A meeting of the electors of the Town of Wolcott for the election of municipal officers shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of the first odd numbered year following the adoption hereof and biennially thereafter. Meetings of the electors to vote in special elections or referenda shall be called by the Council unless otherwise provided by General Statutes.
(a) 
At each municipal election there shall be elected nine (9) members of the Town Council hereinafter referred to as the Council. There shall be three (3) members of the Council elected from each of the three (3) voting districts. Each political party shall nominate two (2) candidates from each of the three (3) districts. This shall not preclude an individual from running in his district as provided in General Statutes. The three (3) candidates having the largest number of votes from each of the three districts will serve on the Council. All electors in the Town will be eligible to vote for two (2) candidates in each district. The maximum number of members, as defined by Section 402 of this Charter of the same political party shall serve on any elected Board, Commission, or the Council and no more than 2 members of the same political party shall serve on the Council from any single district. For the purposes of this section, political party is defined as the party of endorsement.
(b) 
In addition to the Council, there shall be elected: a Mayor; a Treasurer; a three (3) member Board of Assessment Appeals, a five (5) member Zoning Board of Appeals, not more than three (3) of whom shall be members of the same party; a nine (9) member Board of Education, not more than six (6) of whom shall be members of the same party; six (6) constables with a maximum of three (3) from any party. The duties of the constable shall be limited to civil actions. The terms of these offices shall be for two years.
(c) 
There shall be a Tax Collector, a Town Clerk and Registrars of Voters, all to be elected for a term of four (4) years. The Registrars will be elected in accordance with Section 9-190 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(d) 
Justices of the Peace shall be chosen in the manner provided in Section 9-184 of the Connecticut General Statutes for a term of four (4) years.
(e) 
All elective officers shall hold office until their successors have been chosen and qualified. All elective offices, with the exception of the Council, Town Clerk, Board of Education, and Registrars of Voters, shall take office on the first Monday following election. The Town Council shall take office as herein provided. The Town Clerk and Registrars of Voters shall take office in accordance with General Statutes. The Board of Education shall take office within seven (7) days following election.
(f) 
Except as otherwise provided by this Charter, all elective town officers, boards and commissions shall have those powers and duties prescribed by law.
All caucuses and meetings of electors for the nomination and election of officers or in special elections shall be called, held and conducted as provided, by the officials designated in the General Statutes.
(a) 
When as a result of any municipal or special election held under the provisions of this Charter for the offices of Mayor, Treasurer, Town Clerk, and Tax Collector, or in the case of a question, it is necessary to break a tie, a special election confined to the tied candidates or questions shall be called by the Council to be held on the twenty-first day after said election to determine who shall be elected, or in the case of a question raised by a referendum or a Charter amendment petition, whether it shall be decided in the affirmative or negative. All voting machines concerning the returns from which there is no disagreement may be unlocked and paper ballots may be used in such election if voting machines are not available in sufficient numbers.
(b) 
If a tie occurs in any other elective office, the choice shall be determined between the tied candidates by lot under the supervision of the Head Moderator of the election in which the tie occurred.
No person shall be eligible for elective Town Office who is not at the time of his or her election a resident elector of said Town, and any person ceasing to be a resident elector of said Town shall thereupon cease to hold elective office in the Town upon certification by the Registrars that such person has ceased to be a resident elector. No person shall be eligible for election to any Town office who is not at the time of nomination and election a resident of the Town and qualified to vote for that office. Any person ceasing to be a resident elector of the Town, or in the case of district Council members, a resident elector of the district, shall thereupon cease to hold elective office in the town or district. No Council members shall have their office vacated by reason of a district boundary change until completion of their term of office.
(a) 
A vacancy in any elective Town Office, excepting the office of Mayor, from whatever cause arising, shall be filled by appointment by the Council within forty-five (45) days of such vacancy, for the unexpired portion of the term of such office or until the next biennial election, whichever shall be sooner.
(b) 
If there is a biennial election before the expiration of the term of office of any person appointed to an elective office under the provisions of this section, such office shall be filled by the election of a person to fill that office for the unexpired portion of the term.
(c) 
If the person vacating the office shall have been elected as a member of a political party, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment from the ranks of the political party. The Town Committee of the political party will designate a candidate, whose appointment by the Council shall be mandatory. Said political party will have thirty (30) days in which to present a name to fill such vacancy from the day that it is formally notified that such vacancy exists and failure to act within aforesaid thirty days will result in allowing the appointing authority to fill the vacancy from the ranks of the same political party in which the vacancy occurred. If the person vacating the office shall have been elected from a district, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment of a person from that same district, as well as the same political party.
(d) 
If the person vacating the office is not a member of a political party or was not an endorsed candidate of a political party, such vacancy shall be filled by the next highest vote getter for that office that is available from the prior election. In the case of the Town Council, such vacancy shall be filled by the next highest vote getter for the council in that District that is available from the prior election.