4.5.   Appointive Boards and Commissions
   4.5.1.   Effective on the first Monday of January, 1966, there is constituted a seven member Parks and Recreation Commission.
   4.5.2.   In addition to those board and commissions established by ordinance, the Board of Selectmen shall appoint members to the boards and commissions as follows:
 
Zoning Board of Appeals, five members;
Alternate Zoning Board of Appeals, three members;
Water and Sewer Commission, eight members;
Parks and Recreation Commission, seven members;
Building Code Board of Appeals, five members.
Town Building committee, seven members.
 
   4.5.3.   Except as provided by law, no person who is not at the time of their appointment a resident elector of the Town of East Lyme shall be eligible for appointment to any town board or commission and any person ceasing to be a resident elector of the town shall cease to hold such office and the office shall be deemed vacant.
   4.5.2.   The Board of Selectmen may, by ordinance, create boards and specify their powers and duties. The Board of Selectmen may, by ordinance, abolish or consolidate boards and may likewise by ordinance, alter their powers and duties and change their membership.