The Annual Town Meeting for the election of Town officers shall be held on the first Monday in May of each year. The hours for the opening and the closing of such meeting shall be so designated by the Board of Selectmen, but in no instance shall the polls for the election of Town officers remain open for a period of less than 12 consecutive hours. For all other elections, national, state or otherwise, the same hours as Town elections shall prevail, unless otherwise covered by statute.
[Amended 6-18-2007 ATM by Art. 24]
Every warrant for a Town Meeting or Special Town Meeting shall be served by posting an attested copy thereof in two or more public places in the Town as mandated by state law.
All committees chosen by the Town for any purpose and ordered to report at any designated time shall make such report in writing.
All motions shall be submitted to the Town Meeting in writing when so requested by the Town Moderator or the Town Clerk.
No motion shall be reconsidered by the Town Meeting unless ordered by more than 2/3 of the voters present and voting thereon.
No motion, the effect of which would be to dissolve a Town Meeting, shall be in order until every article in the warrant has been duly considered and acted upon, but this shall not preclude the postponement of action on or consideration of any article to an adjournment of the meeting to a stated time.
A. 
A Town Moderator shall be elected annually to serve for a one-year term. He shall preside at all Town Meetings and shall continue until the next annual meeting and until a successor is qualified.
B. 
In the event of absence or inability of the Town Moderator to serve, the Town Clerk shall call the Town Meeting to order. The first business of that meeting shall be the election of a Moderator Pro Tem by the Town Meeting members present at that meeting. The Moderator so elected must be a qualified legal voter of the Town.
C. 
The duties of the Town Moderator, not prescribed by statute, these bylaws or other bylaws of the Town, shall be determined by the general rules of parliamentary law, so far as they may be adapted to Town Meetings.