Town of Dalton, MA
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2022-05-02
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Part I: Bylaws
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Chapter 309 Town Meetings
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Article III Rules of Procedure
- Part I: Bylaws
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Advertisements
- Ch 12 Affordable Housing
- Ch 18 Alcoholic Beverages and Marijuana
- Ch 23 Animals
- Ch 30 Assessors
- Ch 42 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 48 Burning, Open
- Ch 52 Business Registration
- Ch 62 Conservation Commission
- Ch 67 Council on Aging
- Ch 82 Elections
- Ch 85 Emergency Management
- Ch 88 False Alarms
- Ch 90 Farm and Forestry Commission
- Ch 92 Fees
- Ch 97 Finance Committee
- Ch 100 Finances
- Ch 131 Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
- Ch 134 Junk and Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 145 Legal Affairs
- Ch 150 Licensing
- Ch 156 Littering
- Ch 169 Mobile Home Park Rent Control Board
- Ch 185 Noise
- Ch 195 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 200 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 206 Personnel Policies
- Ch 211 Planning Board
- Ch 246 Seal
- Ch 252 Sewers
- Ch 270 Solid Waste
- Ch 280 Stormwater Management and Erosion Control
- Ch 284 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 285 Stretch Energy Code
- Ch 290 (Reserved)
- Ch 296 Taxation
- Ch 300 Thin Film Plastic Bag Reduction
- Ch 309 Town Meetings
- Ch 309 Art III Rules of Procedure
- § 309-6 Conduct of meetings.
- § 309-7 Right of elected and appointed officials to address meeting.
- § 309-8 Distribution of copies of motions and article explanations.
- § 309-9 Waiver of reading of articles.
- § 309-10 Conduct of votes.
- Ch 316 Trespassing
- Ch 327 Vehicles, Removal of
- Ch 333 Vehicles, Unregistered or Junk
- Ch 340 Wetlands Protection
- Ch 350 Zoning
- Part II: Select Board Regulations
- Ch 401 Taxicabs
- Ch 402 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 403 Excavations
- Ch 403A Excavation and Trench Safety
- Ch 404 Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Policy
- Part III: Planning Board Regulations
- Ch 501 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 502 Scenic Roads
- Part IV: Board of Health Regulations
- Ch 601 Communicable Diseases
- Ch 603 Sewers
- Ch 604 Solid Waste
- Ch 605 Tobacco Products
- Ch 606 Well Regulations
- Ch 607 Outdoor Woodburning Furnaces
- Part V: Additional Regulations
- Ch 701 Cemetery Rules and Regulations
- Ch 702 Hawkers, Peddlers and Transient Merchants
- Appendix
- Ch A801 General Law Acceptances and Special Acts
- Ch A802 Town Manager
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The rules of procedure and conduct of all Town
Meetings, not otherwise provided for, shall be governed by "Town Meeting
Time, A Handbook of Parliamentary Law" by Johnson, Trustman and Wadsworth,
1962 Edition and as amended by subsequent editions, as far as applicable
and not inconsistent with the bylaws of the Town or of the General
Laws.
At Annual and Special Town Meetings, the duly
appointed and/or elected Town officials, or their designees, regardless
of residency, shall be permitted to address the meeting.
Copies of motions and article explanations for
Annual and Special Town Meetings shall be distributed at the beginning
of each meeting to voters attending the meeting.
At Annual and Special Town Meetings, the Moderator
may waive the reading of each article.
The Moderator may take all votes requiring a
two-thirds majority in the same manner in which he or she conducts
the taking of a vote when a majority vote is required.
