CHAP. 218 -and convey cluding a sufficient quantity to extinguish fires, supply hotels, laundries, livery stables, business places and private dwellings as well as for the sprinkling of lawns and streets; and for the purposes aforesaid to convey any of the waters aforesaid by aqueducts or pipes and service pipes sunk to any depth desirable for said purposes, and to lay said aqueducts or pipes under or over course, street, any water course, stream, brook, street, highway, or any other way in such manner as not unnecessarily to obstruct the same; and to lay down in and through streets and ways of said town of North Haven, and take up, replace, and repair all such aqueducts, pipes, and service pipes as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of a complete system of water works. over or under any water etc., but shall not obstruct same. Town may contract for acquiring system of water works. Section 2. The town of North Haven, by its said municipal officers, may make any necessary contract with any person, company or corporation for acquiring the ownership of any aqueduct company or corporation, owning a system of water works, or any part thereof in said town of North Haven, whereby said. town of North Haven, by its municipal officers, may be entitled to purchase the whole at any one time, or to purchase the same in instalments through a period of nine years. Section 3. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, said town of North Haven, by its municipal officers, shall have power and is hereby authorized to take and hold by purchase or otherwise, any lands or real estate, necessary for laying and maintaining pipes, aqueducts, locks, gates, hydrants, dams, stand pipes, reservoirs, for taking, conducting, conveying. storing, holding, discharging, and distributing, and for roadways to be used as approaches thereto, doing no unnecessary damage. The said town, by its municipal officers, may enter upon said lands or real estate so taken and held to make surveys and locations, and shall file in the registry of deeds in the county in which such lands or property lies, plans of such lands and locations, showing the property taken within said county and within thirty days thereafter shall publish notice of such taking and filing in some newspaper published in said county wherein said land is taken, such publication to be continued three weeks successively, and such filing in the registry of deeds shall be in lieu of any other filing now required by law. Said town of North Haven, by its municipal officers, may permit the use, for said. purposes, of any land so taken by it, by any person, company or corporation, with which it has made such a contract as is described in section two, whereby the said town of North Haven may be entitled to acquire the ownership of any aqueduct or system of water works or any part thereof in said town of North Haven. Section 4. Should the said town of North Haven by its municipal officers and the owner of such land be unable to agree upon the damages to be paid for such taking, location and holding, the land owner or the town of North Haven by its municipal officers, may within six months after the filing of said plans and location, apply to the commissioners of the county wherein said land lies, who shall cause such damages to be assessed in the same manner and under the same conditions, restrictions, limitations and rights of appeal as are by law prescribed in the case of damages for the laying out of railroads, so far as such law is consistent with the provisions of this act. Section 5. The town of North Haven, by its municipal officers, is authorized and empowered to contract with any person or corporation to construct aqueducts, pipes, locks, gates, hydrants, dams, stand pipes and reservoirs and any other structures necessary for a system of water works, upon lands taken as hereinbefore prescribed. And in case any such company or corporation is organized to construct any such aqueduct, it is empowered to place all or any part of its capital stock in the name of a trustee or trustees, and to contract that said trustee, or trustees, shall sell and deliver the same to the said town of North Haven in instalments from year to year, as may be agreed upon. may fix water rates. Section 6. Said municipal officers of said town of North Town officers Haven are authorized to fix the rates for water to be paid monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually by persons or corporations supplied with the same, and they shall determine the conditions and methods of such supply and shall have general charge and control of said water system. Town may lay pipes Notice of Section 7. Said town of North Haven, through its municipal dig up officers, is authorized for the purpose of carrying into effect. the provisions of this act, to dig up and excavate any highway in therein. said town, lay pipes therein, and fill the trenches under the directions of the road commissioner of said town or such person as may be acting in that capacity for the time being. Section 8. Whenever said town of North Haven or said trustee, company or corporation of which either may obtain control, as provided in section two, either directly or through ownership of stock, shall, under section one take water from any of the sources therein named, it shall file in the registry of deeds in the county in which such source of supply is located, a notice of such taking, describing the size, location and depth of the pipe or pipes, through which said water is to be taken from said source or sources. taking of water shall describing location be filed, size of pipes and depth. CHAP. 219 -damages, how determined and assessed. Town may issue bonds for purpose of raising money. The said town of North Haven, or said trustee, company or corporation, shall pay all damages sustained by any person or corporation in property by the taking of any water, water sources, water right, or easement, or by anything done by said town or by said trustee, company or corporation first named in this section under the authority of this act, which shall be determined and assessed in the same manner as provided in section four, for land taken under the provisions of this act. Section 9. For the purpoes of raising money to carry out the provisions of this act, the town of North Haven may issue its bonds with interest coupons, in behalf of said town, signed by -how signed. the municipal officers of said town, and the treasurer of said town, when authorized by a vote of said town, to an amount which, taken in connection with the other indebtedness of the town, will not exceed the amount limited by the state of Maine. And such bonds shall be signed by the municipal officers of the town and the treasurer of said town, but the coupons need be signed by the treasurer only, and shall be designated “The North Haven Water Loan," and the doings of said town of North Haven at their annual meeting held March six, nineteen hundred and eleven, relative to the construction of said water works and the issue of bonds for the purpose of paying for the construction of said water system are hereby confirmed and made valid. --loan, how designated. Rates shall be fixed to cover expenses and interest. Section 10. The rates for the supply of water under this act shall be fixed so that all expenses of repairs, and management shall be paid annually, together with interest and such amounts as the town may determine to be paid annually on the principal expenditures. Approved March 28, 1911. Corporate name, and rights, powers and privileges Chapter 219. An Act to amend the Charter of the City of Waterville. