6.__Election.__A school administrative unit may elect to raise its assessment limit upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the voters of the unit voting by referendum, which may be held at any regular or special election.__Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the referendum may be called only upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the governing body of the school administrative unit and must be governed according to state law for municipalities under Title 30-A or according to any specific law or charter applicable to that unit.__The warrant for the referendum must set forth the question in the following form:__ "Do you favor raising the levy limit of [name of school administrative unit] for the purpose of [insert purpose]?"

7.__Exceeding base-year relationship to essential programs and services school funding model; referendum ratification required.__ Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year budget, the legislative body of a school administrative unit must approve or otherwise ratify by a referendum process and in a separate article any school budget that appropriates a combination of state and local resources that exceeds the total budget identified as reasonably necessary for that school administrative unit according to this subchapter, as divided by its base-year factor.__For the purposes of this subsection, any school administrative unit's base-year factor is calculated with the numerator being the total budget identified as reasonably necessary for that school administrative unit according to this chapter for the 2005-2006 school year and the denominator being the actual amount of state and local resources appropriated for the school administrative unit by its legislative body for that same fiscal year, except that the base- year factor may not exceed 1.0.__The referendum procedures governing voting on the school budget adoption or ratification must be in accordance with sections 1305, 1305-B, 1701-B or, for municipal school systems, Title 30-A, section 2528, and the article presented to the voters must be in the following form: "Do you favor adopting a school budget that exceeds the school budget identified as reasonably necessary according to the essential programs and services school funding model?"

8.__Treatment of surplus.__Any assessments collected by a school administrative unit in any fiscal year in excess of its assessment limit, as determined by a final audited accounting,