Voters in Oxford and Cumberland counties will face a variety of issues including a selectmen’s race, a moratorium on bulk transportation of water, a road ordinance and various bond issues at Tuesday’s statewide referendum and elections.

In Buckfield, two candidates are vying for a selectmen’s position that is being vacated, and in Fryeburg, voters will act on a controversial water issue.

In Naples, voters will be asked to decide whether a road ordinance should be implemented.

“The goal of the ordinance is to set up standards on how people go about getting a road accepted as a town way,” said Naples Town Manager Derik Goodine. “It makes it clear that roads need to be built up to the acceptance of a subdivision road.”

The ordinance also has a provision that if a subdivision has open space and is seeking to have its road accepted as a town road, the developer must also present a deed for any open space set aside to the selectmen. The board will then determine whether it wants to place it on another town ballot for voters to accept or they could decide the town doesn’t want the land and it would revert to the exclusive use of the subdivision homeowners.

“Right now, there is a question,” Goodine said about the process of open space. A developer has to set aside 10 percent or can buy back the lots at $500 a lot. That money goes into a pot for the town to buy other open space.

“We’ve got people who want the town to accept their cow path roads. They would be a burden of maintenance on rest of community,” Goodine said.

A majority vote is needed to pass the ordinance. Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the town office building.

In Buckfield, voters will elect a new selectman following the resignation of Selectmen Phil McAlister, effective Nov. 6, for personal reasons, according to a letter submitted to selectmen.

The candidates are former Selectman Chris Haywood and former school board member Floyd E. Richardson Jr.

Buckfield voters will vote from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the municipal center.

In Fryeburg, where voters go to the polls from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the American Legion Hall on Bradley Street, approval is being sought of a moratorium on permits for activities that involve processing or bulk transportation of water through the town, or any operations under any permits unless substantial activities have already started.

According to information on the ballot question, the moratorium is necessary to prevent overburdening the public facilities due to the recent increase in demand for permits for the pumping and transport of Fryeburg’s groundwater, and for permits to transport water through Fryeburg pumped from other locations.

The moratorium is also being sought because existing comprehensive plans, land-use ordinances and other applicable laws are inadequate to prevent serious public harm from commercial or industrial development in the affected area, according to the information on the ballot. The moratorium would be in force for six months but can be extended another 180 days by selectmen after notice and a hearing.

The town is currently revising its bulk water ordinances in order to address concerns regarding the adequacy of municipal regulation of this natural resource.

Fryeburg voters are also being asked to increase the town’s bond indebtedness in order to pay for an addition to the Fryeburg rescue center on Route 302 at the cost of $809,900.

Cumberland County voters, including those in Harrison, Naples, Casco and other towns, will be asked to act on a county referendum ballot that seeks approval for bonds to upgrade radio interoperability and expand inmate medical facilities at the county jail in Portland.