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purchase, lease or otherwise, and is hereby authorized to exercise | the right of eminent domain as herein after provided in this Act, | to acquire for such purposes any lands or interest therein in lands | | or water rights necessary for erecting and maintaining dams, plants | | and works for flowage, for pumping, for supplying water through its | | mains, for reservoirs, for preserving the purity of the water and | | watershed, for laying and maintaining mains, aqueducts, electric | | pole lines and other structures for taking, distributing, | | discharging and disposing of water, sewage and electricity, for | | forming basins and reservoirs and electric pole lines, for erection | of buildings for pumping works for use therein in the buildings, | | for laying pipes and maintaining same, and for laying and | | maintaining conduits for carrying, collecting and discharging | | water, for generating, filtering, rectifying and treating plants, | | works and facilities, for such other objects necessary, convenient | | and proper for the purposes of its incorporation and for rights-of- | | way or roadways to its sources of supply, dams, reservoirs, mains, | | aqueducts, structures, plants, works facilities, generation, | | transmission and distribution facilities and lands. |
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| | | Sec. 3. P&SL 1975, c. 79, §8 is amended to read: |
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| | | Sec. 8. District and town authorized to make contracts. Said The district, | | through its trustees, is authorized to contract with persons and | corporations, including said the Town of Baileyville, and said | the Town of Baileyville is authorized to contract with it the | | district for the supply of water and electricity for municipal | purposes. Said The Town of Baileyville by vote of its town | council is authorized to loan said the district an amount not | | exceeding $40,000 to be used for engineering, accounting and | | legal expenses in connection with the organization of the | | district, acquiring of the assets of Woodland Water and Electric | Company and studies and reports in connection therewith with the | acquisition. Said The loan or loans shall must be repaid by the | | district from its initial long-term financing. The district and | | the town are authorized to make contracts that are necessary to | | accomplish the purposes set forth in section 2, and the district | | shall receive an appropriate fee for services rendered under that | | contract. |
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| | | Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, | | this Act takes effect when approved. |
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| | | The Baileyville Utilities District is currently empowered to | | operate only water and electric utilities within the Town of | | Baileyville. The district and the Town of Baileyville seek to |
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