An Act To Update the Charter of the Lewiston and Auburn Railroad Company
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1849
Committee: Transportation
Sponsors: SAMPSON

Legislative Document 
No. 1849 
H.P. 1289 
House of Representatives, January 3,2006 
An Act To Update the Charter of the Lewiston and Auburn 
Railroad Company 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
203. 
Received by the Clerk of the House on December 28,2005. Referred to the Committee on 
Transportation pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401. 
Presented by Representative SAMPSON of Auburn. 
Printed on recycled paper 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. Corporate name; remedies at law; authorized to locate, construct 
and keep in repair a railroad; point and line of road; powers, privileges. The 
Lewiston and Auburn Railroad Company, as established under Private and Special Law 
1872, chapter 88, as amended, continues as a body politic and corporate under the name 
of the Lewiston and Auburn Railroad Company, and by that name may sue and be sued, 
plead and be impleaded, and enjoys all proper remedies at law and in equity to secure and 
protect it in the exercise and use of its rights and privileges and in the performance of its 
duties; and the corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to locate and construct 
and finally complete, alter and keep in repair a railroad, with rails or tracks, with all 
suitable bridges, tunnels, viaducts, sidings, turnouts, culverts, drains and all other 
necessary appendages, within and from points in the City of Lewiston and the City of 
Auburn to points on existing railroads; and the corporation is invested with all the 
powers, privileges and immunities granted by this Act and by the statutes relating to the 
operation of railroad companies within the State that are or may be necessary to carry into 
effect the purposes of this Act. 
Sec. 2. 
Capital stock; shares; directors; and organization. 
Except as 
otherwise provided in an amendment to or restatement of its corporate charter, 
effectuated pursuant to the Maine Business Corporation Act, the capital stock of the 
corporation consists of not less than 1,000 nor more than 3,000 shares, all of which must 
be municipally owned, and the management of the affairs of the corporation is vested in a 
board of directors, who must be residents of the municipalities in which the corporation 
has rails or tracks. Except to the extent inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, in all 
matters of corporate governance, including the right to amend its charter and adopt . 
bylaws, the corporation is governed in accordance with the Maine Business Corporation 
Act. 
Sec. 3. Bylaws. The shareholders of the corporation have power to make, ordain 
and establish all necessary bylaws and to establish rights of preemption by an affirmative 
vote of at least 80% of the shares entitled to vote as provided in the Maine Business 
Corporation Act. 
Sec. 4. Toll. A toll is hereby granted for the benefit of the corporation upon all 
passengers and property that may be conveyed or transported on and over its railroad, at 
such rate as may be established by its directors, subject to such laws in relation to railroad 
companies as are or may from time to time be established by the Legislature. 
Sec. 5. Annual meeting, when held. The annual meeting of the shareholders of 
the corporation is on such day as the bylaws may determine. 
Sec. 6. Gauge and connection or road. The corporation is authorized to run on 
the same gauge and make connections with other railroads on such terms as the 
corporation may determine proper and to lease its road and property, either before or after 
the road has been completed, on such terms as the corporation determines with the other 
railroads. 
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Sec. 7. Bonds and amount of. The corporation is authorized to issue its bonds in 
such amounts as the corporation determines necessary or desirable and to secure the 
bonds by a mortgage of its road, franchise and property, or in any other manner. 
Sec. 8. P&SL 1872, c. 88, as amended by P&SL 1875, c. 159, is repealed. 
SUMMARY 
This bill updates the articles of incorporation of the Lewiston and Auburn Railroad 
Company.