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nr . Clayton L. Le evere - 3 April 14, 1981 It is suggested that Article XII , Section 3 , of the Minnesota Constitution is another constitutional provision, allowing a more restrictive standard . It provides in part: The legislature may provide by law for the creation , organization , administration, consolidation, division and dissolution of local government units and their functions , for the change of boundaries thereof, for their elective and appointive officers including. qualification for office and the the transfer of county seats . ( Emphasis added . ) Whine the legislature may provide for the setting of qualifications for elective. office in local government units, it has not done so. "The general rule is that, in matters of municipal concern, home rule cities have all the legislative power possessed by the legislature of the state , save as such power is expressly or impliedly withheld ." State ex rel . Town of Lowell v. City of Crookston, 252 Minn. 526 , 528, 91 N.W. 2d 81, 83 ( 1958) . In Minn. Stat . S 410 . 07 , a home rule charter may provide for any scheme of municipal government not inconsistent ,wth the constitution, and may provide for the establishment and administration of . 411 departments of a city government, and for the regulation of all local municipal functions , as fully as the legislature might have done before home rule charters for cities were authorized by constitutional amendment in 1896. . . . It may prescribe .methods of procedure in respect to the operation of the government thereby created, and the duties thereunder of all courts and officers of the district and county in which the city is situated . .