[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.