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take part in any manner in any contract with the City, shall voluntarily have a personal financial interest in such contract or personally benefit financially therefrom. Section 12.04. Official Bonds. The Clerk-Administrator, the City Treasurer, and such other officers or employees of the City may be provided for by ordinance shall each, before entering upon the duties of his/her respective office or employment, give a corporate surety bond to the City in such form and in such amount as may be fixed by the Council as security for the faithful performance of his/her official duties. This corporate surety bond may be in the form of either individual or blanket bonds at the discretion of the Council. They shall be approved by the Council, and approved as to form by the City Attorney, and filed with the Clerk-Administrator. The premiums on the bonds shall be paid by the City. Section 12.05. Sales of Real Property. No real property of the City shall be disposed of except by ordinance. The proceeds of any sale of such.property:: shall be used as far as possible to retire any outstanding indebtedness incurred by the City in the purchase, construction, or improvement of this or other property used for the same public purpose. If there is no such outstanding indebtedness, the Council may by resolution designate some other public use for the proceeds. Section 12.06. Vacation of Streets. The Council may by ordinance vacate any street or alley or other public grounds or part thereof within the City. Such vacation may be made only after published notice in the official newspaper and an opportunity for affected property owner and public to be heard, and upon such further terms and by such procedure as the Council by ordinance may prescribe. A notice of completion of such procedure shall be filed in accordance with law. Section 12.07. Statutes not Affected by Charter. All general laws and statutes of the state applicable to all cities operating under Home Rule Charters, or applicable to cities of the same class as the City of Mounds View operating under Home Rule Charters, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter, shall apply to the City of Mounds View, and shall be construed as supplementary to the provisions of this Charter. Section 12.08. City to Succeed to Rights and Obligations of Former Charter. The City shall succeed to all the property, rights, and privileges, and shall be subject to all legal obligations of the City under the former Charter. Section 12.09. Existing Ordinances and Resolutions Continued. All ordinances, resolutions and regulations of the municipality in force when this ' Charter takes effect, and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, are hereby continued in full force and effect until amended or repealed. Section 12.10. Officers to Continue for Present Terms. All elective and appointive officers of the City holding office on the effective date of this.Charter ' shall continue in office for the terms to which they were elected or appointed, 110 Mounds View City Charter