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2.1 receiving the third highest number of votes shall serve for a term of two years. To provide 2.2 an orderly transition to the odd or even year election plan, the governing body of the city 2.3 may adopt supplementary ordinances regulating initial elections and officers to be chosen 2.4 at the elections and shortening or lengthening the terms of incumbents and those elected at 2.5 the initial election. The term of office for the mayor may be either two or four years. The 2.6 term of office of council members is four years. Whenever the time of the municipal election 2.7 in a city of the first class is changed, the city clerk immediately shall notify in writing the 2.8 county auditor and secretary of state of the change of date. Thereafter the municipal general 2.9 election shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each 2.10 odd-numbered or even-numbered year until the ordinance is revoked and notification of the 2.11 change is made. A municipal general election scheduled to be held in an odd-numbered 2.12 year may be postponed for inclement weather as provided in section 205.105. 2.13 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 205.07, subdivision 3, is amended to read: 2.14 Subd. 3.Effect of ordinance; referendum.An ordinance changing the year of the 2.15 municipal election in a city of the first class is effective 240 days after passage and 2.16 publication or at a later date fixed in the ordinance. Within 180 days after passage and 2.17 publication of the ordinance, a petition requesting a referendum on the ordinance may be 2.18 filed with the city clerk. The petition shall be signed by eligible voters equal in number to 2.19 ten percent of the total number of votes cast in the city at the last municipal general election. 2.20 If the requisite petition is filed within the prescribed period, the ordinance shall not become 2.21 effective until it is approved by a majority of the voters voting on the question at a general 2.22 or special election held on a date authorized by section 205.10, subdivision 3a. If the petition 2.23 is filed, the governing body may reconsider its action in adopting the ordinance. 2.24 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 205.075, subdivision 2, is amended to read: 2.25 Subd. 2.Alternate date.A town may, by resolution or ordinance, designate the first 2.26 Tuesday after the first Monday in November of either the an even-numbered or the 2.27 odd-numbered year as the date of the town general election. Town supervisors elected at a 2.28 November town general election shall serve four-year terms. 2.29 The ordinance or resolution changing the date of the town general election must include 2.30 a plan to shorten or lengthen the terms of office to provide an orderly transition to the 2.31 November election schedule. 2.32 The ordinance or resolution changing the date of the town general election may be 2.33 proposed by the town board or by a resolution of the electors adopted at the annual town 2Sec. 3. REVISOR JFK/NS 24-0595201/16/24 19