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LD 1496 Title Page An Act to Amend the Charter of the Kennebunk Sewer District Page 2 of 2
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Emergency preamble. Whereas, Acts of the Legislature do not become
effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as
emergencies; and

 
Whereas, this legislation requires referendum approval before it
can take effect; and

 
Whereas, this referendum is connected with the Kennebunk town
meeting to be held on June 8, 1999; and

 
Whereas, unless this Act is enacted before that date, the
referendum will require a special election, which would be a
considerable financial burden on the Town of Kennebunk; and

 
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create
an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and
require the following legislation as immediately necessary for
the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now,
therefore,

 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. P&SL 1955, c. 69, §1, as amended by P&SL 1995, c. 7, §1 and
affected by §2, is further amended to read:

 
*Sec. 1. Territorial limits. The territory and the inhabitants of the
Kennebunk Sewer District is identical to the boundaries of the
Town of Kennebunk situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the
southeasterly side of the Maine Turnpike and the territory of the
Town of Kennebunk situated on the northwesterly side of the Maine
Turnpike and described on the March 1994 Town of Kennebunk tax
maps as follows: Map 36, Lot 5; Map 36, Lot 6; P/O 36, Lot 7;
P/O 36, Lot 7A; Map 36, Lot 7B; P/O 37, Lot 5; Map 45, Lot 18;
Map 45, Lot 18A; Map 45, Lot 19; P/O 45, Lot 14; P/O 78, Lot 18;
Map 88, Lot 15; Map 88, Lot 24; Map 88, Lot 24A; Map 88, Lot 24B;
Map 89, Lot 1; Map 89, Lot 20 and the inhabitants of that
territory are a public sewerage district and a body politic and
corporate under the name of "Kennebunk Sewer District," which is
a system of public sewerage constructed, maintained and operated
for the public health and welfare and for the benefit of the
residents and of the property in the town served by the sewerage
facility, in the manner, with the rights, duties and immunities
described in this Act.

 
Sec. 2. Emergency clause; referendum; effective date. In view of the
emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when
approved only for the purpose of permitting its submission to the
legal voters within the Town of Kennebunk at the next regular
town election to be held on June 8, 1999 or at a special town
meeting to be called and held for the purpose within


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