§1151-A. Enforcement power A sanitary district may seek in a civil action injunctive relief from an industrial user that violates any pretreatment standard or requirement administered by the district. The district may seek a civil penalty of up to $1,000 a day for each violation by an industrial user of a pretreatment standard or requirement. […]
§1151. Powers Each sanitary district formed under this chapter shall have the power, within the district, within the territory of any adjoining municipality, and within any adjoining unorganized territory, to lay pipes, drains, sewers and conduits, and to take up, repair and maintain the same or to contract for the same to be done, in, […]
§1152-A. Procedure in exercise of right of eminent domain The right of eminent domain granted in section 1152 may only be exercised after complying with the following procedures. [PL 1981, c. 466, §5 (NEW).] 1. Notice to owner. The district shall provide notice to the owner as follows. A. The owner or owners […]
§1152. Right of eminent domain Each sanitary district formed under this chapter is authorized and empowered to acquire and hold real and personal property necessary or convenient for its purposes, and is granted the right of eminent domain, and for such purposes is authorized to take and hold, either by exercising its right of eminent […]
§1153. Condemnation proceedings Each sanitary district formed under this chapter, in exercising from time to time the right of eminent domain conferred upon it by section 1152, shall file in the office of the county commissioners of the county in which the property to be taken is located and cause to be recorded in the […]
§1154. Appeal If a person sustaining damages by any taking by a sanitary district under section 1153 does not agree with the district upon the sum to be paid therefor, either party, upon petition to the county commissioners of the county in which the property is located, may have the damages assessed by them; the […]
§1155. Crossing other public utilities If any sewer line of any sanitary district formed under this chapter crosses the property or line of any other public utility, unless consent is given by such other public utility as to place, manner and conditions of the crossing within 30 days after such consent is requested by such […]
§1156. Entry of private sewer A person may enter the person’s private sewer into any sewer of a sanitary district formed under this chapter while the same is under construction and before completion of such sewer at the point of entry, on obtaining a permit in writing from the trustees of the district; but after […]
§1157. Contracts for disposal of sewage Any sanitary district formed under this chapter is authorized to contract with persons, corporations, districts and other municipalities, both inside and outside the boundaries of the district, and with the State of Maine and the United States Government or any agency of either, to provide for disposal of sewage […]
§1158. Conditions for carrying out work When any sanitary district formed under this chapter shall enter, dig up or excavate any public way or other land for the purpose of laying its sewers, drains or pipes, constructing manholes or catch basins or their appurtenances, or maintaining the same, or for any other purpose, the work […]
§1159. Inspection of sewers The officers or agents of each sanitary district formed under this chapter shall have free access to all premises served by its sewers, at all reasonable hours, for inspection of plumbing and sewage fixtures, to ascertain the quality and quantity of sewage discharged and the manner of discharge, and to enforce […]
§1160. Connection of private sewers Every building in a sanitary district formed under this chapter intended for human habitation or occupancy or with facilities for discharge or disposal of wastewater or commercial or industrial waste that is accessible to a sewer or drain of such district must have a sanitary sewer or drainage system that […]
§1161. Injury to property of districts Any person who shall place, discharge or leave any offensive or injurious matter or material on or in the conduits, catch basins or receptacles of any sanitary district formed under this chapter contrary to its regulations, or shall knowingly injure any conduit, pipe, reservoir, flush tank, catch basin, manhole, […]
§1162. Expansion of sanitary district boundaries A sanitary district may expand the boundaries of the sanitary district in the same manner as is provided for the formation of the sanitary district in section 1101. [PL 1981, c. 466, §8 (NEW).] SECTION HISTORY PL 1981, c. 466, §8 (NEW).
§1163-A. Coordination with municipal planning To facilitate coordination of municipal planning and sewer extension planning: [PL 1993, c. 721, Pt. B, §4 (NEW); PL 1993, c. 721, Pt. H, §1 (AFF).] 1. Sanitary districts. The trustees of a sanitary district shall cooperate with municipal officials in the development of municipal growth management and other […]
§1163. Sewer extensions 1. Assurance. A sanitary district may not construct any sewer extension unless it acquires from the municipal officers or the designee of the municipal officers of any municipality through which the sewer extension will pass written assurance that: A. Any development, lot or unit intended to be served by the sewer […]
§1164. Investments A sanitary district may invest its funds, including sinking funds, reserve funds and trust funds in accordance with this section. This section is in addition to, and not in limitation of, any power of a sanitary district to invest its funds. [PL 2017, c. 151, §6 (AMD).] 1. Deposit or investment of […]
