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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.

 
Sec. 3. P&SL 1975, c. 79, §8 is amended to read:

 
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.

 
Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble,
this Act takes effect when approved.

 
SUMMARY

 
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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