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Section 3 of the Town’s Representative Town Meeting Act
SECTION 3. Any representative town meeting held under the provisions of this act, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be limited to the voters elected under section two, together with the following, designated as town meeting members at large; namely, any member of the general court of the commonwealth from the town, the moderator, the town clerk, the selectmen, the town treasurer, the town counsel, the chairman of the trustees of the public library, the chairman of the planning board, the chairman of the school board, the chairman of the board of assessors, the chairman of the board of health, the chairman of the park commission, the chairman of the board of water commissioners, and the chairman of the finance or warrant committee. The town clerk shall notify the town meeting members of the time and place at which
representative town meetings are to be held, the notices to be sent by mail at least seven days before the meeting.
The town meeting members, as aforesaid, shall be the judges of the election and qualification of their members. One hundred town meeting members shall constitute a quorum for doing business; but a less number may organize temporarily and may adjourn from time to time. Notice of every adjourned representative town meeting shall be posted by the town clerk in five or more public places in the town as soon as practicable after the adjournment. The notices shall state briefly the business to be acted upon at any meeting and shall include notice of any proposed reconsideration. All town meetings shall be public. The town meeting members as such shall receive no compensation. Subject to such conditions as may be determined from time to time by the representative town meeting, any voter of the town who is not a town meeting
member may speak at any representative town meeting, but shall not vote. A town meeting member may resign by filing a written resignation with the town clerk, and such resignation shall take effect upon the date of such filing. No elected member whose official position entitles him to be a member at large shall act as a member at large during such times as he remains an elected member. A town meeting member who removes from the town shall cease to be a town meeting member and an elected town meeting member who removes from one precinct to another or is elected from a precinct whose boundaries have been newly revised shall not retain membership after the next annual election.
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