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CHAPTER 170 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS IN THE CITY OF TAUNTON.

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. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-five there shall be elected five members of the zoning board of appeals of the city of Taunton. The two candidates receiving the largest number of votes for said zoning board of appeals shall be elected for a term of three years, the two candidates receiving the next largest number of votes for a term of two years, and the candidate receiving the next largest number of votes for a term of one year. At the annual election in nineteen hundred and ninety-six and every year thereafter there shall be elected two members of said zoning board of appeals for a term of three years, except that every third year thereafter one member shall be so elected.

A vacancy on the zoning board of appeals occurring otherwise than by expiration of a term shall be filled by appointment of the municipal council and the remainder of the members of said zoning board of appeals until the next annual election, at which time such office shall be filled by election for the remainder of the unexpired term.

SECTION 2. Upon the qualification of the members of the board of appeals elected under the provisions of section one, the terms of present members of said board shall expire.

SECTION 3. This act shall be submitted to the voters of the city of Taunton at the city election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-three in the form of the following question, which shall be placed on the official ballot to be used for the election of city officers at said election:

"Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled 'An Act providing for the election of the board of appeals in the city of Taunton', be accepted ".

If a majority of the votes cast in answer to said question is in the affirmative then this act shall take full effect, but not otherwise.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved October 4, 1993.