PARIS – The Board of Selectmen will take a stance on each of four ordinances going before the town in a referendum next month.

The ballot for the June 9 vote includes questions of whether voters will enact the revised ordinances dealing with subdivisions, dog control, shoreland zoning and flood-plain management.

According to notes of explanation included on the ballot, all of the documents except the shoreland zoning ordinance would replace the ordinances currently in place. The shoreland zoning ordinance would be revised.

Selectman Lloyd “Skip” Herrick said some residents had contacted him with concerns that voters may be confused with the revised subdivision ordinance. Both the selectmen and Planning Board have recommended that that ordinance not pass. However, Town Manager Sharon Jackson said those recommendations cannot be included on the ballot.

“I think there’s still an expectation that they want to know how we feel about it,” Herrick said. “I think there’s a real vacancy of information.”

Selectman David Ivey suggested that the board could take a position on each ordinance at their next meeting May 28, and the item was put on the agenda.

Several public hearings have been held on the revised subdivision ordinance, which was presented in December to replace one that was passed in a 487-468 vote in 2007. The changes to the ordinance include a consolidated application process that does not establish major and minor subdivisions, allowing gravel roads in subdivisions, allowing appeals to go before the Board of Appeals rather than the Superior Court, and eased fire protection requirements.

Selectmen and the Planning Board voted to not recommend passage of the revised ordinance after determining that it would be difficult to put into practice and could violate state law or compromise public safety.

Dana Hanley, who worked with the ordinance petitioners on legal matters related to the document, presented the revised ordinance with further amendments to the town after the first hearing, but it was not accepted. Hanley said he would present yet another version with even more revisions to the town 10 days before the vote.

Selectmen said it would not be accepted for presentation to voters.

A working group has been established to review the 2007 subdivision ordinance to recommend changes to it.

The purposes of the shoreland zoning ordinance include preventing water pollution, conserving wildlife habitat and open space, and providing protection from erosion and flooding. It was imposed on the town by the Board of Environmental Protection in 1993, and the revisions will bring the ordinance into compliance with new Department of Environmental Protection regulations.

The flood-plain management ordinance evaluates areas at risk of flooding and aims to reduce losses through land use and control. The ordinance was adopted in 1991, and the new one will incorporate updated maps to bring it into compliance with federal regulations.

The dog control ordinance will update a document adopted in 1972 and last amended in 1979.