, upon recommendation of Town Counsel may appoint
some competent lawyer as Assistant Town Counsel upon terms and conditions
as they may determine.
The Town Counsel, and any counsel acting by or on his or her
behalf, shall have all of the authority and right given to Town Counsel
under the laws and statutes, as amended, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
