[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Swansea
as Ch. 2, Art. V, and Ch. 7, Art. II, § 7-17, of the 1988
Revised General Bylaws. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Every Town officer, board, commission and committee shall annually,
not less than 90 days before the annual town meeting, prepare and
submit to the board of selectmen, a report in writing covering clearly
and in abbreviated form the work for the preceding year. Each report
shall be published in the annual town report.
The town clerk shall within one week after final adjournment
of any town meeting submit to the selectmen the official record of
such meeting, and the selectmen shall cause the same to be published
in the annual town report.
The selectmen shall in their annual report state in detail what
action they have taken in the year preceding whether as selectmen
or board of health. In regard to Town ways, county ways and sewers,
they shall state specifically any construction, alterations and repairs,
any assessments and payments, any claims that are outstanding, and
what claims are in suit against the Town. They shall also state what
ways or sewers have been ordered, laid out or accepted, or remain
to be constructed in part or in whole. They shall give full reports
in regard to all suits against the Town with all circumstances relating
thereto. They shall also make a detailed statement of the repairs
made upon public buildings.
In his annual report, the treasurer shall state specifically
the objects for which the debt of the Town was increased during the
year preceding and recite the vote under which the money was borrowed;
and shall render a classified statement of all expenditures and receipts
of the Town in such detail as to give a fair and full exhibit of the
objects and methods of all expenditures. He shall also state the amount
of money received by the Town from sources other than taxation.
All boards, standing committees and officers of the Town shall
record their activities and accounts in suitable books. Such record
books shall be open to inspection of the citizens of the Town during
business hours, but shall remain during such inspection under the
supervision of the board, committee or officer designated to keep
charge thereof.
All boards, standing committees or officers of the Town having
charge of the expenditure of money shall annually report thereon in
print in such manner as to give the citizens a fair and full understanding
of the objects and methods of such expenditures referring to the report
of the treasurer for specific details.
The annual town reports shall be distributed at least 14 days
before the annual town meeting.
The board of health shall annually, before the ninth day of
January, present to the Town a report made up to and including the
last day of the preceding December, containing a full and comprehensive
statement of the acts of the board during the year and a review of
the sanitary conditions of the Town.
