CHAP. 231 Shall remove obstructions occasioned by laying pipes. -may cross but shall not obstruct sewers, etc. May contract for supplying water. May acquire property of other corporations engaged in supplying water. Capital stock. May issue bonds secured by mortgage of its property. May hold sonal estate. Section 6. Said corporation, at its own expense, without unnecessary delay, shall remove any and all obstructions in any street or way made in excavating and laying its pipes and shall cause earth disturbed to be properly replaced. It shall not be allowed to obstruct or impair the use of any public or private sewer, drain or pipe, but may cross, or when necessary, change the direction of any such sewer, drain or pipe in such a manner as not to obstruct or impair the use thereof, and shall be responsible to the owner or other persons for any injury caused thereby. Section 7. Said corporation is hereby authorized to make contracts with said town and with other corporations and persons for the purpose of supplying water as contemplated by this act, and said town by its selectmen and other corporations are hereby authorized to enter into contracts with said company for water and for such exemptions from public burden as said town and said company may agree upon, which when made shall be legal and binding. Section 8. Said corporation is hereby authorized to acquire and hold by purchase the property, rights, locations, privileges and franchises of any person or corporation engaged in furnishing water in said town and upon such purchase and transfer said corporation shall have, hold, possess, exercise and enjoy all such property, rights, privileges and franchises as it may acquire as aforesaid. Section 9. The capital stock of this corporation shall be ten thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars each. Section 10. Said corporation may issue its bonds upon such rates and time as it may deem expedient and in such amount as may be required for the object of this incorporation and secure the same by mortgage upon the franchises and property of said company. Section II. Said corporation for its said purposes, may hold real and per real and personal property necessary and convenient therefor. Section 12. Any corporation doing business in said town is be purchased hereby authorized to purchase the stock, bonds or other securities of this corporation. Bonds may by other corporations. Penalty for injury to works of company. Section 13. If any person shall wantonly or maliciously injure any of the structures, reservoirs, pipes, hydrants or other property, or water supply, whether frozen or not, of the said company, he shall, on condition thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, and shall be liable to pay triple TAKING OF BLACK BASS-MILL WASTE IN BASKAHEGAN STREAM. damages to said corporation to be recovered by an action before any court of competent jurisdiction. 541 CHAP. 232 ing, how Section 14. The first meeting of said corporation may be First meetcalled by a written notice thereof, signed by any corporator called. named therein and served upon each corporator by a copy of the same in hand or left at the last place of abode seven days, at least, before the date of the said meeting. Approved March 28, 1911. Chapter 232. An Act to regulate the taking of Black Bass in Pennesseewassee Lake and in the Bog, so-called, in the Town of Norway, in the County of Oxford. bass in Penlake regulat Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section I. It shall be unlawful for any person in any one Taking black day to take, catch, or kill more than ten black bass in Pennes- nesseewassee seewassee lake or in the Bog, so-called, in the town of Norway, ed. in the county of Oxford. It shall also be unlawful for any person to have in possession any black bass taken in violation. of this section. Section 2. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall Penalty. be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, for each offense. diction. Section 3. In all prosecutions arising under this act munici- Court jurispal and police courts and trial justices within their respective counties shall have, upon complaint, original and concurrent jurisdiction with the supreme judicial and superior courts, and all fines, forfeitures and penalties recovered by any person for any violation of this act shall be paid forthwith by the person receiving the same to the state treasurer. Approved March 28, 1911. Chapter 233. An Act to amend an act approved March sixteen, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled, "An Act to prevent the throwing of refuse or mill waste into the Baskahegan Stream." Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section 1, o act ap Section one of an act approved March sixteen, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled "An Act to prevent the throwing of proved March refuse or mill waste into the Baskahegan Stream" is hereby amended by inserting after the word "waste" in the sixth line amenued. CHAP. 234 Throwing mill waste, etc., gan stream, or depositing same on banks, prohibited. of the engrossed bill the words or place or deposit such refuse or waste, slabs, edgings, sawdust, chips, bark or other mill waste,' so that said section as amended shall read as follows: 'Section 1. No person shall cast or throw into the Baskainto Baskahe- hegan stream, in the town of Danforth in the county of Washington, or otherwise deposit therein, or allow the same to be done by any person in his employ, refuse or waste of any kind or description, or slabs, edgings, sawdust, chips, bark or other mill waste, or place or deposit such refuse or waste, slabs, edgings, sawdust, chips, bark or other mill waste along or upon the banks of said Baskahegan stream in such a manner that the same shall fall or be washed into said stream; provided, however, this act shall not apply to properly constructed sewers or drains entering said stream.' -proviso. Approved March 28, 1911. Charter extended. Chapter 234. An Act to extend the charter and rights of the Penobscot Bay Railroad Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: That the charter, rights, privileges and franchises of the Penobscot Bay Railroad Company, a corporation organized under chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes, and the time for performing by said corporation the various acts provided for in said chapter, shall not lapse on account of anything in said chapter contained, and the same is hereby extended for a period of two years from the time when this act shall take effect. Approved March 28, 1911. Section 1, amended. Chapter 235. An Act to amend Chapter six hundred and twenty-five of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, relating to a Police Commission in the City of Biddeford. