Sec. 1. P&SL 1951, c. 53, §3 is amended to read:

*Sec. 3. Territorial limits. The territorial limits within which said district may sell, distribute and furnish electricity at retail for light, heat and power to individuals, partnerships, firms and corporations shall be as set forth in section 3 of the private and special laws of 1903, except that are the entire territory of the Town of Kennebunk, and, notwithstanding any provision of section 19 or of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A and without the need for any other authorization, the district may extend its poles, lines and facilities and provide service throughout the Town of Kennebunk; and said district may, as authorized by section 4 of said act, purchase or lease the rights, privileges, properties and franchises of any corporation furnishing electricity within the territory of said town; and such corporation may sell, transfer, convey or lease its rights, privileges, properties and franchises to the district; and except that the territorial limits of the Kennebunk Light and Power District shall include so much of the towns of Lyman, Wells and Arundel, formerly known as North Kennebunkport, as are now served by the Kennebunk Light Department, and Power District and may include areas contiguous to those areas now served by said Kennebunk Light Department and Power District in the towns of Kennebunk, Lyman, Wells and Arundel, formerly known as North Kennebunkport, in which at the time no other public utility is furnishing electric service, if and when the Kennebunk Light and Power District shall have received the consent of the public utilities commission in accordance with the provisions of sections 3 and 4 of chapter 46 of the revised statutes of 1944 and all acts amendatory thereof or additional thereto.

Sec. 2. P&SL 1951, c. 53, §3-A is enacted to read:

*Sec. 3-A.__Means of financing.__If Kennebunk Light and Power District is required, as the result of a negotiated agreement or a final order and decision of a tribunal of competent jurisdiction, to compensate a corporation furnishing electricity within the territory of the Town of Kennebunk by reason of the district having extended its poles, lines, facilities and service as authorized by section 3, the district may fund this compensation by a special rate surcharge applicable to and payable by those retail customers located within the area into which the district has extended its poles, lines, facilities and service who requested the extension of such service by the district.