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section 1. The inhabitants of the town of Waterville, in the county of Kennebec, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate by the name of the city of Waterville, and as such shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers, privileges and franchises, and be subject to all the duties and obligations now appertaining to or incumbent upon said town as a municipal corporation, or appertaining to or incumbent upon the inhabitants or selectmen thereof, and may ordain and publish such acts, ordinances, laws and regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, as shall be needful to the good order of said body politic, and impose fines, and penalties for the breach thereof not exceeding twenty dollars for any one offense which may be recovered to the use of said city, by action of debt, or on complaint before the municipal court in said city, (or complaint may be made before said court and a warrant issued thereon when authorized by the city solicitor, and said. court is empowered to enforce payment of said fines and costs of prosecution by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days). CHAP. 219 elections. Section 2. The annual city election of the city of Waterville Annual shall be held on the first Monday of December of each year. Every special city election shall be held on a Monday. year. Section 3. The municipal year shall begin at ten o'clock in Municipal the forenoon on the first Monday of January, and shall continue until ten o'clock in the forenoon on the first Monday of the January next following. TERM OF OFFICE OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL. Section 4. At the annual city election in said city, next following the acceptance of this charter, a mayor shall be elected for a term of three years next following such election, and two councilmen, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of one year, next following such election. At the expiration of the above mentioned terms, the successors of the mayor and the successors of the councilmen shall thereafter be elected for terms of three years. The number of councilmen shall be two, and except as aforesaid, or as otherwise provided in this act, no other officers shall be elected at any city election. The above mentioned officers shall be elected by and from the qualified voters of the city. NAMES ON BALLOTS. Term of office and council. of mayor -number of councilmen. ballots. Section 5. Except as otherwise provided in section seventeen, Names on there shall not be printed on the official ballots to be used at any annual or special city election of said city, the name of any person as a candidate for mayor or councilman unless such person be nominated as such candidate at a preliminary election for nominations to be held as provided in this act. There shall not be printed on the official ballots to be used at a preliminary election for nominations the name of any person as a candidate for nomination at such preliminary election for nominations unless such person shall have filed, within the time limit provided for by section eight, of this act, the statement of candidate and the petition accompanying the statement described in section eight. CHAP. 219 Preliminary and special elections. -when polls shall be opened and closed. Calling and conduct of elections. -voting precincts. -voting places. Qualifications of candidates. PRELIMINARY AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS. Section 6. On the Monday preceding every annual election in which any officer mentioned in section four is to be elected. there shall be held a preliminary election for nominations for the purpose of nominating candidates for such offices as, under the provisions of this act, are to be filled at such annual election. At every preliminary election for nominations and every regular city election, the polls shall be opened at six o'clock in the forenoon and kept open until four o'clock in the afternoon and, except as otherwise provided in this act, every such preliminary election for nominations shall be called by the same officers and held in the same manner as an annual city election, the polling places shall be designated, provided and furnished, official ballots, special ballots, ballot boxes, voting lists, specimen ballots, blank forms, apparatus and supplies shall be provided for every such preliminary election for nominations in the same number, kind and manner and by the same officials as at an annual city election, and the same election officers shall officiate as at an annual city election. Said election officers shall for the first election, after the adoption of this act, be appointed by the municipal officers, and thereafter annually by the municipal council. CALLING AND CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS. Section 7. The provisions of law relating to election officers, voting places for elections, election apparatus and blanks, calling and conduct of elections, manner of voting at elections, counting and recounting of votes at elections, corrupt practices, and penalties, shall apply to such preliminary elections for nominations, except as otherwise provided in this act. The present wards one and two shall constitute the first voting precinct; three, four and five shall constitute the second voting precinct; six and seven shall constitute the third voting precinct. At least sixty days before the first election to be held after this act becomes law the municipal officers shall designate a voting place for each precinct which shall continue until changed by the municipal council. QUALIFICATION OF CANDIDATES. Section 8. Any person who is qualified to vote for a candidate for mayor or councilman, and who is a candidate for nomination for such office may have his name, as such candidate, printed on the official ballots to be used at a preliminary election for nominations provided he shall, at least seven days prior to such preliminary election for nominations, file with the city clerk a statement in writing of his candidacy in the following form: |