An Act to Update the Charter of the Lewiston-Auburn Water Pollution Control Authority
Maine Legislature, Session 131, LD 0640
Committee Amendment CA_A_H71 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "H" to H.P. 417, L.D. 640, "An Act to Update the 
Charter of the Lewiston-Auburn Water Pollution Control Authority" 
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 4 and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 4. P&SL 1967, c. 92, §12 is amended to read: 
Sec. 12. 1" ... nnual assessment Assessment of ee-s-ts expenses. The board of the 
authority shall submit annually to the City of Lewiston and to the A.ubum Sewerage District 
an assessment of determine the proportionate share of eaeh, of the costs and expenses of 
the authority for its ne~ct fiscal year expense of operation, maintenance and repair to be 
allocated to the City of Lewiston and the Auburn Sewerage District on the basis of the 
average inflow of sewage and other waterborne wastes metered at the sewage treatment 
facilities of the respective sewer systems and shall submit an assessment to the City ·of 
Lewiston and to the Auburn Sewerage District for each entity's proportionate share of the 
expenses. Such assessments shall be submitted to each party by the authority is time for 
inclusion in their respective budgets for their ensuing fiscal years. The assessments shall 
be itemiwd in at least the following 3 categories: 
1. Proportionate share of payments of principal and interest 1.vhich vAll become due on 
indebtedness incun-ed to finance initial capital construction and related costs. 
2. Proportionate share of payments of principal and interest vt1hieh 1.vill become due on 
indebtodaess iacurred to fiaaaee coastruetioa of improvemeats aad additions to the plant 
and facilities of the authority subsoqueat to completion of tho sewage treatment plant. 
3. Proportionate shares of estimated e)43enses of operation, maintonaneo and repair for 
the ensuing fiseal year. 
The City of Lev1iston and the Auburn Sewerage District shall include the amouat of 
their respective assessments in their budgets for their ensuing fiscal year and shall make 
provision through assossmeat ofta)(OS or othern1ise to obtain suffieieat revenues to pay tho 
same. Such assessments shall be duo and payable to the authority on the first day of July 
ne)(t follmving the receipt of the assessments. In the event of default in the payment of any 
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such assessment, the authority shall be entitled to exercise the remedies provided by the 
Maine Revised Statutes of 1964, Title 30, section 5053, Title 30-A, section 5701 and any 
amendments thereto, in collecting the same.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment retains language in the Lewiston-Auburn Water Pollution Control 
Authority charter providing that the board of the authority must assess the City of Lewiston 
and the Auburn Sewerage District for each entity's proportionate share of the expenses. It 
also retains language regarding remedies available to the authority in the event of a default 
and updates the statutory reference. 
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