An Act To Incorporate the Greater Augusta Utility District
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 1754
Committee Amendment CA_A_S314 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 621, L.D. 1754, Bill, "An Act To 
Incorporate the Greater Augusta Utility District" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'PART A 
Sec. A-I. Territorial limits; corporate name, purpose. The inhabitants and 
territory of the City of Augusta and the City of Hallowell constitute a body politic and 
corporate under the name of the Greater Augusta Utility District, referred to in this Part as 
"the district," for the following purposes: 
1. To supply pure water for domestic and municipal purposes to the City of Augusta, 
the Town of Manchester and the Togus VA Medical Center. The district may also supply 
water to portions of the City of Hallowell as the trustees of the Hallowell Water District 
may consent and to portions of the Town of Chelsea as its municipal officers may 
consent. The district is authorized to supply water under the rights and duties established 
under this Act in that portion of the Town of Winthrop known as East Winthrop and 
along its existing pipeline; 
2. To construct, maintain, operate and provide the sewers with all their 
appurtenances, but not stormwater drainage provided under subsection 3, inside the City 
of Augusta, the City of Hallowell, the Town of Chelsea and all that area in the Town of 
Farmingdale lying westerly of a line 1,000 feet easterly of and parallel to the Blaine Road 
beginning at the Hallowell-Farmingdale line and extending to a point 1,000 feet south of 
Bowman Street and lying northerly of a line that begins at the southerly end of the first 
line and extends at right angles to the west line of the Town of Farmingdale; to extend, 
increase, enlarge anc;f improve the sewers; to extend the present system or systems to 
furnish sewerage facilities to portions of the City of Augusta, the City of Hallowell, the 
Town of Chelsea and that portion of the Town of Farmingdale described in this 
subsection not now served with sewerage facilities; to provide for removal of sewage and 
to provide for treatment of sewage in whole or in part before discharging it into rivers 
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when and if sewage treatment becomes necessary; and generally to provide a system of 
sewerage for public purposes and for the health and comfort and convenience of the 
inhabitants of the district; and 
3. To construct, maintain, operate and provide the stormwater drainage system with 
all its appurtenances in the City of Augusta only; to extend, increase, enlarge and improve 
the drains; to extend the present system or systems to furnish storm water drainage 
facilities to only the portions of the City of Augusta not now served with storm water 
drainage facilities; to provide for surface drainage; and to provide a system of stormwater 
drainage for public purposes and for the health and comfort and convenience of the 
inhabitants of the City of Augusta. 
Notwithstanding the requirements of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 
6401, subsection 2, paragraphs A and B, the following provisions do not apply to the 
district: Title 35-A, section 6401, subsection 3; section 6410, subsection 5; and section 
6416. 
Sec. A-2. Powers and authority. The district has the following powers and 
authority. 
1. The district is authorized for the purposes provided in section 1 to take and hold 
sufficient water of the Kennebec River, Carleton Pond and Lake Cobbosseecontee and 
from any other source within the authorized service area of the district and may take and 
hold by purchase or otherwise any land or real estate necessary for erecting dams, power 
stations and reservoirs and for preserving the purity of the water and watershed and for 
laying and maintaining aqueducts for the taking, discharging and disposing of water. 
The district, for the purposes of its incorporation, is authorized to take and hold, by 
purchase or otherwise, any land, real estate or water rights necessary for dams, for 
flowage, for power, for pumping its water supply through its mains, for reservoirs, for 
preserving the purity of the water and watershed and for laying and maintaining 
aqueducts and other structures for taking, distributing, discharging and disposing of water 
and for rights-of-way or roadways to its sources of supply, dams, power stations, 
reservoirs, mains, aqueducts, structures and lands. 
The district is further authorized to increase the storage of Carleton Pond and to erect and 
maintain all proper structures for that purpose. 
The district is authorized to lay in and through streets and highways and across private 
lands and to repair and replace all pipes, aqueducts and fixtures as may be necessary and 
convenient for its corporate purposes, and whenever the district lays any pipes or 
aqueducts in any street or highway it shall do so with as little obstruction as possible to 
the public travel and shall, at its own expense without unnecessary delay, cause the earth 
and pavement removed by it to be replaced in proper condition. 
2. For the purpose of providing a system of sewers and drainage for the comfort, 
convenience and health of the inhabitants of the district, the district is authorized to take 
and hold by purchase, lease or the exercise of the right of eminent domain, as provided in 
section 4 or otherwise, any land or real estate or easement necessary for forming basins, 
reservoirs and outlets, for the erection of buildings for pumping works and sewage 
treatment and for laying pipes and maintaining those pipes and for laying and maintaining 
conduits for carrying and collecting, discharging and disposing of sewage matter and rain 
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water and for other necessary objectives, convenient and proper for the purpose of this 
Act, and all of such property, wherever located, is exempt from taxation. 
Sec. A-3. Transfer of assets; assumption of liabilities and benefits. Upon 
acceptance of this Act as provided in Part C, section 2: 
I. Title to all personal property, real property, assets, benefits and liabilities of the 
Augusta Water District and the Augusta Sanitary District, including, without limitation, 
all lands, waters, water rights, buildings and improvements, reservoirs, appurtenant 
easements and other rights appurtenant to the real property, and all easements in gross 
and all other interests of the Augusta Water District and the Augusta Sanitary District, 
passes to and vests in the Greater Augusta Utility District, and the Greater Augusta 
Utility District shall assume, maintain and operate all personal property, real property, 
assets, benefits and liabilities of the Augusta Water District and the Augusta Sanitary 
District; 
2. Title to all personal property, real property, assets, benefits and liabilities of the 
Hallowell Water District that are exclusively dedicated to its wastewater operations and 
service, including, without limitation, all lands, buildings and improvements that are 
exclusively dedicated to wastewater operations and service, appurtenant easements and 
other rights appurtenant to the real property that are exclusively dedicated to wastewater 
operations and service, and all easements in gross and all other interests of the Hallowell 
Water District that are exclusively used for wastewater operations and service, passes to 
and vests in the Greater Augusta Utility District, and the Greater Augusta Utility District 
shall assume, maintain and operate all personal property, real property, assets, benefits 
and liabilities of the Hallowell Water District that are exclusively dedicated to wastewater 
operations and service; 
3. With respect to any easements held by the Hallowell Water District that are 
appurtenant to real property that is used for both its water and wastewater operations, and 
with respect to any easements in gross held by the Hallowell Water District that are used 
for both its water and wastewater operations, a common and undivided interest in the 
easements passes to and vests in the Greater Augusta Utility District only to the extent 
that the Hallowell Water District may retain the same easement rights subsequent to the 
conveyance. To the extent that the Hallowell Water District may not retain the same 
easement rights subsequent to the conveyance, the easements may not pass to or vest in 
the Greater Augusta Utility District pursuant to this section, and the parties shall make 
reasonable efforts to give the Greater Augusta Utility District limited access to the 
easements to the extent reasonably necessary to construct, maintain, operate and provide 
access to the sewer system transferred pursuant to this Act; 
4. The Augusta Sanitary District and the Hallowell Water District shall assign all 
rights, and the Greater Augusta Utility District shall assume all obligations, under the so-
called 1979 Trunk Line Agreement dated August 21, 1979, as amended, between the 
Augusta Sanitary District, Hallowell Water District, Manchester Sanitary District, 
Monmouth Sanitary District, Winthrop Water District and Carleton Woolen Mills, Inc.; 
5. The Greater Augusta Utility District shall assume all obligations of the Hallowell 
Water District under the Hallowell Water District 1988 Fanner's Home Administration 
Refinancing Bond, and the Greater Augusta Utility District shall assume all obligations of 
the Augusta Water District and the Augusta Sanitary District, including, but not limited 
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to, those obligations under the following bonds: bonds issued to the Maine Municipal 
Bond Bank by the Augusta Water District in 1990, 1991 and 1994; bonds issued by the 
Augusta Water District to TD BankNorth in 2001; bonds issued by the Augusta Sanitary 
District to the Maine Municipal Bond Bank in 1997,2002,2003,2005 and 2006; and a 
bond issued by the Augusta Sanitary District to Kennebec Savings Bank in 2003; and 
6. The district shan maintain its books and records in a manner that creates separate 
divisions for its water and wastewater operations. These divisions must maintain the 
assets, liabilities, operating revenues and expenses in a manner that allows the Public 
Utilities Commission to set rates for the district's water operations. The assets and 
liabilities of the Augusta Water District must be maintained in the books of the water 
division ofthe Greater Augusta Utilities District. The assets and liabilities of the Augusta 
Sanitary District and Hallowell Water District's wastewater division must be maintained 
in the books and records of the Greater Augusta Utility District's wastewater division. 
Sec. A-4. Right of eminent domain conferred. The district is authorized and 
. empowered to exercise the right of eminent domain in the area of the district set forth in 
section 1 to acquire and hold, for the purposes set forth in sections I and 2, any land, real 
estate or water rights. 
