[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Dedham
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Manager
- Ch 12 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 18 Cemeteries
- Ch 24 Departments
- Ch 30 Emergency Services
- Ch 34 Endicott Estate
- Ch 39 Finances
- Ch 39 Art I Finance and Warrant Committee
- § 39-1 Finance and Warrant Committee to be appointed.
- § 39-2 Term of Finance and Warrant Committee members.
- § 39-3 Finance and Warrant Committee to keep records.
- § 39-4 Finance and Warrant Committee vacancies.
- Ch 39 Art II Budget Preparation
- § 39-5 Town meeting articles to be referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for hearing and report.
- § 39-6 Finance and Warrant Committee to make recommendation on appropriations.
- § 39-7 Finance and Warrant Committee to have access to records.
- § 39-8 Capital budget process; definitions.
- § 39-9 Capital budget process; procedures.
- § 39-10 Departments to submit budgets to Director of Finance.
- § 39-11 Parks and playgrounds construction plans to be submitted.
- § 39-12 Budget submission dates.
- Ch 39 Art III Audits, Expenditures and Collections
- § 39-13 Audit to be made annually.
- § 39-14 Warrants for payment to be signed by Director of Finance, Manager and Selectmen.
- § 39-15 Bills to be approved for expenditure and submitted to Director of Finance.
- § 39-16 Director of Finance to issue warrants for payments.
- § 39-17 Treasurer-Collector to honor all proper warrants.
- § 39-18 Town payroll may be paid weekly.
- § 39-19 Petty cash accounts authorized.
- § 39-20 All payments to be by check.
- § 39-21 All purchases to be by purchase order; Director of Finance to give notice of liabilities in excess of appropriation.
- § 39-22 Director of Finance to distribute statement of expenditures and balances.
- § 39-23 Expenditures to be made for appropriated purpose only; unexpended balances to be transferred to excess and deficiency account.
- § 39-24 Treasurer-Collector to collect all accounts due Town.
- § 39-25 Treasurer-Collector to assess interest on overdue accounts.
- § 39-26 All accounts due to be committed to Treasurer-Collector.
- § 39-26.1 Notice of tax deferral.
- § 39-27 Treasurer-Collector to recommend suits for collection of accounts due.
- § 39-28 Treasurer-Collector and departments to pay over to Treasury.
- § 39-29 Treasurer-Collector to have custody of documents of ownership.
- § 39-30 Fees to be charged for use of Town property and other services.
- § 39-31 Contributory retirement system payments.
- § 39-32 Mitigation Funds Committee.
- Ch 39 Art IV Shuttleworth Fund
- § 39-33 Fund to be kept separate; principal not to be expended.
- § 39-34 Fund investment to be approved by Commissioners of trust funds.
- § 39-35 Treasurer-Collector to have custody of fund; Shuttleworth Committee to have expenditure of fund.
- § 39-36 The Shuttleworth Committee.
- § 39-37 Fund transactions to be done by Treasurer-Collector.
- Ch 39 Art V Financial Policies
- § 39-38 Policies established.
- Ch 39 Art VI Departmental Revolving Funds
- § 39-39 Revolving funds eastablished.
- § 39-40 Expenditure limitation.
- Ch 42 Fingerprint-Based Criminal Record Background Checks
- Ch 57 Legal Affairs
- Ch 61 Library
- Ch 65 Master Plan
- Ch 70 Personnel, Wage and Salary Administration Plan
- Ch 72 Public Notice
- Ch 73 Purchasing
- Ch 78 Records and Reports
- Ch 85 Town Meetings
- Ch 88 Town Property
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 102 Advertising Materials
- Ch 106 Alarm Systems
- Ch 110 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 114 Amusements
- Ch 117 Animals
- Ch 122 Building Construction
- Ch 125 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 129 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 136 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 141 Drugs and Drug Products
- Ch 146 Use of Topsoil From Certain Work on Town Property
- Ch 150 Fees and Fines
- Ch 154 Fireworks and Weapons
- Ch 160 Garbage, Refuse and Waste Materials
- Ch 168 Historic Districts
- Ch 183 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 188 Marijuana Establishments
- Ch 192 Noise
- Ch 195 Nuisances
- Ch 199 Parks and Public Places
- Ch 204 Peddling, Soliciting and Sales
- Ch 206 Permanent Public Infrastructure
- Ch 208 Plastic Bag Reduction
- Ch 210 Property Maintenance
- Ch 216 Recycling
- Ch 225 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 229 Sewers
- Ch 233 (Reserved)
- Ch 237 Signs
- Ch 242 Storm Drains
- Ch 246 Stormwater Management
- Ch 250 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 265 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 271 Wetlands Protection
- Appendix
- Ch A300 General Law Acceptances and Special Acts
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
