Montana § 20-9-423 - Form, Contents, And Circularization Of Petition Proposing School District Bond Election

§ 20-9-423. Form, Contents, And Circularization Of Petition Proposing School District Bond Election

Form, contents, and circularization of petition proposing school district bond election. Any petition for the calling of an election on the proposition of issuing school district bonds must: (1) specify whether the bonds will be general obligation bonds, oil and natural gas revenue bonds, or impact aid revenue bonds and, if oil and natural gas revenue bonds, whether a tax deficiency is pledged to the repayment of the bonds; (2) plainly state each purpose of the proposed bond issue and the estimated amount of the bonds that would be issued for each purpose; (3) be signed by not less than 20% of the school district electors qualified to vote under the provisions of 20-20-301 in order to constitute a valid petition; (4) be a single petition or it may be composed of more than one petition, all being identical in form, and after being circulated and signed, they must be fastened together to form a single petition when submitted to the county registrar; (5) be circulated by any one or more qualified electors of the school district; and (6) contain an affidavit of each registered elector circulating a petition attached to the portion of the petition circulated. The affidavit must attest to the authenticity of the signatures and that the signers knew the contents of the petition at the time of signing it.