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Mnnesota Statutes 2005, 410.12 Page 2 of 4 <br /> (Signature of Circulator) <br /> Subscribed and sworn to before me <br /> this . . . . . . . day of . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br /> Notary Public (or other officer) <br /> authorized to administer oaths <br /> The foregoing affidavit shall be strictly construed and any <br /> affiant convicted of swearing falsely as regards any particular <br /> thereof shall be punishable in accordance with existing law. <br /> Subd. 3. May be assembled as one petition. All <br /> petition papers for a proposed amendment shall be assembled and <br /> filed with the charter commission as one instrument. Within ten <br /> days after such petition is transmitted to the city council, the <br /> city clerk shall determine whether each paper of the petition is <br /> properly attested and whether the petition is signed by a <br /> sufficient number of voters. The city clerk shall declare any <br /> petition paper entirely invalid which is not attested by the <br /> circulator thereof as required in this section. Upon completing <br /> an examination of the petition, the city clerk shall certify the <br /> result of the examination to the council. If the city clerk <br /> shall certify that the petition is insufficient the city clerk <br /> shall set forth in a certificate the particulars in which it is <br /> defective and shall at once notify the committee of the <br /> petitioners of the findings. A petition may be amended at any <br /> time within ten days after the making of a certificate of <br /> insufficiency by the city clerk, by filing a supplementary <br /> petition upon additional papers signed and filed as provided in <br /> case of an original petition. The city clerk shall within five <br /> days after such amendment is filed, make examination of the <br /> amended petition, and if the certificate shall show the petition <br /> still to be insufficient, the city clerk shall file it in the <br /> city clerk's office and notify the committee of the petitioners <br /> of the findings and no further action shall be had on such <br /> insufficient petition. The finding of the insufficiency of a <br /> petition shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for <br /> the same purpose. <br /> Subd. 4. Election. Amendments shall be submitted to <br /> the qualified voters at a general or special election and <br /> published as in the case of the original charter. The form of <br /> the ballot shall be fixed by the governing body. The statement <br /> of the question on the ballot shall be sufficient to identify <br /> the amendment clearly and to distinguish the question from every <br /> other question on the ballot at the same time. If 51 percent of <br /> the votes cast on any amendment are in favor of its adoption, <br /> copies of the amendment and certificates shall be filed, as in <br /> the case of the original charter and the amendment shall take <br /> effect in 30 days from the date of the election or at such other <br /> time as is fixed in the amendment. <br /> Subd. 5. Amendments proposed by council. The <br /> council of any city having a home rule charter may propose <br /> charter amendments to the voters by ordinance. Any ordinance <br /> proposing such an amendment shall be submitted to the charter <br /> http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/getpub.php?pubtype=STAY CHAP_SEC&year=curr... 2/8/2006 <br />