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CHAPTER 25 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF COLLECTOR AND TOWN CLERK IN THE TOWN OF STERLING.

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 section one of chapter forty-one of the General Laws, the office of collector of the town of Sterling shall be filled by a joint appointment of the board of selectmen and the personnel board of said town for a term not to exceed three years, as the board of selectmen shall determine. Said collector may be removed for cause after a public hearing by the board of selectmen, and if so removed the vacancy may be filled by appointment for the remainder of the term in the same manner as in the case of an original appointment. The salary or compensation of said collector shall be determined by the personnel by-law. The position of town collector shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one of chapter forty-one of the General Laws, the office of the town clerk of the town of Sterling shall be filled by a joint appointment of the board of selectmen and the personnel board of said town for a term not to exceed three years, as the board of selectmen shall determine. Said clerk may be removed for cause after a public hearing by the board of selectmen, and if so removed the vacancy may be filled by appointment for the remainder of the term in the same manner as in the case of an original appointment. The salary or compensation of said town clerk shall be determined by the personnel by-law. The position of town clerk shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws.

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one and two of this act, the incumbents in the offices of collector and clerk upon the effective date of this act shall continue to hold such offices and to perform the duties thereof until the expiration of the terms or a precedent vacating of office.

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

Approved May 16, 1995.