No member of the council or any other officer or employee of the town shall be financially interested, directly or indirectly, either as principal, surety, officer, partner or otherwise, except as minority stockholder, or except as director in a corporation, in any contract with, sales to, purchase from or compensable service, made with or rendered to the town. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, after public advertisement.
No person except the secretary of a commission or board shall hold at the same time more than one office or employment for which compensation or allowances, other than for reasonable expenses, are paid out of town funds, unless he or she shall waive the payment of such compensation for one of such offices.
No person shall serve more than two consecutive terms on any appointed board, commission or similar body, and at the completion of two consecutive terms such person shall not be eligible for reappointment to the same board, commission or similar body until the next vacancy shall exist because of expiration of the term of an incumbent; and no person who has served two consecutive terms on any board, commission or similar body shall be eligible for appointment to fill an unexpired term caused by resignation, death or removal of an incumbent until the period specified above has elapsed. For the purpose of this section, a person appointed to fill a vacancy for the remainder of a term shall be deemed to have served a full term when the remainder for which he or she was appointed shall be more than one-half the normal term of appointment.
On all appointive boards, commissions and similar bodies at least one member shall be a member of a party or political organization represented on the council to which belong less than a majority of the members of the (town) council. The council, by ordinance, may require that minority representation greater than one member may be required on any appointive board, commission or similar body.
No person shall be appointed to, or serve at the same time on, more than one board, commission or similar body, the appointment to which is fixed by charter or by ordinance.
Members of boards, commissions and similar bodies and appointive employees outside the classified services of the town, as defined in Section 2 of Chapter VIII of this charter, may be removed from office by the appointing authority, unless specifically provided otherwise by this charter. Removal by the appointing authority of any such person, except a part-time, hourly-paid employee, shall be commenced by the giving of a notice of proposed removal, stating therein the effective date of such removal, which date shall be not less than fourteen days after receipt of said notice by the person to be removed. The person to be removed, except a part-time, hourly-paid employee, upon his or her request, shall receive in writing a statement of the reasons for such removal within five days of said request. If such person, except a part-time, hourly-paid employee, shall desire a hearing thereon he or she shall request the same in writing within ten days of the receipt of said notice, and the appointing authority shall set a hearing date not less than ten nor more than thirty days after receipt of said request and shall take final action on said removal not more than twenty days after said hearing. If the person to be removed shall fail to so request a hearing, then the removal shall take effect on the date stated in said notice. A salaried person's salary shall continue until said effective date or until such final action is taken on said removal, unless a later date not exceeding three months from the date of said notice is provided in said notice. Procedures for removal of part-time, hourly-paid employees shall be in accordance with administrative rules for such employees.
Members of boards, commissions and similar bodies established by this charter shall be electors of the town unless otherwise provided herein and shall be appointed to terms beginning on the first day of January and expiring on the last day of December in successive years, in such manner as shall be determined by the council in accordance with the provisions of this charter.
The council shall have power to investigate all town officers, departments, commissions, bureaus or boards, and shall have access to all records and papers kept by each town officer, department, commission, bureau or board, and shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers and other evidence at any meeting of the council or any committee thereof. At the request of the council, any judge may issue a capias for the appearance of witnesses and the production of books and papers.