Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-06-29
The South Paris Water Bill.
TEXT OF THE MEASURE ON WHICH THE
VILLAGE WILL ACT.

dustrial, manufacturing, sanitary and
municipal purposes, including the ex-
tinguishment of fires and all other pur-
poses which the said corporation may
need water for.
SECTION 2. For the purpose OF carry
ing out the provisions of this act said
South Paris Village Corporation may
detain, collect, store, use and distribute
water from Stony Brook and Cooper
Spring Brook in said town of Paris, and
from any tributaries of said brooks or
any source of the waters flowing in
either of said brooks in the town of
Paris, may enter upon any lands in said
town of Paris for the purpose of making
surveys for it's pipe lines or works, and
may take and hold by purchase or other
wise any land and real estate necessary
for erecting dams, power, reservoirs, or
for preserving the purity of the water in
said water shed, and for laying and
maintaining aqueducts and pipes for TAX
ing, discharging, conveying and dispos-
ing of said water.
SECTION 5. Said South Paris Village
Corporation shall be liable for all dam
ages that shall be sustained by any per-
son or corporation in their property by
the taking of any land whatsoever, or
water or by flowsge, or by excavating
through any land for the purpose of lay
ing pipes, building dams or constructing
reservoirs. If any person or corporation
sustaining damages as aforesaid and said
Village Corporation shall not mutually
agree upon the sum to be paid therefor,
such person or corporation may cause
his or its damages to be ascertained in
the same manner and under the same
conditions, restrictions and limitations
as are, or may be prescribed in the case
of damages in laying out highways.
SECTION 4. Said Village Corporation
is hereby authorized to lay in and
through the streets and highways of the
South Paris Village Corporation and OF
the town of Paris, and to take up, repair
and replace all such pipes, aqueducts
and fixtures as may be necessary for the
objects above set forth, and when said
Village Corporation shall lay any pipes
or aqueducts or dig up any of said
streets, it shall be done with as little
obstruction to public travel as possible,
and shall, without unnecessary delay,
cause the earth to be replaced in as good
condition as possible, all digging in said
streets as above set forth to be under the
supervision of the selectmen of the town
of Paris.
SECTION 5. Whoever shall knowingly
or malciously corrupt the water supply
of said Village Corporation, whether
frozen or not, or whoever shall willfully
and maliciously destroy any of the prop
erty of said Village Corporation shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars or by imprisonment not
exceeding two years.
SECTION 6. Said Village Corporation,
for the purpose of carrying into full
effect the provisions of this act in the
establishing, constructing, furnishing,
equipping and fully maintaining the wa
ter system herein contemplated and for
purchasing so much of the property of
the Norway Water Company as is here
matter mentioned in this act, may, at
any legal meeting of said Village Cor
poration, called for that purpose, raise
money and issue bonds registered or
with interest coupons, in such denomi-
nation, and on such terms and rate OF
interest, as may be determined at such
meeting, to an amount necessary for said
purpose, which, taken into connection
with any other Indebtedness of such
Village Corporation, shall not exceed ten
per centum of-the last regular valuation
thereof. Said bonds shall be signed by
the assessors and treasurer of said Viii
lage Corporation, but the coupons need
be signed by the treasurer alone.
SECTION 7. The care and manage
ment of said water system and the regu-
lation of prices and charges for water
supplied as herein contemplated shall be
under the control of the assessors of
said Village Corporation; or, II the Viii
lage Corporation, at any time, shall so
vote, said duties shall be placed in the
hands of a commission Of three legal
voters of said Village Corporation, one
to be chosen for one year, one for two
years, and one for three years, and after
being first so chosen, one shall be an
nually chosen for three years term.
In case of vacancy on said board or
commission, the assessors shall I'LL the
same by appointment until the next an
nual meeting of said Village Corpora
tion.
SECTION s. Said South Paris Village
Corporation shall be further required to
purchase at fair cash value OF the Nor
way Water Company, after this act shall
have been legally accepted, all the pipes
laid in the ground, hydrants set, and
the entire plant of said Norway Water
Company within the limits of said town
of Paris; provided said Norway Water
Company desires to dispose OF the same
and will deliver the same free of all in
cumbrances, and shall cease to sell wa
ter within said town of Paris.
SECTION 8. In case said Village Cor
poration fails to agree with said Norway
Water Company upon the terms of pur-
chase and value of the property above
mentioned within three months after
this act shall have been accepted by said
Village Corporation, as hereinafter pro-
vided for, then the value of said prop
erty shall be determined by three disin-
terested men living outside Of the towns
of Paris and Norway, to be designated
by Hon. Albert R. Savage, judge of the
supreme judicial court, on application In
writing by either party at any time after
the said three months have elapsed, and
all subsequent proceedings in arriving at
the value of said property shall be under
the direction of said appraisers, the
award of whom, or majority Of whom,
made in writing to each party, shall be
binding on both parties and shall be
carried out within sixty days after said
award is made. The cost Of making
this appraisal of property as herein set
forth shall be divided equally between
the South Paris Village Corporation and
the Norway Water Company. On pay
ment of the amount so fixed by said ap-
praisers to said Norway Water Company
BY said South Paris Village Corporation,
said water company shall deliver to said
Village Corporation a good and sufficient
conveyance of said property free OF all
liens, mortgages and membranes.
SECTION 10. Said Village Corporation
shall not proceed under this act until
after it shall have been accepted by a
majority vote of the voters present at q
meeting called for that purpose.
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