The responsibilities of the City Clerk/Clerk
to the Municipal Council shall include:
A. Managing the staff and operations of the City Clerk's
office;
B. Developing, implementing and maintaining recordkeeping
systems that fulfill statutory mandates and ensure security of and
public access to official City records;
C. Serving as chief election official and working with
the Board of Registrars to manage:
(1) Voter registration and voter records;
(2) The conduct and overseeing of elections; and
(3) The conduct of the census;
D. Serving as Registrar of Vital Statistics;
E. Submitting required federal, state and local reports;
F. Providing administrative support to the Municipal
Council, which includes:
(1) Ensuring conformance with state statutes and local
ordinances; and
(2) Preparing agendas and attending and maintaining records
of meetings;
G. Administering
the oath of office to elected and appointed public officials and maintaining
records of such oaths of office;
H. Administering
the issuance and recording of municipal licenses, including business,
fisheries and wildlife, dog and other regulatory licenses as required,
in accordance with applicable laws and regulations; and
I. Performing
other associated duties as assigned.
The City Clerk shall keep a true copy of all
deeds and other instruments executed by the Mayor and/or Municipal
Council in accordance with the provisions of law.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to see
that every instrument of conveyance to the City of any interest in
real estate filed with the City Clerk's office is properly recorded
in the Registry of Deeds. After recording and returned to the City
Clerk, such recorded instruments shall be turned over to the City
Treasurer, in whose custody they shall remain.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to immediately
notify in writing all members of committees who may be elected or
appointed, stating the business upon which they are to act and the
names of the persons composing the committees.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk, immediately
after every Municipal Council meeting, to furnish the Chief Financial
Officer and the Board of Assessors with a statement of all appropriations
made by the Municipal Council at such meeting and the purpose for
which such appropriations were made and the manner of raising the
same. The Clerk shall also notify all boards, officers, and committees
of the City of all votes passed at any Municipal Council meeting that
will affect them in the performance of their official duties.
All committees, boards and commissions of the
City that are required by law or otherwise to keep records shall,
when the authority of the entity terminates, deposit said records
with the City Clerk.
[Added 5-10-2022 by Bill No. 2022-040]
A. The City
Clerk Fee Schedule is enacted as follows:
Service
|
Fee
|
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Amendments- vital records
|
$25
|
Auto dealers license Class I, II, and III
|
$100
|
Auctioneer license
|
$25
|
Automatic amusement license
|
$50 per machine
|
Business certificate (DBA)
|
$40
|
Business certificate (DBA) amendment
|
$10
|
Certificates- birth, death, marriage
|
$10
|
Certificates- birth only senior
|
$5
|
Common victualler license
|
$50
|
Declaration of trust filings
|
$20
|
Dine, dance, and entertainment license
|
$25 per day
|
Dog license- spayed/neutered
|
$10
|
Dog license- male/female
|
$15
|
Dog license- late fee
|
$5 per dog
|
Dog license- duplicate tag
|
$1
|
Dog license- tag transfer
|
$1
|
Filing inventory- closing of business
|
$20
|
Fortune tellers license
|
$50
|
Geneology research
|
$15 per hour
|
Hawker/peddler license
|
$25
|
Home birth/delayed birth recording
|
$25
|
Innholders license
|
$5 per room
|
Junk dealer/antiques/2nd hand
|
$75
|
Kennel license 4 dogs
|
$40
|
Kennel license 5-10 dogs
|
$60
|
Kennel license 11+ dogs
|
$120
|
Kennel license- late fee
|
$10 per dog
|
List of residents
|
$10
|
Marriage intentions
|
$40
|
Notary oath for nonresidents
|
$20
|
Notary services for nonresidents
|
$2 per signature
|
Photocopies
|
$0.20 per page
|
Physician registration
|
$25
|
Pool and bowling (Sunday)
|
$5 per lane/table
|
Pool and bowling (Weekday)
|
$10 per lane/table
|
Public records request
|
Varies
|
Raffles and bazaar permit
|
$10
|
Recording order-location of poles
|
$100 plus cost of abutters postage
|
Storage license (new)
|
$25
|
Storage license (renewal)
|
$10
|
Sunday juke box
|
$85
|
Taxi license application
|
$150
|
Taxi vehicle and driver application
|
$25
|
Taxi business license
|
$350
|
Taxi vehicle license
|
$100
|
Taxi license driver
|
$25
|
Taxi business license renewal
|
$100
|
Taxi vehicle license renewal
|
$25
|
Taxi driver license renewal
|
$25
|
Transient vendor license
|
$25
|
Voter registation disk
|
$20
|
B. These
fees are effective July 1, 2022.