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Section I. Section one of chapter six hundred and twentychapter 625, five of the private and special laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three is hereby amended by striking out all of said section and enacting in place thereof the following: Board of Po 'Section 1. At any regular election which may be held in city of Bidde- the city of Biddeford not less than forty days nor more than lice for the ford, election of. ninety days after this act shall take effect, and, in case of no regular election within that time, at a special election to be CHAP. 235 tion and elec tion. -tenure. called within that time for the purpose herein provided, there shall be elected by plurality vote three citizens of said Biddeford who shall constitute a board of police of said city of Biddeford in place of the present board of police, and who shall be sworn before entering upon the duties of their office; all nominations shall be made and elections held under the nominalaws which govern the nomination and election of mayor in said city of Biddeford. Said members of said board shall serve from the time of their election and qualification for terms. which shall terminate one, two and three years, respectively, as shall be designated at the time of their election, from the third Monday of March next succeeding such election; thereafter, their successors shall be elected for the term of three years each at the annual election next preceding the expiration of the term. Vacancies shall be temporarily filled by the mu- vacancies, nicipal officers of said city; members so chosen shall hold office until the third Monday of March following their election and at the next annual municipal election occurring after such vacancy exists, some citizen shall be elected to serve during the remainder of the term. The board shall annually elect one of their number chairman. The board shall annually appoint one of their number clerk who shall be sworn and shall keep a record of all proceedings, issue all notices and attest all such papers and orders as the board directs.' Section 2. Section four of said chapter six hundred and twenty-five is hereby amended by striking out the words, "appointed by the governor," in the second line thereof, so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: how filled. chairman. clerk. Section 4, amended. chapter 625, be provided with suitable 'Section 4. The salaries of the members of said board shall Salaries. be voted annually by the municipal officers of said city and paid quarterly from the treasury thereof, but the salary of any member of said board shall not be diminished during the term of his appointment. Said board of police shall be provided board shall with such rooms as shall be convenient and suitable for the performance of its duties by said city and at its expense. The rooms. said city shall provide all suitable accommodations for the police of said city as said board shall require. All rooms in all buildings and all property used by said police, shall be under the control of said board of police. All expenses for the maintenance of said rooms, the pay of the police and all incidental expenses incurred in the administration of said police, shall be paid by said city upon the requisition of said board. But no such expenses shall be paid by said city until the bills therefor be audited. shall have been audited by the city auditor, approved by a majority of said board of police and allowed by the city coun -bills shall CHAP. 235 -compensation of police. Fees, how taxed. -proviso. Section 6, chapter 625, amended. Annual report. Inconsistent acts repealed. cil's committee on accounts. When thus audited, approved and allowed, the mayor of said city shall draw his warrant for the payment of such expenses. The compensation of the police in said city shall not be diminished below the amount paid said police for and during the year eighteen hundred ninety-two, without the consent of said board of police.' Section 3. The fees of the chief of police, captain of police, and all other police officers of said city in criminal cases prosecuted in the municipal court of the city of Biddeford, including their fees as witnesses, shall be taxed and allowed as in behalf of the sheriffs of the county of York, and seventy-five per cent. of the criminal costs and fees in said municipal court, exclusive of the fees of witnesses other than police officers, shall be paid annually by the treasurer of said county to the city of Biddeford, provided, however, that when said percentage exceeds the annual salary or compensation of the chief of police, and captain of police of said city, the excess amount shall not be paid to said city, but shall be covered into the treasury of said county of York. Police officers may retain for their own use all fees received by them in civil cases. Neither the chief of police, captain of police, nor any other police officer of said city shall receive from any respondent in any criminal case any money, fine or costs, but in all such cases such fines and costs shall be paid to the judge issuing the precept against such respondent, but fees taxed and allowed to the officers for attendance as witnesses in any criminal case before the appellate court, or before any court held in some town other than the one in which such officers reside, shall be paid to them from the county treasury. The expenses of any such officer necessarily and reasonably incurred and actually disbursed in the services of any criminal precept shall be allowed and paid to him by the treasurer of said county upon his filing an itemized account thereof, under oath, accompanied by proper vouchers thereof. Section 4. Section six of said chapter six hundred and twenty-five is hereby amended by striking out all of said section and enacting in place thereof the following: 'Section 6. Said board of police shall make a report of its doings annually to the city council at the close of the fiscal year.' Section 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved March 29, 1911. |