Section 3. Any municipality desirous of replacing its volunteer fire company with a paid fire company shall file a petition with the county board of elections of the county for a referendum on the question of replacing the volunteer fire company with a paid fire company. The county board of elections shall cause a question to be placed on the ballots, or on the voting machine labels, and submitted at the municipal primary occurring at least sixty (60) days thereafter. The proceedings shall be in the manner and subject to the provisions of the election laws of this Commonwealth relating thereto.
The question shall be in the following form:
Do you favor the replacing of the volunteer fire company by a paid fire company in the ............................... of .........................?