SECTION 1. Chapter 686 of the Acts of 1970, as most recently amended by Chapter 65 of the Acts of 2021, is hereby amended by striking out section 4 and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

SECTION 4. There shall be a total of eighteen town meeting members elected from each precinct. When a new precinct is added, the six candidates who receive the highest number of votes shall be declared elected to a three-year term. The six candidates in the precinct who receive the next highest number of votes shall be declared elected to a two-year term. The six candidates who receive the next highest number of votes shall be declared elected to a one-year term. Thereafter, all such town meeting members shall be elected to three-year terms.

In the event of a tie vote for the office of town meeting member, the town clerk shall, within seven days of the election, call together at a convenient place, all the representative town meeting members from the precinct in which the tie vote occurs and the candidates for that office who are affected by such tie. Under the supervision of the town clerk, any such ties shall be resolved by ballots cast by the elected precinct town meeting members present.

A town meeting member who is removed by a revision of precincts from the precinct from which the member was elected shall not retain membership after the next annual election as an elected member from the precinct from which the member has been removed. The term of a town meeting member who is not removed by a revision of precincts from the precinct from which the member was elected shall not be affected by the revision.