§ 45-52-7 — § 45-52-7. Notice of and place of district meetings.

§ 45-52-7. Notice of and place of district meetings.

(a) A district meeting shall be held annually on the first Saturday of August in each year at nine o'clock a.m. (9:00 a.m.), for the election of district officers and the transaction of all other business that may legally come before the meeting. The meeting shall be held within the town of Charlestown.

(b) District meetings other than the annual district meeting may be called in the manner provided in this section.

(c) The district clerk shall give notice of every annual meeting of the district by mailing notice of the meeting to all of the persons named in the list of voters, corrected and filed as provided in § 45-52-4.

(d) Notice of an annual district meeting shall be given by mailing a written or printed notice of the time when and the place where the meeting is to be held not less than seven (7) and not more than ten (10) days prior to the day appointed for the meeting.

(e) Whenever the district council and/or one-third (â…“) of the qualified voters makes a request, in writing, for the calling of a special district meeting to transact any business relating to the district, in respect of which they have a right to vote, and direct the request to the district clerk, the district clerk shall cause the voters to be duly notified of the time when and the place where the meeting is to be held and of the business proposed to be transacted at the meeting.

(f) Notice of special district meetings shall be given in the manner provided for annual district meetings. At all special district meetings no business shall be transacted other than that stated in the call.

Legislative History

P.L. 1990, ch. 499, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 354, § 52.