An Act To Validate Certain Proceedings Authorizing the Issuance of Bonds and Notes by School Administrative District No. 71 (AFfER DEADLINE)
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1615
Committee: State and Local Government
Sponsors: MURPHY, SULLIVAN

Legislative Document 
No. 1615 
HP. 1193 
House of Representatives, May 15,2003 
An Act To Validate Certain Proceedings Authorizing the Issuance of 
Bonds and Notes by School Administrative District No. 71 
(AFfER DEADLINE) 
(EMERGENCY) 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
205. 
Reference to the Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative MURPHY of Kennebunk. 
Cosponsored by Representative: SULLIVAN of Biddeford. 
Printed on recycled paper 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Emergency preamble. Whereas, Acts of the Legislature do not 
become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted 
as emergencies; and 
Whereas, the management and control of the public schools 
located in the Town of Kennebunk and the Town of Kennebunkport 
are 
vested in School 
Administrative District No. 
71, 
which 
includes the territory of those municipalities; and 
Whereas, the State Board of Education has granted concept 
approval 
and 
design 
and 
funding 
approval 
for 
a 
school 
construction project to construct and equip a new kindergarten to 
grade 3 elementary school in the Town of Kennebunk; and 
Whereas, at a district referendum held on October 1, 2002, 
the voters of School Administrative District No. 
voted to 
authorize the school directors of the district to issue bonds or 
notes for school construction purposes for the project; and 
Whereas, the plans and specifications for the project have 
been put out 
to bid and 
the district intends 
to 
award 
a 
construction contract 
and 
to 
issue 
bonds 
or 
notes 
for 
the 
project; and 
Whereas, copies of the warrants for the referendum delivered 
to the towns and posted prior to the October 1, 2002 referendum 
were not attested; and 
Whereas, the failure to attest copies of the warrants has 
created a legal technicality that could affect the marketability 
of the bonds or notes to be issued by the district in connection 
with the project; and 
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts 
create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of 
Maine 
and 
require 
the 
following 
legislation 
as 
immediately 
necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and 
safety; now, therefore, 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 
Validation and authorization. 
Notwithstanding 
any 
provision of the Maine Revised Statutes to the contrary, the 
School 
Administrative 
District 
No. 
school 
construction 
referendum conducted on October 1, 
2002 
and the proceedings 
related to that referendum are validated and made effective. 
School Administrative District No. 71 is authorized to enter into 
contracts and to issue bonds or notes of the district for school 
construction purposes in an amount not to exceed $16,052,724 to 
construct and equip a new elementary school for kindergarten and 
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grades one to 3, to construct a sidewalk to that new elementary 
school and to construct a sewer line extension to connect that 
new 
elementary 
school 
to 
the 
Kennebunk 
Sewer 
District's 
wastewater collection system, all as set forth in Articles 2, 3 
and 4 of the warrants and ballots for the referendum. 
Emergency clause. 
In view of the emergency cited in the 
preamble, this Act takes effect when approved. 
SUMMARY 
This 
bill 
validates 
a 
school 
construction 
referendum 
conducted by School Administrative District No. 71 on October 1, 
2002 and authorizes the district to enter into contracts and 
issue bonds or notes of the district for the project. 
The 
validation is necessary because copies of the warrants that were 
delivered to the towns and posted were not attested. 
Validation 
of the referendum will eliminate a legal technicality that could 
affect the marketability of the bonds or notes to be issued by 
the district for the project.