"Town" shall include city and wards or precincts therein; "selectboard members" and "board of civil authority" shall extend to and include the mayor and aldermen of cities; "trustees" shall extend to and include bailiffs of incorporated villages; and the laws applicable to the inhabitants and officers of towns shall be applicable to the inhabitants and similar officers of all municipal corporations. This section shall be so construed as not to conflict with the acts of incorporation of or laws specially applicable to such municipal corporations. (Amended 2013, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 72.)