An Act Concerning the Charter of the Dover and Foxcroft Water District Further amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting in its place the following: PART A Sec. A-I. P&SL 1985, c.107, Pt. B, §2·A is enacted to read: Sec. 2-A. Particular rights and franchise. The district has all the rights, privileges, franchise and property of the .former Dover and Foxcroft Village Fire Company the same as though originally granted or conveyed to the district. and all liabilities and obligations of the former Dover and Foxcroft Village Fire Company are the liabilities and obligations of the district, the same as if incurred by the district, and all suits brought by or against the company must be in the name of the district whether the cause of action accrued before or after the change of the name of the Dover and Foxcroft Village Fire Company to the Dover and Foxcroft Water District pursuant to Private and Special Law 1903, chapter 11. Page l-LR2411(2) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1672
Committee Amendment CA_A_H734 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT .. I}" to H.P. 1248, L.D. 1672, Bill, "An 
Act To Amend the Charter of the Dover and Foxcroft Water District" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting 
the following: 
'An Act Concerning the Charter of the Dover and Foxcroft Water 
District' 
Further amend the bill by striking out everything after the 
enacting clause and before the summary and inserting in its place 
the following: 
'PART A 
Sec. A-I. P&SL 1985, c.107, Pt. B, §2·A is enacted to read: 
Sec. 2-A. Particular rights and franchise. 
The district has all 
the rights, privileges, 
franchise and property of the .former 
Dover 
and Foxcroft Village Fire 
Company 
the 
same 
as 
though 
originally 
granted 
or 
conveyed 
to 
the 
district. 
and 
all 
liabilities and obligations of the former Dover and Foxcroft 
Village Fire Company are the liabilities and obligations of the 
district, the same as if incurred by the district, and all suits 
brought by or against the company must be in the name of the 
district whether the cause of action accrued before or after the 
change of the name of the Dover and Foxcroft Village Fire Company 
to the Dover and Foxcroft Water District pursuant to Private and 
Special Law 1903, chapter 11. 
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Sec. A-2. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §3 is repealed. 
Sec. A-3. P&SL 1985, c.l07, Pt. B, §3-A is enacted to read: 
Sec. 3-A. Territorial limits; corporate name. 
That part of the 
Town of Dover-Foxcroft described as follows: 
beginning at the 
point of intersection of 45 degrees, 12 minutes, 30 seconds north 
latitude and 69 degrees, 11 minutes, 26 seconds west longitude; 
thence due south to 45 degrees, 
minutes, 
seconds north 
latitude; thence due west to 69 degrees, 12 minutes, 12 seconds 
west longitude; 
thence south to 
degrees, 
minutes, 
seconds north latitude; thence west to 69 degrees, 16 minutes, 00 
seconds west longitude; thence north to 45 degrees, 11 minutes, 
seconds north latitude; thence west 69 degrees, 18 minutes, 18 
seconds west longitude; thence north to 45 degrees, 12 minutes, 
seconds north latitude; thence east to 69 degrees, 13 minutes, 
seconds 
west 
longitude; 
thence 
north to 
degrees, 
minutes, 30 seconds north longitude; thence east to the point of 
the beginning; and its inhabitants constitute a standard water 
district under the name 
"Dover 
and Foxcroft Water DistricL" 
referred to in this Act as "the district." 
Sec. A-4. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §5-A is enacted to read: 
Sec. 5-A. 
Powers; authority; duties. 
Except 
as 
otherwise 
specifically provided in this Act, 
the district has all the 
powers 
and authority and is subject to all requirements and 
restrictions provided in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, 
chapter 64. 
Sec. A-5. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §6, as amended by P&SL 1999, 
c. 27, §§3 and 4 and affected by §9, is repealed. 
Sec. A-6. P&SL 1985, c.l07, Pt. B, §6-A is enacted to read: 
Sec. 6-A. Trustees. 
The board of trustees of the district is 
composed of 5 trustees, elected in accordance with the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 6410. 
