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or . Clayton L. Lerrevere - 3 April 14, 1981 <br /> It is suggested that Article XII, Section 3, of the Minnesota <br /> Constitution is another constitutional provision allowing a more <br /> restrictive standard . It provides in part; <br /> The legislature may provide by law for the <br /> creation, organization, administration, <br /> consolidation, division and dissolution of local <br /> government units and their functions, for the change <br /> of boundaries thereof, for their elective and <br /> appointive officers includin uglification for <br /> office and the the transfer of county seats. <br /> • <br /> ( Emphasis added . ) While the legislature may provide for the setting <br /> of qualifications for elective, office in local government units, it <br /> has not done so. ' <br /> 'The general rule is that, in matters of municipal concern, <br /> home rule cities have all the legislative power possessed by the <br /> legislature of the state, save as such power is expressly or <br /> impliedly withheld. " State ex rel . Town of Lowell v. CitY• o <br /> Crookston, 252 Minn . 526 , 528, 91 N.W. 2d 81, 83 (1958) . In Minn. <br /> Stat. $ 410 . 07, a home rule charter <br /> may provide for any scheme of municipal government <br /> Rot inconsistent „:th the constitution, and may <br /> provide for the establishment and administration of <br /> all departments of a city government, and for the <br /> regulation of all local municipal functions, as fully <br /> as—the legislature might havedonebefore—home—rule <br /> charters for cities were authorized by constitutional <br /> amendment in 1696. . . . It may preecribe •methods of <br /> procedure in respect to the operation of the <br /> government thereby created, and the duties thereunder <br /> of all courts and officers of the district and county <br /> in which the city is situated . . . <br /> • <br /> cos S3I .LI O N1.I 40 anova 'I * Iai75 : T O 176 '61 'LO <br />