{"data":{"id":"us-me/35-a-m.r.s.-6408","jurisdiction":"us-me","citation":"35-A M.R.S. §6408","heading":"Standard districts; authority to acquire property; rights of eminent domain","body":"To the extent necessary for purposes of incorporation, a standard district may take and hold any interest in real estate and personal estate.\n1.  Purchase or lease.  A standard district may take and hold an interest in real estate or personal estate by purchase, lease or other lawful means.\n2.  Eminent domain.  For purposes of its incorporation, a standard district may exercise the right of eminent domain as provided in chapters 65 and 67 to acquire any interest in land or water rights:\nA.  For erecting and maintaining dams, plants and works, for flowage, power, pumping and supplying water through its mains;\nB.  For reservoirs and for preserving and protecting the purity of the water and related watershed;\nC.  For laying and maintaining aqueducts and other structures;\nD.  For taking, distributing, discharging and disposing of water; and\nE.  For rights-of-way or roadways to its sources of supply, dams, power stations, reservoirs, mains, aqueducts, structures and lands.\nExcept as otherwise provided by law, a standard district may not take by right of eminent domain any property or facilities of any other public utility used or acquired for future use in the performance of a public duty.","path":["TITLE 35-A: PUBLIC UTILITIES","PART 6: WATER","CHAPTER 64: WATER DISTRICTS AND STANDARD DISTRICTS"],"source_url":"https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/35-A/title35-Asec6408.html","current_through":"October 1, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:12:40Z","sha256":"7304f53d0ab15ade7778ae9eff14eff43fcec78498d68fa29c486870ef94c700","source_id":"us-me","stale":false,"prev":"us-me/35-a-m.r.s.-6407","next":"us-me/35-a-m.r.s.-6409"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}