An Act To Create the Lincolnville Sewer District
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1601
Committee: Utilities and Energy
Sponsors: WESTON, THIBODEAU

Legislative Document 
No. 1601 
S.P.607 
In Senate, December 18, 2009 
An Act To Create the Lincolnville Sewer District 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
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Received by the Secretary of the Senate on December 18,2009. Referred to the Committee 
on Utilities and Energy pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed. 
Presented by Senator WESTON of Waldo. 
Cosponsored by Representative THIBODEAU of Winterport. 
Printed on recycled paper 
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JOY 1. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. Territorial limits; corporate name; purpose. The territOiY of the 
Town of Lincolnville described as follows: Beginning at a point on the shore of the 
Atlantic Ocean at the ferry terminal 44
16' 49.4826" latitude and -69
0' 21.4128" 
longitude; thence in a southwesterly direction 44
16' 40.7856" latitude and -69
0' 
36.9390" longitude to Route 1 at Dickenson; thence in a northwesterly direction 44
17' 
9.1032" latitude and _69
0' 58.3740" longitude to Route 173; thence in a northeasterly 
direction 44
17' 18.1284" latitude and -69
0' 30.3336" longitude to Route 1 at Windsor 
Chair; thence in a southeasterly direction 44
17' 12.8904" latitude and -69
0' 18.4328" 
longitude to the shore of the Atlantic Ocean; thence southerly along the shore to the point 
of beginning; and its inhabitants constitute a body politic and corporate under the name of 
Lincolnville Sewer District, referred to in this Act as "the district," for the purpose of 
supplying the town and its inhabitants and others within the territory of the district with 
sewer services. 
Sec. 2. Powers as sewer district. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this 
Act, the district, for the purpose of supplying the Town of Lincolnville and its 
inhabitants and others within the tt ritory of the district with sewer services, has all the 
powers, rights, privileges and authority and is subject to all the requirements and 
restrictions of a sanitary district formed under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, 
chapter 11, except that sections 1062, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106 and 1162 do 
not apply to the district and any notice of impending automatic foreclosure issued by the 
district pursuant to section 1208 must bear the name "Lincolnvi lie Sewer District" in all 
appropriate locations. 
Sec. 3. Powers and authority as water utility. Except as otherwise expressly 
provided in this Act, the district, for the purposes of performing the functions of a water 
utility, has all the powers, rights, privileges and authority and is subject to all the 
requirements and restrictions of a standard water district under the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 35-A, chapter 64. 
Sec. 4. Additional powers. The district has the authority to provide water and 
wastewater service to the customers of the district and to residents in the Town of 
Lincolnville outside the territory described in section 1. 
Sec. 5. Number oftrustees. The board of trustees of the district is composed of3 
trustees. Trustees must be residents and voters of the Town of Lincolnville. 
Sec. 6. First board. The first board is appointed by the municipal officers of the 
Town of Lincolnville in accordance with this Act. 
The terms of the first board are 
governed by the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 1105. 
Sec. 7. Terms of trustees. After the appointment of the first board of trustees of 
the district, trustees are elected to 3-year terms. 
Sec. 8. Eminent domain. The district has no eminent domain authority outside 
the district. 
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Sec. 9. Town responsibility. Except for the initial appointment of the board of 
trustees and the initial referendum, the Town of Lincolnville is not responsible for any 
acts of the district. 
Sec. 10. Referendum; effective date. This Act takes effect when approved only 
for the purpose of permitting its submission to the legal voters within the territory 
described in section 1 of this Act at a town meeting called for that purpose and held by 
July I, 2012. The meeting must be called by the municipal officers of the Town of 
Lincolnville and be held at the regular voting place. 
The meeting must be called, 
advertised and conducted according to the law relating to municipal elections, except that 
the registrar of voters is not required to prepare or the clerk to post a new list of voters. 
For the purpose of registration of voters, the registrar of voters must be in session the 
secular day preceding the meeting. The subject matter of this Act is reduced to the 
following question: 
"Do you favor creating the Lincolnville Sewer District?" 
The results must be declared by the municipal officers of the Town of Lincolnville 
and due certificate of the results filed by the clerk with the Secretary of State. 
This Act takes effect for all other purposes immediately upon its acceptance by a 
majority of the legal voters voting at the town meeting. Failure to achieve the necessary 
approval by a majority of voters at a town meeting does not prohibit subsequent referenda 
consistent with this section, as long as the town meetings are held prior to July 1, 2012. 
SUMMARY 
This bill creates the Lincolnville Sewer District.