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An Act To Amend the Yarmouth Water District Charter
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. P&SL 1923, c. 72, §2, first sentence, as amended by P&SL 1993, c. 32, §1, is further amended to read:
 
For any of the purposes set forth in this Act, or for the preservation and purity of its water, the district is hereby authorized to take and use water from the Royal River, or from any spring, pond, brook or other source of water in the TownsTown of Yarmouth and the Town of New Gloucester, except that the use of any source of water in the Town of New Gloucester by the district will be allowed only after approval by a joint body of equal number of representatives from both the Yarmouth Water District Board of Trustees and the selectmenmunicipal officers of the Town of New Gloucester, or from any springs, brook, pond or other source of water in the Town of North Yarmouth or the Town of Cumberland, or to purchase from any other water district or company; to conduct water through the Town of Cumberland and to conduct and distribute water into and through the TownsTown of Yarmouth and the Town of North Yarmouth; to survey for, locate, lay, erect and maintain suitable dams, reservoirs and machinery, pipes, aqueducts and fixtures; to carry its pipes or aqueducts under, in and over the Royal River, so called, or under or over any water course or body of water, bridge, street, railroad, highway or other way; and the district is further authorized to enter upon and excavate any highway or other way, in such manner as to least to disturb that way, and shall leave those ways in as safe and passable condition as before suchthe excavation; to enter, pass over and excavate any lands, and to take and hold by purchase or otherwise, any real estate, rights of way or of water, and in general to do any acts necessary, convenient or proper for carrying out any of the purposes specified in this section.
Sec. 2. P&SL 1923, c. 72, §8, as amended by P&SL 1989, c. 111, §3 and affected by §13, is further amended by amending the 11th sentence to read:
 
Regular meetings of the district shallmust be held annually on the third Monday in Februaryat a time and place to be determined by the board of trustees, and special meetings shallmust be called at any time by the trustees or any member of saidthe board of trustees upon a written request of any ten30 lawful voters of saidthe district.
 
SUMMARY
This bill amends the Yarmouth Water District's charter to allow the district to purchase 2 wells from the Town of Cumberland and to conduct water from the Town of Cumberland to the Yarmouth Water District's service territory. The bill also amends the charter to give the board of trustees greater latitude as to when it schedules meetings.