ARTICLE 4
Selectmen
Section 1. The Selectmen shall have full authority as agents of the Town to institute, prosecute and defend any and all claims, actions and proceedings to which the Town is a party, or in which the interest of the Town are or may be involved, and to compromise claims against the Town, unless otherwise ordered by a vote of the Town.
Section 2. Whenever it shall be necessary to execute any deed conveying land, or any other instrument required to carry into effect any vote of the Town, the same shall be executed by the
Selectmen in behalf of the Town, unless the Town shall vote otherwise.
Section 3. The Selectmen shall have the sole custody of all bonds required of the officers of the Town, which shall be deposited in one of the local banks for safe keeping.
The Selectmen may from time to time declare certain Town property to be surplus through the signatures of the majority of the entire Board on a Declaration of Surplus Property listing of these items. Thereupon the surplus items may be disposed of by public auction after public advertising for at least one week in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town. Said auction is to be held by a department head or other duly authorized representative of the Board of Selectmen.
Section 4. The Selectmen shall have the general direction and management of the property and affairs of the Town in all matters not otherwise provided for by law or by these Bylaws.
Section 5. The Board of Selectmen are hereby authorized to sell at public sales any of the property which the Town may have acquired, or may hereafter acquire, through procedure based upon non_payment of taxes or under proceedings for the sale of lands of low value, and to impose upon such property such restrictions, reservations or conditions as shall be deemed in the best interest of the Town, and to execute and deliver in the name of and under the seal of the Town such deeds or instruments necessary to give effect to this Bylaw.
Section 6. The Town Warrant and its actions thereon shall be caused to be printed in the Annual Report of the Town Officers.
Section 7. The Selectmen are allowed to provide for a local Council for Aging pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 8B.
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