65. Any number of the property-owners, tenants and ratepayers of a township or parish, divided into two or more school municipalities professing a religion different from that of the majority of the said township or parish, may dissent and maintain one or more dissentient schools in the said township or parish, by giving notice in writing to the chairman or to the secretary of the school commissioners of their respective municipalities, as prescribed by sections 55 and following.
Within 30 days following the service of the notice of dissent, the dissentients shall elect their trustees as prescribed by the Act respecting school elections (chapter E-2.3). The trustees elected shall remain in office until the date fixed for the election of school commissioners.
The trustees shall maintain under their immediate control, or subsidize, a school of their own religious belief situated in the said township or parish.
R. S. 1964, c. 235, s. 81; 1989, c. 36, s. 233.