CHARLEMONT — Voters will be asked to approve reorganizing the town’s bylaws into a single document with chapters organized by category during a Special Town Meeting on Tuesday, July 22.

No new bylaws are being proposed at the meeting, which will commence at 6 p.m. at Hawlemont Regional School.

Town officials are simply seeking voter approval to compile all of the previously approved bylaws into one organized document, which the town has not done since 1982.

The document was compiled by Town Clerk Thorne Palmer with a goal of giving the town a way to easily find, review and amend its bylaws in the future.

“I tried to make it more understandable than the last list of bylaws,” Palmer told the Selectboard during a meeting to review the document earlier this year. “We should have a real clear idea of where [each bylaw] should go in this document so it’s not just tacked on the end randomly. … We need to make it make sense.”

Rather than previous bylaw documents, which list the bylaws in the order they were adopted, the new document organizes the bylaws into chapters by topic, including general provisions, town operations, meetings, boards and committees, and more.

The full 53-page bylaw document can be read at charlemont-ma.us/news/newsfile_20215_ProposedCharlemontBylawRevisions06232025.pdf.

Reach Madison Schofield at 413-930-4579 or mschofield@recorder.com.