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RELEVANT LINKS: <br />Cities can also hire private consulting firms that specialize in charter <br />revision and ordinance codification. <br />The League of Minnesota Cities, in consultation with its codification <br />consultant, American Legal Publishing Corporation, provides codification <br />For more information about <br />services to cities. Most Minnesota cities that have codes use the League's <br />Codification contact LMC <br />Research at 800-925-1122 <br />service. The service is designed to provide each city with a customized city <br />or 651-281-1200. <br />code that meets the needs of that particular city. The League, in <br />consultation with American Legal Publishing Corporation, provides the <br />following services as part of its codification service: <br />• Sorting, integrating, and organizing all current ordinances. <br />• Reviewing all ordinances and making suggestions about bringing them <br />into compliance with current state and federal laws. <br />• Simplifying and using gender -neutral language. <br />• Suggesting new ordinances. <br />• Numbering all sections to allow the easy insertion of future <br />amendments. <br />• Submitting a full -text draft for city review and approval. <br />• Delivering multiple copies of the final code with a detailed table of <br />contents and complete index. Options are available for electronic <br />editions of the code with full text search capacity and Internet support <br />of the city code with links to the city's designated website and to the <br />League's website. <br />• Updating existing codes by incorporating new ordinances into the code. <br />For more information about <br />The League also has available for purchase a basic city code for Minnesota <br />the Minnesota Basic Code, <br />contact LMC Research at <br />cities, which can be customized by the League's codification service to <br />(800) 925-1122 or (651) <br />meet the needs of individual cities. <br />281-1200. <br />b. Codification procedures <br />Minn. Stat. § 415.02. <br />The city council has authority to codify any general or special laws, <br />ordinances, resolutions, rules, and bylaws in force in the city. <br />An ordinance adopting a city code must be approved at a meeting of the <br />Minn. Stat. § 412.191, <br />subd. 4. <br />city council. Cities should provide notice of a proposed ordinance adopting <br />a city code at least ten days before the council meeting at which the <br />Adoping a City Cade, LMC <br />Model Ordinance. <br />proposed ordinance is scheduled for a final vote. <br />For statutory cities, an ordinance adopting the city code must be passed by <br />See Section IV C 1 j - <br />Notice of Proposed <br />a majority vote of all the members of the council, unless it includes material <br />Ordinance for more <br />that must be adopted by a larger number. <br />information about the <br />notice requirements of <br />Minn. Stat. § 415.19. <br />League of Minnesota Cities Handbook for Minnesota Cities 8/30/2022 <br />Meetings, Motions, Resolutions, and Ordinances Chapter 7 1 Page 52 <br />