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LD 1391 Title Page An Act to Amend the Charter of the Dover-Foxcroft Water District Page 2 of 2
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §2 is repealed.

 
Sec. 2. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §4, first ¶ is amended to read:

 
*Sec. 4. Power of taxation. The district is authorized to raise money
by taxation for the purposes of operating, repairing, extending
and making capital improvements to its water works system and for
its fire department operations and capital needs, to be levied
and collected in the manner provided herein in this Act.

 
Sec. 3. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §6, first ¶ is amended to read:

 
*Sec. 6. Officers and powers. The officers of the corporation shall
consist of a supervisor, clerk, treasurer, collector, 3
assessors, 4 or more fire wardens and a board of trustees of 3
members, one of whom shall be is designated as chairman chair and
such other officers as may be provided for in the bylaws of the
district.

 
Sec. 4. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §6, 2nd ¶ is repealed.

 
Sec. 5. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §7, last ¶ is amended to read:

 
The district, at any legal meeting thereof of the district,
may make and alter bylaws and ordinances for its government for
the efficient management of its water system and properties and
of its fire department, including the erection and maintenance of
chimneys, regulation of all fires, stoves, pipes and flues in use
for the purpose of heating contained in any building, the keeping
of ashes, and for the regulation of all such other matters as
shall endanger property to destruction by fire or tend to spread
fire rapidly; provided that as long as the same are not repugnant
to the law of the State; and may enforce the same by suitable
penalties equal to the penalties provided in the Maine Revised
Statutes, Title 35, chapter 313, to be recovered by action of
debt in the name and to the use of the district. No justice in
Dover-Foxcroft may be disqualified from trying such actions by
reason of his that justice's being a member of the district.

 
Sec. 6. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §12, sub-§1, 5th ¶ is amended to read:

 
All bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the
district may be issued in one series or in separate series, in


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