All persons, firms and corporations, whether public, private or municipal, shall pay to the treasurer of any water district the rates established pursuant to chapter 61 for the water service used with respect to their real estate.

There is a lien on real estate served by a water district to secure the payment of unpaid rates. The method for obtaining, enforcing and receiving payment on the lien must be in the same manner and has the same effect and creates the same rights as provided in Title 38, section 1208, pertaining to the collection of unpaid rates by a sanitary district, except that the sanitary district lien created under Title 38, section 1208 continues with priority over the district's water utility lien created under this section and the notice of impending automatic foreclosure must be substantially in the following form:

STATE OF MAINE

......... WATER DISTRICT

NOTICE OF IMPENDING AUTOMATIC FORECLOSURE

WATER LIEN

Title 35-A M.R.S.A., section 6414-A

IMPORTANT: DO NOT DISREGARD THIS NOTICE

YOU WILL LOSE YOUR PROPERTY UNLESS

YOU PAY THE CHARGES, COSTS AND INTEREST FOR WHICH

A LIEN ON YOUR PROPERTY HAS BEEN CREATED BY THE

............ WATER DISTRICT.

TO: ............

You are the party named on the Water Lien Certificate filed on ............, 20.. and recorded in Book ....., Page .... in the ....... County Registry of Deeds. This ......... Water District filing created a lien mortgage on the real estate described in the Water Lien Certificate.

On ........., 20.., the water lien mortgage will be foreclosed and your right to redeem the mortgage and recover your property by paying the district's charges and interest that are owed will expire.

IF THE LIEN FORECLOSES,

THE ......... WATER DISTRICT WILL OWN

YOUR PROPERTY, SUBJECT ONLY TO

SANITARY DISTRICT AND MUNICIPAL TAX LIENS.

If you can not pay the outstanding charges, costs and