Town of Brewster, MA
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2023-11-13
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Division 1: Town Meeting Enactments
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 12 Committees
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Article I Finance Committee
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Division 1: Town Meeting Enactments
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 5 Administration
- Ch 6 Boards, Commissions and Authorities
- Ch 7 Festivals
- Ch 8 Bylaws
- Ch 9 Cemetery, Town
- Ch 10 Civil Defense
- Ch 12 Committees
- Ch 12 Art I Finance Committee
- § 12-1 Establishment; membership.
- § 12-2 Duties.
- § 12-3 Authority to investigate accounts.
- § 12-4 Compensation.
- § 12-5 Filling of vacancies.
- § 12-6 Existing appointments.
- Ch 15 Council on Aging
- Ch 16 Health and Human Services Committee
- Ch 17 Community Preservation Committee
- Ch 18 Affordable Housing Trust Fund
- Ch 20 Fees
- Ch 21 Finances
- Ch 22 (Reserved)
- Ch 36 Personnel
- Ch 38 Public Meetings, Minutes of
- Ch 39 Property, Sale of
- Ch 41 Regional School District
- Ch 42 Select Board
- Ch 43 Town Property, Disposal of
- Ch 46 Town Counsel
- Ch 48 Town Meetings
- Ch 49 Police Department
- Ch 53 Water Districts
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 56 Accommodations
- Ch 58 Alarm Systems
- Ch 59 Recreational Marijuana Retailers
- Ch 60 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 61 Ambulance Service
- Ch 62 Auctions
- Ch 65 Beaches
- Ch 69 Boats
- Ch 72 (Reserved)
- Ch 77 Camping
- Ch 83 Staff Review
- Ch 86 Dogs
- Ch 87 Domestic Partnerships
- Ch 89 Dredging and Soil Removal
- Ch 91 (Reserved)
- Ch 93 Erosion
- Ch 97 Firearms and Explosives
- Ch 98 Hunting in the Punkhorn Parklands
- Ch 100 Flooding
- Ch 106 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 112 Water
- Ch 115 Illicit Connections and Discharges
- Ch 119 Fertilizer Nutrient Control
- Ch 122 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 125 Noise
- Ch 128 Numbering of Property
- Ch 130 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 132 Peeping or Spying
- Ch 135 Pollution and Environmental Hazards
- Ch 146 Secondhand Articles, Sale of
- Ch 150 Sewers
- Ch 152 Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles
- Ch 155 Streetlighting
- Ch 157 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 159 Stretch Energy Code
- Ch 160 (Reserved)
- Ch 168 Vehicles, Unregistered
- Ch 171 Water Betterments
- Ch 172 Wetlands Protection
- Ch 179 Zoning
- Ch 272 Stormwater Management
- Division 2: Select Board Regulations
- Ch SR Select Board Regulations
- Division 3: Board of Health Regulations
- Ch BOH Board of Health Regulations
- Division 4: Miscellaneous
- Ch 290 Subdivision Rules and Regulations
- Appendix
- Ch A295 General Laws and Special Acts
- Ch A296 Committees, Boards and Councils
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 4-26-1929 STM]
[Amended 6-24-1974 STM, Art. 4; 5-14-1979 STM, Art. 15; 5-9-1983 STM, Art. 37]
There shall be a Finance Committee consisting
of nine members, who are residents of the Town and who shall hold
no other Town office. All members of the Finance Committee shall be
appointed by the Moderator for the term of three years. The Town Moderator
shall annually appoint three members for a term of three years. All
appointments by the Moderator shall begin on July 1 and shall terminate
on June 30 of the third year following appointment, except vacancies
in existing offices, which may be appointed by the Moderator for the
original term.
It shall be the duty of this Committee to consider
all matters of business included within the articles of any warrant
for a Town Meeting, and it shall be the duty of the Selectmen, immediately
upon drawing up a warrant for Town Meeting, to transmit a copy thereof
to the Finance Committee. The Committee shall report on each article
to the Town Meeting, in print or otherwise as it deems for the best
interest of the Town.
The Finance Committee shall have authority at
any time to investigate the books, accounts and management of any
department of the Town, and the books and accounts of the Town shall
be open to inspection of the Committee or any person authorized to
act for the Committee.
The members of the Finance Committee shall serve
without pay for their services but may be reimbursed for actual expenses
incurred in the discharge of their duties thereunder.
[Amended 5-6-1996 ATM, Art. 18]
Any vacancy which may occur in said Committee
shall be filled by the Town Moderator.
All existing appointments shall remain in effect
until their normal expiration date.
