The clerk of the board of water commissioners shall at least seven days before the holding of such election obtain, from the person having them in charge, the registry list of the preceding general election for the municipality or municipalities, or election districts, comprised within such water district, and no person shall be permitted to vote at such water district election unless his name appears on such registry list, except that any person who shall have become of age since the preceding general election, and shall be otherwise possessed of all the qualifications which would entitle such person to vote in any general election, shall, upon application to the clerk of the board of water commissioners at least two days prior to the holding of such water district election be entitled to vote in said water district election.

Should any person so mentioned in this section make application as aforesaid the clerk of the board of water commissioners shall compile separately a register of such applicants and the list so compiled shall have the same effect for the purposes of such election as the registry list of the preceding general election and a person whose name appears thereon shall be entitled to vote at such water district election as if his name had appeared on the registry list of the preceding general election.

L.1951, c. 280, p. 960, s. 17, eff. June 25, 1951.