Sec. 6. Referendum; emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved only for the purposes of permitting its submission to the legal voters within the district at an election called for that purpose or at a town meeting. The election or the meeting must be held in June 2005.

1. If the referendum is held at an election, the election must be called, advertised and conducted according to the law relating to municipal elections, except that the registrar of voters is not required to prepare or the clerk to post a new list of voters.

The registrar of voters must be in session the 3 secular days preceding the election, of which the first 2 days must be devoted to registration of voters and the last day to verification of the list and completion of the records of the session by the registrar. The subject matter of this Act is reduced to the following question:

"Do you favor expanding the territory, increasing the number of trustees and expanding the powers of the Stonington Sanitary District?"

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

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

2. If the referendum is held at a town meeting, the procedures of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, section 2354 apply.

This Act takes effect for all purposes immediately upon its acceptance by a majority of the legal voters in the district if voting is held at an election or upon acceptance at a town meeting if voting is held at a town meeting. Failure to achieve the necessary approval by a majority of voters at any such