Title 30-A

1. Purposes. The purposes of the municipal energy commission may include the following: A. To study and recommend energy policies to the municipal officers, body or board and to the planning board, if any; [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL …

All trees within or upon the limits of any highway are public shade trees.

The municipal officers of municipalities which have not appointed conservation commissioners under subchapter II may annually appoint one or more tree wardens who have the care and control of all public shade trees upon and along the highways and in the parks of the municipality …

Public shade trees may be trimmed, cut down or removed by the owner of the land only with the consent of a tree warden or the conservation commission. Public shade trees may be trimmed, cut down or removed by a tree warden or conservation commissioner only with the consent of the…

Whoever trims, cuts or otherwise damages or destroys a public shade tree commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture of not less than $5 nor more than $25 may be adjudged. The forfeiture shall be paid to the municipality in which the offense is committed and expended by that…

1. Initial cutting by municipality. A municipality may each year set aside a portion of the money raised and appropriated for ways and bridges, to be used to cut and remove all trees, shrubs and useless fruit trees, bushes and weeds, except shade trees, timber trees, cared-for fr…

Any municipality may, by action of its legislative body, direct its municipal officers to take suitable lands for public dumping grounds. When so directed, the municipal officers shall follow the condemnation procedure for town ways, as provided in Title 23, chapter 304. [PL 1987…

1. Prohibited dumping. Notwithstanding Title 17‑A, section 4‑A, whoever personally or through the agency of another leaves or deposits any offal, filth or other noisome substance in any public dumping ground, except in the manner prescribed by the local health officer, is guilty …

Whenever a municipality maintains public dumping grounds, its municipal officers shall have the dumping grounds treated, when needed, with proper rat exterminating agents. These agents must be applied by competent persons properly certified for their use. [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A,…

All drains previously made at a municipality's expense shall be maintained, managed, controlled and entered the same as if made under this chapter and Title 23, section 3251, subject to the rights that private persons have in those drains.

1. Construction of sewers and drains. The municipal officers of a municipality, or a committee duly chosen by the municipality, may construct public drains or sewers, sewer systems or sewage disposal systems at the municipality's expense, along or across any public way in the mun…

After a public drain has been constructed and any person has paid for connecting with it, the municipality shall maintain and keep it in repair to afford sufficient and suitable flow for all drainage entitled to pass through it, but its course may be altered or other sufficient a…

All proceedings of municipal officers under this chapter must be at their legal meetings. A suitable record shall be made of all permits issued under this chapter, describing the persons and lands to which they apply. The municipal officers have the exclusive direction, on behalf…

If required by municipal ordinance, the owner of each lot or parcel of land upon which a building has been constructed which abuts upon a street or public way containing a sewer shall connect that building with the sewer and shall cease using any other method for the disposal of …

The municipal officers may establish a schedule of service charges from time to time upon improved real estate connected with a municipal sewer or sewer system or storm water disposal system for the use of the system. These service charges must include reserve fund contributions.…

If a tenant is billed for municipal sewer or storm water disposal system service provided to property rented by the tenant and nonpayment for the service may result in a lien against the property, the municipality shall provide to the landlord or the landlord's agent, on request …

Whoever willfully or negligently damages or obstructs a public drain or its outlet, or any street or highway culvert leading into it, is liable to the municipality where it is located in a civil action for double the amount of damages caused by that action, in addition to all oth…

Whenever a public drain or sewer is located and about to be constructed across or under the right-of-way of any railroad, the Public Utilities Commission shall determine the place, manner and conditions of the crossing, using current engineering standards and practices, upon peti…

Whoever digs up the ground in a highway or street to lay or repair any drain or common sewer without the written consent of the municipal officers commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture of $100 may be adjudged for each offense.

1. Acceptance by municipality. This section does not apply to any municipality until it is accepted by the municipality's legislative body. 2. Connection before completion of drain. While a public drain or common sewer is under construction and before it is completed and the asse…

1. Connection of private drains; application. Abutters upon the line of a public drain existing in any municipality which has not accepted sections 3421, and 3441 to 3445, and abutters upon the line of a public drain constructed before a municipality accepts those sections, and t…

If any person connects a private drain with a public drain or enters it by a side drain without a permit, the municipal officers may immediately destroy the connection. That person commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture of not more than $200 may be adjudged, to be paid …

1. Arbitration of permit fee. Any person who is dissatisfied with the fee required to connect with a public drain may, within 10 days after notice of that amount, make a written request to the municipal officers to have the amount of the fee determined by arbitration. The municip…

