An Act To Clarify the Intergovernmental Relationship between the Town of Boothbay Harbor and Bayville Village Corporation
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 1867
Committee: State and Local Government
Sponsors: DOW

Legislative Document 
No. 1867 
S.P.680 
April 24, 2007 
An Act To Clarify the Intergovernmental Relationship between the 
Town of Boothbay Harbor and Bayville Village Corporation 
Reference to the Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Senator DOW of Lincoln. 
P"",ed on recycled pspcr 
JOY J. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. P&SL 1911, c. 227, §2 is amended to read: 
Sec. 2. Authorized to raise money. Said corporation is hereby authorized and 
vested with the power at any legal meeting called for the purpose to raise money for tfle 
following purposes: To oreate and maintain a fire department with all the neoessal)' 
equipment, applianoes and apparatus for the preYention and extinguishment of fires; to 
build, repair and maintain roads, streets and VlayS, side'walks, sewers and other sanitary 
works, inoluding the oolleotion and removal of offal and garbage; to provide for the 
sohooling of soholars within the oorporate limits as may be required by the lavis of the 
whioh m~r hereafter be reserved for and dedioated to publio uses to be eRjo~'ed in 
oommon by all the owners of lots of said B~'Yilie and to that end to build roads and 
walks upon and through said publio lands and to plant and oare for trees in the roads and 
streets and upon said publio lands; to build, repair and maintain publio wharves and 
landings; to establish and maintain polioe and Right watoh; to prooure water for fire, 
domestio and other purposes aRd to produoe or prooure light for publio use and for the use 
of the inhabitaRts of said village oorporation, and for suoh purposes to oontraot with the 
tOWR of Boothbay Harbor only to furnish suoh water, and with an)' individual, fiffR or 
oorporation to furnish suoh light for either or both of the purposes named; and to establish 
reasonable rates to be )'laid by the iRhabitants of said Ba~a/ille using said light for 
domestio )'lurposes, if )'lroduoed by said oorporatioR any purpose for which a municipal 
corporation may raise and appropriate money pursuant to the laws of the State and the 
Constitution of Maine. 
Sec. 2. P&SL 1911, c. 227, §3 is repealed and the following enacted in its place: 
Sec. 3. Bayville Village Corporation considered residents. The residents of 
Bayyille Village Corporation are considered residents of the Town of Boothbay Harbor in 
all respects and are entitled to benefit from the same services delivered in the same 
manner as any other residents of the town. 
Sec. 3. P&SL 1911, c. 227, §5 is repealed. 
Sec. 4. P&SL 1911, c. 227, §10 is repealed. 
SUMMARY 
This bill amends Private and Special Law 1911, chapter 227, which created the 
Bayville Village Corporation, by repealing the provision that required 60% of property 
taxes raised by the Town of Boothbay Harbor on property located in Bayville Village 
Corporation to be annually paid over to the corporation for ,use in providing municipal-
type services to the residents within the territory of the Bayville Village Corporation. 
This bill clarifies that the residents of Bayville V illage Corporation are considered 
residents of the Town of Boothbay Harbor in all respects and that they are entitled to 
receive the same municipal services delivered in the same manner as any other residents 
of the town. 
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