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	Town meeting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Between sessions the board of selectmen interprets the policy set at Town Meeting and is assigned numerous duties including: approving all town non-school expenditures, authorizing highway construction and repair, serving as town purchasing agent for non-school items, issuing licenses and overseeing the conduct of all town activities.
		Town selectmen are also permitted to call special town meetings as warranted, although these must be approved by a judge.
		Town meetings are prohibited, by state law, from being held on the biennial election day, which is typically held in November to elect county, state and national officials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Town_meeting (3160 words)

	CHAPTER 90* TOWN AND OTHER COMMUNITY MEETINGS
		Special town meetings may be convened when the selectmen deem it necessary, and they shall warn a special town meeting on application of twenty inhabitants qualified to vote in town meetings, such meeting to be held within twenty-one days after receiving such application.
		While the board of selectmen is required to warn a town meeting on petition of twenty inhabitants qualified to vote, there is no duty to warn a meeting pursuant to such petition unless the board is reasonably certain that the object of the petition is lawful, proper, and not frivolous.
		The warning of each town meeting, and of each meeting of a city, borough, school district or other public community or of an ecclesiastical society, shall specify the objects for which such meeting is to be held.
	www.cga.ct.gov /2005/pub/Chap090.htm (1551 words)

	Town of Townsend, Massachusetts
		Special Town Meetings shall be held at the call of the Board of Selectmen at such times as they deem necessary, or desirable, in order to transact the legislative business of the Town in an orderly manner.
		Special Town Meetings may also be held on the petition of two hundred (200) or more registered voters, in accordance with the procedures made available by the laws of the Commonwealth.
		Special meetings of any multiple member body shall also be called within one (1) week after the date of at the filing with the town clerk of a petition signed by at least fifty (50) voters and which states the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is to be called.
	www.townsend.ma.us /bylaws/charter.htm (6457 words)

	Ridgefield, Ct. Democrats - Ridgefield Town Charter
		Members of the town meeting shall be electors of the town or property owners entitled to vote at town meetings as prescribed in the General Statutes, except in the case of a town meeting considering a recall referendum, when it shall be restricted to electors of the town.
		The Town Meeting shall review and comment on the material presented for the benefit and guidance of these officials, the board of finance and the board of selectmen and shall conduct and vote on any business, except the budget, that may be outlined in the call.
		Before or on the date of the meeting, the board of selectmen shall cause the copy of the notice, along with the return of notice, to be filed with the town clerk, and the town clerk shall cause such copy and return to be recorded in the town meeting record book.
	www.ridgefielddems.org /char3.html (965 words)

	Town Meeting
		The town is the basic unit, and Town Meeting is the method provided by the Constitution and the State Legislature for the governance of towns.
		Town departments and officials may request the Board of Selectmen to insert articles in the Warrant during the period in which the Selectmen publicly declare that the Warrant is "open".
		Special Town Meetings called by petition usually reflect the specific need of a group or committee, however, once the Warrant is opened, other articles may be added.
	www.townofgroton.org /main?cmd=town-meeting (3038 words)

	Town of East Windsor, CT - Chapter X - Town Meeting
		B) All Town Meetings, including Special Town Meetings and Town Meeting by petition, as hereinafter provided, shall be warned and conducted in accordance with the provisions of Connecticut General Statutes '7-3 through '7-8b, inclusive, provided, however, that the provisions of this Charter, where inconsistent with the aforesaid General Statutes, shall govern.
		Special Town Meetings may be called from time to time by the Board of Selectmen, and as required by this Chapter.
		B) The Town Clerk shall serve as Clerk of all Town Meetings, but in the absence of the Town Clerk, an acting clerk may be chosen by the meeting.
	www.eastwindsor-ct.gov /Public_Documents/EWindsorCT_Charter/chapter10 (638 words)

	Harvard League of Women Voters - Town Meeting
		The town meeting form of government, which has been the fundamental form of local government in New England since colonial times, has often been called “the purest form of democracy.” The power of government is directly in the hands of the people.
		Special town meetings may also be held as the result of citizen petitions.
		Warrant ariticles may be proposed by town committees or inserted by the Board of Selectmen or by a citizen petition (signed by at least ten registered voters) to the Selectmen.
	www.lwvharvard.org /lwvh_townmeeting.htm (1048 words)

	Annual and Special Town Meetings Powers and Recent History
		Town Meetings are Annual or Special Meetings of the Town electors.
		The Board was authorized by the Town Meeting to issues bonds for the reconstruction of Airport Road and for the addition to the Town Hall completed in 1998.
		Town Meetings authorized the Town Board to construct the present salt shed (1994 Annual), the addition to the Town Hall (March 6, 1997 Special) and to build the present Town Hall (May 16, 1989).
	www.town.middleton.wi.us /minutes/annual/history_2004.htm (891 words)

