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i <br /> Memo To: Kurt Ulrich, City Administrate v'' `✓ <br /> From: Duane W. McCarty <br /> Date: October 25, 2004 <br /> Re: Charter Amendments <br /> I wish to request a City Council interpretation regarding the sections of Minnesota Statue 410 <br /> listed below. <br /> MSA 410.24 New or revised charter. <br /> Any city having a home rule charter may submit and adopt a new or revised charter in the <br /> manner provided by law for the original adoption of such home rule charter. <br /> 10 410.12 Amendments <br /> Subd. 7. Amendment by ordinance. Upon recommendation of the charter commission the city <br /> council may enact a charter amendment by ordinance. Such an ordinance, if enacted, shall be <br /> adopted by the council by an affirmative vote of all its members after a public hearing upon two <br /> weeks' published notice containing the text of the proposed amendment and shall be approved by <br /> the mayor and published as in the case of other ordinances. An ordinance amending a city charter <br /> shall not become effective until 90 days after passage and publication or at such later date as is <br /> fixed in the ordinance. Within 60 days after passage and publication of such an ordinance, a <br /> petition requesting a referendum on the ordinance may be filed with the city clerk. Such petition <br /> shall be signed by qualified voters equal in number to two percent of the total number of votes <br /> cast in the city at the last state general election or 2,000, whichever is less. If the city has a <br /> system of permanent registration of voters, only registered voters are eligible to sign the petition. <br /> If the requisite petition is filed within the prescribed period, the ordinance shall not become <br /> effective until it is approved by the voters as in the case of charter amendments submitted by the <br /> charter commission, the council, or by petition of the voters, except that the council may submit <br /> the ordinance at any general or special election held at least 60 days after submission of the <br /> petition, or it may reconsider its action in adopting the ordinance. As far as practicable the <br /> requirements of subdivisions 1 to 3 apply to petitions submitted under this section, to an <br /> ordinance amending a charter, and to the filing of such ordinance when approved by the voters. <br /> 0 <br />