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Bylaws of Taylor Pond Association

Taylor Pond Association was organized as a corporation under Title 13, Chapter 81, of the revised statutes, in the City of Lewiston, Maine on June 19, 1974.

The purposes of the corporation are:

  1. To perform all acts appropriate to a non-profit, scientific, literary and educational corporation dedicated to the promotion and development of environmental quality standards essential for satisfactory life styles and conditions in the natural community.
  2. To preserve the aesthetic, recreational, and commercial values of freshwater, lakeshore properties through the maintenance and improvement of such environmental factors as watershed ecology, water quality, lake water levels, shoreline woodland management, agricultural soils practices, recreational and residential building standards and related influences, such as water and boating safety.
  3. To conduct scientific research related to lake environmental conditions, publish the results and conclusions derived therefrom and formulate management and preservation policies based thereon.
  4. To pursue corporate policies and purposes where fitting and feasible in State, County and local governments, administrative, judicial and legislative branches, and in the court of public opinion.
  5. To acquire, hold, own, lease, manage, use, control, mortgage, sell, exchange, and otherwise dispose of real and personal property of any kind or character;
  6. To do all and everything necessary, suitable and proper for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing purposes or the attainment of any of the objects, or the furtherance of any of the objects hereinbefore set forth, either alone, or in association with other organizations, and to do every other act or acts, thing or thing incidental or appurtenant to or growing out of or connected with aforesaid purposes or objects or any part or parts thereof.

The members of the corporation shall be those persons who are interested in the objectives of the corporation and who pay the dues and assessments as established from time to time by the Board of Trustees.

In the event of a dissolution of this corporation, the assets thereof, remaining after the payment of all of its debts, shall be distributed to the Maine Congress of Lakes Association or to such other non-profit organization devoted to improvement of waters or the ecology as the Board of Trustees may designate.

The Trustees shall not be less than seven nor more than thirty in number being set originally at eight.

Current Officers:

Dana Little, President; Michael Dixon, Treasurer and Susan Trask, Secretary