NORWAY — The Select Board reviewed several proposed changes to town ordinances Thursday that will go before voters at the annual town meeting in June.

Code Enforcement Officer Chris Bilodeau explained the reasons for the changes, including replacing the sign ordinance.

The board accepted the adjustments and forwarded them to an attorney for Maine Municipal Association for final review.

MMA recommended the town scrap the sign ordinance and replace it, saying it would be too hard for it to withstand a legal challenge.

“The sign ordinance that we enacted at town meeting last year, (the attorney) felt wasn’t written well and to replace it with another document,” Bilodeau said. “After looking at what MMA legal had on their website and modeling it after those, we’ve come up with our next version.”

The new version is more generic. Bilodeau also said he consulted with members of the business group Downtown Norway and tweaked it further.

Much of MMA’s concern had to do with temporary signs, Bilodeau said.

The ordinance listed certain types of temporary signs, such farm stands, yard sales, realty and political, for example. The new ordinance removes that language.

“We can regulate where, how big, those type of things,” he said. “We can’t regulate content.”

Planning Board members said they were amazed that MMA had a problem with that language.

With the new sign ordinance still being tweaked, officials were not sure if it could be completed and sent to MMA for a final review before the deadline to print the town meeting warrant.

Interim Town Manager Jeffrey Campbell said he did not want to rush through the ordinance and thought it was important to make sure the final product would be enforceable.

The other ordinance changes dealt with shoreland, building, building permit fees and flood plain rules.

The shoreland ordinance was adjusted so the tree cutting permits will be applicable to all zones. The document needs to be sent to the Department of Environmental Protection for certification, Bilodeau said.

The flood plain ordinance had not been updated since 2009, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency made adjustments in the state plan in 2015 and 2018 that the town had not yet adopted.

Small tweaks were made to the building code. The transfer station asked for language to clarify when a dumpster was required at construction sites. Also, the end property on a dead-end road would not need 100 feet of frontage.

Building permit fees are being adjusted for the first time in nearly 10 years.

The changes will be voted on at the June 16 town meeting.