A trustee must be a 
resident of the Town of Dover-Foxcroft. 
Notwithstanding Title 35-A, section 6410, subsection 7, the 
trustees are entitled to compensation for their services as 
determined by the trustees. 
Sec. A-7. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §7, as amended by P&SL 1999, 
c. 27, §5 and affected by §9, is repealed. 
Sec. A-8. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §8, as amended by P&SL 1999, 
c. 27, §6 and affected by §9, is repealed. 
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Sec. A·9. P&SL 1985, c.107, Pt. B, §§10, 11 and 12 are repealed. 
Sec. A·10. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §§12·A and 12·B are enacted 
to read: 
Sec. 
12·A. 
Refinancing authorized. 
For 
the 
purpose 
of 
financing certain capital improvements to the district I s water 
system, the board of trustees of the district, without a district 
vote or the provision of notice to the voters or ratepayers of 
the district or the holding of a special district meeting for the 
purpose of collecting testimony from the public concerning the 
purpose and amount of debt authorized, may issue and sell to the 
Maine Municipal Bond Bank revenue bonds or notes of the district 
for the purpose of refinancing certain revenue bonds dated June 
28, 1988, in the aggregate principal amount of $2,115,500, that 
were issued to the United States of America acting through the 
Farmers Home Administration. 
The bonds authorized by this Act 
are payable over a term not to exceed the term remaining on the 
bonds dated June 28, 1988 and must be signed by the treasurer of 
the Dover and Foxcroft Water District and countersigned by the 
chair of the district board of trustees. 
The district may sell 
the bonds authorized by this Act to the Maine Municipal Bond Bank 
upon such terms and conditions as the board of trustees of the 
district and the Maine Municipal Bond Bank may approve. 
Sec. 12·B. Issuance of debt; debt limit. 
In addition to the 
authority granted under section 12-A, the district may issue debt 
in accordance with Title 35-A, chapter 64. 
The board of trustees 
may 
n~t issue any bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness 
payable within a period of more than 12 months after the date of 
issuance, excluding debt authorized under section 12-A, unless 
the total amount of such debt issued by the board is no more than 
$1. 500,000. 
The district may amend the debt limit established in this 
section in accordance with the provisions of the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 35-A, section 6413. 
The district is subject to the provisions of Title 35-A, 
section 6310. 
Sec. A·11. P&SL 1985, c.107, Pt. B, §13 is repealed. 
Sec. A·12. P&SL 1985, c.107, Pt. B, §13·A is enacted to read: 
Sec. 13·A. Pratt's rips. 
In addition to the authority granted 
under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, chapter 64, the 
district is 
authorized 
to 
sell 
or 
lease 
for 
manufacturing 
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purposes 
any 
power 
on 
the district's 
dam 
at Pratt's rips, 
so-called, at the district's pumping station not used by the 
district for 
supplying water for 
the district's water 
works 
system, as long as the sale or lease is subject to a reservation 
of sufficient power for the district's present or future needs in 
supplying water to the district's water system and any extension 
of the water system. 
Sec. A-13. P&SL 1985, c.107, Pt. B, §14 is repealed. 
Sec. A-14. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §§14-A and 14-B are enacted 
to read: 
Sec. 14-A. Water rights; eminent domain. 
In addition to the 
authority granted under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, 
chapter 
64, 
the 
district 
is 
authorized, 
for 
the 
purposes 
mentioned in this charter, to take and hold sufficient water from 
Garland Pond, situated in Dover-Foxcroft and the Town of Sebec, 
in the county of Piscataquis, and may raise the waters of the 
pond by a dam at the outlet of the pond to such a height as the 
district may determine expedient; the district may take and hold 
by purchase or otherwise any land or real estate necessary for 
erecting damS, and flowage caused by any dams, power, reservoirs 
or for preserving the purity of the water and watersheds, and for 
maintaining a way or ways from the public highways to the pond, 
and 
for 
laying 
and 
maintaining 
aqueducts 
for 
conducting, 
disCharging, distributing and disposing of water. 
