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An Act To Include the Town of Nobleboro within the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. Great Salt Bay Sanitary District; expanded territory. The territory of the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District, formed under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, chapter 11 and granted additional powers under Private and Special Law 1993, chapter 85, is expanded for all district purposes to include the entire area of the Town of Nobleboro and its inhabitants. All authority and powers of the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District as previously granted continue in full force and effect. The board of trustees of the district as presently elected and constituted may exercise all its lawful powers, rights, privileges and obligations with respect to the entire territory of the district, which, as expanded by this Act, includes the area encompassed by the towns of Nobleboro, Damariscotta and Newcastle and its inhabitants. After the effective date of this Act, trustees continue to be elected in accordance with Title 38, section 1104, and the district may alter the number of trustees in accordance with that section.
Sec. 2. Referendum; effective date. This Act takes effect 90 days after the adjournment of the Second Regular Session of the 123rd Legislature only for the purpose of permitting its submission to the legal voters of the towns of Nobleboro, Damariscotta and Newcastle at an election called for that purpose and held within 2 years of the effective date of this Act. The election must be called, advertised and conducted according to the law relating to municipal elections, except that the registrars of voters are not required to prepare or the clerks to post new lists of voters. For the purpose of registration of voters, the registrars of voters must be in session the secular day preceding the election. The subject matter of this Act is reduced to the following question:
 
"Do you favor expanding the territory of the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District to include the entire area of the Town of Nobleboro?"
 
The voters shall indicate by a cross or check mark placed against the word "Yes" or "No" their opinion of the same.
The results must be declared by the municipal officers of the towns of Nobleboro, Damariscotta and Newcastle and due certificate of the results filed by the clerks with the Secretary of State.
This Act takes effect for all other purposes immediately upon its approval by a majority of all the legal voters of the towns of Nobleboro, Damariscotta and Newcastle voting at the election. Failure to achieve the necessary approval in any referendum does not prohibit subsequent referenda consistent with this section, provided the referenda are held within 2 years of the effective date of this Act.
 
Effective pending referendum.