The district may exercise the right of eminent domain vested in the district for the 
purposes of this Act after a hearing. Notice of the time and place of the hearing must be 
given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Augusta once a 
week for 2 successive weeks, the last publication to be at least 2 weeks previous to the 
time appointed for the hearing. The clerk of the district shall keep a record of the hearing 
proceedings, and the determination and decision, which must set forth a description of the 
land or easement taken and the owners, if known, and the amount of damages awarded 
for it. 
In lieu of the notice for publication as specified in this section, the notice may be 
served in hand by an officer duly qualified to serve civil process in this State on the 
record owner or owners of the premises involved at least 14 days prior to the time 
appointed for the hearing. 
Upon the signing of the record of the trustees and the filing of the record in the 
Registry of Deeds for Kennebec County, the trustees may enter upon the land and take 
possession of the land or an easement on the land, as the case may be, for the purposes of 
this Act. 
A person aggrieved by the decision of the trustees, as it relates to the damages for 
land or easements on the land taken, has the same rights of appeal as provided in the case 
of the laying out of town ways pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 23, chapter 
304. 
The district may not take by right of eminent domain any of the property or facilities 
of another public utility used, or acquired for future use by the owner in the performance 
of a public duty, unless expressly authorized in this Act or by a subsequent act of the 
Legislature. 
Sec. A-S. Authority to lay pipes and make all necessary repairs. 
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1. The district is authorized, for the purposes of supplying water, to lay in and 
through the streets and highways of the authorized service area described in section 1, 
subsection 1 and to take up, repair and replace all pipes, aqueducts and fixtures as may be 
necessary, and when the district lays any pipes or aqueducts in a street or highway it shall 
do so with as little obstruction as possible to the public travel and shall, at its own 
expense and without unnecessary delay, cause the earth and pavement removed by it to 
be replaced in proper condition. 
2. The district may lay pipes and construct conduits in and through the district and 
convey through the pipes and conduits sewage, surface water and the natural flowage of 
existing watercourses and secure and maintain basins, reservoirs and outlets; may build 
and maintain pumping stations and buildings convenient for the pumping stations; may 
construct and maintain treatment plants, flush tanks, manholes, stormwater inlets and the 
usual appliances for collecting, holding, distributing and disposing of sewage and 
stormwater; may supply water for the flush tanks and for flushing the system of sewers 
and for any other purposes the district may determine desirable and install all pipes and 
necessary structures and appliances to this end; may establish through and by its trustees 
regulations for the use of sewers and fix and collect the prices to be paid for entering the 
sewers and also the service charges for the use of the sewers; may enter into contracts 
with persons, corporations or municipalities to care for sewage or drainage through the 
district's system; and may, for the purposes provided in this Act, lay down, in and through 
the streets, highways and land of the district, and take up, replace and repair, all conduits, 
pipes and fixtures as may be necessary or desirable for the purposes of its incorporation, 
carry and lay conduits and pipes under any watercourse, public or private way or railroad, 
in the manner prescribed in this Act, and cross any water pipe, gas pipe, electric conduit, 
drain or sewer or, if necessary, change its direction in such a manner as not to obstruct its 
use by the construction of any of the works of the district, either during the construction 
or after the construction has been completed or while the construction is undergoing 
repairs or extensions are being made. 
3. When crossing a public utility, unless consent is given by the company owning or 
operating the public utility as to place, manner and conditions of the crossing within 30 
days after the consent is requested by the district, the Public Utilities Commission shall 
determine the place, manner and conditions of the crossing, and all work on the property 
of the public utility must be done under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the 
public utility, but at the expense of the district. 
Sec. A-6. 
Excavations and repair work; property to be left in good 
condition; closing of streets. Whenever the district enters, digs up' or excavates a 
street, way, highway or other land for any of the purposes set forth in this Act, the street, 
way, highway or other land must, at the completion of the work, be returned to the 
condition the street, way, highway or other land was in prior to the work of the district or 
to a condition equally as good. 
When the work of the district endangers travel on a street or way, the cities or towns 
shall direct the temporary closing of the street or way and of intersecting streets or ways, 
upon request of the district, and the streets or ways must remain closed to public traffic 
until the work of the district is completed and the surfaces of the streets or ways are 
restored to a proper condition, as provided in this section. 
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Sec. A-7. System extensions. 
1. All water line extensions must be made in accordance with the governing statutes 
and rules of the Public Utilities Commission. 
2. The district has the right to determine whether extensions to its sewer system are 
made, with such discretion to be subject to review by the authority of local and state 
health officials and the Department of Environmental Protection. A sewer extension 
must be in conformity with adopted municipal plans and ordinances regulating land use. 
3. A decision to invest funds in a specific sewer main extension requires a majority 
vote of the trustees and must include an affirmative vote of the voting representative from 
the City of Hallowell. 
Sec. A-8. Duty to serve; obligation to connect. 
1. The district's duty to provide water service is governed by the statutes and rules of 
the Public Utilities Commission. 
2. The district, at all times after it commences receiving payments for the sewer 
facilities supplied by it, is bound to permit the owners of all premises abutting upon its 
lines of pipes and conduits to connect to the system with all proper sewage, upon 
conformity to the rules and regulations of the district and payments of the prices, 
assessments and rental established by the district. 
Every building in the areas served by the district intended for human habitation or 
occupancy on premises abutting on a street in which there is a public sewer or such a 
building within 100 feet of a public sewer must have a house drainage system connected 
with the sewer by the owner or agent of the premises in the most direct manner possible. 
If feasible, each house or building must be connected with a separate connection, except 
that buildings that are already served by a satisfactory private sewage disposal system 
that meets and continues to meet the requirements of the plumbing code for the State are 
not required to connect with the public sewer. 
Sec. A-9. Assessment against lot benefited by drain or sewer. When the 
district has constructed and completed a public drain or common sewer, the trustees shall 
determine what lots or parcels of land are benefited by the drain or sewer. The trustees 
shall estimate and assess upon the lots and parcels of land and against the owner, or 
person in possession, whether the person to whom the assessment is made is the owner, 
tenant, lessee or agent, and whether the lot or parcel of land is occupied or not, a sum not 
exceeding the benefit as the trustees determine just and equitable towards defraying the 
expenses of constructing and completing the drain or sewer, together with the sewage 
disposal units and appurtenances as may be necessary. 
The trustees shall file with the clerk of the district the location of the drain or sewer 
and sewage disposal unit, with a profile description of the location, a statement of the 
amount assessed upon each lot or parcel of land, a description of each lot or parcel and 
the name of the owner of the lots or parcels of land or person against whom the 
assessment is being made. The clerk of the district shall record the assessment in a book 
kept for that purpose. Within 10 days after filing the notice, each person assessed must 
be notified of the assessment by having an authentic copy of the assessment, with an 
order of notice signed by the clerk of the district, stating the time and place for a hearing 
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upon the subject matter of the assessments, given to each person or left at the person's 
usual place of abode in the district. If the person has no place of abode in the district, 
then the notice must be given or left at the abode of the person's tenant or lessee if the 
person has one in the district. If the person has no tenant or lessee in the district, the 
person assessed must be notified by a posting of the notice in some conspicuous place in 
the vicinity of the lot or parcel of land assessed, at least 30 days before the hearing, or the 
notice may be given by publishing the notice once a week for 3 successive weeks in a 
newspaper of general circulation in the City of Augusta, the first publication to be at least 
days before the hearing. A return made upon a copy ofthe notice by a constable in the 
City of Augusta or the production of the paper containing the notice is conclusive 
evidence that the notice has been given. At the hearing the trustees have power to revise, 
increase or diminish any of the assessments, and all revisions, increases or diminutions 
must be in writing and recorded by the clerk. 
Sec. A-tO. Wastewater assessment; right of appeal. A person aggrieved by 
the decision of the trustees as it relates to the assessment for sewer construction has the 
same rights of appeal as provided in the case of the laying out of town ways pursuant to 
the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 23, chapter 304. 
Sec. A-ll. Lien for unpaid wastewater assessments. All assessments made 
under the provisions of section 9 create a lien upon each lot or parcel of land assessed and 
the buildings upon the same, which takes effect when the trustees file with the clerk the 
completed assessment. Within 10 days after the date of hearing on the assessment, the 
clerk shall make out a list of all assessments, the amount of each and the names of the 
persons against whom the same are assessed and shall certify the list and deliver it to the 
treasurer of the district. If the assessments are not paid within 3 months from the date of 
filing of the completed assessment, the treasurer may proceed to collect the assessment in 
the following manner: 
1. After the expiration of 3 months and within 18 months after the date the 
assessment is filed with the treasurer, if a person is a resident in the town where assessed, 
the treasurer shall give to the person against whom the assessment is made or leave at the 
person's last and usual place of abode a notice in writing signed by the treasurer stating 
the amount of the assessment, describing the real estate upon which the lien is claimed, 
stating that a lien is claimed on the real estate to secure the payment of the assessment 
and demanding the payment of the assessment within 10 days after the service of the 
notice. The treasurer in one notice may incorporate several delinquent rates that are in 
default at least 3 months and not over 18 months. 
