An Act To Revise the Charter of the Brunswick Sewer District
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 0655
Committee: Utilities and Energy
Sponsors: GERZOFSKY, EDMONDS, ADAMS, BLISS, COURTNEY, KOFFMAN, RICHARDSON, RINES, SUSLOVIC, VAUGHAN

Legislative Document 
No. 655 
H.P.485 
House of Representatives, February 11,2003 
An Act To Revise the Charter of the Brunswick Sewer District 
Reference to the Committee on Utilities and Energy suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative GERZOFSKY of Brunswick. 
Cosponsored by Senator EDMONDS of Cumberland and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: ADAMS of Portland, BLISS of South Portland, COURTNEY of Sanford, 
KOFFMAN of Bar Harbor, RICHARDSON of Brunswick, RINES of Wiscasset, SUSLOVIC 
of Portland, VAUGHAN of Durham. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. P&SL 1947, c. 77, §2, as enacted by P&SL 1981, c. 103, 
is amended to read: 
Sec. 2. Brunswick Sewer District created. 
The Brunswick Sewer 
District, called "the district," is a quasi-municipal corporation 
whieh that has been created for the purpose of providing and 
maintaining, within the territorial limits of the district, 
a 
sewer 
system 
for 
the 
collection, 
treatment 
and 
disposal 
of 
sewage. 
The district is the sole nonmunicipal 
or nonfederal 
entity responsible 
for 
domestic 
sewerage 
and 
commercial 
and 
industrial waste wi thin the terri tory of the Town of Brunswick, 
and there may be no other sewer or sanitary district within the 
boundaries of the town, regardless of the fact that the territory 
of the district does not encompass the entire town. 
The district 
sha~~-have has all the rights, privileges and immunities incident 
to similar corporations or necessary for the accomplishment of 
its purpose. 
Nothing contained in this charter imposes on the 
district the duty of providing or maintaining catch basins or 
drainage of public ways. 
The property of the district is exempt 
from taxation under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, section 
112. 
Sec. 2. P&SL 1947, c. 77, §11, as enacted by P&SL 1981, c. 103, 
is repealed and the following enacted in its place: 
Sec. 11. Territorial limits: expansion: voters. 
The territory of 
the district extends 
from the center of town as follows, 
to 
include the entire area within the outer limits specified: 
1. 
Territorial 
limits. 
Beginning 
at 
a 
point 
in 
the 
Androscoggin River at the Topsham line, 2 1/2 miles easterly from 
the location of the town hall as of January 1, 
1981, 
thence 
southerly to the intersection of Storer Road and Old Bath Road, 
thence easterly to the intersection of new U.S. 
Route 
#1 
and 
Harding Road, thence southerly along the easterly side of Harding 
Road to Bath Road, 
thence southwesterly to the intersection of 
Thomas Point Road and Meadow Road (not including either side of 
Adams Road), thence southwesterly to the intersection of Gurnet 
Road and Board Road, thence southwesterly to Dyers Corner, thence 
along the southerly side of Middle Bay Road to the intersection 
of Middle Bay Road and Mere Point Road, thence northwesterly to 
the intersection of Woodside Road and Pleasant Hill Road, thence 
northwesterly to the intersection of U. S. Route #1 and Greenwood 
Road, thence northwesterly to the intersection of Pleasant Street 
and Interstate Route #95, thence northeasterly along the median 
of Route #95 to the Androscoggin River, thence easterly along the 
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Brunswick-Topsham line in the center of the river to the point of 
beginning. 
2. 
Expanded 
growth 
area 
territorial 
limits. 
Notwithstanding the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 38, 
section 
1252, subsection 4, the territory of the district also includes 
the growth area defined by the growth/rural area boundary on the 
Town of Brunswick zoning map, as it existed on November 2, 1982 
and as it may be amended from time to time, except that any part 
of the growth area being served by the district or wi thin the 
metes and bounds description of subsection 1 remains wi thin the 
territory of the district, 
even if the area is subsequently 
removed from the growth area by amendment of the Town Council of 
the Town of Brunswick. 
Sewer extensions are made pursuant to 
section 24. 
3. 
Expanded health, safety and welfare territorial limits. 
Notwithstanding the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 38, 
section 
1252, subsection 4, the territory of the district may be expanded 
by action of the Town Council of the Town of Brunswick to include 
areas of existing development when it is determined by the local 
plumbing inspector, 
appropriate Department of 
Human 
Services, 
Division of Health Engineering official, appropriate Department 
of 
Marine 
Resources 
official or other qualified governmental 
official that a threat to the public health, safety or welfare 
exists and where the sewer extension is determined to be the most 
appropriate 
solution. 
Sewer 
extensions 
are 
made 
pursuant 
to 
section 24. 
4. 
Voters. 
All registered voters of the Town of Brunswick 
who reside within the district are voters of the district for all 
purposes. 
In determining whether 
a 
voter resides within the 
district, if any part of that voter's residential property lies 
wi thin the district, that voter is considered to reside wi thin 
the district. 
5. 
Council 
approval. 
Notwithstanding the 
Maine 
Revised 
Statutes, 
Title 
38, 
section 
1252, 
subsection 
7, 
prior 
to 
authorizing any 
sewer extension, 
except by specific state or 
federal mandate, the trustees shall acquire from the Town Council 
of 
the 
Town 
of 
Brunswick 
written 
assurance 
that 
the 
sewer 
extension 
is 
in 
conformity 
with 
the 
Town 
of 
Brunswick 
Comprehensive Plan, 
Zoning Ordinance and other public policies 
relating to growth and development. 
The trustees shall publish a 
notice 
of 
the 
proposed 
action 
in 
a 
newspaper 
with general 
circulation in the district no less than 7 days prior to the 
meeting at which they will take final action on the authorization 
of the extension. 
SUMMARY 
This bill extends the boundary limit of the Brunswick Sewer 
District to include the growth area defined by the growth/rural 
area boundary on the Town of Brunswick zoning map. 
The bill also 
amends the charter by requiring the trustees to acquire written 
assurance from the town council that any sewer extension is in 
conformity with the Town of Brunswick Comprehensive Plan, Zoning 
Ordinance.