[Adopted 10-23-1973 by the
Board of Selectmen]
Pursuant to the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Act of the State of
Connecticut, No. 155 of the Public Acts of 1972, as amended (hereinafter the
"Act"), there is hereby established, in the Town of Guilford, the Guilford
Inland Wetlands Commission (hereinafter the "Commission").
[Amended 6-3-1974 by the
Board of Selectmen]
A. The Commission shall consist of one member or alternate
member of the Guilford Planning and Zoning Commission, one member of the Guilford
Conservation Commission and five additional members who shall be electors
and residents of the town.
B. Each member shall be appointed by the Board of Selectmen
for a term of four years, such term to run from the first day of March in
the year of appointment; provided, however, that the initial term of office
of a member appointed to a newly created membership position may be less than
four years; provided, further, that the terms of office of the representatives
of the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Conservation Commission shall
not exceed their respective terms of office on such Commissions. Terms of
office shall be established to expire as nearly as possible at regularly staggered
annual intervals. Members of the Commission presently serving terms on the
effective date hereof shall continue to serve until the expiration of their
terms.
C. Members of the Commission shall serve without compensation
but shall be entitled to reimbursement for necessary expenses incurred in
the performance of official duties.
The Board of Selectmen shall not remove a member of the Commission except
for good cause and, upon request of such member, only after public hearing.
Failure to attend four consecutive meetings of the Commission shall constitute
good cause for removal.
Any vacancy in the membership of the Commission which may result from
the death, resignation or removal of a member or from any other cause shall
be filled for the unexpired term of such member by the Board of Selectmen.
Vacancies created by the death, resignation or removal of a member who is
a representative of the Planning and Zoning Commission or Conservation Commission
shall be filled with another representative of such commission.
The Commission shall have all of the powers and be subject to all of
the duties as may be conferred or imposed by a municipality upon its duly
authorized inland wetlands agency pursuant to the Act, including all incidental
powers necessary to enforce rules and regulations and to carry out the purposes
of the Act.
[Adopted 3-16-1982 by the
Board of Selectmen]
In accordance with Section 4-10(a) of the Charter of the Town of Guilford
and as authorized by Section 22a-42(c) of the Connecticut General Statutes,
as amended, there shall be three alternate members of the Guilford Inland
Wetlands Commission, who shall have all of the powers and duties vested in
alternate members of Inland Wetlands Commissions by the General Statutes of
the State of Connecticut, as the same may be amended from time to time, and
as provided in the ordinance enacted by the Board of Selectmen on October
23, 1973, creating an Inland Wetlands Commission, as amended.
Said three alternate members shall be appointed by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with Section
4-1 of the Charter of the Town of Guilford.
Alternate members of the Guilford Inland Wetlands Commission shall be
electors and residents of the Town of Guilford and shall vacate their positions
on ceasing to be electors or residents of the Town of Guilford.
One member of the original three alternate members shall be appointed
for a term of two years, one alternate member for a term of three years and
one alternate member for a term of four years, and, thereafter, each alternate
member shall be appointed for a term of four years. Each member shall continue
to hold office until his or her successor had been appointed and has qualified.
Alternate members may be removed for cause by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section
4-11 of the Charter of the Town of Guilford.
Said alternate members of the Guilford Inland Wetlands Commission shall
serve without compensation, except that necessary expenses incurred in the
performance of their duties may be paid from an appropriation authorized for
the purpose.