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LD 884 Title Page An Act to Revise the Charter of the Ogunquit Sewer District Page 2 of 2
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. P&SL 1913, c. 203, §2, as amended by P&SL 1973, c. 63, is
repealed.

 
Sec. 2. P&SL 1963, c. 87, §1 is amended to read:

 
*Sec. 1. Territorial limits; incorporation. The inhabitants and territory of
the within the Town of Ogunquit Village Corporation, in the Town
of Wells and County of York, as presently constituted, and the
inhabitants therein, shall County constitute a public sewerage
district and a body politic and corporate under the name of
"Ogunquit Sewer District"." The purpose of said the district,
subject to the provisions of section 10 hereof, shall be is to
take over, control, operate and manage the sanitary sewer system
now previously owned by the Town of Ogunquit Village Corporation
and as further improved and expanded by the Ogunquit Sewer
District with all appurtenances thereto; to extend, increase,
enlarge and improve said the sewer system; to extend the present
system or systems so as to furnish sewerage facilities to those
parts of the district and, as determined appropriate by the
trustees of the district, to parts of adjoining municipalities
not now served with such facilities; to provide for removal and
treatment of sewage when, as and if such treatment becomes
necessary; and generally to construct, maintain, operate and
provide a system of sewerage, sewage disposal and sewage
treatment for public purposes and for the health, welfare,
comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of the district.

 
Sec. 3. P&SL 1963, c. 87, §2, as amended by P&SL 1975, c. 81, §1, is
further amended to read:

 
*Sec. 2. Authority to construct and maintain. Within said the territory and
the territory of any adjoining municipality, said the Ogunquit
Sewer District is authorized to lay pipes, drains, sewers and
conduits, and to take up, repair and maintain the same or to
contract for the same to be done in, along and through any public
or private ways and public grounds and in, along and through
lands of any person or corporation as hereafter provided in this
act, to and into tidal waters, rivers, watercourses or treatment
works or to or into any drain or sewer now or hereafter built
which that empties into tidal waters, rivers, watercourses or
treatment works, the discharge therefrom from the tidal waters,
river, watercourses or treatment works to be at such points
consistent with the requirements of public health as shall be
that are found convenient and reasonable for said the district
and the flow of existing watercourses; to construct and maintain
treatment works, pumping stations, basins, reservoirs, flush
tanks and such other appliances for collecting,


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