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Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A. Public Utilities § 6408. Standard districts; authority to acquire property; rights of eminent domain

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

To the extent necessary for purposes of incorporation, a standard district may take and hold any interest in real estate and personal estate.

1. Purchase or lease. A standard district may take and hold an interest in real estate or personal estate by purchase, lease or other lawful means.

2. Eminent domain. For purposes of its incorporation, a standard district may exercise the right of eminent domain as provided in chapters 65  1 and 67  2 to acquire any interest in land or water rights:

A. For erecting and maintaining dams, plants and works, for flowage, power, pumping and supplying water through its mains;

B. For reservoirs and for preserving and protecting the purity of the water and related watershed;

C. For laying and maintaining aqueducts and other structures;

D. For taking, distributing, discharging and disposing of water; and

E. For rights-of-way or roadways to its sources of supply, dams, power stations, reservoirs, mains, aqueducts, structures and lands.

Except as otherwise provided by law, a standard district may not take by right of eminent domain any property or facilities of any other public utility used or acquired for future use in the performance of a public duty.

1 35-A M.R.S.A. § 6501 et seq.
2 35-A M.R.S.A. § 6701 et seq.
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