1. Creation of drain or sewer. When a person pays the expenses of laying a common drain or sewer, all persons who join or connect with it shall pay their proportion of that expense. 2. Repairs. All persons benefited by the drain or sewer shall pay the expense of opening and repai…

If a private drain becomes so obstructed or out of repair as to damage any street or highway, and the persons using the drain, after notice by the road commissioners, unreasonably neglect to repair the drain and the damage to the street or highway, the municipality shall repair t…

If any person willfully or negligently violates any condition or regulation prescribed in the permit, the municipal officers may immediately disconnect their drain from the public drain and declare the permit forfeited. That person, the person's heirs and assigns may not connect …

Malfunctioning waste water disposal units, including septic tanks, cesspools, cisterns, dry wells, drainage beds, drains, sewer lines and pipes and the like, have become a menace to the health and general welfare of the citizens of this State and are declared to be a nuisance. [P…

This subchapter does not apply to any municipality until it is accepted by the municipality's legislative body.

1. Sewer district defined. As used in this section, sewer district means a quasi-municipal corporation, as defined in section 2604, subsection 3, established to construct and operate sewer systems to assist in the abatement of the pollution of public streams, lakes and inland and…

Any person who is dissatisfied with the amount assessed under section 3442 may, within 10 days after hearing under section 3442, subsection 5, make a written request to the municipal clerk to have the assessment upon the lot or parcel of land determined by arbitration. [PL 1987, …

Except for service charges established under section 3406 which shall be collected as provided in that section, all assessments and charges made under this chapter shall be certified by the municipal officers and filed with the tax collector for collection. A facsimile of the sig…

When any assessment made under section 3442 is paid by any person against whom the assessment has been made, who is not the owner of the lot or parcel of land, then the person paying the assessment has a lien upon the lot or parcel of land with the buildings on the land for the a…

The municipal officers may reduce the impact fee or connection fee, as those terms are defined in section 5061, for sewer service to newly constructed affordable housing in accordance with chapter 202‑A.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. C, §§8, 10 (AMD).] 1. Distri…

1. Formation. By vote of its legislative body, any municipality may by itself, or in cooperation with one or more other municipalities, form a transit district for the purposes provided in this chapter. A. Municipalities not in the same geographic public transportation region mus…

1. Formation. A municipality may, in accordance with the requirements of this section, by itself or in cooperation with one or more other municipalities, form a transportation corridor district for the purposes of funding public transportation and serving accessibility needs, inc…

1. Application for membership to a district. A municipality that is contiguous to any other municipality authorized to provide transportation services under this chapter or contiguous to any municipality that is a member of a transit district may apply to the transit district for…

The affairs of a district formed under section 3502 or 3502‑A must be managed by a board of directors chosen from the inhabitants of the municipality or municipalities composing the district. [PL 2019, c. 242, §6 (AMD).] 1. Number of directors. Except as provided in subsection 3,…

1. Formation of district. If a single municipality votes to create a transit district, its municipal officers shall appoint 5 directors from the inhabitants of the municipality. These directors have the same terms of office, powers, duties and privileges as set forth in this chap…

1. Officers; bylaws. The directors shall elect from among their members a president, treasurer, clerk and any other officers that they desire and shall adopt bylaws and regulations for the conduct of the district's affairs. 2. Meetings. The directors shall meet at least 4 times a…

No director, officer or employee of the district may be interested directly or indirectly in any contract entered into by or in behalf of a district for work or material, or the purchase of material, or in any property acquired or to be acquired by the district. All contracts mad…

After its organization, the district shall file a certificate with the Secretary of State setting forth the following information: [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. C, §§8, 10 …

For the purpose of providing mass transportation services wholly or partially within the municipalities comprising the district, the directors of a district may: [PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. C, §106 (NEW); PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD); PL 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD); P…

A district may acquire for the public purposes of a district by purchase or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any and all real property of any person, including the real and personal property and franchise of any person operating a local mass transportation service w…

The property, both real and personal, of a district, whether held and operated by itself or leased to a private operator, for the purpose of providing mass transportation as provided in this chapter, is exempt from all registration fees, real, personal, excise, sales and use, and…

1. Securities defined. As used in this section, "securities" means negotiable bonds or notes issued by the district, including temporary notes. 2. Notes and securities authorized. For accomplishing the purposes of this chapter and for paying any indebtedness and any necessary exp…