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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.

 
§1233.__Municipal system; transfer of assets to district

 
A municipality that, pursuant to Title 30-A, section 5403,
subsection 14 or any other authority, including home rule
authority, has constructed a sewer system that is composed of one
or more subsurface wastewater collection, treatment and disposal
systems shall, after the establishment of a district pursuant to
this section to serve the area where that sewer system is
located, sell, transfer and convey to the district by appropriate
instruments, and the district shall acquire, all properties,
assets, rights and privileges identified by the municipality as
related to that sewer system in consideration of the assumption
by the district of any outstanding debts, obligations and
liabilities identified by the municipality as related to that
sewer system, including, without limitation, any outstanding
notes or bonds identified by the municipality as related to that
sewer system that are due on or after the date of the transfer of
the sewer system.__If any debts, obligations, notes or bonds
identified by the municipality are not assumable, the district is
obligated for their repayment.__The municipality shall identify
to the board in the application submitted pursuant to section
1101 all properties, assets, rights, privileges, debts,
obligations and liabilities related to the sewer system that are
required to be transferred to or assumed by the district under
this section.

 
The municipality and the district by mutual agreement may
arrange for the transfer of any other assets or liabilities that
the municipality and the district determine necessary or
appropriate to allow the district efficiently and effectively to
carry out its purposes under this chapter.

 
§1234.__Powers

 
Except as provided in this section, a community sanitary
district has the powers, privileges and duties and is subject to


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