ARTICLE 5
Town Clerk
5.1 The Town Clerk shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of town clerks under the General Laws, any special laws applicable to the Town, including the representative town meeting act, the General By-Laws and the Zoning By-Law of the Town.
5.2 The Town Clerk shall keep a file of all town reports, reports and records of boards and committees of the Town and all original documents relating to the affairs of the Town which come into the Town Clerk's custody. The Town Clerk shall suitably index all such reports, records and documents in a manner convenient for reference and examination.
5.3 The Town Clerk shall have stated hours for the transaction of business on all days on which the Town offices are open and shall give public notice thereof.
5.4 The Town Clerk shall employ a competent stenographer who shall be sworn and shall make a verbatim record of the entire proceedings of every town meeting, in order to assist the Town Clerk in obtaining and retaining a proper record of the proceedings. The Town Clerk, the Board of Selectmen and any other town officer may require the stenographer to transcribe the whole or any part of the notes of such proceedings. The stenographer's notes shall be filed with the Town Clerk and shall be a public record of the Town. Compensation for the stenographer shall be paid by the Town. Any voter of the Town may at any time request that the Town Clerk require the stenographer to transcribe and furnish such voter with a record of the whole or any part of the proceedings of any town meeting, provided such voter shall pay the stenographer
in advance therefor, at the customary rates charged by such stenographer.
5.5 The Town Clerk shall be the keeper of the Town Seal.
5.6 Not later than sixty days before the date of the annual town election at which the term of office of any Town Meeting Members will expire, the Town Clerk shall notify all such Town Meeting Members of the expiration date of their term and shall make available to them a form of written notice pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 53, Section 10, of the General Laws.
5.7 As soon as practicable after each town election, the Town Clerk shall notify each person who was duly elected to a Town office of such election.
5.8 The Town Clerk shall maintain a list of the names and addresses of the current members of all town boards, committees and commissions.
5.9 The Town Clerk shall annually furnish the Selectmen, for publication in the Annual Town Report, a copy of the motions presented and the action taken thereon under all articles in the Warrant for every town meeting held during the preceding year.
5.10 The Town Clerk shall keep a true copy of all deeds or conveyances executed by the Selectmen in a book to be kept for that purpose alone.
5.11 It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk to see that every conveyance to the Town of an interest in land is properly recorded in the Registry of Deeds.
5.12 A schedule of fees fixed by the Town Clerk shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the Clerk’s office and may be revised from time to time as the Clerk sees fit, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 40, Section 22F, of the General Laws.
Article 5.12 amended at April 25, 2005, Annual Town Meeting. Approved by Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly on June 8, 2005.
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