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465 <br />CLASSIFICATION; CHARTERS 410.30 <br />ity, and duties in any such city shall be distributed into and among departments and <br />may provide that the council may determine the powers and duties to be performed <br />by and assign them to the appropriate department and determine who shall be the head <br />of each department and prescribe the powers and duties of all officers and employees <br />thereof, and may assign particular officers or employees to perform duties in two or <br />more departments, and make such other rules and regulations as may be necessary or <br />proper for the efficient and economical conduct of the business of the city. <br />History: (1292) 1909 c 170 s 3; 1959 c 305 s 5 <br />410.19 POWERS OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL. <br />The charter commission may incorporate in such charter provisions defining the <br />powers and duties of the mayor and each member of the council, and may provide that <br />each member of the council shall perform such administrative duties as may be desig- <br />nated in such charter. <br />History: (1293) 1909 c 170 s 4; 1959 c 305 s 5 <br />410.20 RECALL AND REMOVAL OF OFFICERS; ORDINANCES. <br />Such commission may also provide for the recall of any elective municipal officer <br />and for removal of the officer by vote of the electors of such city, and may also provide <br />for submitting ordinances to the council by petition of the electors of such city and for <br />the repeal of ordinances in like manner; and may also provide that no ordinance passed <br />by the council, except an emergency ordinance, shall take effect within a certain time <br />after its passage, and that if, during such time, a petition be made by a certain percent- <br />age of the electors of the city protesting against the passage of such ordinance until the <br />same be voted on at an election held for such purpose, and then such ordinance to take <br />effect or not as determined by such vote. <br />History: (1294) 1909 c 170 s 5; 1959 c 305 s 5; 1986 c 444 <br />410.21 APPLICATION OF GENERAL ELECTION LAWS. <br />The provisions of any charter of any such city adopted pursuant to this chapter <br />shall be valid and shall control as to nominations, primary elections, and elections for <br />municipal offices, notwithstanding that such charter provisions may be inconsistent <br />with any general law relating thereto, and such general laws shall apply only in so far <br />as consistent with such charter. <br />History: (1295) 1909 c 170 s 6 <br />410.22 [Repealed, 1973 c 503 s 6] <br />410.23 [Repealed, 1959 c 305 s 6] <br />410.24 NEW OR REVISED CHARTER. <br />Any city having a home rule charter may submit and adopt a new or revised charter <br />in the manner provided by law for the original adoption of such home rule charter. <br />History: (1298) 1909 c 236 s 2; 1961 c 608 s 8 <br />410.25 [Repealed, 1959 c 305 s 6] <br />410.26 [Repealed, 1961 c 608 s 10] <br />410.27 [Repealed, 1973 c 503 s 6] <br />410.30 ABANDONMENT OF HOME RULE CHARTERS BY CITIES; ASSUMP- <br />TION OF STATUTORY CITY STATUS. <br />Any city of any class having a home rule charter may abandon such charter and <br />become a statutory city. A proposal to abandon the charter shall be presented, adopted, <br />and become effective in the same manner as a charter amendment, and all statutory <br />provisions relating to home rule charter amendments shall apply to a proposal to aban- <br />