[Amended 12-7-1992 STM]
There is hereby created a Zoning Board of Appeals to be composed
of five electors of the Town of Bethany who are not members of the
Planning and Zoning Commission.
[Added 3-14-1955 STM; amended 5-20-2024 ATM]
At each regular Town election there shall be elected such number
of members of said Zoning Board of Appeals as there are members whose
terms expire the first Saturday of December succeeding such election,
and those so elected shall serve for four years from the first Saturday
of December succeeding such election.
[Added 3-14-1955 STM; amended 5-20-2024 ATM]
If there shall be a vacancy on said Zoning Board of Appeals,
the Board of Selectmen shall appoint an elector of the Town to serve
until the first Saturday of December succeeding the next regular Town
election following the creation of said vacancy, and at said election
a member shall be elected to fill the balance of said unexpired term
from the first Saturday of December succeeding said election.
[Added 3-14-1955 STM]
At any election, if the number of members of the Zoning Board
of Appeals to be elected for the same term is odd, no elector shall
vote for more than a simple majority of said number, and if the number
of members to be elected is even, no elector shall vote for more than
1/2 of said number.
The Board of Selectmen shall, pursuant to statute, promptly
name three alternate members of the Zoning Board of Appeals, no more
than two of which persons so named shall be of the same political
party. All of said persons shall serve until the first of July 1961.
[Amended 7-27-2017 STM; 5-20-2024 ATM]
At the next biennial Town election, two alternate members shall
be elected to a four-year term and one alternate member shall be elected
to a two-year term. The alternate member elected to a two-year term
shall be elected to serve a four-year term commencing with the election
of May 2021. Members will be elected in November of odd-numbered years
from 2023 onward.