[Amended Ref. of 11-7-1995 (ratified P.L. 40, 6-13-1996)]
The Purchasing Board shall consist of the mayor, the director
of finance, ex officio, one member of the city council elected by
the council on the first Monday in January of each even numbered year
to serve for a term of two years and three public members. The public
members shall be persons qualified by training and experience. On
the first Monday in January in 1954, or as soon as may be thereafter,
three members shall be appointed to serve until the first Monday in
January, one, two and three years, respectively, thereafter. On the
first Monday of January in each succeeding year, or as soon as may
be thereafter, there shall be appointed one member of said board to
succeed the member of said board whose term is expiring, and to hold
office until the first Monday of January three years thereafter.
The personnel board shall consist of five members. On the first
Monday of January in 1954, or as soon as may be thereafter, five members
shall be appointed to serve until the first Monday of January one,
two, three, four, and five years thereafter, respectively. On the
first Monday of January in each succeeding year, or as soon as may
be thereafter, there shall be appointed one member of said board to
succeed the member whose term is expiring, and to hold office until
the first Monday of January five years thereafter.
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Editor's Note: See also Sec. 4-1100 of this Charter.
[Amended Ref. of 11-6-1990, Sec. 7]
The board of appeals shall consist of five members; provided,
however, that there shall be a sixth member of said board who shall
serve and an alternate and shall serve as a member of said board only
upon the absence from any meeting of said board of a regular member
thereof. On the first Monday of January in 1954, or as soon as may
be thereafter, five members shall be appointed to serve until the
first Monday of January, one, two, three, four, and five years thereafter,
respectively. On the first Monday of January in each succeeding year,
or as soon as may be thereafter, there shall be appointed one member
of said board to succeed the member of said board whose term is expiring,
and to hold office until the first Monday of January five years thereafter.
The alternate member of said board shall be appointed in the same
manner as other members of said board, but to serve until the first
Monday of January three years thereafter. At all times the members
of said board shall include an engineer or architect, a person admitted
to practice law before the supreme court of the state, and a person
engaged in the real estate business in the city.
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Editor's Note: Inasmuch as Ch. 2071, Sec. 1, approved April
25, 1989, abolished the board of sinking fund commissioners, the provisions
of Sec. 3-703 of this Charter, pertaining to said board and the membership
thereof, have been removed. Section 3-703 bore no history note.
The canvassing authority of the city shall be the board of canvassers
which shall consist of three members, not more than two of whom shall
be adherents of the same political party. The mayor shall, on or before
the date of the first regular meeting of the council in February,
1954, appoint with the approval of a majority of the members of the
council, three members of said board to serve for terms of one, two,
and three years, respectively from the first Monday in March of said
year. On or before the date of the first regular meeting of the council
in February, 1955, and annually thereafter, the mayor shall appoint,
with the approval of a majority of the members of the council, a member
of said board to replace the member whose term is next expiring, and
to serve for a term of three years from the first Monday of March
of said year. Vacancies in the said board shall be filled for the
remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as for newly appointed
members of the board. Each appointee shall be an adherent of one of
the political parties which received in the next previous general
election for state senators not less than twenty-five per cent of
the total vote cast in the city for state senators from the city,
and appointments shall be made in the following manner: Not later
than fourteen days before the date of the first regularly scheduled
meeting of the council in February in each year, and within fourteen
days after the occurrence of a vacancy on said board, the chairman
of the city committee of the political parties aforesaid, shall submit
to the mayor the names of five persons for each member of said board
to be filled. If the chairman of any of said political parties shall
fail to submit lists as aforesaid, then within forty-eight hours thereafter,
a majority of the city committee of said political party may submit
such a list to the mayor. The mayor shall then submit to the council
from said lists the names of the persons appointed by him to said
board. If the council shall refuse to approve the appointment of any
person to said board, the mayor shall submit to the council another
person named on one of said lists. If the council shall refuse to
approve the appointment of the second name so submitted, the mayor
may appoint any other person on said lists to said board without the
approval of the council. If the chairman of the city committee of
a political committee of a political party entitled to an appointment
to said board shall fail or refuse to submit a list of names as aforesaid,
the mayor shall appoint to said board with the approval of a majority
of the members of the council, any person known by him to be a member
of the political party entitled to said appointment.
[Amended Ref. of 11-5-1996; 3-21-2002, approved at referendum 11-5-2002]
The Board of Trustees of Public Libraries shall consist of seven
members appointed to serve for terms of three years, with their terms
so arranged that the terms of two trustees shall expire in one year,
the terms of two more trustees shall expire the second year, and the
terms the other three trustees shall expire the third. All terms shall
expire on the last day in January, and appointments shall be made
during the month of January to fill the positions of the trustees
whose terms are about to expire. The Board of Canvassers shall prescribe
the sequence of appointments and term lengths during the transition
from five year to three year terms that shall be required to achieve
the pattern of appointments herein prescribed.
