1987-TOWN MEETING RECORDS - GREEN

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(e) May enter upon any lands for the purpose of water supply exploration, making surveys, test wells or pits and borings, or any of them, and may take or otherwise acquire the right to occupy temporarily any lands necessary for the construction of any work or for any other purpose authorized by this act; (f) May charge a one-time systems development charge to those applicants seeking to connect into.the water supply system, which said funds shall be kept by the District Treasurer in a separate account to be appropriated by a District meeting and applied, as needed, for the cost of acquisition and/or development of new well fields, storage and distribution systems, and the purchase of all related materials, equipment, labor, work and all other items associated therewith which will contribute to the betterment of the waterworks system; (g) May from time to time sell such of the property of the District as shall, in the opinion of its Board of Water Commissioners hereinafter provided for, be no longer useful in the conduct of the affairs of the District; (h) May employ personnel and may engage architectural, engineering, accounting, management, legal, financial and environmental consulting and other professional services; (i) May adopt rules and regulations governing the management of the waterworks and the use and consumption of water, the same to be not inconsistent with this act; (j) May establish specific construction standards and specifications for the water distribution supply system; and (k) May do all things necessary, covenient or desirable for carrying out the purposes of this act or the powers expressly granted or necessarily implied by this act. SECTION 3. Any person sustaining damages on his property by any taking under this act or any other thing done under authority thereof may recover such damages from the District under said chapter seventy-nine or said chapter eighty A; but the right to damages for the taking of any water, water right or water source, or for any injury thereto, shall not vest until water is actually withdrawn or diverted under authority of this act. SECTION 4. The District, for the purpose of paying other necessary expenses and liabilities incurred under this act, other than expenses of maintenance and operation, may from time to time borrow such additional sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, Twenty Million Dollars and may issue bonds or notes thereof which shall bear on their face the words Mashpee Water District Loan Act of 1987 and such other distinguishing designation as may be determined by said Board of Water Commissioners,and each authorized issue shall constitute a separate loan and such loans shall be payable in not more than forty years from their dates, notwithstanding any other provision of law. The District may borrow from time to time such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this act in anticipation of revenue. Indebtedness incurred under this act shall, except as otherwise provided herein, be subject to the provisions of said chapter forty-four pertaining to such districts.