An Act To Amend the Charter of the Hampden Water District
Maine Legislature, Session 127, LD 0216
Committee Amendment CA_A_S9 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "If "to S.P. 85, L.D. 216, Bill, "An Act To Amend 
the Charter of the Hampden Water District" 
Amend the bill in section 1 by striking out all of the 2nd paragraph (page 1, lines 16 
to 37 in L.D.) and inserting the following: 
'The term of office of the trustees begins on the 3rd Thursday of January. In the 
event a vacancy arises in the membership of the board of trustees, the ooexflired term of 
the vaeam: offiee must be filled by the ToWil: Coooeil of the Town of Hamflden trustees 
may call and hold a special election to fill the vacancy in the same manner as elections 
are called and held for expired terms pursuant to this act or the trustees may appoint a 
person eligible to fill the vacancy. When any trustee eeases to be a resident af the 
distriet, the trustee shall ',aeate the offiee of trustee and the ',aeaney must be filled 
flUFSuant to this seetion. The trustees may establish in bylaws particular circumstances 
under which a vacancy is deemed to be created, ~ including, but not limited to, a trustee's 
ceasing to be a resident of the district. All trustees are eligible for reelection, but a person 
holding the office of town councilor or road commissioner in the Town of Hampden is 
not eligible for nomination or election as trustee. The trustees may procure an office and 
incur expenses as may be necessary. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
35-A, section 6410, subsection 7, the compensation of the trustees and the treasurer of the 
board of trustees is determined by the board of trustees. At the close of each fiscal year, 
the trustees shall make a detailed report of their doings, of the receipts and expenditures 
of the water district, of its financial and physical condition and of any other matters and 
things pertaining to the district that will show the inhabitants of the district how the 
trustees are fulfilling the duties and obligations of their trust, such report to be made and 
filed with the Town Council ofthe Town of Hampden.' 
Amend the bill by adding after section 1 the following: 
'Sec. 2. Transition; modification of current terms. The terms of trustees of 
the Hampden Water District serving on the effective date of this Act are modified in 
accordance with this section. Before the 3rd Thursday of January 2016, the trustees shall 
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determine by agreement or, failing to agree, they shall determine by lot new terms of 
office of each trustee as follows: 
1. One trustee's term ends on the 3rd Thursday of January 2017; 
2. Two trustees' terms end on the 3rd Thursday of January 2018; and 
3. Two trustees' terms end on the 3rd Thursday of January 2019.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment provides that current tem1S of the trustees of the Hampden Water 
District are modified to transition from the current 5-year terms to the 3-year terms 
established in the bill. The amendment also removes language from the bill and from the 
district's current charter that defines particular circumstances that create a vacancy in the 
position of trustee; the amendment authorizes the board of trustees to define in its bylaws 
particular circumstances under which a vacancy is deemed to be created, such as when a 
trustee ceases to be a resident of the district. 
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