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Mounds View Charter Commission Meeting December 6, 1994 Discussion Items submitted by D. McCarty: ,z ) 1 . Constitutional authority for charter government Article 12 Sec. 5. ARTICLE XII SPECIAL LEGISLATION;LOCAL GOVERNMENT Sec. 5. Charter commissions. The legislature shall provide by law for charter commissions. Notwithstanding any other constitutional limitations the legislature may require that commission members be freeholders, provide for their appointment by judges of the district court, and permit any member to hold any other elective or appointive office other than judicial. Home rule charter amendments may be proposed by a charter commission or by a petition of five percent of the voters of the local government unit as determined by law and shall not become effective until approved by the voters by the majority required by law. Amendments may be proposed and adopted in any other manner provided by law. A local government unit may repeal its home rule charter and adopt a statutory form of government or a new charter upon the same majority vote as is required by law for the adoption of a charter in the first instance. 2. Constitutional eligibility to hold office Article 7 Sec. 6. ARTICLE VII Sec. 6. Eligibility to hold office. Every person who by the provisions of this article is entitled to vote at any election and is 21 years of age is eligible for any office elective by the people in the district wherein he has resided 30 days previous to the election except as otherwise provided in this constitution, or the constitution and law of the united states. 3. Charter Law. MSA 410.21 APPLICATION OF GENERAL ELECTION LAWS. The provisions of any charter of any such city adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be valid and shall control as to nominations, primary elections, and elections for municipal offices, notwithstanding that such charter provisions may be inconsistent with any general law relating thereto, and such general laws shall apply only in so far as consistent with such charter. 4. Pursuant to the above constitutional rights and laws, the voters of Mounds View have adopted a charter amendment imposing term limits on elected councilmembers.