Nothing in this section or section 13-A or l4-B exempts the 
district from otherwise applicable laws or rules, including, but 
not limited to, laws relating to the erection or removal of dams, 
the establishment of water levels, the sale of water power or the 
exercise of eminent domain. 
Sec. 14-B. Power to take water. 
In addition to the authority 
granted under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, chapter 64, 
the district is authorized to 
take, 
hold, 
divert, 
use 
and 
distribute water from Salmon Stream Pond situated in the Town of 
Guilford. 
Sec. A-IS. P&SL 1985, c.107, Pt. B, §§15 and 16 are repealed. 
Sec. A-16. P&SL 1985, c.107, Pt. B, §16-A is enacted to read: 
Sec. 16-A. 
Miscellaneous provisions; bylaws. 
The 
board 
of 
trustees may adopt bylaws as necessary for their own convenience 
and the proper management of the affairs of the district. 
This 
Act does not annul the existing bylaws and ordinances of the 
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district in effect as of the effective date of this section, and 
those laws and ordinances remain in force until altered, amended 
or repealed except where in direct conflict with any provision of 
this Act. 
Sec. A-17. P&SL 1985, c.l07, Pte B, §17 is repealed. 
PARTB 
Sec. B-1. 
Purpose. 
This 
Act 
is 
intended 
to 
update 
the 
charter of the Dover and Foxcroft Water District, to reorganize 
provisions for clarity and generally to conform the charter to 
the model standard water district charter that appears in the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, chapter 64. 
Sec. B-2. Existing trustees. 
The trustees of the Dover 
and 
Foxcroft Water District holding office on the effective date of 
this Act hold office as trustees for the terms for which they 
were elected, 
and as 
each term expires one trustee must be 
elected by the registered voters of the district at the next 
annual meeting of the district to serve for a term of 3 years. 
The additional 2 trustees must be elected at the next annual 
meeting, one for a term of 2 years and one for a term of 3 years. 
If a vacancy arises, it must be filled for the remainder of the 
unexpired term .• 
SUMMARY 
This 
amendment 
replaces 
the 
bill. 
The 
amendment 
is 
substantively the same as the bill with the exception that it 
modifies and clarifies the description of the district territory, 
clarifies the debt limit language, removes the authority granted 
to the district in the bill to take water from sources outside 
the district but wi thin the Town of Dover-Foxcroft and makes it 
expressly clear that certain special water rights of the district 
do not exempt the district from otherwise applicable laws and 
rules, 
such 
as 
laws 
governing 
dams 
and water 
levels. 
The 
amendment unifies those portions of the district' s charter that 
the bill seeks to preserve with the several new provisions, thus 
consolidating in one document all the provisions of the charter. 
The amendment: 
1. 
Generally makes the charter of the Dover and Foxcroft 
Water District conform with the standard water district model 
charter; 
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2. 
Preserves 
the 
following 
provisions 
of 
the 
current 
charter: prov~s~ons granting the district the franchise, property 
and rights of the Dover and Foxcroft Village Fire Company, which 
became 
the 
water district in 
1903; 
prov~s~ons granting the 
district's rights to sell for manufacturing purposes power on its 
dam at Pratt's rips; provisions granting the district rights to 
take water from Garland Pond and to regulate the dam on it; and 
provisions relating to the district' s authorization to refinance 
some debt through the Maine Municipal Bond Bank; 
3. 
Changes some provisions of the existing charter: removes 
the authority to create a pond by damming Meadow Brook; increases 
the number of trustees from 3 to 5; expands the territory of the 
district 
within 
the 
town 
to 
include 
the 
existing 
service 
territory, 
to 
accommodate 
a 
possible mill 
expansion 
and 
to 
include an area for a proposed standpipe; and sets the district's 
debt limit at $1,500,000 and· allows the district to hold a 
referendum if it wishes to establish a higher debt limit; and 
4. 
Authorizes the district to take water from Salmon Stream 
Pond. 
Since 1926, the district has been using water from that 
pond as its water source. 
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