| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. Authorization for Sly Brook to secede and deorganize. Sly Brook, now a | | part of Eagle Lake, Aroostook County, having provided the | | Legislature with the information required by the Maine Revised | | Statutes, Title 30-A, chapter 113, subchapter II, is authorized | | to secede from Eagle Lake and to deorganize. |
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| | | Sec. 2. Unexpended school funds. The treasurer of the Town of Eagle | | Lake or any other person who has custody of the funds of the town | | shall pay to the Treasurer of State a portion of all of the Town | | of Eagle Lake's unexpended school funds proportional to the | | number of students attending schools who reside in Sly Brook | | compared to the number who reside in the rest of Eagle Lake that, | | together with the credits due the town for school purposes, are | | to be used by the State Tax Assessor to settle any school | | obligations contracted by the town on behalf of the residents of | | Sly Brook before deorganization. Any unexpended school funds | | remaining with the Treasurer of State after all the obligations | | have been met must be returned to the Town of Eagle Lake. |
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| | | Sec. 3. Withdrawal from Maine School Administrative District No. 27. Sly Brook | | is not part of Maine School Administrative District No. 27. |
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| | | Sec. 4. Provision of education services. This section entitles all | | kindergarten to grade 12 pupils in Sly Brook to attend schools in | | Eagle Lake. Pupils must be provided transportation at state | | expense to those schools. |
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| | | Sec. 5. Assessment of taxes. The State Tax Assessor shall assess the | | real and personal property taxes in Sly Brook as of April 1, 1999 | | as provided in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, chapter 115. |
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| | | Sec. 6. Referendum; certificate to Secretary of State. Notwithstanding the | | Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, section 7209, the municipal | | officers of the Town of Eagle Lake shall submit this Act to the | | legal voters residing in Sly Brook by ballot at a special | | election held as soon as practicable after the effective date of | | this Act. This election must be called, advertised and conducted | | according to Title 30-A, sections 2528 and 2532. The town clerk | | shall prepare the ballots on which the clerk shall reduce the | | subject matter of this Act to the following question: |
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| | | "Do you favor the deorganization of Sly Brook?" |
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