Title III, Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places

The town clerk shall immediately, or in accordance with the time adopted by the governing body, if one has been adopted, direct a constable or police officer to notify the persons so chosen or notify such persons by registered mail, return receipt requested, to appear before the …

Any constable or police officer neglecting his duty in any of the foregoing particulars shall be guilty of a violation. One-half of all fines collected hereunder shall inure to the use of the town and the remaining 1/2 shall inure to the use of the county.

Every person so chosen and notified, not by law exempt from serving, who shall neglect, for 6 days after personal notice, or notice left at the person's abode, or after the person's return in the case of absence when such notice was left, but in no case later than 30 days after t…

Any person so chosen and notified, who shall take the oath of office before one of the selectmen or a justice of the peace, and file a certificate thereof with the town clerk within said 6 days, shall be exempt from such penalty.

The town clerk shall make a record of every oath of a town officer taken in open town meeting at the time of the election, and of every such oath taken before him at any other time and place, the import of which record may be that the officer took the oath of office prescribed by…