20-15-203. Call of community college district organization election -- proposition statement.

     20-15-203. Call of community college district organization election -- proposition statement. (1) A petition for the organization of a community college district must be presented to the regents. The regents shall examine the petition to determine if the petition satisfies the petitioning and community college district organizational requirements.
     (2) If the regents determine that the petition satisfies the requirements, the regents shall order the elementary districts encompassed by the proposed community college district to conduct an election on the community college district organization proposition. The election must be held on the next regular school election day, except that an election required by a petition received by the regents less than 60 days before the regular school election day must be held at the regular school election in the following school fiscal year.
     (3) At the election the proposition must be in substantially the following form:

PROPOSITION

Shall there be organized within the area comprising the School Districts of .... (elementary districts must be listed by county), State of Montana, a community college district for the offering of 13th- and 14th-year courses, to be known as the Community College District of ...., Montana, under the provisions of the laws authorizing community college districts in Montana, as requested in the petition filed with the Board of Regents at Helena, Montana, on the .... day of ...., 20...?

[] FOR organization.

[] AGAINST organization.

History: En. 75-8106 by Sec. 453, Ch. 5, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 406, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 75-8106; amd. Sec. 56, Ch. 51, L. 1999.

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