An Act To Include the Town of Nobleboro within the Service Area of the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 1936
Committee: Utilities and Energy
Sponsors: DOW

Legislative Document 
No. 1936 
S.P.747 
December 11, 2007 
An Act To Include the Town of Nobleboro within the Service Area 
of the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
203. 
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on December 11, 2007. Referred to the Committee 
on Utilities and Energy pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed. 
Presented by Senator DOW of Lincoln. 
Printed on recycled paper 
JOY 1. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. P&SL 1991, c. 85, §1 is amended to read: 
Sec. 1. Great Salt Bay Sanitary District; additional purposes; expanded 
powers. The Great Salt Bay Sanitary District, formed under 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 for the purpose of 
allowing the district to supply the towns and inhabitants and others within the territory of 
the district with potable water for domestic, sanitary, commercial, industrial, agricultural 
and municipal purposes and to supply water and wastewater services to the Town of 
Nobleboro. 
All authority and powers of the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District as 
previously granted continue in full force and effect. The board of trustees of the district 
as presently elected and constituted may exercise all additional powers, rights, privileges 
and obligations granted by this section in the same manner as currently empowered for 
the affairs of this district. 
Sec. 2. Referendum; effective date. This Act takes effect only for the purpose 
of permitting its submission to the legal voters of the Town of Nobleboro at an election 
called for that purpose and held within 2 years of the effective date of this Act. 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 the purpose of registration of voters, the registrar of 
voters must be in session the secular day preceding the election. The subject matter of 
this Act is reduced to the following question: 
"Do you favor allowing the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District to supply the 
Town of Nobleboro with water and wastewater services?" 
The results must be declared by the municipal officers of the Town of Nobleboro and 
the certificate of the results filed by the clerk with the Secretary of State. 
This Act takes effect for all other purposes immediately upon its acceptance by a 
majority of the legal voters of the Town of Nobleboro. Failure to achieve the necessary 
approval by a majority of voters at an election does not prohibit subsequent referenda 
held within 2 years of the effective date of this Act. 
SUMMARY 
This bill amends the charter of the Great Salt Bay Sanitary District by allowing the 
district to supply wastewater services to the Town of Nobleboro. The bill also requires 
that the legal voters of the Town of Nobleboro approve letting the Great Salt Bay 
Sanitary District supply them with water and wastewater services at a referendum before 
it can take effect. 
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