An Act To Amend the Charter ofthe Limestone Water and Sewer District
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0275
Sponsors: MARTIN, AYOTTE, JACKSON

Legislative Document 
No. 275 
H.P.218 
House of Representatives, January 27,2009 
An Act To Amend the Charter ofthe Limestone Water and Sewer 
District 
Reference to the Committee on Utilities and Energy 8uggestedandordered printed . 
Presented by Representative MARTIN of Eagle Lake. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representative: AYOTTE of Caswell, Senator: JACKSON of Aroostook. 
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Be it enacted by the People ofthe State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. P&SL 1957, c. 59, §8-A is enacted to read: 
Sec.8-A. Wastewater treatment facility board. All the affairs of the Greater 
Limestone Wastewater Treatment Facility are managed by a board of directors composed 
of 5 members. 
Three members must be members of the board of trustees of the 
Limestone Water and Sewer District. One member must be appointed by the trustees of 
the Loring Development Authority of Maine. One member must be a member of the 
Limestone Board of Selectpeople appointed by the selectpeople. 
The 2 appointed 
members serve at the pleasure of their appointing entities and may be removed without 
cause by their respective entities at any time. 
Appointed members serving on the 
wastewater treatment facility board are not eligible to serve as officers of the board of 
trustees of the Limestone Water and Sewer District. The appointed members serve 
without compensation. 
The responsibilities of the wastewater treatment facility board are limited to the 
regulation, management, operation and maintenance of the Greater Limestone 
Wastewater Treatment Facility. 
The wastewater treatment facility board is also 
responsible for rate changes and changes in the terms and conditions of service to the 
Loring Development Authority of Maine. 
Sec. 2. P&SL 1957, c. 59, §12, first sentence, as amended by P&SL 1981, c. 
40, is further amended to read: 
For accomplishing the purposes of this aet Act, sai6 the district, through its trustees, is 
authorized to borrow money temporarily in an amount not to exceed $1,500,000 
$5,000,000, and to issue therefor for the borrowing of money the interest-bearing 
negotiable notes of the district and for the purpose of refunding the indebtedness so 
created, of paying any necessary expenses and liabilities incurred under this aet Act, 
including the expenses incurred in the creation of the district, in reimbursing sai6 the 
town, in acquiring the aforesaid properties, privileges and franchises of the Limestone 
Water and Sewer Company, its successors or assigns, by purchase or otherwise, of 
securing sources of supply, taking water and land, paying damages, laying pipes, 
constructing and maintaining and operating a water, sewerage and drainage system, and 
making extensions, additions and improvements to the same, the sai6 district through its 
trustees may from time to time issue bonds of the district to an amount necessary in the 
judgment of the trustees therefor for the issuance of bonds, maturing at one time or in 
uniform or varying installments with or without call provisions and at or without any 
premmm. 
Sec. 3. Act effective. Section 1 of this Act does not take effect unless the Board of 
Directors of the Limestone Water and Sewer District acquires title to the Greater 
Limestone Wastewater Treatment Facility by July 1,2010. 
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SUMMARY 
This bill establishes a board of directors for the Greater Limestone Wastewater 
Treatment Facility. The board is responsible for the regulation, management, operation 
and maintenance of the Greater Limestone Wastewater Treatment Facility and for rate 
changes and changes in the terms and conditions of service to the Loring Development 
Authority of Maine. The provisions of the bill establishing the board do not take effect 
unless the Limestone Water and Sewer District acquires title to the Greater Limestone 
Wastewater Treatment Facility by July 1, 2010. 
This bill also increases the district's debt limit from $1,500,000 to $5,000,000.