[Amended 10-21-2019 FATM, Art. 20; 10-17-2022 FATM by Art. 15]
All boards, standing committees and officers
of the Town shall cause records of their doings and accounts to be
kept in suitable books in compliance with MGL c. 30A, §§ 18
through 25, and associated regulations. Said books shall be kept in
their respective places in the Town offices and shall not be removed
therefrom. Said record books shall be open to the inspection of citizens
of the Town at any reasonable time, but shall remain during such inspection
under the supervision of the board, committee or officer designated
to keep charge thereof. In the case of any board or committee that
does not have a paid clerk or secretary, the Town Clerk, pursuant
to MGL c. 66, § 7, shall have custody of copies of their
respective records made available for public inspection. The Select
Board shall enforce this section.
Whenever a Town way is laid out or altered,
a plan thereof shall be made and filed in the office of the Town Clerk,
with the location thereof, and it shall be the duty of the Town Clerk
to keep a book of records for the sole purpose of recording the location
of all highways and Town ways within the Town, with an index thereto.