38 M.R.S. § 653
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38 §653. --injury to existing mill or canal
Official statutory text
No such dam shall be erected or canal constructed to the injury of any mill or canal lawfully existing on the same stream; nor to the injury of any mill site, on which a mill or milldam has been lawfully erected and used, unless the right to maintain a mill thereon has been lost or defeated.
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