When a petition, signed by at least 300 registered voters residing within such sanitary district is filed with the State Board of Elections before the November general election in an even-numbered year, and within the time provided in the general election law, but other than a year in which a regular election for trustees of the district is held, requesting that the proposition that that sanitary district be dissolved and be replaced by a sanitary district organized under the Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974, the Board shall certify the proposition to the proper election officials who shall submit the proposition to the voters of the district at that general election in accordance with the general election law. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
Shall the.... Sanitary District be dissolved and be replaced by a sanitary district organized under the Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974?
70 ILCS 2205/29.1