[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of
the Town of Boxford 5-20-1980 ATM, Art. 40, as Article Six of the 1980 Bylaws. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Town Meetings — See Ch.
36.
All boards, standing committees and officers
of the town shall cause records of their doings and accounts to be
kept in suitable books.
A. Contracts for printing Annual Town Reports shall be
made by the Select Board, and all annual reports intended to be bound
up with the Annual Town Reports shall be sent to the Board not later
than February 15.
[Amended 9-12-2020 ATM by Art. 19]
B. No illustrations shall be hereafter introduced in
the reports of town officers, boards or committees unless expressly
authorized by the Board.
C. The annual report of the Select Board shall, unless
such information is contained in other reports to be published in
the Annual Town Report, provide information on:
[Amended 9-12-2020 ATM by Art. 19]
(1) Town and county ways laid out, constructed, altered,
ordered laid out, accepted and remaining to be constructed.
(2) Damages assessed and paid, claims outstanding and
all claims in suit against the town, with all circumstances relating
thereto.
(3) Details of repairs made to public buildings.
D. The annual report of the Treasurer shall state the
purposes for which the town's debt was increased in the preceding
year, cite the votes by which the money was borrowed and render a
classified statement of all receipts and expenditures of the town
in such detail as to give a full, fair exhibit of the objects and
methods of all expenditures.
E. The Board of Assessors shall append to its annual
report a table of the valuation of the town, real, personal and total;
the rate of taxation; and the amount of money raised. The complete
recapitulation sheet used in fixing the tax rate shall be printed
as part of the Annual Report.
F. The Town Clerk shall make a full index of the reports
and shall also prepare a table of vital statistics for publication
in the annual report.