A. 
The Personnel Rules and Policies of the Town shall include provisions with regard to classification, compensation, selection, training, promotion, discipline, vacations and other matters necessary to the maintenance of efficient service and the improvement of working conditions.
B. 
The Rules and Policies shall continue in force, subject to amendments submitted from time to time by the Town Manager, which shall become effective upon approval by the Board of Selectmen.
No compensation shall be paid without certification, by the Town Manager or such officer as he/she may direct or appoint, that the recipients are employed by the Town and that their rates of compensation are correct.
Every person elected or appointed to any Town office, before entering upon the duties of this office, shall take and subscribe to an oath of office which shall be filed and kept in the office of the Town Clerk.
In addition to other provisions of this regulation, a vacancy shall be deemed to exist in any office or position when a department head or employee resigns, dies, accepts other full-time employment, is removed from office, terminates, is convicted of a felony, is judicially declared to be mentally incompetent or as may be provided by state statute.
No officer or employee shall devote any Town property or labor to his/her own private use except as may be provided by law or ordinance. Nothing herein shall preclude the use of Town property or labor on private property of any citizen of the Town of Raymond in an emergency situation where the immediate health and welfare of any citizen mandates such emergency assistance.