An Act To Amend the Yarmouth Water District Charter
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 1441
Committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology
Sponsors: WOODBURY, INNES

Legislative Document 
No. 1441 
S.P. 448 
In Senate, April 12, 2011 
An Act To Amend the Yarmouth Water District Charter 
(AFTER DEADLINE) 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
205. 
Reference to the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology suggested and ordered 
printed. 
JOSEPH G. CARLETON, JR. 
Secretary of the Senate 
Presented by Senator WOODBURY of Cumberland. 
Cosponsored by Representative: INNES of Yarmouth. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  P&SL 1923, c. 72, §2, first sentence, as amended by P&SL 1993, c. 32, 
§1, is further amended to read: 
For any of the purposes set forth in this Act, or for the preservation and purity of its 
water, the district is hereby authorized to take and use water from the Royal River, or 
from any spring, pond, brook or other source of water in the Towns Town of Yarmouth 
and the Town of New Gloucester, except that the use of any source of water in the Town 
of New Gloucester by the district will be allowed only after approval by a joint body of 
equal number of representatives from both the Yarmouth Water District Board of 
Trustees and the selectmen municipal officers of the Town of New Gloucester, or from 
any springs, brook, pond or other source of water in the Town of North Yarmouth or the 
Town of Cumberland, or to purchase from any other water district or company; to 
conduct water through the Town of Cumberland and to conduct and distribute water into 
and through the Towns Town of Yarmouth and the Town of North Yarmouth; to survey 
for, locate, lay, erect and maintain suitable dams, reservoirs and machinery, pipes, 
aqueducts and fixtures; to carry its pipes or aqueducts under, in and over the Royal River, 
so called, or under or over any water course or body of water, bridge, street, railroad, 
highway or other way; and the district is further authorized to enter upon and excavate 
any highway or other way, in such manner as to least to disturb that way, and shall leave 
those ways in as safe and passable condition as before such the excavation; to enter, pass 
over and excavate any lands, and to take and hold by purchase or otherwise, any real 
estate, rights of way or of water, and in general to do any acts necessary, convenient or 
proper for carrying out any of the purposes specified in this section. 
Sec. 2.  P&SL 1923, c. 72, §8, as amended by P&SL 1989, c. 111, §3 and affected 
by §13, is further amended by amending the 11th sentence to read: 
Regular meetings of the district shall must be held annually on the third Monday in 
February at a time and place to be determined by the board of trustees, and special 
meetings shall must be called at any time by the trustees or any member of said the board 
of trustees upon a written request of any ten 30 lawful voters of said the district. 
SUMMARY 
This bill amends the Yarmouth Water District's charter to allow the district to 
purchase 2 wells from the Town of Cumberland and to conduct water from the Town of 
Cumberland to the Yarmouth Water District's service territory.  The bill also amends the 
charter to give the board of trustees greater latitude as to when it schedules meetings.