Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1658
Committee Amendment CA_A_H561 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT .. A 
.. to H.P. 1169, L.D. 1658, Bill, 
Act To Expand the Powers of the Stonington Sanitary District" 
"An 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title 
and before the summary and inserting in its place the following: 
, Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. Stonington Sanitary District; additional powers. 
The 
Stonington 
Sanitary District, 
formed 
pursuant 
to 
the 
Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 38, chapter 11 and referred to in this 
Act as "the district," is granted additional powers, 
rights, 
privileges 
and 
obligations 
as 
provided 
in 
this 
Act. 
All 
authority and powers 
of the Stonington Sanitary District as 
previously granted continue in full force and effect. 
Sec. 2. Territory. 
The district's territory is expanded to 
include the entire Town of Stonington. 
Sec. 3. Trustees. 
The district consists of 7 trustees. 
Four 
of the trustees must be residents of the district and reside in 
households connected to the district's facilities, and 3 trustees 
must be residents of the district but need not use the district's 
facilities. 
Sec. 4. Powers. 
In addition 
to 
the 
powers 
granted the 
district under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, chapter 11, 
the district may implement seasonal rates. 
The district may also 
pump out, truck or treat septage and may finance and operate sand 
filters and other septic services for entities not connected to 
the district's facilities. 
Page l-LR226l(2) 
COMMITTEE~: AMENDMENT 
I.." 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 1169, L.D. 1658 
Sec. S. Referendum. 
This Act takes effect 90 days after the 
adjournment of the legislative session in which it is enacted 
only for the purposes of permitting its submission to the legal 
voters within the district at an election called for that purpose 
or at a town meeting. 
The election or the meeting must be held 
by June 2006. 
1. 
If the referendum is held at an election, the election 
must be called, advertised and conducted according to the law 
relating to municipal elections, except that the registrar of 
voters is not required to prepare or the clerk to post a new list 
of voters. 
The registrar of voters must be in session the 3 secular days 
preceding the election, of which the first 2 days must be devoted 
to registration of voters and the last day to verification of the 
list and 
completion of 
the 
records 
of 
the 
session 
by 
the 
registrar. 
The subject matter of this Act is reduced to the 
following question: 
"Do 
you 
favor 
expanding the territory, 
establishing new 
qualifications for trustees and expanding the powers of the 
Stonington Sanitary District?" 
The voters shall indicate by a cross or check mark placed against 
the words "Yes" or "No" their opinion of the same. 
The results must be declared by the municipal officers of the 
Town of Stonington and due certificate of the results filed by 
the clerk with the Secretary of State. 
2. 
If the 
referendum is 
procedures of the Maine Revised 
2354 apply. 
held at a 
town 
Statutes, Title 
meeting, 
the 
30-A, section 
This Act takes effect for all purposes immediately upon its 
acceptance by a majority of the legal voters in the district if 
voting is held at an election or upon acceptance at a 
town 
meeting if voting is held at a town meeting. 
Failure to achieve 
the necessary approval by a majority of voters at any such 
election does not prevent a subsequent election or elections from 
being held for that purpose .• 
SUMMARY 
This amendment strikes the emergency preamble and 
clause 
and 
alters 
the 
qualifications 
of 
trustees 
Stonington Sanitary District. 
emergency 
of 
the 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT