LD 982
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the connection from the trustees. Before a permit is issued, the
clerk or the clerk's designee for the district shall record the
permit in the district's records.

 
Every building in the district intended for human habitation
or occupancy or with facilities for discharge or disposal of
sewage or commercial or industrial waste accessible to a sewer of
the district must, in the most direct manner possible, connect to
the district sewer within 90 days after receiving from the
district a request to connect or within such further time as the
trustees of the district may grant. Whenever feasible, each
building must have a separate connection to the district's sewer.
A building is considered accessible to a sewer of the district if
the building is at any point within 200 feet of a district sewer
or if any private sewer or drain directly or indirectly connected
to the building or carrying wastewater or commercial or
industrial waste from the building comes within 200 feet of a
district sewer. This section does not require the owner of a
building to acquire any real property or easement for the sole
purpose of making the connection.

 
Existing buildings that are already served by a private sewer
system are not required to connect with any sewer or drain of the
district as long as the private sewer or drainage system
functions in a satisfactory and sanitary manner and does not
violate any law or applicable ordinance or any applicable
requirements of the Maine State Plumbing Code, as determined by
the municipal plumbing inspector, the plumbing inspector's
alternate or, in the event that both are trustees or employees of
the district, the Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau
of Health, Division of Health Engineering.

 
Sec. 11. Contracts authorized. The district is authorized to contract
with persons, corporations, districts, the Town of Kennebunk and
other municipalities, both inside and outside the boundaries of
the district, and with the State Government and Federal
Government or any agency of either, to provide for disposal of
sewage and commercial and industrial wastewater through the
district's system and through the system owned by any such
person, corporation, district or other municipality. Every other
district and municipality of the State may contract with the
district for the collection, distribution, treatment and disposal
of sewage and commercial and industrial wastewater, and for those
purposes any such municipality may raise money as for other
municipal charges.

 
Sec. 12. Condition for carrying out work. When the district enters, digs
up or excavates a public way or other land for the purpose of
laying its sewers, drains or pipes or


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