An Act To Amend the Charter of the Kennebunk Light and Power District (AFfER DEADLINE)
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 2019
Committee: Utilities and Energy
Sponsors: BABBIDGE, SULLIVAN, DAIGLE

Legislative Document 
No. 2019 
H.P.1420 
House of Representatives, February 22, 2006 
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Kennebunk Light and Power 
District 
(AFfER DEADLINE) 
(EMERGENCY) 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
205. 
Reference to the Committee on Utilities and Energy suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative BABBIDGE of Kennebunk. 
Cosponsored by Senator SULLIVAN of York and 
Representative: DAIGLE of Arundel. 
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 Kennebunk Light and Power District needs to install a 115/12.47 kV 
substation and to undertake related work in order to ensure that its facilities remain 
capable of delivering reliable and adequate supplies of electric power and energy to the 
consumers it serves; and 
Whereas, the present borrowing capacity of the district is not large enough to 
finance the project; and 
Whereas, it is essential that the work be completed as soon as possible in order to 
continue to provide safe, reliable and adequate retail electric service to the inhabitants of 
the district and to protect the present expenditures; 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 ofthe State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. P&SL 1951, c. 53, §17, first and 4th sentences, as amended by P&SL 
1979, c. 1, are further amended to read: 
For accomplishing the purposes of this act, and for any other expenses that may be 
necessary for the carrying out of those purposes, saie the district, through its trustees, is 
authorized from time to time to borrow money temporarily and to issue therefor the 
interest bearing negotiable notes of the district, not to exceed $2,000,000 $6,000,000 at 
anyone time outstanding. 
For the purpose of renewing and refunding the indebtedness so created, of paying any 
necessary expenses and liabilities incurred under the provisions of this act, including the 
expenses incurred in the creation of the district, and in acquiring those properties and 
franchises of the teWfl Town of Kennebunk, hitherto known as the Kennebunk Light 
Department; of taking water and land, paying damages, erecting, constructing, 
maintaining and operating power plants, dams, reservoirs, buildings, transmission lines 
and poles, and all other things or apparatus incidental or necessary to the purposes of this 
act, and making renewals, extensions, additions and improvements to the same, and to 
cover interest payments during the period of construction, the saie district, through its 
trustees, may from time to time issue bonds of the district to an amount or amounts 
necessary in the judgment of the trustees therefor, but in no event shall may the amount 
or amounts of said bonds exceed $2,000,000 $6,000,000 at anyone time outstanding, 
bearing interest at such a rate or rates and having such terms and provisions as the 
trustees may determine. 
Sec. 2. P&SL 1951, c. 53, §17, as amended by P&SL 1979, c. 1 and P&SL 1981, 
c. 39, §§ 1 and 2, is further amended by adding at the end a new paragraph to read: 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the district, through its trustees, 
may issue bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness in amounts exceeding 
$6,000,000 at anyone time if a greater debt limit is established by referendum in the 
same manner as provided with respect to standard districts under the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 35-A, section 6413. The district may not have outstanding at anyone time 
bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness in amounts exceeding any debt limit 
established by referendum conducted as provided with respect to standard districts under 
Title 35-A, section 6413. 
Sec. 3. 
Emergency clause; referendum; effective date. 
In view of the 
emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved except that section 
of this Act takes effect only for the purpose of permitting its submission to the legal 
voters within the Kennebunk Light and Power District by December 31, 2007. 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. For purposes of registration of voters, the registrar of 
voters must be in session the secular day next preceding the election. The subject matter 
of section 1 is reduced to the following question: 
"Do you favor increasing the debt limit of the Kennebunk Light and 
Power District from $2,000,000 to $6,000,000?" 
The voters shall indicate by a cross or check mark placed against the word "Yes" or 
"No" their opinion of the same. 
The results must be declared by the municipal officers of the Town of Kennebunk 
and due certificate of the results filed by the clerk with the Secretary of State. 
Section 1 of this Act takes effect for all purposes immediately upon its approval by a 
majority of the legal voters voting at the election. Failure to achieve the necessary 
approval in any referendum does not prohibit subsequent referenda consistent with this 
section, as long as the referenda are held prior to December 31, 2007. 
SUMMARY 
This bill raises the debt limit of the Kennebunk Light and Power District from 
$2,000,000 to $6,000,000 if approved at a local referendum as provided to standard 
districts under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 6413. The bill creates a 
new provision that allows the trustees to exceed the $6,000,000 limit if a greater debt 
limit is approved by referendum and specifies that the district not have outstanding any 
evidence of indebtedness exceeding the amount unless approved by referendum.