[Amended Ref. of 7-7-2022, approved at referendum 11-8-2022]
The city planning commission shall consist of seven (7) voting
members appointed by the mayor. On the first Monday of January in
1954, or as soon as may be thereafter, five members shall be appointed
to serve until the first Monday of January, one, two, three, four,
and five years thereafter, respectively. On the first Monday of January
in 2023, the mayor shall appoint two (2) additional members to the
city planning commission such that the city planning commission shall
have seven (7) members. On the first Monday of January in each succeeding
year, or as soon as may be thereafter, there shall be appointed one
member of said board to succeed each member of said board whose term
is expiring, and to hold office until the first Monday of January
five years thereafter.
The housing authority shall be constituted as now or hereafter
provided by law.
[Amended Ref. of 11-7-1995 (ratified P.L. 40, 6-13-1996); Ref. of 11-3-1998 (ratified P.L. 99-006, 3-19-1999)]
The School Committee shall consist of seven members elected
at large, each to serve for a term of two years or until his or her
successor is elected and qualified. If a vacancy shall occur in the
School Committee more than one hundred and eighty days before the
time for holding the next succeeding municipal election, the candidate
who finished eighth in the last general municipal election shall be
duly sworn in and serve until the next scheduled municipal election.
Should the candidate who finished eighth be incapacitated or choose
not to serve, or if there was no eighth candidate in the prior election,
then the City Council shall elect some qualified person to fill said
vacancy until the next scheduled municipal election. If a vacancy
shall occur one hundred and eighty days or less before the next succeeding
municipal election, the Council shall elect some qualified person
to fill such vacancy until the next scheduled municipal election.
[Added 8-20-1970 by Ch. No. 1268; amended 10-8-1970 by Ch. No. 1269; Ref. of 11-6-1990, Sec. 7; Ref.
of 11-3-1998 (ratified P.L. 99-006, 3-19-1999)]
The water supply board shall consist of the city finance director,
ex-officio, one member of the City Council elected by the council,
and four other members appointed by the mayor subject to the approval
of the city council. The mayor, after the start of the new fiscal
year, shall appoint, subject to the approval of the council, four
members of said board, one each for terms of one, two, three and four
years respectively, on the first Monday in January, 1971; and annually
thereafter on the first Monday in January, or as soon thereafter as
may be, the mayor shall appoint, subject to the approval of the council,
one member to said board for a term of four years. When any vacancy
in said board occurs, the mayor will make an appointment, to fill
the unexpired term, within a period of thirty days. The mayor shall,
in all such cases of appointment, notify the council in writing of
his appointment, and the council shall, within fifteen calendar days
after receipt of said notice, act upon said appointment. If the council
shall, within said fifteen calendar days, vote by a majority of its
members to disapprove such appointment, it shall so notify the mayor,
who shall forthwith appoint and notify the council of the appointment
of the different person, and so on in like manner until the council
shall fail to so vote disapproval of the mayor's appointment. If the
council shall fail, for fifteen calendar days next after notice, to
act upon any such appointment of which it has been notified by the
mayor, or to disapprove the same within said period if action is taken
thereon, the council shall be deemed to have approved such appointment.
The ex-officio member shall receive no further compensation for services
on said board, and the other members of said board shall receive no
compensation for services thereon. Upon the qualifications for or
acceptance of any state or federal office to which compensation is
attached, by any member of the board the office of such member of
said board shall immediately become vacant. Except for the ex-officio
member of said board, and the one member of the board who is also
a member of the City Council, the members shall hold no other municipal
office in, nor be employed by, any city or town served by the board
during their incumbency as members of said board.
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Editor's Note: See also Sec. 4-1900 et seq. of this Charter.
[Amended Ref. of 11-6-1990, Sec. 4]
The Pawtucket Redevelopment Agency shall consist of five members,
who must be resident electors of the city, appointed by the mayor
with the approval of the council. Appointments of members shall be
made on the first Monday of January, or as soon as may be thereafter,
to terms which are so arranged that the term of one member shall expire
each year, and the term of each member shall be for five years from
date of appointment, or until his or her successor has been appointed
and has qualified. All vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired
term. No member shall be an elected officer or an employee of the
city. Members shall receive their actual and necessary expenses and
may receive such other compensation as the council may prescribe.
The agency shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman from among its
members, and shall elect or appoint a secretary who need not be a
member of the agency. The terms of office of the officers of the agency
shall be as prescribed by the council.
