(a) 
Unless otherwise specifically provided under this Charter, the Board of Selectmen shall appoint the members of all appointive boards, commissions, and committees.
(b) 
All members of appointive boards, commissions, and committees shall be qualified electors of the Town and their positions shall be deemed to be vacated upon their ceasing to be electors of the Town. It shall be the responsibility of each member of an appointive board, commission or committee promptly to provide written notification to the Town Clerk upon ceasing to be an elector of the Town.
(a) 
The terms of office of all members of appointive boards, commissions, and agencies shall be as specified in this Charter or the statute, special act, ordinance or resolution authorizing or establishing any such board, agency, or commission. They shall be sworn before each of their respective terms, and each officer administering the oath shall record such fact in the Office of the Town Clerk. Unless otherwise provided by this Charter or such statute, special act, ordinance or resolution, the terms of office of members of such appointive boards, commissions and agencies shall continue until their successors have been appointed and qualified.
(b) 
A member of any appointive board, commission, or agency may resign his or her office by notifying the Town Clerk in writing. The office shall be deemed vacant on the effective date indicated in such letter of resignation, except that any such office shall be deemed to be vacant as of the date the member ceases to be an elector of the Town. Vacancies in all appointive boards shall be filled by the Board of Selectmen within sixty (60) days from the effective date such vacancy is made known to the Town Clerk. If the Board of Selectmen shall fail to fill any vacancy in an appointive office on or before sixty (60) days after receiving written notice of such vacancy the board or commission within which such vacancy has occurred shall itself fill such vacancy. For the purpose of the limits on majority representation set forth below, the party affiliation of any person filling a vacancy under provisions of this section shall have priority over the party affiliation of persons appointed to said board for new terms of office.
Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, majority representation on any appointive board, commission, agency or committee shall be limited as specified under the provisions of Chapter 2, Section 2 of this Charter. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit any unaffiliated elector from being a candidate for or from serving on any appointive board, commission, committee or similar body.
Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, all appointive boards, commissions and agencies shall have all the powers and duties prescribed by the General Statutes of Connecticut, by this Charter, and by the ordinance, special act or resolution authorizing or establishing said board, commission or agency.
(a) 
The following boards, commissions and agencies of the Town, having heretofore been created by ordinance of said Town are hereby continued and established under this Charter: The Economic Development Commission, Public Health Nursing Board, Old Saybrook Municipal Cemetery Committee, Conservation Commission, Acton Public Library Board of Directors, Building Code Board of Appeals, Pension and Employee Benefits Board, Youth and Family Services Commission, Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission, Architectural Review Board, Historic District Commission, Shellfish Commission, Water Pollution Control Authority and Ethics Commission.
(b) 
Town Meeting may, by ordinance, create additional appointive boards and specify their powers and duties. Town Meeting may, by ordinance, abolish or consolidate appointive boards and commissions, and may likewise alter their powers and duties and change the numbers and terms of their members.
(a) 
Any commission or committee created by Town Meeting Resolution shall continue in existence in accordance with the provisions of the Resolution establishing and authorizing said commission or committee.
(b) 
Town Meeting may, by resolution, create additional appointive boards and specify their powers and duties. Town Meeting may, by resolution, abolish or consolidate appointive boards and commissions created by resolution, and may likewise alter their powers and duties and change the numbers and terms of their members.
Panels of Alternates to the Zoning Commission, the Planning Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals, respectively, authorized by the General Statutes of Connecticut and heretofore existing as elective panels, are hereby continued as appointive panels. Each Panel shall consist of three (3) members serving for terms of two (2) years.