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Town of Westminster, MA Board and Committee Rules
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Town of Westminster, MA
DIVISION 1: THE BYLAWS
Ch 4 Advisory Board
Ch 6 Agricultural Commission
Ch 9 Board and Committee Rules
Ch 9 Art I General Rules
§ 9-1 Qualifications for appointment.
§ 9-2 Residency required.
§ 9-3 Attendance at meetings.
§ 9-4 Vacancies.
§ 9-5 Reports to Town.
§ 9-6 Time limits for appointments, organization and filling of vacancies.
§ 9-7 Notification of organization and hours.
§ 9-8 Notification of appointments.
§ 9-9 Annual reports; budget.
§ 9-9.1 Meeting minutes.
Ch 9 Art II Attendance of Representative at Town Meeting
§ 9-10 Duty of Chairman to attend Town Meeting.
Ch 13 Board of Health
Ch 15 Capital Planning Committee
Ch 16 Cemetery Commission
Ch 19 Clerk, Town
Ch 21 Conservation Commission
Ch 22 Counsel, Town
Ch 25 Elections and Town Meetings
Ch 28 Finances
Ch 44 Personnel Board
Ch 47 Public Works Commission
Ch 53 Selectmen, Board of
Ch 58 Treasurer and Collector
Ch 61 Water Commission
Ch 65 Zoning Board of Appeals
Ch 67 Alarm Systems
Ch 71 Animals
Ch 75 Boats and Boating
Ch 81 Buildings and Land
Ch 88 Cross-Connection Control
Ch 92 Dances; Places of Public Assembly
Ch 97 Earth Removal
Ch 100 Emergency Radio Communications
Ch 102 Farming
Ch 104 Firearms
Ch 110 Garage Sales
Ch 113 Gas, Plumbing and Wiring
Ch 116 Graffiti
Ch 122 Ice-Covered Surfaces
Ch 123 Illicit Discharges and Connections
Ch 125 Junkyards
Ch 131 Licenses and Permits
Ch 134 Littering
Ch 136 Low-Impact Development
Ch 141 Peddling and Soliciting
Ch 148 Rapid Entry Systems
Ch 157 Secondhand Dealers
Ch 161 Sewers
Ch 173 Streets and Sidewalks
Ch 182 Taxicabs
Ch 190 Trees
Ch 193 Vehicles, Abandoned
Ch 196 Vehicles, Motor and Recreational
Ch 198 Water
Ch 200 Wells
Ch 202 Wetlands
Ch 205 Zoning
DIVISION 2: SELECTMEN'S REGULATIONS
Ch 209 (Reserved)
Ch 219 Vehicles and Traffic
DIVISION 3: PLANNING BOARD AND ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS REGULATIONS
Ch 228 Comprehensive Permits
Ch 231 Subdivision of Land
DIVISION 4: BOARD OF HEALTH REGULATIONS
Ch 238 (Reserved)
Ch 240 Hydronic Heaters, Outdoor
Ch 241 (Reserved)
Ch 242 (Reserved)
Ch 243 Portable Bathrooms
Ch 245 Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems
Ch 248 Smoking
Ch 250 Tobacco and Nicotine-Delivery Products
Ch 251 Toxic and Hazardous Wastes
Ch 254 (Reserved)
Ch 255 Wells, Private
Ch A256 Acceptances of General Laws
Ch A257 Special Acts and Resolves
Ch A258 Officers, Boards, Committees and Commissions
Ch A259 Fees
Ch A260 Policies and Procedures of the Board of Selectmen
Ch A261 Miscellaneous
Town of Westminster, MA / DIVISION 1: THE BYLAWS / PART I: ADMINISTRATIVE LEGISLATION
Chapter 9 Board and Committee Rules
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Westminster as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Advisory Board — See Ch. 4.
Board of Health — See Ch. 13.
Town Meetings — See Ch. 25.
Personnel Board — See Ch. 44.
Officers, boards, committees and commissions — See Ch. A258.
Policies and procedures adopted by Board of Selectmen — See Ch. A260.
Article I General Rules
Article II Attendance of Representative at Town Meeting
[Adopted STM 11-12-1974 by Art. 2 as Art. IV of the 1975 Bylaws]
No person shall be appointed to a committee or board who is not a registered voter of the Town and domiciled in the Town.
Anyone appointed or elected to a committee or board who subsequently removes his domicile from the Town shall automatically cease to be a member of said board or committee.
When anyone appointed to an appointive committee or board is absent repeatedly from three consecutive meetings without due cause from duly called meetings, he may be reported to the authority making the original appointment, who may declare that a vacancy exists.
Vacancies occurring on appointive committees and boards shall be filled by the authority making the original appointment.
All committees shall report to the Town unless otherwise specified by the Town Meeting. If no report is made within a year of its appointment, a committee shall be discharged, unless, in the meantime, the Town Meeting shall vote otherwise. A vote to receive the report of a committee shall place the report before the Meeting, but shall not discharge the committee. A vote to accept or to adopt a report of a committee with or without amendment shall discharge the committee.
All committees authorized at any Annual or Special Town Meeting shall be appointed within 45 days of such Town Meeting and shall meet to organize within 15 days from the date of appointment. Any vacancy on existing committees shall be filled within 30 days from the date such vacancy is created. Any vacancy on existing committees shall be duly posted at Town Hall at least 15 days prior to the vacancy being filled.
All officers, boards and committees shall notify the Town Clerk of their organization and of their office hours or time of stated meetings.
Whenever Town officials appoint individuals to serve on Town committees or boards, such appointing officials shall immediately notify the Town Clerk, in writing, of the names of such appointed individuals.
Each department and all appointed committees of the Town shall annually, on or before the second day of January, transmit to the Selectmen, in writing, a report in triplicate, containing a statement of the acts and doings of the department for the past financial year, to be printed in the Annual Report, as the Selectmen may deem expedient.
[Amended STM 6-25-1980 by Art. 2]
Not less than 90 days before the Annual Town Meeting, each department or officially appointed committee having authorized expenditures shall submit to the Advisory Board and the Board of Selectmen a copy of its annual budget, which shall contain a careful, detailed estimate of the probable expenditures of the department or committee for the ensuing year. Any department or committee failing to submit its annual budget not less than 30 days before the Annual Town Meeting may have its last previous annual budget included in the Table of Estimates for action by the Town Meeting at the discretion of the Advisory Board.
[Added ATM 5-4-2002 by Art. 45]
All boards, committees, and commissions of the Town, elected or appointed, shall compile and maintain a record (minutes) of all posted and emergency meetings and shall file the original copy of said minutes with the Town Clerk’s Office within two weeks of approval. The minutes of said meetings shall set forth the date, time, place, members present or absent and action taken at each meeting. The Town Clerk shall note the date and time when such minutes are received. Said minutes shall be made available to the public at reasonable times at the office of the Town Clerk.
[Adopted ATM 5-6-1978 as Art. 30]
It shall be the duty of the Chairman of each elected or appointed board or committee to be present at each Town Meeting, regular or special. In the event of his inability to attend the same, he shall designate some member of said board or committee who shall attend the same in his place.