There shall be a Board of Selectmen consisting of the First Selectman and two additional Selectmen. No Selectman shall by employed by the Town in any other capacity or be a member of any Board or Commission except as provided in Section 5.1 relating to ex-officio membership.
Except as provided in Article 3, the legislative powers of the Town shall be vested in the Board of Selectmen, and the Board of Selectmen shall have the powers, duties and responsibilities conferred on them by the Constitution of the State of Connecticut and the General Statutes, as well as the Charter, including the power:
(a) 
to enact and amend ordinances consistent with the Charter and the General Statutes, and to repeal ordinances or amendments adopted under this Section;
(b) 
by ordinance, to create, change, or abolish Boards, Commissions, committees and offices of the Town other than elected offices, Boards and Commissions; provided that (i) the abolition of an appointed office or a reduction of the membership of, or the abolition of, an appointed Board or Commission provided for in the Charter must be approved by a Special Town Meeting in accordance with Section 3.4(f); and (ii) the Board of Selectmen may provide for the addition of elected alternates to the Planning & Zoning Commission;
(c) 
by resolution, to enter into agreements with the State or federal government or any agency of either such government; and
(d) 
in adopting ordinances, to incorporate all or part of any code, rules or regulations; provided that any such code, rules or regulations shall be available for public inspection in the office of the Town Clerk or online.
The Board of Selectmen shall also have the power, duty and responsibility:
(e) 
to fix the charges, if any, to be made for services rendered by the Town;
(f) 
to obtain a blanket bond for such Officials as are to be bonded;
(g) 
to review and approve: (i) plans for reorganization, creation or elimination of positions and; (ii) job descriptions for Town employees who are not appointed or elected Officials but who report to the Board of Selectmen, directly or indirectly;
(h) 
at the direction of the First Selectman, to conduct a periodic review of current (two-year time span) and projected (at least five-year time span) financial, administrative, governmental, physical and other needs of the Town, and to initiate programs to meet such needs; and
(i) 
except to the extent otherwise provided by ordinance, and subject to normal budget approval, to review and act on recommendations of the First Selectman to hire, and fix the compensation for, or discharge, any Town employee at the department head level who reports, directly or indirectly, to the Board of Selectmen.
(a) 
At its first meeting, to be held not later than two weeks following each biennial Town election, the Board of Selectmen shall fix the time and place of its regular meetings and shall elect an acting First Selectman as required by Section 5.2. Special meetings of the Board of Selectmen may be called by the First Selectman or by the other two Selectmen jointly, with reasonable advance notice being given to the other member(s) of the Board. The Board of Selectmen shall determine its own rules of procedure, by reference to Robert's Rules of Order. Two members of the Board shall constitute a quorum.
(b) 
Meetings of the Board of Selectmen shall be conducted, and notice and minutes thereof shall be made available, in accordance with the provisions of the State Freedom of Information Act and otherwise in accordance with the General Statutes.
At least one public hearing, Public Notice of which shall be given at least ten days in advance, shall be held by the Board of Selectmen before any ordinance shall be passed. Every ordinance, after passage, shall be given a serial number and be recorded by the Town Clerk, and shall be properly indexed. Such ordinance shall be published online or in such other form as is readily available to the public. Within ten days after final passage, the Town Clerk shall give Public Notice of the text of each ordinance, except as otherwise provided in Section 4.5, relating to emergency ordinances.
Every ordinance, unless it shall specify a later date, shall become effective on the 21st day after such publication following its final passage unless it is overruled as provided in Section 3.6 or is an emergency ordinance as provided in Section 4.5.
An ordinance adopted by the Board of Selectmen as a public emergency measure and stating the facts constituting such public emergency shall become effective immediately, and Public Notice shall be given thereof as soon as possible thereafter. No public hearing or notice of public hearing shall be required for any public emergency ordinance. Every public emergency ordinance, including any amendments thereto, shall automatically expire at the end of the 61st day following initial passage of the ordinance.
The Board of Selectmen shall coordinate the activities and operations of the Town government and, from time to time, may convene joint meetings of Officers, Boards and/or Commissions for such purposes, and/or may require such reports or information to be submitted by them as the Board of Selectmen may deem necessary for such purposes.