After the expiration of the 10 days and within 10 days after the 10-day expiration, if a 
person is a resident of the district, and in all other cases within one year from the date of 
service of notice, the treasurer shall record in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds a 
certificate signed by the treasurer stating the amount of the assessment, a description of 
the real estate on which the lien is claimed, an allegation that a lien is claimed on the real 
estate to secure the payment of the assessment, that a demand for the payment of the 
assessment has been made in accordance with the provisions of this section and that the 
assessment remains unpaid. 
If a person is not a resident of the district, the notice of lien and demand for payment 
must be given by registered or certified mail or by publication in a newspaper of general 
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circulation inside the City of Augusta once a week for 2 successive weeks and must 
demand payment within 10 days after the date of mailing of the notice or the date of last 
publication of notice. After the expiration of the 10 days, the treasurer shall record the 
certificate. 
At the time of the recording of the certificate in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds 
as provided in this section, in all cases the treasurer shall file in the office of the district a 
true copy of the certificate. At the time of recording of the certificate, the treasurer shall 
mail a true copy of the certificate by registered or certified mail to each record holder of a 
mortgage on the real estate, addressed to the record holder at the record holder's last and 
usual place of abode. The fee charged by the district to the assessed party for the notice 
and filing is determined by the trustees and must include at a minimum the amount 
charged to the district for the recording of the certificate in the Kennebec County Registry 
of Deeds. Upon redemption, the district shall prepare and record a discharge of the sewer 
lien upon collecting from the assessed party the charge for recording the discharge. 
The filing of the certificate in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds pursuant to this 
section is deemed to create and creates a mortgage on the real estate to the district, having 
priority over all other mortgages, liens, attachments and encumbrances of any nature, 
except liens, attachments and claims for taxes, and gives the district all the rights usually 
incident to a mortgagee, except that the district has no right of possession of the real 
estate until the right of redemption provided for in this section has expired. If the 
mortgage, together with interest and costs, is not paid within 18 months after the date of 
filing of the certificate in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds as provided in this 
section, the mortgage is deemed foreclosed and the right of redemption has expired. The 
filing of the certificate in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds is sufficient notice of 
the existence of the mortgage provided for in this section. 
In the event that the 
assessment, interest and costs are paid within the period of redemption provided for in 
this section, the treasurer of the district shall discharge the mortgage in the same manner 
as is provided for discharge of real estate mortgages; or 
2. After the expiration of 3 months after the date the assessment is filed with the 
treasurer, the treasurer may bring a civil action for the collection of the assessment in the 
name of the district against the person against whom the assessment is made and for the 
enforcement of the lien. The civil action may be commenced without the filing of a 
certificate of lien in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds pursuant to subsection 1. 
The complaint in an action must contain a statement of the assessment, a description of 
the real estate against which the assessment is made and an allegation that a lien is 
claimed on the real estate to secure the payment of the assessment. If service is not made 
upon the defendant or if it appears that other persons have an interest in the real estate, 
the court shall order further notice of the action as the court determines proper and shall 
allow the other persons to become parties to the action. 
If it appears upon trial of the action that the assessment was legally made against the real 
estate, the assessment is unpaid and there is an existing lien on the real estate for the 
payment of the assessment, judgment must be rendered for the assessment, interest and 
costs of suit against the defendants and against the real estate upon which the assessment 
was made and execution issued on the judgement to be enforced by sale of the real estate 
in the manner provided for a sale on execution of real estate attached on original process. 
In making the sale, the officer shall follow the procedure in selling and conveying the real 
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estate and shall provide the same rights of redemption as provided in the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 36, section 941. 
Sec. A-12. Additional methods of collection of wastewater assessments. If 
assessments under the provisions of section 9 are not paid and the district does not 
proceed to collect unpaid assessments by a sheriffs sale of the real estate upon which the 
assessments are made under section II or does not collect or is in any manner delayed or 
defeated in collecting the assessments by a sheriffs sale of the real estate under section 
11, then the district, in the name of the district, may maintain an action against the party 
assessed for the amount of the assessment, for money paid, laid out and expended, in any 
court competent to try the suit, and in the suit may recover the amount of the assessment 
with 10% interest on the assessments from the date of the assessments and costs. 
Sec. A-13. Assessments paid by other than owner; recovered. When an 
assessment under the provisions of section 9 is paid by a person against whom the 
assessment has been made who is not the owner of the lot or parcel of land, then the 
person paying the assessment has a lien on the lot or parcel of land with the buildings on 
the lot or parcel of land for the amount of the assessment paid by the person and 
incidental charges. The lien may be enforced in the way and manner provided for the 
enforcement of liens in section II. 
Sec. A-I4. Penalty for violation. 
1. The liability and penalties for a person who violates the provisions of this Act 
relating to the district's authority to provide water service or the regulations of the district 
adopted in accordance with the authority granted under this Act relating to water service 
must be in accordance with the governing statutes and rules of the Public Utilities 
Commission. 
2. A person who violates the provisions of this Act or the regulations of the district 
adopted in accordance with the authority granted under this Act relating to the district's 
authority to provide sewer service is liable to pay twice the amount of the damage to the 
district, to be recovered in a proper action. The penalty for violation of a pretreatment 
standard or requirement by an industrial user is governed by the Maine Revised Statutes, 
Title 38, section 1252, subsection 8. 
A person who places, discharges or leaves an offensive or injurious matter or material on 
or in the sewer conduits, sewer catch basins or sewer receptacles of the district contrary to 
its sewer use regulations, or knowingly injures a conduit, pipe, reservoir, flush tank, catch 
basin, manhole, drain, outlet, engine, pump or other property held, owned or used by the 
district for sewer purposes, is guilty of a Class E crime. In addition to sentencing 
alternatives provided under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 17-A, a person is also liable 
to pay twice the amount of the damage to the district, to be recovered in a proper action. 
Sec. A-IS. Free access to premises. 
1. The district's rights of access to water customer premises are governed by the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A and rules of the Public Utilities Commission. 
2. The officers or agents of the district have free access to all premises served by its 
sewers, at all reasonable hours to permit the inspection of plumbing and sewerage 
fixtures, to ascertain the amount of sewage discharged and the manner of discharge and to 
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enforce the provisions of this Act and any rules and regulations that may be prescribed by 
the district. 
Sec. A-16. Payments of rates required; purpose of revenue generally. 
1. All individuals, firms and corporations, whether private, public or municipal, shall 
pay to the treasurer of the district the rates established by the trustees pursuant to the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A for water used by the individuals, firms or 
corporations. The water rates must be uniform throughout the territory established in 
section I. 
2. All individuals, firms and corporations, whether private, public or municipal, shall 
pay to the treasurer of the district the rates and assessments established by the trustees to 
pay for the cost of the wastewater works and for the wastewater service used by the 
individuals, firms or corporations. Except as provided in subsection 4, the wastewater 
rates must be uniform throughout the territory established in section 1. The wastewater 
rates may include a readiness-to-serve charge against owners or persons in possession, or 
against whom taxes are assessed, of all buildings or premises intended for human 
habitation or occupancy, whether the buildings or premises are occupied or not, that abut 
on a street through which the district has a sewerage main or that abut a location through 
which the district has a sewerage main by which service of the buildings or premises is 
feasible, as long as in either instance the property line of the premises is within 100 feet 
of the sewerage main whether or not the premises are actually connected to the sewerage 
main. 
The wastewater rates must be established to provide revenue for the following purposes: 
A. To pay the current expenses of operating and maintaining the sewerage, drainage 
and treatment systems of the district; 
B. To provide for the payment of the interest and principal on the indebtedness 
created or assumed by the district; 
C. To provide funds for paying the cost of all necessary repairs, replacements or 
renewals of the sewerage, drainage and treatment systems of the district; and 
D. To payor provide for all amounts that the district may be obligated to payor 
provide by law or contract, including any resolution or contract with or for the benefit 
of the holders of its bonds and notes. 
3. For purposes of establishing water and wastewater rates, all of the district's costs 
of service must be equitably allocated between water and wastewater operations to 
minimize any cross-subsidies between water ratepayers and wastewater ratepayers. The 
district shall maintain records supporting and documenting the methods used to allocate 
all costs between the water and wastewater operations. 
4. For the purpose of establishing wastewater rates, all of the district's costs of service 
must be equitably allocated between sewerage service and stormwater service and the 
costs of storm water service must be borne by the ratepayers of the City of Augusta. The 
district shall maintain records supporting and documenting the methods used to allocate 
all costs between sewerage service and stormwater service. 
Sec. A-17. Lien to secure payment of rates; procedure. 
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1. There is a lien on real estate served by the district to secure the payment of water 
rates established and due under the provisions of section 16 and the lien takes precedence 
over all other claims on the real estate, except claims for taxes and sewer liens. In 
addition to other methods established by law for the collection of the water rates, the lien 
created in this subsection may be enforced in the manner set forth in the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 35-A, section 6111-A. 
2. There is a lien on real estate served by the several sewers and drains of the district 
to secure the payment of wastewater rates established and due under the provisions of 
section 16 and the lien takes precedence over all other claims on the real estate, except 
claims for taxes. In addition to other methods previously established by law for the 
collection of the rates, the lien created in this subsection may be enforced in the manner 
set forth in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 1208. 