	About the Town Meeting
		The Annual Town Meeting, as this institution is known, continues to be a vital part of today's political landscape and provides one of the few contemporary examples of genuine grass roots democracy in operation.
		The Role of the Moderator: The Town Meeting is conducted by an elected Moderator.
		A Special Town Meeting must be called if the Board of Selectmen receives a written petition, signed by two hundred registered voters or twenty percent of the total number of registered voters in the town (whichever number is the lesser).
	www.tolland-ma.gov /Public_Documents/F00015BD9/meeting (651 words)

	Massachusetts Attorney General: 2430
		Pursuant to provisions of MGL c.39 § 9 the Town of Sunderland may hold its Annual and Special Town Meetings, and any adjournment thereof, at the Frontier Regional High School in the Town of Deerfield.
		Section 9 requires the town to conduct town meetings within the geographical limits of the town, unless the town has a local law providing otherwise.
		meetings for the election by ballot of federal, state or other officers, or ballot matters must be held within the geographical limits of the town.
	www.ago.state.ma.us /sp.cfm?pageid=1315 (501 words)

	Town of Stonington, CT - THE TOWN MEETING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Town Meeting shall have authority for final approval of those actions of the Town hereinafter enumerated, and when considering such actions said Meeting shall be deemed to be the legislative body of the Town.
		Notice of any such Meeting shall be given at least five (5) days in advance by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the Town and by posting a notice in a public place.
		Any Town Meeting may be recessed from time to time as the interests of the Town may require, and the Moderator may entertain a motion to recess such Meeting.
	www.stonington-ct.gov /Pages/StoningtonCT_Charter/chapter3print (1030 words)

	andoverma.gov - Town Meeting
		All Town Meetings are usually held on the campus of Andover High School on Shawsheen Road at the Field House or the Collins Center depending on the number of expected voters at a meeting.
		Town Meeting Schedule - The Annual Town Meeting for the election of officers shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in March, each year.
		Town Clerk - Is the chief election official, custodian of the Town's records, and recording secretary of the meeting.
	andoverma.gov /townmeeting (2522 words)

	CIS: Citizen's Guide to Town Meetings
		The town counsel is a lawyer who either works for the town as an employee, or is a private lawyer who counts the town among his or her clients.
		Depending on a town’s by-laws, members of the finance committee are appointed by the selectmen or moderator, or elected by voters or the Town Meeting.
		Special meetings, by their very nature, are not held at the same time every year.
	www.sec.state.ma.us /cis/cistwn/twnidx.htm (4195 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / What's ahead for Topsfield? Voters in May will decide
		Special town meetings are supposed to be for extraordinary happenings that cannot wait for the next annual town meeting.
		In the wisdom of our town fathers and mothers, more and more special town meetings are held in March and September for regular business.
		This year, Topsfield changed much of its town government in a special town meeting on March 1, a day at the end of a fairly big snowstorm.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/03/24/whats_ahead_for_topsfield_voters_in_may_will_decide (504 words)

	New Hartford - Special Town Meeting
		Special Town meetings may be called as needed in order to conduct town business.
		All Town meetings with the exception of the Annual Town Meeting (held in late April or early May) are Special Town Meetings.
		A Special Town Meeting was held on October 29, 2003 at 7:00 PM in the Senior Center.
	www.town.new-hartford.ct.us /specialtownmeeting.html (409 words)

	DYT Chapter 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		No vote shall be reconsidered at the same Town Meeting unless it be either upon a motion made within a half hour of the adoption of the vote or requested by two-thirds of the voters present and voting thereon.
		A Special Town Meeting may be called during the year by the Selectmen to consider a matter of urgency that has not been authorized by the Annual Town Meeting.
		In national, state and town elections, any registered voter is eligible to go to the designated polling place, receive a ballot, mark it in the privacy of an enclosed booth, and deposit it in the locked box which automatically tabulates the number of ballots cast.
	www.doverma.org /dyt/chapt3.html (1368 words)

	The Berkley Bell, Berkley Massachusetts News
		In an open Town Meeting, the minimum number of voters who may conduct business is established by the individual town's by-laws.
		Towns have three general ways: First: The moderator: reads a budget item; calls for a recommendation from the finance committee on that item; calls for debate on that item; and calls for a vote on that item.
		Suppose that a town's by-laws require that 2/3 of the voters, not a simple majority, vote to approve the budget for it to pass.
	www.knddesign.com /bb/12-04-govt.html (1217 words)

	Town of Boothbay
		All meetings shall be opened by the Town Clerk’s calling for the election of a Moderator by written ballot, counting the votes for Moderator, and swearing in the Moderator.
		The Moderator shall be the official elected by a Town Meeting to serve as chairperson at the Town Meeting.
		The Town Clerk shall be responsible for conducting all elections in the Town.
	www.town.boothbay.me.us /Docs/2005/AdminCodeTownMeeting.htm (4597 words)

