Sec. A-11. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §13 is repealed.

Sec. A-12. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §13-A is enacted to read:

Sec.* 13-A.__Pratt's rips.__In addition to the authority granted under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, chapter 64, the district is authorized to sell or lease for manufacturing purposes any power on the district's dam at Pratt's rips, so-called, at the district's pumping station not used by the district for supplying water for the district's water works system, as long as the sale or lease is subject to a reservation of sufficient power for the district's present or future needs in supplying water to the district's water system and any extension of the water system.

Sec. A-13. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §14 is repealed.

Sec. A-14. P&SL 1985, c. 107, Pt. B, §§14-A and 14-B are enacted to read:

Sec.* 14-A.__Water rights; eminent domain.__In addition to the authority granted under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, chapter 64, the district is authorized, for the purposes mentioned in this charter, to take and hold sufficient water from Garland Pond, situated in Dover-Foxcroft and the Town of Sebec, in the county of Piscataquis, and may raise the waters of the pond by a dam at the outlet of the pond to such a height as the district may determine expedient; the district may take and hold by purchase or otherwise any land or real estate necessary for erecting dams, and flowage caused by any dams, power, reservoirs or for preserving the purity of the water and watersheds, and for maintaining a way or ways from the public highways to the pond, and for laying and maintaining aqueducts for conducting, discharging, distributing and disposing of water.

Nothing in this section or section 13-A or 14-B exempts the district from otherwise applicable laws or rules, including, but not limited to, laws relating to the erection or removal of dams, the establishment of water levels, the sale of water power or the exercise of eminent domain.

Sec.*__14-B.__Power to take water.__In addition to the authority granted under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, chapter 64, the district is authorized to take, hold, divert, use and distribute water from Salmon Stream Pond situated in the Town of Guilford.