Section 3. The Selectmen shall annually in June, choose and appoint all necessary town officers,

Trustees for Boynton Public Library, and the Gilman Waite Memorial Field, and

Trustees for the Jehu Richardson Fund, the Masonic Fund, and the Waldo N. Haskell

Fund, to serve from July 1, to the following June 30.

Section 1 & 2 Passed 3-5-51, Section 3 Passed 8-31-78

Section 4: Town Administrator-

“The Board of Selectmen is authorized and empowered to appoint a town

administrator who may be appointed for a term of one or three years, and to remove

the town administrator at their discretion. The town administrator appointed under the

provisions of this section shall be sworn to the faithful performance of the duties of

the office. During the time that the town administrator holds office the town

administrator shall hold no elective town office, but may be appointed by the Board

of Selectmen or, with their approval, by any other town officer, board, committee or

commission, to any other town office or position consistent with the town

administrator’s office. The Town Administrator shall receive such aggregate

compensation, not exceeding the amount appropriated therefore, as the Board of

Selectmen may determine. The Town Administrator shall act by and for the Board of

Selectmen in any matter which the Board may assign to the town administrator

relating to the administration of the affairs of the town or of any town office or

department under their supervision and control, or, with the approval of the Board of

Selectmen, may perform such other duties as may be requested by any other town

officer, board, committee or commission.”

Passed 5-16-13, Approved by A/G 8-22-13

Article IV – Advisory Committee

Section 1. There shall be an Advisory Committee consisting of seven legal voters of the town

who shall be appointed by the Moderator as hereinafter provided. No elective or

appointive town officer or town employee shall be eligible to serve on said

committee, except that a representative from the Advisory Committee shall be

entitled to serve as a member of the Capital Planning Committee and the Insurance

Committee.

Amended 5-13-03 & 5-11-11

Section 2. The Moderator of the town meeting when this By-Law is adopted shall, within thirty

days after such by-law becomes effective, appoint 2 members of said committee for

terms of one year, 2 members for terms of two years, and 3 members for terms of

three years. At each Annual Town Meeting thereafter the Moderator thereof shall

appoint 3 members of said committee for terms of three years. The terms of office of

said members shall commence immediately upon qualification and shall expire at the

close of final adjournment of the Annual Town Meeting at which their successors are

appointed. Said committee shall choose its own officers and shall serve without pay,

except the chairman who shall receive such amount as voted upon at the Annual

Town Meeting, and it shall cause to be kept a true record of its proceedings.

Amended 5-11-11

Section 3. The said committee shall fill any vacancy which may occur in its membership, by

vote, attested copy of which shall be sent by the secretary to the Town Clerk. If any

member is absent from five consecutive meetings of said committee, except in case of

illness, his position shall be deemed to be vacant and shall be filled as herein

provided. The term of office of any person so chosen to fill a vacancy shall expire at

the final adjournment of the next succeeding Annual Town Meeting, and the

Moderator thereof shall appoint his successor to complete the unexpired term of the

member in whose office such vacancy originally occurred.

Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee annually to consider the expenditures

in previous years and the estimated requirements for the ensuing year of the several

boards, officers and committees of the town, as prepared by them in such form and

detail as may be prescribed by said committee. The said committee shall add to such

statement of expenditures and estimates another column, giving the amounts which in

its opinion should be appropriated for the ensuing year, and shall further add thereto

such explanations and suggestions relating to the proposed appropriations as it may

deem expedient, and report thereon as provided in section five of Article II.

Section 4a. All articles, other than those deemed by the Board of Selectmen to constitute an

emergency, sought to be inserted in the Town Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting

shall be filed with the Board of Selectmen, and referred by them to the Advisory

Committee on or before April 10th and all articles sought to be inserted in the Warrant

for a Special Town Meeting shall be referred by the Board of Selectmen to the

Advisory Committee at least 14 days before the date set for such meeting.

Amended 5-16-13

from the online version of Town By-Laws

Jeff Bennett