[Amended by Acts of 2019, Ch. 110, approved 11-13-2019]
The legislative powers of the Town shall remain vested in the
Town Meeting open to all voters.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, certain powers of Town Meeting as to real estate acquisitions shall be vested in the select board, as specified in Section 3.3., subject to the voters' right to petition, as specified in Sections 2.1(b) and 3.3, to place before Town Meeting any real estate acquisition voted by the select board under said Section 3.3.
The following additional powers may be exercised by Town Meeting:
(a)
To exercise any power which a charter for the County of Nantucket
may vest in Town Meeting; and
(b)
To veto any real estate acquisition voted by the select board pursuant to Section 3.3; provided, however, that a petition proposing such veto in the form of a Town Meeting warrant article is signed by at least ten registered voters and provided that the petition is timely filed with the Town Clerk. The Town Clerk shall then present the petition to the select board within the time permitted for inclusion of the article in the next Town Meeting warrant. The select board may proceed with the real estate acquisition unless the acquisition is vetoed by the Town Meeting.
The Moderator shall be elected for a term of one year and shall
have all the powers and duties given to moderators under the Constitution
and the laws of the Commonwealth, and such additional powers and duties
as are authorized by this Charter.
In advance of each Town Meeting, the Town Moderator shall by
written notice to the Town Clerk appoint an Alternate Town Moderator
who shall, during such Town Meeting, serve as acting Moderator in
the event of absence or disability of the Moderator.
The Town Clerk shall serve as Clerk of the Town Meeting. In
advance of each Town Meeting, the Town Clerk shall by written notice
to the Moderator appoint an Alternate Clerk of the Meeting who shall,
during such Town Meeting, serve in the event of absence or disability
of the Clerk of the Meeting. If an Alternate Clerk of the Meeting
is not appointed or is unable so to serve, the Moderator shall appoint
a clerk.
[Amended by Acts of 2016, Ch. 362, approved 1-5-2017; Acts
of 2019, Ch. 110, approved 11-13-2019]
(a)
The select board shall include all proposed operating expenditures
in a single article or in consecutive articles in the warrant and
also all proposed capital improvement expenditures in a single article
or in consecutive articles.
(b)
The select board shall publish notice of the issuance of the
warrant of each town meeting in a newspaper of general circulation
within the town promptly after the issuance of the warrant. After
such publication, the Finance Committee shall hold a public hearing
on each article and vote its recommendations. For articles that do
not call for the Town to raise and appropriate, transfer or borrow
sums of money, the Finance Committee may choose to make no recommendation.
(c)
The select board shall publish the warrant with the recommendations
of the Finance Committee by mailing a copy of such warrant to the
address or postal box of each registered voter at least fourteen days
prior to the Town Meeting.
[Amended 6-5-2021 ATM by Art. 96, approved at ATE 5-20-2022]
One spokesperson for the Town's nonresident property owners
shall be allowed to speak at any annual or special Town Meeting on
matters before the Meeting but only at such times during a Meeting
as the Moderator may allow and in accordance with the rules of order.
Except to the extent other procedures have been or are adopted
by Town Meeting or by the Moderator in conformity with this Charter
and the laws of the Commonwealth, Town Meeting shall follow the latest
revised edition of Town Meeting Times: A Handbook of Parliamentary
Law, by Johnson, Trustman and Wadsworth.
