20-15-203. Call of community college district organization election -- proposition statement. (1) A petition for the organization of a community college district shall 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 such 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. Such election shall be held on the next succeeding 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 shall be held at the regular school election in the following school fiscal year.
     (3) At such election the proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
          PROPOSITION

     Shall there be organized within the area comprising the School Districts of .... (elementary districts shall 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 prayed in the petition filed with the Board of Regents at Helena, Montana, on the .... day of ...., 19...?
     []      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.