Town Charter: § C7-1. Annual and Special Town Meeting
[Amended 4-29-1974 ATM, approved 1975 Annual Town Election; 4-28-1980 ATM, approved 1981 Annual Town Election; Laws 1990, c. 91, approved 1991 Annual Town Election; 5-14-2001 STM, Art. 39, approved 2002 Annual Town Election; 12-2-2019STM, Art. 18, approved 2020 Annual Town Election]
The Annual Town Meeting shall be held on the first Monday in May. The Selectboard shall insert all articles into the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting which bear signatures of 10 or more registered voters of the Town. The Annual Town Meeting warrant shall close to petitioned and budget articles on December 31 of the year previous to the Annual Town Meeting. The warrant shall remain open to the Selectboard until the first Tuesday in February.
The Selectboard may call a Special Town Meeting at any time. The warrant for Special Town Meetings will remain open for at least seven days from the call of the meeting. At least forty-two days must pass between the close of the warrant for Special Town Meetings and the holding of such meetings. Inhabitants of the Town of Stoughton may, on their initiative, petition to have an Article placed for consideration by Town Meeting Representatives at Special Town Meetings. Petitions formed for this purpose must contain at least one hundred signatures by registered voters of the Town. The Selectboard is required to call a Special Town Meeting upon receipt of a petition formed by inhabitants of the Town containing at least two hundred signatures of registered voters.
