{"id":639,"date":"2019-09-13T11:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T15:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/?p=639"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:59:09","slug":"town-meeting-petition-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/2019\/09\/13\/town-meeting-petition-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Meeting Petition Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters may place (an) article(s) on a Town Meeting warrant by submitting a petition to the Select Board&#8217;s Office. There are three petition forms available &#8211; please select the one that corresponds to the type of Town Meeting warrant in which you wish to have your article included:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Annual Town Meeting (ATM)<\/h2>\n<p>To have a petition article added to the Annual Town Meeting warrant, a petitioner needs to collect <u>10 signatures<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Annual Town Meeting begins on the first Monday in May. The warrant typically opens in December of the previous year and closes on January 31. (Petition articles are accepted while the warrant is open.)<\/p>\n<p>Click here for <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/?p=155\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ATM Petition Form<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Special Town Meeting (STM) \u2013 When Already Called<\/h2>\n<p>To have a petition article added to a Special Town Meeting warrant, which has already been opened, a petitioner needs to collect <u>100 signatures<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/?p=310\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">STM Petition Form<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Special Town Meeting (STM-C) \u2013 Petition to Call Town Meeting<\/h2>\n<p>To call a Special Town Meeting, a petitioner needs to collect <u>200 signatures<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/?p=311\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>STM-C Petition Form<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Town Meetings in the Secretary of State&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/cis\/cistwn\/twnidx.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Citizen&#8217;s Guide to Town Meetings<\/span><\/a>. Information about Sudbury Town Meeting can be found in our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/clerk\/town-bylaws-current\/\">General Bylaws<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual Town Meeting, Special Town Meeting and Call Special Town Meeting Petition Article Forms. <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/2019\/09\/13\/town-meeting-petition-forms\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Town Meeting Petition Forms\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/townmeeting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}