Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4137 – Powers of municipalities and cooperatives
Current as of: 2023 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
By resolution of its governing body, a municipality or cooperative may: [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
1. Director. Appoint a director to the board in accordance with section 4131;
[PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4137
- Agency: means the Maine Municipal and Rural Electrification Cooperative Agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Cooperative: means any corporation organized as of January 1, 1981, under chapter 37 or former Title 35, chapters 221 to 227 on a cooperative plan under the laws of the State and supplying or authorized to supply electricity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
- Municipality: means any municipal, plantation or quasi-municipal electric, or electric and utility, corporation, or municipal electric, or electric and utility, system within the State which, as of January 1, 1981, was authorized to and engaged in the manufacture, generation, transmission, distribution, purchase or sale of electricity to the general public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
2. Contracts. Contract with the agency for the generation, manufacture, purchase, sale, exchange, distribution or transmission of electricity and other services on such terms and for such period of time as the resolution may provide;
[PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
3. Appropriation. Appropriate or provide revenues and other money derived by them from their electric departments or systems or, in the case of those municipalities having combined electric, water, sewer and other utility systems, the revenues derived from such combined systems under any contract with the agency; and
[PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
4. Other contracts. Make and execute all contracts, agreements and other instruments, and perform all acts necessary and convenient or desirable to carry out the purposes of this chapter or the powers expressly granted or necessarily implied in this chapter.
[PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1987, c. 141, §A6 (NEW). PL 1991, c. 855, §§1,2 (AFF).