| | Emergency preamble. Whereas, Acts of the Legislature do not become | effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as | emergencies; and |
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| | Whereas, it is immediately important to secure the voting rights | of persons residing in certain sanitary districts; and |
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| | Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create | an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and | require the following legislation as immediately necessary for | the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, | therefore, |
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §1104, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1981, c. 466, §3, is | amended to read: |
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| | 1. Authorization. All the affairs of a sanitary district | shall be are managed by an elected board of trustees which shall | consist consists of not less than 3 trustees, or not less than 5 | trustees in sanitary districts involving more than one | municipality or one or more municipalities and residents of an | unorganized territory. The exact number of trustees shall be is | determined in accordance with section 1101. A sanitary district | may alter the number of trustees by submitting the proposed | alteration to the voters in the same manner as provided in | section 1101, subsection 7. No municipality nor or unorganized | territory within any sanitary district may have less than one | trustee. A quorum of the trustees may conduct the affairs of the | district even if there is a vacancy on the board of trustees. |
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| In the case of a sanitary district whose territory does not | extend beyond the boundaries of a single municipality and whose | territory encompasses less than the entire area of the | municipality, each trustee must be a resident of the district and | any trustee who ceases to qualify for the office of trustee as a | result of the application of this subsection shall vacate the | office of trustee and the vacancy must be filled as provided in | section 1105. |
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| | Sec. 2. 38 MRSA §1105, as amended by PL 1989, c. 890, Pt. A, §40 | and Pt. B, §214, is further amended by adding after the first | paragraph a new paragraph to read: |
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| | In the case of a sanitary district whose territory does not | extend beyond the boundaries of a single municipality and whose | territory encompasses less than the entire area of the | municipality, when the term of office of a trustee expires, the | trustee's successor must be elected at large by a plurality vote | of the voters within the territory of the district. |
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