Sec. A-18. Authority to borrow money. For accomplishing the purposes of this 
Act and for other expenses that may be necessary for the carrying out of the purposes of 
this Act, the district, through its trustees, without district vote, is authorized to issue its 
notes and bonds in one series or in separate series from time to time and to make 
subsequent renewals of the notes and bonds in whole or in part. 
The notes and bonds are a legal obligation of the district, are a legal investment for 
savings banks in the State and are exempt from all present taxes. The district is declared 
to be a quasi-municipal corporation for the purposes of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
30-A, section 5701 and all the provisions of that section. 
Each bond or note must have inscribed on its face the words "Greater Augusta Utility 
District Bond" or "Greater Augusta Utility District Note," as the case may be, and must 
bear interest at such rates as the trustees determine. 
Bonds or notes may be issued from time to time and each authorized issue constitutes 
a separate loan. 
The bonds or notes must contain such terms and conditions, bear such a rate or rates 
of interest and be sold in such a manner, at public or private sale, at par, at a discount or 
at a premium, all as the trustees determine. 
Sec. A-19. Board of Trustees; tenure; duties. 
1. All the affairs of the Greater Augusta Utility District are managed by a Board of 
Trustees comprised of 7 voting members, one nonvoting representative of the City of 
Augusta and one nonvoting representative of the City of Hallowell. Six voting members 
are appointed by the mayor of the City of Augusta, with the approval of a majority of the 
Augusta City Council. One voting member is appointed by the mayor of the City of 
Hallowell, with the approval of a majority of the Hallowell City Council. One nonvoting 
member must be the mayor of the City of Augusta or the mayor's designee, and the other 
nonvoting member must be the mayor of the City of Hallowell or the mayor's designee. 
A member of the Augusta City Council or the Hallowell City Council, an employee of the 
City of Augusta or the City of Hallowell or an employee of the Greater Augusta Utility 
District or the Hallowell Water District may not be chosen as a voting member of the 
Board of Trustees during the councilor's term on the city councilor the employee's term 
of employment. All trustees must be residents of the city from which they are appointed. 
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Trustees are appointed to 3-year tenns. Tenns are to be staggered. If a vacancy occurs 
due to death or other cause, the mayor of the city from which the vacancy occurs shall 
appoint, with the approval of a majority of the relevant city council, a new member to fill 
out the unexpired tenn. 
The tenn of a trustee continues until the trustee's successor is appointed and qualified. 
2. 
Meetings of the trustees must be held monthly at a time and place to be 
detennined by the trustees. A quorum consists of 4 voting trustees. 
The trustees may engage the services of engineers and laborers, purchase all necessary 
material and supplies and construct the drains and sewers under their own supervision, or 
they may, if they detennine it advantageous, contract with a responsible person, finn or 
corporation for the construction of the drains and sewers, but the district is not released 
from liability by reason of having contracted with a person, firm or corporation as 
provided in this subsection for the construction of any sewer, drain or other structure. 
The trustees shall adopt a corporate seal and all bylaws and regulations necessary to 
operate the district. 
The trustees shall publish an annual report of the district's finances. 
A trustee of the district may not have an interest, either directly or indirectly, in any 
contract or agreement entered into by the district for the construction of a sewer, drain or 
other structure in the area served by the district. The district may enter upon or take land 
or any easement on the land of an officer of the district while the person is an officer and 
award damages to the officer for the land if in the opinion of the trustees the entering or 
taking is necessary for the purposes of the district. 
3. The trustees shall annually elect a chair, a clerk, a treasurer and any other officer 
or agent as the trustees consider necessary. The trustees shall elect an assistant treasurer, 
who must be a trustee or an employee of the district. 
4. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 6410, subsection 
and Title 38, section 1252, subsection 5, the trustees are entitled to compensation at the 
same levels established for councilors and officers of the Augusta City Council or the 
councilors and officers of the Hallowell City Council, whichever is greater. 
Sec. A-20. Incidental powers, rights and privileges. All incidental powers, 
rights and privileges necessary to the accomplishment of this Act are granted to the 
district. 
Sec. A-21. Monmouth to Augusta trunk sewer; authority, powers of 
districts, inhabitants; property exempt from taxation. The district is authorized 
and empowered to own, operate and maintain a sewer line from the Town of Monmouth 
to the City of Augusta through the Town of Manchester, the City of Hallowell and the 
Town of Winthrop, in order to receive domestic, commercial, municipal and industrial 
wastes and sewerage from the Town of Monmouth and areas along the sewer line and 
treat the wastes and sewerage prior to discharge of the effluent into the Kennebec River at 
the City of Augusta. The district's authority to provide wastewater service outside the 
service area limits set forth in section 1 is limited to the provision of wholesale 
wastewater service to other utilities in those municipalities where another utility or 
municipality provides wastewater service. 
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The district is authorized to use its rights, powers and privileges under this Act for the 
purpose of owning, operating and maintaining a sewer line from the Town of Monmouth 
to the City of Augusta, including, but not limited to, the right to acquire and hold real 
estate and personal estate necessary and convenient for the purpose of this section; to take 
and hold by purchase, lease or the exercise of the right of eminent domain or otherwise 
any land or real estate or easement in land or real estate inside or outside the area served 
by the district necessary for forming basins, reservoirs and outlets, for erection of 
buildings for pumping works and sewage treatment, for laying pipes and maintaining the 
buildings and pipes, for laying and maintaining conduits and appurtenances for carrying 
and collecting, discharging and disposing of sewage matter and for other objectives 
necessary, convenient and proper for the purposes of this section; to establish through and 
by its trustees regulations for the use of the sewers and to fix and collect the prices to be 
paid for entering the sewers and the service charges for the use of the sewers; to enter into 
contracts with persons, corporations or municipalities inside or outside the area served by 
the district including the Winthrop Utilities District, the Manchester Sanitary District, the 
Monmouth Sanitary District and any quasi-municipal corporation or district formed or to 
be formed in order to care for or treat sewage or drainage from lateral sewers or otherwise 
through the district's system; to lay down, in and through the streets and highways inside 
or outside the area served by the district and to take up, replace and repair all conduits, 
pipes and fixtures that may be necessary or desirable for the purpose; to carry and lay 
conduits and pipes under any watercourse, lake, public or private way or railroad and to 
cross any water pipe, gas pipe, electric conduit, drain or sewer pursuant to this Act; to 
make and file assessments and liens for the cost of the assessments; to issue notes and 
bonds through its trustees without district vote in one series or in separate series from 
time to time and to make subsequent renewals of the notes and bonds in whole or in part 
to provide for the financing of the notes and bonds; to establish and collect rates and 
enforce the collection of rates by lien and otherwise; to apply for and receive state and 
federal loans, grants and other forms of aid; and in general to use all of its rights, powers 
and privileges under this Act along the sewer line as though the sewer line were solely 
within the area set forth in section 1 as the service area limits of the district. Wherever 
located, the property, both real and personal, rights and franchises used in connection 
with the wastewater system are exempt from taxation. All incidental powers, rights and 
privileges necessary to the accomplishment of the objectives set forth in this section are 
granted to the district. 
The Winthrop Utilities District, the Manchester Sanitary District, the Monmouth 
Sanitary District, any quasi-municipal corporation or district, formed or to be formed, and 
any other persons or corporations are authorized to enter into contracts with the district 
for sharing in the capital cost and operation and maintenance cost of the sewer line and 
any facilities in connection with the sewer line, including facilities for secondary 
treatment of wastes and any lateral sewers or other systems that may connect to the sewer 
line. 
Sec. A-22. P&SL 1903, c. 334, as amended by P&SL 1975, c. 87, §§1 to 5, is 
repealed. 
Sec. A-23. P&SL 1921, c. 75, §10, first sentence, as amended by P&SL 1971, 
c. 83, §19, is repealed and the following enacted in its place: 
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All the affairs of the district must be managed by a board of trustees composed of 3 
members to be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the City Council of the City of 
Hallowell. The 3 members must be selected from the present members in office as of the 
effective date of this Act, and the mayor shall delegate one to hold office for one year, the 
2nd to hold office for 2 years and the 3rd to hold office for 3 years. 
Sec. A-24. P&SL 1955, c. 139, as amended by P&SL 1991, c. 10, §§1 and 2, is 
repealed. 
Sec. A-25. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §1 is repealed. 
Sec. A-26. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §2 is repealed. 
Sec. A-27. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §3, as amended by P&SL 1999, c. 15, §1, is 
repealed. 
Sec. A-28. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §4 is repealed. 
Sec. A-29. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §5 is repealed. 
Sec. A-30. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §6 is repealed. 
Sec. A-31. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §7 is repealed. 
Sec. A-32. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §7-A, as enacted by P&SL 1999, c. 15, §2, is 
repealed. 
Sec. A-33. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §8 is repealed. 
Sec. A-34. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §9 is repealed. 
Sec. A-35. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §10, as amended by P&SL 1983, c. 11, is repealed. 
Sec. A-36. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §11 is repealed. 
Sec. A-37. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §12 is repealed. 
