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At any time after the expiration of three years from the date of acceptance of this act, a petition signed by not less than ten per cent of the registered voters of the town may be filed with the Selectmen, requesting that the question of revoking the acceptance of this act be submitted to the voters at the following Annual Town Election. The Selectmen shall thereupon direct the Town Clerk to cause the said question to be printed on the official ballot to be used at the next annual town election in the following form: "Shall the acceptance by the Town of Holden of an act
passed by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled ‘An Act to establish the Selectmen-Town Manager form of government in the town of Holden’, be revoked?" If such revocation is favored by a majority of the voters voting thereon, this act shall cease to be operative beginning with the next annual town election, except as hereinafter provided. All general laws relative to town government and town officers shall thereupon apply to the Town of Holden, and any special laws relative to said town, the operation of which has been suspended or superseded by acceptance of this act, shall be revived by such revocation. By-laws in force when such revocation takes effect, so far as they are consistent with special laws relating to said town, shall not be affected thereby, but any other by-laws inconsistent with such general or special laws shall become null and void. If such revocation is not favored by a majority of the voters voting thereon, no
further petition therefor shall be filed under this section oftener than once in every three years thereafter.
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