SECTION 1. Chapter 280 of the Acts of 1952 is hereby amended to add immediately before section 1 thereof a preamble reading: “Preamble: The legislative body of the Town is an open town meeting, open to all registered voters of the Town.”

SECTION 2. Chapter 280 of the Acts of 1952 is hereby amended by substituting for the term “board of selectmen,” and for the word “selectmen,” in each and every place in which either one appears, the term “select board” or “member of the select board," by substituting the words “his or her” for the word “his” in each and every place in which it appears, and by substituting the term “member of the select board” for the word “selectman” in each and every place where it appears.

SECTION 3. Chapter 280 of the Acts of 1952, section 2(B)(1), is hereby amended by deleting from the end the words “and revising the building code of the town.”

SECTION 4. Chapter 280 of the Acts of 1952, section 21, is hereby amended by deleting the word “sixty” from the first sentence of the section, and replacing it with the word “one-hundred-twenty.”

SECTION 5. Chapter 280 of the Acts of 1952, section 1C, is hereby amended by inserting immediately before the final sentence thereof the following: “In the event that the moderator is absent, disabled from the performance of his or her duties, or has recused him or herself, the deputy moderator elected at the Annual Town Meeting shall act as moderator; in the event of a vacancy in the position of moderator, the deputy moderator shall act as moderator until the next regularly elected moderator takes office.”