Sec. A-38. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §13 is repealed. 
Sec. A-39. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §14 is repealed. 
Sec. A-40. P&SL 1971, c. 83, §15 is repealed. 
Sec. A-41. 
Existing trustees. 
The commissioners of the Augusta Sanitary 
District and the trustees of the Augusta Water District holding office on the effective date 
of this Act hold office as trustees of the Greater Augusta Utility District for the terms for 
which they were appointed, and as each term expires one trustee must be selected by the 
appointing authority to serve for a term of 3 years. 
PARTB 
Sec. B-1. Territorial limits. The inhabitants and territory of the City of Augusta 
constitute a body politic and corporate under the name of the Greater Augusta Utility 
District, referred to in this part as "the district," for the following purposes: 
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1. To supply pure water for domestic and municipal purposes to the City of Augusta, 
the Town of Manchester and the Togus VA Medical Center. The district may also supply 
water to portions of the City of Hallowell as the trustees of the Hallowell Water District 
may consent and to portions of the Town of Chelsea as its municipal officers may 
consent. The district is authorized to supply water under the rights and duties established 
under this Act in that portion of the Town of Winthrop known as East Winthrop and 
along its existing pipeline; 
2. 
To construct, maintain, operate and provide the sewers with all their 
appurtenances inside the City of Augusta; to extend, increase, enlarge and improve the 
sewers; to extend the present system or systems to furnish sewerage facilities to portions 
of the City of Augusta not now served with such facilities; to provide for removal of 
sewage and to provide for treatment of sewage in whole or in part before discharging it 
into rivers when and if such treatment becomes necessary; and to provide a system of 
sewerage for public purposes and for the health and comfort and convenience of the 
inhabitants of the district; and 
3. To construct, maintain, operate and provide the stormwater drainage system with 
all its appurtenances in the City of Augusta; to extend, increase, enlarge and improve the 
drains; to extend the present system or systems to furnish stormwater drainage facilities 
to portions of the City of Augusta not now served with such facilities; to provide for 
surface drainage; and to provide a system of stormwater drainage for public purposes and 
for the health and comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of the City of Augusta. 
Notwithstanding the requirements of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 
6401, subsection 2, paragraphs A and B, the following provisions of Title 35-A do not 
apply to the district: section 6401, subsection 3; section 6410, subsection 5; and section 
6416. 
Sec. B-2. Powers and authority. The district has the following powers and 
authority. 
I. The district is authorized for the purposes provided in section 1 to take and hold 
sufficient water of the Kennebec River, Carleton Pond and Lake Cobbosseecontee and 
from any other source within the authorized service area of the district and may take and 
hold by purchase or otherwise any land or real estate necessary for erecting dams, power 
stations and reservoirs and for preserving the purity of the water and watershed and for 
laying and maintaining aqueducts for the taking, discharging and disposing of water. 
The district, for the purposes of its incorporation, is authorized to take and hold, by 
purchase or otherwise, any land, real estate or water rights necessary for dams, for 
flowage, for power, for pumping its water supply through its mains, for reservoirs, for 
preserving the purity of the water and watershed and for laying and maintaining 
aqueducts and other structures for taking, distributing, discharging and disposing of water 
and for rights-of-way or roadways to its sources of supply, dams, power stations, 
reservoirs, mains, aqueducts, structures and lands. 
The district is further authorized to increase the storage of Carleton Pond and to erect and 
maintain all proper structures for that purpose. 
The district is authorized to lay in and through streets and highways and across private 
lands and to repair and replace all pipes, aqueducts and fixtures as may be necessary and 
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convenient for its corporate purposes, and whenever the district lays any pipes or 
aqueducts in any street or highway it shall do so with as little obstruction as possible to 
the public travel and shall, at its own expense without unnecessary delay, cause the earth 
and pavement removed by it to be replaced in proper condition. 
2. For the purpose of providing a system of sewers and drainage for the comfort, 
convenience and health of the inhabitants of the district, the district is authorized to take 
and hold by purchase, lease or the exercise of the right of eminent domain, as provided in 
section 4 or otherwise, any land or real estate or easement necessary for forming basins, 
reservoirs and outlets, for the erection of buildings for pumping works and sewage 
treatment and for laying pipes and maintaining those pipes and for laying and maintaining 
conduits for carrying and collecting, discharging and disposing of sewage matter and rain 
water and for other necessary objectives, convenient and proper for the purpose of this 
Act, and all of such property, wherever located, is exempt from taxation. 
Sec. B-3. Transfer of assets; assumption of liabilities and benefits. Upon 
acceptance of this Act as provided in Part C, section 3: 
1. Title to all personal property, real property, assets, benefits and liabilities of the 
Augusta Water District and the Augusta Sanitary District, including, without limitation, 
all lands, waters, water rights, buildings and improvements, reservoirs, appurtenant 
easements and other rights appurtenant to the real property, and all easements in gross 
and all other interests of the Augusta Water District and the Augusta Sanitary District, 
passes to and vests in the Greater Augusta Utility District, and the Greater Augusta 
Utility District shall assume, maintain and operate all personal property, real property, 
assets, benefits and liabilities of the Augusta Water District and the Augusta Sanitary 
District; 
2. The Greater Augusta Utility District shall assume all obligations of the Augusta 
Water District and the Augusta Sanitary District, including, but not limited to, those 
obligations under the following bonds: bonds issued to the Maine Municipal Bond Bank 
by the Augusta Water District in 1990, 1991 and 1994; bonds issued by the Augusta 
Water District to TO BankNorth in 2001; bonds issued by the Augusta Sanitary District 
to the Maine Municipal Bond Bank in 1997, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006; and a bond 
issued by the Augusta Sanitary District to Kennebec Savings Bank in 2003; and 
3. The district shall maintain its books and records in a manner that creates separate 
divisions for its water and wastewater operations. These divisions must maintain the 
assets, liabilities, operating revenues and expenses in a manner that allows the Public 
Utilities Commission to set rates for the district's water operations. The assets and 
liabilities of the Augusta Water District must be maintained in the books of the water 
division of the Greater Augusta Utilities District. The assets and liabilities ofthe Augusta 
Sanitary District must be maintained in the books and records of the Greater Augusta 
Utility District's wastewater division. 
Sec. B-4. Right of eminent domain conferred. The district is authorized and 
empowered to exercise the right of eminent domain in the area of the district set forth in 
section 1 to acquire and hold, for the purposes set forth in sections 1 and 2, any land, real 
estate or water rights. 
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The district may exercise the right of eminent domain vested in the district for the 
purposes of this Act after a hearing. Notice of the time and place of the hearing must be 
given by pUblication in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Augusta once a 
week for 2 successive weeks, the last publication to be at least 2 weeks previous to the 
time appointed for the hearing. The clerk of the district shall keep a record of the hearing 
proceedings, and the determination and decision, which must set forth a description of the 
land or easement taken and the owners, if known, and the amount of damages awarded 
for it. 
In lieu of the notice for publication as specified in this section, the notice may be 
served in hand by an officer duly qualified to serve civil process in this State on the 
record owner or owners of the premises involved at least 14 days prior to the time 
appointed for the hearing. 
Upon the signing of the record of the trustees and the filing 'of the record in the 
Registry of Deeds for Kennebec County, the trustees may enter upon the land and take 
possession of the land or an easement on the land, as the case may be, for the purposes of 
this Act. 
A person aggrieved by the decision of the trustees, as it relates to the damages for 
land or easements on the land taken, has the same rights of appeal as provided in the case 
of the laying out of town ways pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 23, chapter 
304. 
The district may not take by right of eminent domain any of the property or facilities 
of another public utility used, or acquired for future use by the owner in the performance 
of a public duty, unless expressly authorized in this Act or by a subsequent act of the 
Legislature. 
Sec. B-S. Authority to lay pipes and make all necessary repairs. 
1. The district is authorized, for the purposes of supplying water, to lay in and 
through the streets and highways of the authorized service area described in section 1, 
subsection 1 and to take up, repair and replace all pipes, aqueducts and fixtures as may be 
necessary, and when the district lays any pipes or aqueducts in a street or highway it shall 
do so with as little obstruction as possible to the public travel and shall, at its own 
expense and without unnecessary delay, cause the earth and pavement removed by it to 
be replaced in proper condition. 
2. The district may lay pipes and construct conduits in and through the district and 
convey through the pipes and conduits sewage, surface water and the natural flowage of 
existing watercourses and secure and maintain basins, reservoirs and outlets; may build 
and maintain pumping stations and buildings convenient for the pumping stations; may 
construct and maintain treatment plants, flush tanks, manholes, storm water inlets and the 
usual appliances for collecting, holding, distributing and disposing of sewage and 
storm water; may supply water for the flush tanks and for flushing the system of sewers 
and for any other purposes the district may determine desirable and install all pipes and 
necessary structures and appliances to this end; may establish through and by its trustees 
regulations for the use of sewers and fix and collect the prices to be paid for entering the 
sewers and also the service charges for the use of the sewers; may enter into contracts 
with persons, corporations or municipalities to care for sewage or drainage through the 
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district's system; and may, for the purposes provided in this Act, lay down, in and through 
the streets, highways and land of the district, and take up, replace and repair, all conduits, 
pipes and fixtures as may be necessary or desirable for the purposes of its incorporation, 
carry and lay conduits and pipes under any watercourse, public or private way or railroad, 
in the manner prescribed in this Act, and cross any water pipe, gas pipe, electric conduit, 
drain or sewer or, if necessary, change its direction in such a manner as not to obstruct its 
use by the construction of any of the works of the district, either during the construction 
or after the construction has been completed or while the construction is undergoing 
repairs or extensions are being made. 
