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An Act To Amend the Charter of the Anson Water District
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. P&SL 1915, c. 200, §1  is amended to read:
Sec. 1. Anson Water District created; purposes; territory. The following described territory and the peopleinhabitants within the same shall constitute a body politic and corporate under the name of the Anson Water District, for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of saidthe district with pure water for domestic, sanitary and municipal purposes, to wit: So much of the townTown of Anson, in Somerset countyCounty, as is bounded on the north by the north line of said town; on the east by the Kennebec river; on the south by the south line of said town; on the west by a straight line extending southerly, but not exactly south, from the point where the west line of the Great Embden pond road intersects the north line of said town to a point where the east line of Otis M. Hilton’s farm in said Anson intersects the south line of said town.as is described as follows:
 
Starting at the intersection of New Portland Road and the Anson town line bordering the Town of Embden; thence in a southeasterly direction along New Portland Road to a point 69º55’12.66”W, 44º52’27.82”N; thence in a southwesterly direction to a point 69º55’27.95”W, 44º49’7.33”N; thence in a southerly direction to the intersection of Pease Hill Road and West Mills Road; thence in a southwesterly direction along West Mills Road to the intersection of West Mills Road and Mayhew Road; thence in a southerly direction along Mayhew Road to the intersection of Mayhew Road and the Anson town line bordering the Town of Starks; thence in a northeasterly direction along the Anson town line to the border of the Town of Madison; thence in a northerly direction along the Anson town line bordering the Town of Madison to the corner of the Anson town line bordering the Town of Embden and the Town of Solon; thence in a southwesterly direction along the Anson town line to the starting point.
 
Sec. 2. P&SL 1915, c. 200, §2-A  is enacted to read:
Sec. 2-A.  Power to take water.  The district is authorized to take, to hold and to convey within the Town of Anson and from any part of the town water from any groundwater source within the town.
Sec. 3. P&SL 1915, c. 200, §6, 3rd sentence  is amended to read:
 
The annual meeting for the election of officers shall be in the month of Julyis at the district’s annual meeting.
 
SUMMARY
This bill amends the charter of the Anson Water District. It clarifies the district’s boundaries, gives the district access to groundwater anywhere in the town and specifies that the district’s election of officers takes place at the annual meeting of the district.