§ 2649 - Number of officers
§ 2649. Number of officers
Each town shall have three selectmen and three listers, unless additional selectmen or listers are elected under the provisions of section 2650 of this title, and three auditors. At each annual meeting one selectman, one lister and one auditor shall be elected, each for a term of three years. A town so voting may elect one or two road commissioners for a term of one, two, or three years, as provided in section 2646 of this title. A town so voting may elect three water commissioners. The terms of the water commissioners shall be the same as those of selectmen under sections 2646 and 2650 of this title, except that of those commissioners first elected one shall have a term of one year, one a term of two years, one a term of three years. One or two additional water commissioners may be authorized for one or two year terms as provided in subsection 2650(b) of this title relating to additional selectmen. (Added 1977, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1999, No. 73 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)