Chapter 40, Section 8A
as added by Chapter 397
Acts of 1954 and amended by
Chapter 102, Acts of 1955
Establishment of Development and
Industrial Commission
Chapter 550, Acts of 1987
Enabling the Treasurer to return unclaimed
checks to Town's E & D Account.
October 24, 1988
Chapter
59, Section 5, Clause 17D
Exclusion of Property from Applicants
Gross Estate
October 24, 1988
Chapter 40, Section 21
(paragraph 16)
Authorizes Highway Surveyor to remove
vehicles interfering with snow plowing
and ice removal.
October 23, 1989
Chapter 42, Acts of 1988
Allows By-Laws to establish due dates
for payments of municipal charges and bills
and may fix interest charges.
Allows deferral of water charges.
February 5, 1990
Chapter 291, Acts of 1990
Enhanced 911 Service
March 6, 1991
Chapter 41, Section
19J
May compensate a Town Clerk who also
serves as a member of its Board of
Registrars of Voters not less than $50,
nor more than $100 per 1,000 Registered
Voters or major fraction thereof.
October 29, 1991
Chapter 44, Section
53G
Authorizes the Conservation Commission,
the Zoning Board of Appeals, Planning
Board and Board of Health to establish an
escrow account for the purpose of hiring
outside consultants to aid the Board in
reviewing applications for permits.
October 29, 1991
Chapter 275, Acts of 1990
Revolving Fund
Trustees of the Memorial Field
October 24, 1988
May 20, 1992
Chapter 40, Section
21D
Allows the non-criminal procedure
for disposition of ordinance, By-Law
or municipal rule and regulation violations.
May 18, 1992
Chapter 221, Acts of 1992
Town Water Supply
November 3, 1992
Chapter 40, Section 8G
Allows municipalities to enter into police
mutual aid agreements with other Towns.
Chapter 41, Section 108L
Police officers will be eligible for a
"Career Incentive Pay Program",
more commonly known as the "Quinn Bill".
May 8, 2001
Chapter 41, Section 97A
There will be a police department established
by the selectmen under the supervision of a
Chief of Police. Also known as "Strong Chief's Law"
May 9, 2001
Chapter 181, Section 1 of the Acts of 1995
Will allow a cost of living adjustment to increase the
exemption granted to certain senior citizens, surviving spouses
and minors under MGL Ch 59, section 5,
clause 17D
May 9, 2001
Chapter 148, Section 26H
Requires all lodging and boarding houses
to be equiped with a complete system of
automatic sprinklers within 5 years of the
date of acceptanceof the statute.
October 1, 2001
Chapter 148, Section 26I
Requires all new or substantially altered
buidings containing 4 or more
dwelling units be equipped with a complete
system of automatic sprinklers.
October 1, 2001
Chapter 40, Section 22F
Authorizes the Board of Selectmen to set fees
and services charges for the Sealer of Weights & Measures
Chapter 111, Section 127B 1/2,
Allow citizens to petition for agreement to remove
underground fuel storage tank or lead paint or to provide proper
service by a septic system; costs; authority to evict
October 7, 2002
Chapter 127, Section 59 of the Acts of 1999 Adding MGL Chapter 59, Section
5K
Allows senior citizens taxpayers, over 60, to volunteer their services to the municipality in exchange
for a reduction of their bills. May earn a maximum reduction of $750 a year.
May 5, 2003
Chapter 33, Section 59
Increases military leave from 2 weeks to
34 days for annual training for reservists
May 3, 2004
Chapter 137, Section 1 of the Acts of 2003
Provides compensation and benefits to
Employees of municipalities who have been
Called into active military service after
September 1, 2001
May 3, 2004
Chapter 59, Section 5, Clause 22, Paragraph 5
Will reduce the residency requirement for
Disabled veterans under Clauses 22, 22A
22B, 22C, 22D and 22E from 5 years to
1 year prior to filing for an exemption
Be
it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
assembled, and by the authority of the same , as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter
two hundred and fifty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-two is
hereby repealed.
SECTION 2.
Any
holder of an elective office in the town of Hanson may be recalled and removed
therefrom by the qualified voters of said town as herein provided.