	Lincolnville Town Charter, Article 6, Town Meetings and Elections
		As the legislative body of the Town, the Town Meeting shall have general authority for the enactment of ordinances and other legislation by the Town.
		Nominations papers shall be made available by the Town Clerk to prospective candidates during the 40 days prior to the final date of filing, and before issuance, the Town Clerk may complete each sheet by filling in the name of the candidate, the title and term of office which is being sought.
		Special Town Meetings may be called by order of the Selectmen or by citizen's petition, in accordance with the provisions of Title 30-A MRSA Section 2521 (4).
	www.town.lincolnville.me.us /lvc-a6.html (486 words)

	Town of East Windsor, CT - Chapter IV - Board Of Selectmen
		The purpose of these meetings shall be to coordinate the activities of all Town officers, boards, agencies and commissions.
		C) The Board of Selectmen may recommend to special Town meetings the creation, consolidation or abolition of boards, commissions, departments and offices, and may recommend to special Town meetings the adoption of a proposed ordinance or the repeal of an existing ordinance.
		All regular meetings and special meetings of the Board of Selectmen for the transaction of business shall be open to the public and shall afford to the electors of the Town an opportunity to address the Board of Selectmen with suggestions, petitions and complaints.
	www.eastwindsor-ct.gov /Public_Documents/EWindsorCT_Charter/chapter4 (968 words)

	Town Meetings & Reports
		Town Meetings are your opportunity to provide input on the government of our community.
		The Annual Town Meeting is held the second Monday in May, followed by the Annual Town Election on the third Monday in May.
		The warrant articles for the Annual Town Meeting are published in the Town Report, which is distributed to all households before the annual meeting.
	www.dunstable-ma.gov /govt/town_reports.htm (208 words)

	Two Special Town Meetings
		The purpose of this specially-called Town Meeting is to clarify language of an article which was approved by voters at the Annual Town Meeting in May.
		But, explains Town Manager Carlo Pilgrim, attorneys advise that the town needs to clarify the language so that voters approve the borrowing of funds in a general obligation bond.
		Such language had appeared in the financial statement attached to the town warrant but was lacking in the actual warrant article that was approved.
	boothbayregister.maine.com /1999-09-09/town_meetings.html (653 words)

	Town Meeting Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As an event, it is a gathering of a town's eligible voters, and is referred to as "the Town Meeting".
		Special Town Meetings may be called as many times as needed during the year.
		Special Town Meetings may be called for a single issue facing the town, or multiple issues.
	web.maynard.ma.us /gov/tm/guide.htm (3133 words)

	Town Meetings - Provincetown, MA
		The Town of Provincetown's legislative body is a town meeting open to all registered voters of the Town.
		The annual town meeting is held on the first Monday in April of every year.
		Special town meetings may be called at other times by the Board of Selectmen or upon petition of 200 voters.
	www.provincetowngov.org /twn_mtg.html (474 words)

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		139 C. Mandamus lies for directing selectmen to call town meeting for acceptance of street as public highway.
		8 C. Town clerk's record that meeting was legally warned is prima facie evidence thereof.
		51 C. A meeting illegally warned voted a guarantee; a subsequent legal meeting voted "to let conditions of former vote remain as they now stand." Held not to be a ratification.
	www.cga.ct.gov /2001/pub/Chap090.htm (1549 words)

	Needham 2000 Annual and May, 2000, Special Town Meetings
		New England Town Meetings, the legislative bodies of towns, have often been called "the purest form of democracy".
		In Needham we have a Representative Town Meeting in which all residents are welcome to speak but only the 200+ elected representatives and a few ex officio members may vote.
		At the conclusion of the Special Town Meeting, it was dissolved in memory of Richard Malconian, Gary Uhl, and John Gill.
	www.needhamonline.com /needhamonline.com/TownMeeting/home.html (761 words)

	April 4, 2005 Annual & Special Town Meetings
		Voters completed action on the Apri 4, 2005 Special and Annual Town Meetings in sessions held on Monday and Tuesday, April 4 and 5, 2005.
		Town Meeting Warrants - published March 10, 2005
		The funding strategy developed by the Town, and agreed to by NEDA, requires a capital investment of $1.9-million in Community Preservation Act (CPA) funds towards the affordable housing component of the Care Campus—one of the principal goals to be achieved in asking voters to adopt the CPA’s 3% surcharge last year.
	www.provincetowngov.org /twn_mtg/0504/040405TM.htm (222 words)

	Town of Plympton :: Town Government : Town Meetings & Elections : Overview
		Town Meetings and Elections are central to Plympton's government.
		Special Town Meetings and Special Elections may also be called during the year.
		The Upcoming Town Election page may contain information such as the date, polling hours, sample ballots, open positions, candidates, and position papers for Town, State, and National elections.
	town.plympton.ma.us /town/election.html (166 words)

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