Sec. 1. P&SL 1967, c. 58, §1, as repealed and replaced by P&SL 1967, c. 211, §1; as amended by PL 1971, c. 544, §144; as repealed and replaced by P&SL 1975, c. 106, §1; as amended by P&SL 1983, c. 92, §2; and repealed and replaced by P&SL 1987, c. 29, §1, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

*Sec. 1.__Incorporation; purposes.__The inhabitants of the territory within the Towns of Mattawamkeag, Howland, Enfield, Burlington, Lowell, Lincoln, Springfield, Lee, Passadumkeag, Chester, Winn and Maxfield, Seboeis Plantation and Webster Plantation are constituted and confirmed a body politic and corporate to be known as "Hospital Administrative District No. 1" in order to provide for the health, welfare and public benefit of the inhabitants of the district.__The hospital district shall maintain and operate a hospital or critical access system, including, but not limited to, acute care facilities, extended care facilities, intermediate care facilities, free-standing satellite facilities, critical access facilities and facilities designed for utilization as offices by physicians and other professionals, and generally provide for the health, welfare and public benefit of the inhabitants of the district.__Without limiting the generality of this section, the district may also establish or participate in affiliated organizations, either alone or with others, and within or outside the district, including, but not limited to, medical centers, health care centers, networks, nursing centers, laboratories, clinics and other medical, surgical or dental facilities, shared services organizations and such other organizations or entities, on a for- profit or nonprofit basis, as the district may consider necessary or desirable from time to time, in order to provide, alone or with others, for the health, welfare and public benefit of the inhabitants of the district.

In effectuating any of the purposes of this section or any of the other purposes permitted to be engaged in by the district, the district may, subject to this Act, as amended and supplemented from time to time, acquire real or personal property, or any interest in the property, on either a temporary or long-term basis, by gift, purchase, transfer, foreclosure, lease or otherwise, including rights or easements; hold, manage, operate, sell, assign, lease, encumber, mortgage or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property, or any interest in the property, or mortgage interest owned by it under its control, custody or in its possession and release or relinquish any right, title, claim, lien, interest, easement or demand however acquired; apply for and accept from any source grants, loans, advances and contributions of money, property, labor or other things of value, to be held, used and applied for permitted