SECTION 3.
One
hundred and fifty or more qualified voters may file with the town clerk an
affidavit containing the name of the officer and the office held whose recall
is sought and a statement of the grounds upon which the petition is based. A
minimum of twenty-five qualified voters shall be from each precinct. Upon
certification by the board of registrars of the required signatures, the town
clerk shall thereupon deliver or make available to the designated person or
persons seeking the recall, a sufficient number of petition blanks demanding
such recall on printed forms of which he shall keep on hand. The blanks shall
be issued by the town clerk with his signature and official seal attached
thereto; they shall be dated and addressed to the board of selectmen; shall
contain the names of all persons to whom they are issued, the name of the
person whose recall is sought, the office held by the person named, the grounds
for recall as stated in the affidavit and shall demand the election of a
successor to such office. A copy of the petition shall be entered in a record
book to be kept in the office of the town clerk. The recall petition shall be
returned and filed with the town clerk within twenty days following the date of
issuance of said petitions. Said recall petitions shall be signed by at least
ten per percent of the registered voters from each precinct in said town and to
every signature shall be added the place of residence of the signer, giving the
street and number. The town clerk shall within two working days of receipt,
submit the petition to the registrars of voters who shall forthwith certify
thereon the number of signatures which are names of voters of said town. No
paper or documents of any kind shall be attached by the petitioners to any petition
for recall, nor may any paper or document of any kind be solicited by the
petitioners in such a way as to obscure any part of the petition for recall.
SECTION 4.
If
the petition shall be found and certified by said town clerk to be sufficient,
he shall submit the same with his certificate to said selectmen without delay
and said selectmen shall forthwith give written notice to said officer of the
receipt of said certificate and shall, if the officer sought to be removed does
not resign within five days thereafter, thereupon order an election to be held
within a reasonable length of time after a minimum of forty-five days from town
clerk's certification of the sufficient petitions. If a vacancy occurs in said
office after a recall election has been so ordered, the election shall
nevertheless proceed as herein provided.
SECTION 5.
Any
officer sought to be recalled may be a candidate to succeed himself, and,
unless he requests otherwise in writing, said town clerk shall place his name
on the official ballot without nomination. The nomination of other candidates,
the publication of the warrant for the recall election, and the conduct of the
same, shall all be in accordance with the provisions of law relating to
election, unless otherwise provided in this act.
SECTION 6.
The
incumbent shall continue to perform the duties of his office until the recall
election. If then re-elected, he shall continue in office for the remainder of
his unexpired term subject to recall as before, except as provided in section eight.
If not re-elected in the recall election, he shall be deemed removed upon the
qualification of his successor, who shall hold office during unexpired term. If
the successor fails to qualify after five days after receiving notification of
his election, the incumbent shall thereupon be deemed removed and the office
vacant.
SECTION 7.
Ballots
used in a recall election in said town shall submit the following proposition
in the order indicated:
For
the recall of (Name of officer)(office held)
Against the recall
of (Name of officer)(office held)
Immediately at the
right of each proposition there shall be a square in which the voter by making
a cross mark (X) may vote for either of such propositions. Under the
proposition shall appear the word "Candidates" and the direction
"Vote for one" and beneath this the names of candidates nominated as
here-in-before provided. .In this case machine voting or punch card balloting,
or other forms of balloting provision shall be made to allow the same intent of
the voter.
SECTION 8.
No
recall petition shall be filed against an officer of said town within six
months after he takes office, nor in the case of an officer subjected to a
recall election and not removed thereby, until at least six months after that
election.
SECTION 9.
No
person who has been recalled from an office in said town or who has resigned
from office while recall proceedings were pending against him, shall be
appointed to any town office within two years after such removal by recall or
resignation.
House of
Representatives, July 2, 1986
Passed to be enacted, George Keverian, Speaker
In Senate, July 2, 1986
Passed
to be enacted, William M. Bulger, President
July 10, 1986, Approved, Michael Dukakis, Governor
Reference:Article 20, October 28, 1985 Special Town
Meeting House Bill H 4902
