Sec. 6. Emergency clause; referendum; effective date. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved only for the purpose of permitting its submission to the legal voters of the Town of St. Agatha at a special town meeting called and held for the purpose not later than December 31, 2000. The meeting must be called, advertised and conducted according to the law relating to municipal elections, except that the registrar of voters of the Town of St. Agatha is not required to prepare or the clerk to post a new list of voters. For the purposes of registration of voters, the registrar of voters in the Town of St. Agatha must be in session the secular day next preceding the election. The subject matter of this Act must be reduced to the following question:

"Do you favor the dissolution of the St. Agatha Sanitary District and the transfer of the district's assets to the Town of St. Agatha?"

The voters shall indicate by a cross or check mark placed against the word "Yes" or "No" their opinion of the same.

The results must be declared by the municipal officers of the Town of St. Agatha and due certificate of the results filed by the town clerk with the Secretary of State.

This Act takes effect for all the purposes immediately upon acceptance by a majority of the legal voters voting at the meeting only if the total number of votes cast for and against the acceptance of this Act at the meeting equal or exceed 15% of the total vote for all candidates for Governor cast in the Town of St. Agatha at the next preceding gubernatorial election, but failure of approval by the necessary percentage of voters at any meeting does not prohibit a subsequent meeting or meetings to be held for the purpose on or before December 31, 2001.

SUMMARY

This bill allows the St. Agatha Sanitary District to be dissolved and the Town of St. Agatha to take over the district's duties.