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Subd. 7.Amendment by ordinance.Upon recommendation of the charter commission the city council​ <br />may enact a charter amendment by ordinance. Within one month of receiving a recommendation to amend​ <br />the charter by ordinance, the city must publish notice of a public hearing on the proposal and the notice must​ <br />contain the text of the proposed amendment. The city council must hold the public hearing on the proposed​ <br />charter amendment at least two weeks but not more than one month after the notice is published. Within​ <br />one month of the public hearing, the city council must vote on the proposed charter amendment ordinance.​ <br />The ordinance is enacted if it receives an affirmative vote of all members of the city council and is approved​ <br />by the mayor and published as in the case of other ordinances. An ordinance amending a city charter shall​ <br />not become effective until 90 days after passage and publication or at such later date as is fixed in the​ <br />ordinance. Within 60 days after passage and publication of such an ordinance, a petition requesting a​ <br />referendum on the ordinance may be filed with the city clerk. The petition must be signed by registered​ <br />voters equal in number to at least five percent of the registered voters in the city or 2,000, whichever is less.​ <br />If the requisite petition is filed within the prescribed period, the ordinance shall not become effective until​ <br />it is approved by the voters as in the case of charter amendments submitted by the charter commission, the​ <br />council, or by petition of the voters, except that the council may submit the ordinance at any general or​ <br />special election held at least 60 days after submission of the petition, or it may reconsider its action in​ <br />adopting the ordinance. As far as practicable the requirements of subdivisions 1 to 3 apply to petitions​ <br />submitted under this section, to an ordinance amending a charter, and to the filing of such ordinance when​ <br />approved by the voters.​ <br />History: (1286) RL s 756; 1907 c 199 s 1; 1911 c 343 s 1; 1939 c 292 s 1; 1943 c 227 s 1; 1949 c 122​ <br />s 1; 1959 c 305 s 3,4; 1961 c 608 s 5,6; 1969 c 1027 s 3; 1973 c 503 s 1-4; 1986 c 444; 1998 c 254 art 1 s​ <br />107; 1999 c 132 s 42; 2005 c 93 s 1; 2008 c 331 s 7; 2010 c 184 s 43​ <br />Copyright © 2018 by the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. All Rights Reserved.​ <br />410.12​MINNESOTA STATUTES 2018​3​