2-1-1 
The legislative powers of the town shall be exercised by an open town meeting, open to all registered voters of The Town.
2-1-2 
The quorum necessary for the conduct of business at all Town Meetings shall be at least 175 registered voters.
2-1-3 
In all procedural matters, the Town Meeting shall follow the latest revised edition of ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER, except as otherwise provided by General Law, this Charter, or By-law.
2-2-1 
The Town Meeting shall consider and act upon all proposed By-laws.
2-2-2 
The Town Meeting shall consider and act upon, with or without amendments, all proposed operating and capital improvement budgets, bond issues, and other financial proposals of The Town.
2-2-3 
The Town Meeting shall possess and exercise all powers possible under general law.
2-2-4 
The Town Meeting may, through the select board or a duly constituted special committee, investigate the affairs of any town division, department, board, commission, committee, office, or function. An investigating committee appointed under this provision shall not have the power to scrutinize the records of any meeting held in executive session.
[Amended 1-13-2021 by Ch. 343, Acts of 2020]
2-2-5 
All town officers, or their representatives, members of boards and commissions, and department heads shall attend any Town Meeting when proposals affecting their particular office, board, or department are included in the warrant. The absence of any such persons shall not invalidate the actions of the Town Meeting.
2-3-1 
The Town Meeting shall meet regularly on the last Monday evening in April to consider and adopt an annual operating and capital budget, and to act on other financial matters. The meeting shall be continued on others days, until all articles in the warrant shall have been acted upon.
2-3-2 
The Town Meeting shall also meet regularly on the third Monday evening in October to consider and act on matters of planning, zoning, subdivision control, building codes, and all other matters of a By-law nature, involving an appropriation of town funds, as may properly come before the meeting. The meeting shall be continued on other days, until all articles in the warrant shall have been acted upon.
2-3-3 
A Special Town Meeting may be called by the select board, and shall be called by said Board upon the request, in writing, of two hundred registered voters of the Town.
[Amended 1-13-2021 by Ch. 343, Acts of 2020]
2-3-4 
All proposed operating expenditures shall be included in a single, omnibus-type article in the Town Meeting warrant. In addition, all regular departmental capital expenditures shall be included in an omnibus-type article.
2-3-5 
The select board shall prepare the warrant for the two regularly scheduled Town Meetings and for Special Town Meetings, and shall have the power to insert articles therein.
[Amended 1-13-2021 by Ch. 343, Acts of 2020]
2-3-6 
Articles involving an expenditure of town funds shall not be voted on by the Town Meeting unless they shall have been considered previously, and a recommendation issued thereon, by the Finance Committee.
2-3-7 
Articles involving planning, zoning, subdivision control, land acquisition, conservation, extension of sewer lines, and all other matters relating to the environment shall not be voted on by the Town Meeting unless they shall have been considered previously, and a recommendation issued thereon, by the Planning Board.
2-3-8 
The provisions of paragraphs 2-3-6 and 2-3-7 shall not apply to articles which shall have been submitted to the Finance Committee or to the Planning Board, respectively, for a period of fourteen or more days.
2-3-9 
The order of consideration of the articles as printed in the warrant may be changed only by a four-fifths vote of the Town Meeting.
2-3-10 
The substance of any article entailing an expenditure of town funds which has been acted upon at any of the two regularly scheduled Town Meetings shall not again be voted on by the Town Meeting for a period of one year thereafter, unless the finance committee shall have recommended resubmission of the article.
2-3-11 
The substance of any article entailing planning, zoning, subdivision control, land acquisition, conservation, extension of sewer lines, and all other matters relating to the environment, which have been acted upon at any of the two regularly scheduled Town Meetings shall not again be voted on by the Town Meeting for a period of two years thereafter, unless the Planning Board shall have recommended resubmission of the article.
[Amended 1-13-2021 by Ch. 343, Acts of 2020]
2-4-1 
Except as otherwise provided in Sections 2-3-10 and 2-3-11, any ten voters of the Town may secure by written petition to the select board, the inclusion of an article for the warrant of any duly scheduled Annual Town Meeting, and at least one hundred registered voters may secure the same for any duly scheduled Special Town Meeting.
2-5-1 
A Moderator shall be elected for a term of one year. The Moderator shall preside at all sessions of the Town Meeting and shall serve without compensation.
[Amended 1-13-2021 by Ch. 343, Acts of 2020]
2-5-2 
The Moderator shall appoint:
(a) 
Six members of an eleven member Finance Committee, for overlapping terms of three years, who shall serve without compensation; and
(b) 
Any ad hoc committee created by the Town Meeting, unless another appointive authority shall be specified in the language of the article establishing such committee.