3. When crossing a public utility, unless consent is given by the company owning or 
operating the public utility as to place, manner and conditions of the crossing within 30 
days after the consent is requested by the district, the Public Utilities Commission shall 
determine the place, manner and conditions of the crossing, and all work on the property 
of the public utility must be done under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the 
public utility, but at the expense of the district. 
Sec. B-6. 
Excavations and repair work; property to be left in good 
condition; closing of streets. Whenever the district enters, digs up or excavates a 
street, way, highway or other land for any of the purposes set forth in this Act, the street, 
way, highway or other land must, at the completion of the work, be returned to the 
condition the street, way, highway or other land was in prior to the work of the district or 
to a condition equally as good. 
When the work of the district endangers travel on a street or way, the cities or towns 
shall direct the temporary closing of the street or way and of intersecting streets or ways, 
upon request of the district, and the streets or ways must remain closed to public traffic 
until the work of the district is completed and the surfaces of the streets or ways are 
restored to a proper condition, as provided in this section. 
Sec. B-7. System extensions. 
1. All water line extensions must be made in accordance with the governing statutes 
and rules of the Public Utilities Commission. 
2. The district has the right to determine whether extensions to its sewer system are 
made, with such discretion to be subject to review by the authority of local and state 
health officials and the Department of Environmental Protection. A sewer extension 
must be in conformity with adopted municipal plans and ordinances regulating land use. 
Sec. B-8. Duty to serve; obligation to connect. 
1. The district's duty to provide water service is governed by the statutes and rules of 
the Public Utilities Commission. 
2. The district, at all times after it commences receiving payments for the sewer 
facilities supplied by it, is bound to permit the owners of all premises abutting upon its 
Hnes of pipes and conduits to connect to the system with all proper sewage, upon 
conformity to the rules and regulations of the district and payments of the prices, 
assessments and rental established by the district. 
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Every building in the areas served by the district intended for human habitation or 
occupancy on premises abutting on a street in which there is a public sewer or such a 
building within 100 feet of a public sewer must have a house drainage system connected 
with the sewer by the owner or agent of the premises in the most direct manner possible. 
If feasible, each house or building must be connected with a separate connection, except 
that buildings that are already served by a satisfactory private sewage disposal system 
that meets and continues to meet the requirements of the plumbing code for the State are 
not required to connect with the public sewer. 
Sec. B-9. Assessment against loti benefited by drain or sewer. When the 
district has constructed and completed a P4blic drain or common sewer, the trustees shall 
determine what lots or parcels of land are Ibenefited by the drain or sewer. The trustees 
shall estimate and assess upon the lots ~d parcels of land and against the owner, or 
person in possession, whether the person to whom the assessment is made is the owner, 
tenant, lessee or agent, and whether the lot lor parcel of land is occupied or not, a sum not 
exceeding the benefit as the trustees determine just and equitable towards defraying the 
expenses of constructing and completing fhe drain or sewer, together with the sewage 
disposal units and appurtenances as may be necessary. 
The trustees shall file with the clerk of the district the location of the drain or sewer 
and sewage disposal unit, with a profile description of the location, a statement of the 
amount assessed upon each lot or parcel of land, a description of each lot or parcel and 
the name of the owner of the lots or parcels of land or person against whom the 
assessment is being made. The clerk of the! district shall record the assessment in a book 
kept for that purpose. Within 10 days after filing the notice, each person assessed must 
be notified of the assessment by having an authentic copy of the assessment, with an 
order of notice signed by the clerk of the district, stating the time and place for a hearing 
upon the subject matter of the assessments, given to each person or left at the person's 
usual place of abode in the district. If the. person has no place of abode in the district, 
then the notice must be given or left at the abode of the person's tenant or lessee if the 
person has one in the district. If the person has no tenant or lessee in the district, the 
person assessed must be notified by a posting of the notice in some conspicuous place in 
the vicinity of the lot or parcel of land asseslied, at least 30 days before the hearing, or the 
notice may be given by publishing the notice once a week for 3 successive weeks in a 
newspaper of general circulation in the City of Augusta, the first publication to be at least 
days before the hearing. A return made upon a copy of the notice by a constable in the 
City of Augusta or the production of the paper containing the notice is conclusive 
evidence that the notice has been given. At ~he hearing the trustees have power to revise, 
increase or diminish any of the assessments, and all revisions, increases or diminutions 
must be in writing and recorded by the clerk. 
Sec. B-IO. Wastewater assessment; right of appeal. A person aggrieved by 
the decision of the trustees as it relates to the assessment for sewer construction has the 
same rights of appeal as provided in the case of the laying out of town ways pursuant to 
the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 23, chapter 304. 
Sec. B-ll. Lien for unpaid wastewater assessments. All assessments made 
under the provisions of section 9 create a lien upon each lot or parcel of land assessed and 
the buildings upon the same, which takes effect when the trustees file with the clerk the 
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completed assessment. Within 10 days after the date of hearing on the assessment, the 
clerk shall make out a list of all assessments, the amount of each and the names of the 
persons against whom the same are assessed and shall certifY the list and deliver it to the 
treasurer of the district. If the assessments are not paid within 3 months from the date of 
filing of the completed assessment, the treasurer may proceed to collect the assessment in 
the following manner: 
1. After the expiration of 3 months and within 18 months after the date the 
assessment is filed with the treasurer, if a person is a resident in the town where assessed, 
the treasurer shall give to the person against whom the assessment is made or leave at the 
person's last and usual place of abode a notice in writing signed by the treasurer stating 
the amount of the assessment, describing the real estate upon which the lien is claimed, 
stating that a lien is claimed on the real estate to secure the payment of the assessment 
and demanding the payment of the assessment within 10 days after the service of the 
notice. The treasurer in one notice may incorporate several delinquent rates that are in 
default at least 3 months and not over 18 months. 
After the expiration of the 10 days and within 10 days after the lO-day expiration, if a 
person is a resident of the district, and in all other cases within one year from the date of 
service of notice, the treasurer shall record in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds a 
certificate signed by the treasurer stating the amount of the assessment, a description of 
the real estate on which the lien is claimed, an allegation that a lien is claimed on the real 
estate to secure the payment of the assessment, that a demand for the payment of the 
assessment has been made in accordance with the provisions of this section and that the 
assessment remains unpaid. 
If a person is not a resident of the district, the notice of lien and demand for payment 
must be given by registered or certified mail or by pUblication in a newspaper of general 
circulation inside the City of Augusta once a week for 2 successive weeks and must 
demand payment within 10 days after the date of mailing of the notice or the date of last 
publication of notice. After the expiration of the 10 days, the treasurer shall record the 
certificate. 
At the time of the recording of the certificate in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds 
as provided in this section, in all cases the treasurer shall file in the office of the district a 
true copy of the certificate. At the time of recording of the certificate, the treasurer shall 
mail a true copy of the certificate by registered or certified mail to each record holder of a 
mortgage on the real estate, addressed to the record holder at the record holder's last and 
usual place of abode. The fee charged by the district to the assessed party for the notice 
and filing is detennined by the trustees and must include at a minimum the amount 
charged to the district for the recording of the certificate in the Kennebec County Registry 
of Deeds. Upon redemption, the district shall prepare and record a discharge of the sewer 
lien upon collecting from the assessed party the charge for recording the discharge. 
The filing of the certificate in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds pursuant to this 
section is deemed to create and creates a mortgage on the real estate to the district, having 
priority over all other mortgages, liens, attachments and encumbrances of any nature, 
except liens, attachments and claims for taxes, and gives the district all the rights usually 
incident to a mortgagee, except that the district has no right of possession of the real 
estate until the right of redemption provided for in this section has expired. If the 
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mortgage, together with interest and costs, is not paid within 18 months after the date of 
filing of the certificate in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds as provided in this 
section, the mortgage is deemed foreclosed and the right of redemption has expired. The 
filing of the certificate in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds is sufficient notice of 
the existence of the mortgage provided for in this section. 
In the event that the 
assessment, interest and costs are paid within the period of redemption provided for in 
this section, the treasurer of the district shall discharge the mortgage in the same manner 
as is provided for discharge of real estate mortgages; or 
2. After the expiration of 3 months after the date the assessment is filed with the 
treasurer, the treasurer may bring a civil action for the collection of the assessment in the 
name of the district against the person against whom the assessment is made and for the 
enforcement of the lien. The civil action may be commenced without the filing of a 
certificate of lien in the Kennebec County Registry of Deeds pursuant to subsection 1. 
