[Amended 11-7-2006, effective 12-7-2006]
(a) 
The Annual Town Meeting, which shall also be the annual budget meeting, shall be held within 15 days of the first Monday of May each year, unless changed by a vote of a Town Meeting or by referendum, to consider all items on the call except those items relating to the Annual Budget. All items on the call relating to the Annual budget shall be voted on at referendum not less than seven or more than fourteen days after said Annual Town Meeting on a date set by said meeting; or if said meeting does not set a date, by the Town Selectmen. Special Meetings shall be called by the Board of Selectmen in the manner provided by the General Statutes whenever they deem it necessary, or on application by fifty persons qualified to vote in Town Meeting.
(b) 
Adoption of the annual budget shall be by vote of the Annual Town Meeting. The meeting shall have the power to decrease any appropriation or item in an appropriation, but it may not increase any appropriation or item in an appropriation, or make any appropriation for a purpose not recommended by the Board of Finance.
[Added 11-6-2013, effective 11-6-2013]
(c) 
If the Annual Budget is not approved by vote at first referendum, The Board of Selectmen shall schedule subsequent referendum at fourteen-day intervals.
(d) 
The matters which the applicants for a Special Town Meeting desire to be acted upon shall, if proper subjects for Town Meeting action, be put in proper form for the call of a meeting and for a Town Meeting resolution with the assistance of Town Counsel, and those matters shall come first in the call of the meeting. The Board of Selectmen in their discretion may add other matters to the call of the meeting.
(e) 
All Town Meetings shall be advertised in a newspaper having circulation in Somers at least five days prior to date of meeting. Warnings for Town Meetings may be typewritten or printed and a copy shall be filed with the Town Clerk consistent with statutory requirements.
(a) 
The First Selectman shall call the meeting to order at the advertised time and the meeting shall choose a moderator. The Town Clerk shall serve as clerk. In his absence, the meeting shall choose a clerk.
(b) 
Electors of the town and other persons qualified by the General Statutes may vote at Town Meetings. Unless otherwise required by this Charter, Town Meeting action shall be by majority vote of those present and voting.
(a) 
A special appropriation and a payment into or appropriation from the reserve fund for capital and nonrecurring expenditures, requiring Town Meeting approval may be decreased by the Town Meeting, but may not be increased. A Town Meeting may make no special appropriation or transfer of funds not recommended by the Board of Finance, except public emergency appropriations.
(b) 
If a declaration of public emergency in accordance with Section 4-4(e) is in effect, the Town Meeting may make public appropriations to meet the emergency, but only by a vote of two-thirds of those present and voting.
(a) 
When the Board of Selectmen refers a proposed ordinance enactment in accordance with Section 4-4 by vote of Town Meeting, the proposed ordinance may be adopted or amended and adopted, and shall if adopted become effective on a date set by the meeting; but not until it has been published in a newspaper published in the state having a general circulation in the town. The Town Clerk shall promptly record it in a book kept for that purpose.
(b) 
If a special Town Meeting is called in accordance with Sections 4-4 and 7-1, it may:
(1) 
By an affirmative majority vote supported by at least one hundred persons overrule the action of the Board of Selectmen in enacting an ordinance, in which event the enactment shall have no force or effect. However, the Special Town Meeting may then vote to amend and adopt the proposed ordinance, as amended, and set its effective date after publication and recordation as prescribed in Section 7-5(a).
(2) 
By an affirmative majority vote supported by at least one hundred persons, overrule the action of the Board of Selectmen in rejecting a proposed ordinance. The Special Town Meeting may then vote to adopt, or amend and adopt, the proposed ordinance, and to set its effective date after publication and recordation as prescribed in Section 7-5(a).
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Editor’s Note: Former § 7-6, Confirmation of certain appointments, was repealed 11-6-2013, effective 11-6-2013.
[Amended 11-7-2006, effective 12-7-2006]
The acceptance of any road, easement, open space or other interest in real estate recommended by the Planning Commission as part of a subdivision approved under the Town's subdivision regulation shall be by a majority vote of the Board of Selectmen. Any other acquisition or sale of real estate, including the conveyance of real estate for no consideration, shall require approval of a Town Meeting.