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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
A community sanitary district is formed in the same manner as a sanitary district under chapter 11, except that the board may not approve an application pursuant to section 1101, subsection 3 unless the board finds that:
1. Facilitate compact growth. Creation of the district will facilitate cluster developments or other compact growth patterns;
2. Adequate and efficient. The district will provide for the creation of an adequate and efficient means of collecting, conveying, pumping, treating and disposing of domestic sewage within the proposed district; and
3. Feasibility and public interest. Creation and maintenance of a wastewater collection, treatment and disposal system by the district will be administratively feasible and promote the public health, safety and welfare.
The boundaries of a community sanitary district may be expanded in accordance with section 1162.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Maine Revised Statutes Title 38. Waters and Navigation § 1232. Formation; expansion - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/me/title-38-waters-and-navigation/me-rev-st-tit-38-sect-1232/
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