The complaint in an action must contain a statement of the assessment, a description of 
the real estate against which the assessment is made and an allegation that a lien is 
claimed on the real estate to secure the payment of the assessment. If service is not made 
upon the defendant or if it appears that other persons have an interest in the real estate, 
the court shall order further notice of the action as the court determines proper and shall 
allow the other persons to become parties to the action. 
If it appears upon trial of the action that the assessment was legally made against the real 
estate, the assessment is unpaid and there is an existing lien on the real estate for the 
payment of the assessment, judgment must be rendered for the assessment, interest and 
costs of suit against the defendants and against the real estate upon which the assessment 
was made and execution issued on the judgement to be enforced by sale of the real estate 
in the manner provided for a sale on execution of real estate attached on original process. 
In making the sale, the officer shall follow the procedure in selling and conveying the real 
estate and shall provide the same rights of redemption as provided in the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 36, section 941. 
Sec. B-12. Additional methods of collection of wastewater assessments. If 
assessments under the provisions of section 9 are not paid and the district does not 
proceed to collect unpaid assessments by a sheriffs sale of the real estate upon which the 
assessments are made under section 11 or does not collect or is in any manner delayed or 
defeated in collecting the assessments by a sheriffs sale of the real estate under section 
11, then the district, in the name of the district, may maintain an action against the party 
assessed for the amount of the assessment, for money paid, laid out and expended, in any 
court competent to try the suit, and in the suit may recover the amount of the assessment 
with 10% interest on the assessments from the date of the assessments and costs. 
Sec. B-13. Assessments paid by other than owner; recovered. When an 
assessment under the provisions of section 9 is paid by a person against whom the 
assessment has been made who is not the owner of the lot or parcel of land, then the 
person paying the assessment has a lien on the lot or parcel of land with the buildings on 
the lot or parcel of land for the amount of the assessment paid by the person and 
incidental charges. The lien may be enforced in the way and manner provided for the 
enforcement of liens in section 11. 
Sec. B-14. Pen"alty for violation. 
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1. The liability and penalties for a person who violates the provisions of this Act 
relating to the district's authority to provide water service or the regulations of the district 
adopted in accordance with the authority granted under this Act relating to water service 
must be in accordance with the governing statutes and rules of the Public Utilities 
Commission. 
2. A person who violates the provisions of this Act or the regulations of the district 
adopted in accordance with the authority granted under this Act relating to the district's 
authority to provide sewer service is liable to pay twice the amount of the damage to the 
district, to be recovered in a proper action. The penalty for violation of a pretreatment 
standard or requirement by an industrial user is governed by the Maine Revised Statutes, 
Title 38, section 1252, subsection 8. 
A person who places, discharges or leaves an offensive or injurious matter or material on 
or in the sewer conduits, sewer catch basins or sewer receptacles of the district contrary to 
its sewer use regulations, or knowingly injures a conduit, pipe, reservoir, flush tank, catch 
basin, manhole, drain, outlet, engine, pump or other property held, owned or used by the 
district for sewer purposes, is guilty of a Class E crime. In addition to sentencing 
alternatives provided under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 17-A, a person is also liable 
to pay twice the amount of the damage to the district, to be recovered in a proper action. 
Sec. B-15. Free access to premises. 
1. The district's rights of access to water customer premises are governed by the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A and rules of the Public Utilities Commission. 
2. The officers or agents of the district have free access to all premises served by its 
sewers, at all reasonable hours to permit the inspection of plumbing and sewerage 
fixtures, to ascertain the amount of sewage discharged and the manner of discharge and to 
enforce the provisions of this Act and any rules and regulations that may be prescribed by 
the district. 
Sec. B-16. Payment of rates required; purpose of revenue generally. 
1. All individuals, firms and corporations, whether private, public or municipal, shall 
pay to the treasurer of the district the rates established by the trustees pursuant to the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A for the water used by the individuals, firms or 
corporations. The water rates must be uniform throughout the territory established in 
section 1. 
2. All individuals, firms and corporations, whether private, public or municipal, shall 
pay to the treasurer of the district the rates and assessments established by the trustees to 
pay for the cost of the wastewater works and for the wastewater service used by the 
individuals, firms or corporations. The wastewater rates must be uniform throughout the 
territory established in section 1. The wastewater rates may include a readiness-to-serve 
charge against owners or persons in possession, or against whom taxes are assessed, of all 
buildings or premises intended for human habitation or occupancy, whether the buildings 
or premises are occupied or not, that abut on a street through which the district has a 
sewerage main or that abut a location through which the district has a sewerage main by 
which service of the buildings or premises is feasible, as long as in either instance the 
property line of the premises is within 100 feet of the sewerage main whether or not the 
premises are actually connected to the sewerage main. 
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The wastewater rates must be established to provide revenue for the following purposes: 
A. To pay the current expenses of operating and maintaining the sewerage, drainage 
and treatment systems of the district; 
B. To provide for the payment of the interest and principal on the indebtedness 
created or assumed by the district; 
C. To provide funds for paying the cost of all necessary repairs, replacements or 
renewals of the sewerage, drainage and treatment systems of the district; and 
D. To payor provide for all amounts that the district may be obligated to payor 
provide by law or contract, including any resolution or contract with or for the benefit 
of the holders of its bonds and notes. 
3. For purposes of establishing water and wastewater rates, all of the district's costs 
of service must be equitably allocated between water and wastewater operations to 
minimize any cross-subsidies between water ratepayers and wastewater ratepayers. The 
district shall maintain records supporting and documenting the methods used to allocate 
all costs between the water and wastewater operations. 
Sec. B-17. Lien to secure payment of rates; procedure. 
1. There is a lien on real estate served by the district to secure the payment of water 
rates established and due under the provisions of section 16 and the lien takes precedence 
over all other claims on the real estate, except claims for taxes and sewer liens. In 
addition to other methods established by law for the collection of the water rates, the lien 
created in this subsection may be enforced in the manner set forth in the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 35-A, section 6111-A. 
2. There is a lien on real estate served by the several sewers and drains of the district 
to secure the payment of wastewater rates established and due under the provisions of 
section 16 and the lien takes precedence over all other claims on the real estate, except 
claims for taxes. In addition to other methods previously established by law for the 
collection of the rates, the lien created in this subsection may be enforced in the manner 
set forth in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 1208. 
Sec. B-18. Authority to borrow money. For accomplishing the purposes of this 
Act and for other expenses that may be necessary for the carrying out of the purposes of 
this Act, the district, through its trustees, without district vote, is authorized to issue its 
notes and bonds in one series or in separate series from time to time and to make 
subsequent renewals of the notes and bonds in whole or in part. 
The notes and bonds are a legal obligation of the district, are a legal investment for 
savings banks in the State and are exempt from all present taxes. The district is declared 
to be a quasi-municipal corporation for the purposes of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
30-A, section 5701 and all the provisions of that section. 
Each bond or note must have inscribed on its face the words "Greater Augusta Utility 
District Bond" or "Greater Augusta Utility District Note," as the case may be, and must 
bear interest at such rates as the trustees determine. 
Bonds or notes may be issued from time to time and each authorized issue constitutes 
a separate loan. 
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The bonds or notes must contain such terms and conditions, bear such a rate or rates 
of interest and be sold in such a manner, at public or private sale, at par, at a discount or 
at a premium, all as the trustees detennine. 
Sec. B-19. Board of Trustees; tenure; duties. 
1. All the affairs of the Greater Augusta Utility District are managed by a Board of 
Trustees comprised of 5 voting members and one nonvoting representative of the City of 
Augusta. The 5 voting members must be appointed by the mayor of the City of Augusta, 
with the approval of a majority of the Augusta City Council. The nonvoting member 
must be the mayor of the City of Augusta or the mayor's designee. 
A member of the Augusta City Council, an employee of the City of Augusta or an 
employee of the Greater Augusta Utility District may not be chosen as a voting member 
of the Board of Trustees during the councilor's term on the city councilor the employee's 
tenn of employment. All trustees must be residents of the City of Augusta. 
Trustees are appointed to 3-year tenns. Terms are to be staggered. If a vacancy occurs 
due to death or other cause, the mayor shall appoint, with the approval of a majority of 
the city council, a new member to fill out the unexpired term. 
The tenn of a trustee continues until the trustee's successor is appointed and qualified. 
2. 
Meetings of the trustees must be held monthly at a time and place to be 
detennined by the trustees. A quorum consists of 3 voting trustees. 
The trustees may engage the services of engineers and laborers, purchase all necessary 
material and supplies and construct the drains and sewers under their own supervision, or 
they may, if they detennine it advantageous, contract with a responsible person, firm or 
corporation for the construction of the drains and sewers, but the district is not released 
from liability by reason of having contracted with a person, firm or corporation as 
provided in this subsection for the construction of any sewer, drain or other structure. 
The trustees shall adopt a corporate seal and all bylaws and regulations necessary to 
operate the district. 
The trustees shall publish an annual report of the district's finances. 
A trustee of the district may not have an interest, either directly or indirectly, in any 
contract or agreement entered into by the district for the construction of any sewer, drain 
or other structure in the area served by the district. The district may enter upon or take 
land or any easement on the land of any officer of the district while the person is an 
officer and award damages to the officer for the land if in the opinion of the trustees the 
entering or taking is necessary for the purposes of the district. 
