Whereas, the Winterport Water District urgently needs to increase its borrowing capacity to meet the needs of the district; and

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,

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

PART A

*Sec. A-1. P&SL 1969, c. 94, §14, first ¶, as amended by P&SL 1983, c. 31, §1, is further amended to read:

Sec. 14. Authority to borrow money. For accomplishing the purposes of this Act, the water district, through its trustees, without vote of the inhabitants, is authorized to borrow money temporarily and to issue therefor the negotiable notes of the district, for the purpose of refunding the indebtedness so created, for paying any necessary expenses and liabilities incurred under the provisions of this Act, including the expenses incurred in the creation of a district, in acquiring the properties and franchises of the Winterport Water Company by purchase or otherwise, of assuming and paying all mortgages, liens and encumbrances thereon as provided in sections 10 and 11, of securing sources of supply, taking water and land, paying damages, laying pipes, constructing, maintaining and operating a water plant and making renewals, extensions, additions and improvements to the same, and protecting the watershed, to an amount or amounts necessary in the judgment of the trustees therefor, provided the total indebtedness shall may not exceed the sum of $800,000 $1,200,000 at any one time outstanding.

PART B

Sec. B-1. P&SL 1969, c. 94, §14, as amended by P&SL 1983, c. 31, §1, is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs to read:

Notwithstanding the limitations on total indebtedness established in this section, the trustees may propose a new debt