Ordinances may be created, amended, repealed or overruled in accordance with the procedures of this article, Article III and Article IV. An ordinance may be amended or repealed only by another ordinance.
A. 
No ordinance shall be voted upon by the Board of Selectmen or the Town Meeting until a public hearing shall have been held thereon.
B. 
Notice of the date, time and place of the public hearing on any proposed ordinance, together with the full text of the proposed ordinance or a summary thereof, shall be published by the Board of Selectmen in a newspaper having general circulation in the Town not less than 10 nor more than 20 days in advance of the date set for such hearing.
C. 
The Board of Selectmen shall set a date for a public hearing on a proposed ordinance within 60 days after one of the following events:
(1) 
The Board of Selectmen proposes the adoption of an ordinance; or
(2) 
The Board of Selectmen receives a valid petition pursuant to § C-9 requesting a Special Town Meeting to adopt an ordinance.
A. 
The Board of Selectmen must act upon any proposed ordinance within 35 days following the public hearing held thereon. If the Board of Selectmen fails to act within such 35 days or if the Board of Selectmen makes substantial changes to the proposed ordinance following such public hearing, the Board of Selectmen shall call another public hearing on the proposed revised ordinance subject to the notice requirements of § C-22B before calling a meeting of the Town Meeting to consider the revised ordinance or before the Board of Selectmen may adopt the revised ordinance.
B. 
If the Board of Selectmen shall reject or fail to act on or make substantive change to an ordinance proposed by petition pursuant to § C-9, the Board of Selectmen shall call a Special Town Meeting to consider action on such proposed ordinance in accordance with § C-9C(4).
A. 
Upon affirmative action of the Board of Selectmen on a proposed ordinance, the Board of Selectmen shall publish a legal notice of such action and a summary of the ordinance in a newspaper having a general circulation in the Town within 20 days of such affirmative action.
B. 
Not less than 10 nor more than 20 days in advance of the date set for any meeting of the Town Meeting called pursuant to § C-9 at which a proposed ordinance is set to be voted upon, the full text of such proposed ordinance or a summary of such proposed ordinance shall be published by the Board of Selectmen in a newspaper having general circulation in the Town. The Board of Selectmen shall prepare, in writing, a summary report of the issues raised by the proposed ordinance. The report shall include the opinion of Town Counsel on any substantial legal issues raised by the proposed ordinance and may, but need not, include the recommendations of the Board of Selectmen. Such reports shall be available to the public in the office of the Town Clerk not less than 10 days in advance of the date set for the meeting of the Town Meeting at which the proposed ordinance is set to be voted upon and shall be presented orally to the Town Meeting.
If an ordinance shall have been amended on the floor before passage by the Town Meeting, it shall not go into effect unless and until approved as provided in this section. The session of the meeting at which such amendment was passed shall be reconvened on a day certain not less than 10 days nor more than 25 days in the future. Not less than five days prior to the date set for such reconvened session, the amendment to the ordinance or the ordinance as amended or a summary thereof shall be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the Town.
An ordinance may include any standard code of technical regulations by reference thereto in an adopting ordinance. The procedure and requirements governing such an adopting ordinance shall be as prescribed for ordinances generally.
Unless otherwise provided for in the ordinance, any ordinance passed by the Town Meeting or the Board of Selectmen shall go into effect 21 days from affirmative action by the Town Meeting or the Board of Selectmen, as the case may be.