3. The trustees shall annually elect a chair, a clerk, a treasurer and any other officer 
or agent as the trustees consider necessary. The trustees shall elect an assistant treasurer, 
who must be a trustee or an employee of the district. 
4. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 6410, subsection 
and Title 38, section 1252, subsection 5, the trustees shall establish the level of 
compensation each year, not to exceed the level established for councilors and officers of 
the Augusta City Council. 
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Sec. B-20. Incidental powers, rights and privileges. All incidental powers, 
rights and privileges necessary to the accomplishment of this Act are granted to the 
district. 
Sec. B-21. Monmouth to Augusta trunk sewer; authority, powers of 
districts, inhabitants; property exempt from taxation. The district is authorized 
to own, operate and maintain a sewer line from the Town of Monmouth to the City of 
Augusta through the Town of Manchester, the Town of Winthrop and the Town of 
Monmouth in order to receive domestic, commercial, municipal and industrial wastes and 
sewerage from the Town of Monmouth and areas along the sewer line and treat the 
wastes and sewerage prior to discharge of the effluent into the Kennebec River at the City 
of Augusta. The district's authority to provide wastewater service outside the service area 
limits set forth in section I is limited to the provision of wholesale wastewater service to 
other utilities in those municipalities where another utility or municipality provides 
wastewater service. 
The district is authorized to use its rights, powers and privileges under this Act for the 
purpose of owning, operating and maintaining a sewer line from the Town of Monmouth 
to the City of Augusta, including, but not limited to, the right to acquire and hold real 
estate and personal estate necessary and convenient for the purpose of this section; to take 
and hold by purchase, lease or the exercise of the right of eminent domain or otherwise 
any land or real estate or easement in land or real estate inside or outside the area served 
by the district necessary for forming basins, reservoirs and outlets, for erection of 
buildings for pumping works and sewage treatment, for laying pipes and maintaining the 
buildings and pipes, for laying and maintaining conduits and appurtenances for carrying 
and collecting, discharging and disposing of sewage matter and for other objectives 
necessary, convenient and proper for the purposes of this section; to establish through and 
by its trustees regulations for the use of the sewers and to fix and collect the prices to be 
paid for entering the sewers and the service charges for the use of the sewers; to enter into 
contracts with persons, corporations or municipalities inside or outside the area served by 
the district including the Winthrop Utilities District, the Manchester Sanitary District, the 
Monmouth Sanitary District, the City of Hallowell, the Hallowell Water District and any 
quasi-municipal corporation or district formed or to be formed in order to care for or treat 
sewage or drainage from lateral sewers or otherwise through the district's system; to lay 
down, in and through the streets and highways inside or outside the area served by the 
district and to take up, replace and repair all conduits, pipes and fixtures that may be 
necessary or desirable for the purpose; to carry and lay conduits and pipes under any 
watercourse, lake, public or private way or railroad and to cross any water pipe, gas pipe, 
electric conduit, drain or sewer pursuant to this Act; to make and file assessments and 
liens for the cost of the assessments; to issue notes and bonds through its trustees without 
district vote in one series or in separate series from time to time and to make subsequent 
renewals of the notes and bonds in whole or in part to provide for the financing of the 
notes and bonds; to establish and collect rates and enforce the collection of the rates by 
lien and otherwise; to apply for and receive state and federal loans, grants and other forms 
of aid; and in general to use all of its rights, powers and privileges under this Act along 
the sewer line as though the sewer line were solely within the area set forth in section 1 as 
the service area limits of the district. Wherever located, the property, both real and 
personal, rights and franchises used in connection with the wastewater system are exempt 
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from taxation. 
All incidental powers, rights and privileges necessary to the 
accomplishment of the objectives set forth in this section are granted to the district. 
The Winthrop Utilities District, the Manchester Sanitary District, the Monmouth 
Sanitary District, the City of Hallowell, the Hallowell Water District, any quasi-municipal 
corporation or district, formed or to be formed, and any other persons or corporations are 
authorized to enter into contracts with the district for sharing in the capital cost and 
operation and maintenance cost of the sewer line and any facilities in connection with the 
sewer line, including facilities for secondary treatment of wastes and any lateral sewers or 
other systems that may connect to the sewer line. 
Sec. B-22. P&SL 1903, c. 334, as amended by P&SL 1975, c. 87, §§1 to 5, is 
repealed. 
Sec. B-23. P&SL 1955, c. 139, as amended by P&SL 1991, c. 10, §§1 and 2, is 
repealed. 
Sec. B-24. Existing trustees. The commissioners of the Augusta Sanitary District 
and the trustees of the Augusta Water District holding office on the effective date of this 
Act hold office as trustees of the Greater Augusta Utility District for the terms for which 
they were appointed, and as each term expires one trustee must be selected by the 
appointing authority to serve for a term of 3 years. 
PARTC 
Sec. C-l. Referendum; effective date. This Act takes effect when approved 
only for the purpose of permitting its submission to the legal voters of the City of 
Augusta and the City of Hallowell on November 6, 2007. The election must be called, 
advertised and conducted according to the law relating to municipal elections, except that 
the boards of registration in the City of Augusta and the City of Hallowell are not 
required to prepare for posting or the city clerks to post, a new list of voters, and for the 
purpose of registration of voters, the boards of registration are required to be in session 
the 3 secular days preceding the election, of which the first 2 days must be devoted to 
registration of the voters and the last day to verification of the lists and completion of the 
records of the sessions. A checklist of the names of legal voters must be used at the 
election. The city clerks shall prepare the required ballots. 
1. The subject matter of this Act is reduced to the following 2 questions for the City 
of Augusta: 
Question A. "Do you favor merging the Augusta Water District and the Augusta 
Sanitary District to form the Greater Augusta Utility District?" 
Question B. "Do you favor including the sewer functions of the Hallowell Water 
District in the Greater Augusta Utility District?" 
The voters of the City of Augusta shall indicate by a cross or check mark placed against 
the word "Yes" or "No" their opinion of the same. 
2. The subject matter of this Act is reduced to the following question for the City of 
Hallowell: 
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"Do you favor including the sewer functions of the Hallowell Water District in the 
Greater Augusta Utility District?" 
The voters of the City of Hallowell shall indicate by a cross or check mark placed against 
the word "Yes" or "No" their opinion of the same. 
The results ofthe City of Augusta and the City of Hallowell elections pursuant to this 
Part must be declared by the municipal officers and due certificate of the results filed by 
the city clerks with the Secretary of State. This Act takes effect for alI other purposes as 
provided in sections 2 and 3. 
Sec. C-2. Election results; full consolidation. Part A, providing for the merger 
of the Augusta Water District, the Augusta Sanitary District and the sewer service 
provided by the Hallowell Water District to create the Greater Augusta Utility District, 
takes effect upon: 
1. The acceptance of both of the 2 questions specified in section 1, subsection 1 by a 
majority of the legal voters voting at the City of Augusta election pursuant to section 1 if 
the total number of votes cast for and against the acceptance of each question equals or 
exceeds 20% of the total vote for all candidates for Governor cast in the City of Augusta 
at the next previous gubernatorial election; and 
2. The acceptance of the question specified in section 1, subsection 2 by a majority of 
the legal voters voting at the City of Hallowell election pursuant to section I if the total 
number of votes cast for and against the acceptance of the question equals or exceeds 
20% of the total vote for all candidates for Governor cast in the City of Hallowell at the 
next previous gubernatorial election. 
Sec. C-3. Election results; Augusta consolidation only. Part B, providing for 
the merger of the Augusta Water District and the Augusta Sanitary District to create the 
Greater Augusta Utility District, takes effect upon the acceptance of the question 
specified in section 1, subsection 1, question A by a majority of the legal voters voting at 
the City of Augusta election pursuant to section 1 if the total number of votes cast for and 
against the acceptance of the question equals or exceeds 20% of the total vote for all 
candidates for Governor cast in the City of Augusta at the next previous gubernatorial 
election and if the question specified in section 1, subsection 2 is not accepted by a 
majority of the legal voters voting at the City of Hallowell election pursuant to section 1.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the bill. The amendment creates the Greater Augusta 
Utility District subject to referendum. If approved by the voters of the City of Augusta 
and the voters of the City of Hallowell, it provides for the merger of the Augusta Water 
District, the Augusta Sanitary District and the sewer functions of the Hallowell Water 
District to create the Greater Augusta Utility District. If approved by the voters of the 
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City of Augusta but not the voters of the City of Hallowell, it provides for the merger of 
the Augusta Water District and the Augusta Sanitary District to create the Greater 
Augusta Utility District. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
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Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Approved: 05131/07 MaC!. 
LD 1754 
LR 2547(02) 
An Act To Incorporate the Greater Augusta Utility District 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment "A " 
Committee: Utilities and Energy 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - Other Special Revenue Funds 
The additional costs associated with this legislation can be absorbed by the Public Utilities Commission utilizing 
existing budgeted resources. 
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