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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. P&SL 1957, c. 143, §1, as amended P&SL 1993, c. 17, §1, is
further amended to read:

 
*Sec. 1. Territorial limits; corporate name and purpose. The inhabitants and
territory within the town of Mars Hill and the inhabitants and
territory within a certain tract or area, containing 800 acres,
more or less, of the town of Blaine, bounded and described as
follows: the block or area of land bounded northerly by the town
line between the town of Blaine and the town of Mars Hill;
easterly by the center line of the Prestile Stream; southerly by
the center line of the Pierce Road and an extension westerly to
the Bubar Road to a point 2,000 feet westerly of U. S. Route 1,
as measured along the Bubar Road; and westerly by a line 2,000
feet westerly of and parallel to U. S. Route 1, in the county of
Aroostook, are constituted a body politic and corporate under the
name of the "Mars Hill Utility District" for the purpose of
supplying the district and the inhabitants of the district with
pure water for domestic, commercial, sanitary and municipal
purposes, including the extinguishment of fires, and of supplying
the district and the inhabitants of the district with suitable
and adequate sewerage and sewage treatment and disposal
facilities, as hereinafter provided.

 
Sec. 2. Referendum; effective date. This Act takes effect when approved
only for the purpose of permitting its submission to the legal
voters within the Mars Hill Utility District and the Town of
Blaine at an election called for that purpose and held by
November 2, 1999. The election 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 election. The subject
matter of this Act is reduced to the following question:

 
"Do you favor expanding the Mars Hill Utility District to
include the entire Town of Blaine?"

 
The voters shall indicate by a cross or check mark placed
against the words "Yes" or "No" their opinion of the same.

 
The results must be declared by the municipal officers of the
Town of Mars Hill and the Town of Blaine and due certificate of
the results filed by the clerk with the Secretary of State.

 
This Act takes effect for all purposes immediately upon its
approval by a majority of the legal voters voting at the


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