Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-01-26
The South Paris Water Bill.
FULL TEXT OF THE MEASURE ON WHICH
THE LEGISLATURE WILL ACT.

FULL TEXT OF THE MEASURE ON WHO
THE LEGISLATURE WILL ACT.
The following is the text of the bi
permitting the South Paris Village Col
poration to establish a municipal waite
system, which will b. introduced in th
legislature early this week:
An act in relation to the South Pari
Village Corporation and to establish
municipal water system for said corpora
ton.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hous
Of Representatives in Legislature Assem-
bled, as follows:
Section /. The South Paris Villag
Corporation, created and duly organize
by law in the town of Paris and count
of Oxford, in addition to the powers a
ready granted it, ia hereby authorize
and empowered to install municips
water System for the purpose of supply
ing the South Paris Village Corporation
the inhabitants of said village corpora
ton and the inhabitants of the town @
Paris with pure water for domestic, in
dustrial, manufacturing, sanitary an
municipal purposes, including the e1
tinguishment OF fires and all other pul
poses for which the said corporatiO
may need water.
Section 2. For the purpose of carry
ing out the provisions of this act sal
South Paris Village Corporation ma
detain, collect, store, use and distribut
water from Stony Brook and Coope
Spring Brook in said town of Paris, an
from any tributaries of said brooks o
any source of the waters flowing il
either of said brooks in the town o
Paris, may enter npOn any lands in SAT-
town of Paris for the purpose of makinl
surveys for it's pipe lines or works, ant
may take and hold by purchase or other
wise any land and real estate necessar.
for erecting dams, power, reservoirs, o
for preserving the purity of the water il
said water shed, and for laying ant
maintaining aqueducts aud pipes TO
taking, discharging, and disposing o
said water.
Section 8. Said South Paris Villag,
Corporation shall be liable for all dam.
ages that shall be sustained by any per
son or corporation in their property b!
the taking any land whatsoever, or wa
ter or by flowage, or by excavatinl
through any land for the purpose O.
laying pipes, building dams or construct
ing reservoirs.
If any person or corporation sustain
ing damages as aforesaid and said vii
lage corporation shall not mutually agree
on the sum to be paid therefor, sucf
person or corporation may cause his OF
its damages to be ascertsined, in the
same manner and under the same con
ditions, restrictions and limitations al
are or may be prescribed in the case oil
damages in laying out highways.
Section 4. Said village corporation il
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 maliciously corrupt the water supply
of said village corporation, whether
frozen or not, or whoever shall willfully
or maliciously destroy any property Of
said village corporation, shall be punish
ed by fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars or by imprisonment not exceed
ing two years.
Section 6. Said village corporation
for the purpose of carrying into full
effect the provisions of this act in the
constructing, furnishing
equipping, aud fully maintaining thu
water system herein contemplated, anc
for purchasing so much of the property
of the Norway Water Co. as is herein
after mentioned in this act, may at any
legal meeting of said village corporation
called for that purpose, raise money anc
issue bonds, registered or with Interest
coupons, in such denominations, and or
such terms and rate of interest, as MAJ
be determined at such meeting, to ar
amount necessary for said purpose
which, taken in connection with any
other indebtedness of said village cor
poration, shall not exceed ten per cen
tum' of the last regular valuation there
of. Said bonds shall be signed by th'
assessors and treasurer of said village
corporation, but the coupons need b
signed by the treasurer alone.
Section Z. The care and management
of said water system and the regulation
of prices and charges for water supplied
as herein contemplated shall be unde
the control of the assessors of said vii
lage corporation, or, II the village cor
poration, at any time, shall so vote, sale
duties shall be placed in the hands of {
commission of three legal voters of sale
village corporation, ono to be chosen fol
one year, one for two years, and one TO
three years. and after being first 81
chosen, one shall be chosen annually TO
IA three years. term. In case of vacan
CIV on said board or commission, tn
assessors shall fill the same by appoint
ment, until the next annual meeting o
said village corporation.
Section s. Said South Paris Villag
Corporation shall be further required t
purchase at fair cash value of the Nor
way Water Company. after this act shall
have been legally accepted, all the pipe
laid in the grounds, hydrants set, ant
the entire plant of the Norway Waite
Company within the limits of the SAT-
village corporation, provided said Nor
way Water Company desires to dispos
of them and will deliver the same fire.
from all encumbrance.
Section 9. In case said village col
pnration fails to agree with said Norwa
Water Company on the terms of pur
chase and value of the property abov
mentioned within three months afte
this act shall have been accepted by tn
village corporation, as hereinafter pro
vided for, then the value of said propert
shall be determined by three disinteres,
ed men living outside the towns Of Pari
and Norway, one to be designated b
the said Water Company, another b
said village corporation, and the thir
to be chosen by the two thus designated
Each party shall notify the other |
writing of the person so chosen by II
and all subsequent proceedings in arriy
| ing at the value of said property shall b
under the direction of said appraiser
the award of whom, or a majority
whom, made in writing to each part,
shall be binding on both parties, an
shall be carried out within sixty day
after said award is made. The cost {
making this appraisal of property :.