ARTICLE 6--TOWN CLERK (Amended 6/13/81)
SECTION 1. The Town Clerk shall, immediately after Town Meeting, notify or cause to be notified, any person elected or chosen or appointed to any Town Office or to serve on any Town Board or Committee of the Town, of his or her election, choice or appointment.
SECTION 2. The voting list shall be used and the name of every person voting shall be checked thereon, in the election of all Town Officers whose election is by law required to be by ballot.
SECTION 3. The Town Clerk shall record all votes passed at Town Meetings held during his term of office. He shall administer the oath of office to all Town Officers who apply to him to be sworn, and shall make a record thereof and of the oaths of office taken before justices of the peace of which certificates are filed. He shall, immediately after every annual election of Town Officers, transmit to the Secretary of State, on blanks to be furnished by him a complete list of Town Officers elected and qualified and shall promptly report to the Secretary any changes in such Officers. He
shall make and keep an index of instruments entered with him required by law to be recorded, which shall be divided into five (5) columns, with appropriate headings for recording the date of reception, the names of parties and the book and page on which each instrument is recorded. It shall be open to public inspection.
SECTION 4. The Town Clerk shall record all vital statistics as they pertain to the Town and shall publish such data in the annual Town Report.
SECTION 5. After each election, the Clerk shall certify and transmit to the Register of Deeds the names of those who collectively will make up the membership of the Planning Board. This is a specific request of the Central Berkshire Register of Deeds and is part of the procedure required to insure that the Town remains operative under the Subdivision Control Law.
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