Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-10-24

the corporate limits, or expiration
OF term of Office, shall be filled by
4 appointment in the same manner an
the original board was created, and
said board shall always contain its
full complement of members.
Any such charter or any amend
ment or revision thereof may pro.
III vide for the commission form OF
government having legislative and
administrative powers, or. 1t may
Il provide: Tor mayor or chief magls.
either one or two houses and, if
II Of two houses, at least one Of them
shall be elected by a general vote
81 the electors, or 1t may provide
municipal government; provided
that the plan or form of govern
ment SO adopted shall not Violate
the constitution of the state as
In submitting any such charter
II or amendment thereto, or revision
thereof to the qualified voters OF
such city OF village. any alternative
for the choice of the voters and may
be voted on separately without
prejudice to other articles or sec
tons Of the charter, or any amend
mentS thereto or revision thereof.
The legislature may provide gem
eral laws relative to affairs Of
cities, the application of which may
q iimlteq to cities Of over eitd fty
s
fifty thousand and not less than
twenty thousand inhabitants. or to
cities of twenty thousand and not
less than ten thousand inhabitants,
hab1tants or less, which shall APP
ply equally to all cities Of either
class; or if so specified in the law,
to all cities in either such class not
having charters adopted pursuant
to this amendment, but no general
raw limited to one or more Of said
classes. Of cities shall apply to any
city existing under charter framed
under this section Of the consti;
tuition unless such. general law shall
be made applicable to such city by
u declaration, therein, naming the
city; Such laws shall be paramount
while in force to the provisions re-
lating to the same matter included
u u the local charter herein provided
The legislature shall enact any
and all laws necessary or proper
to carry into effect the provisions
OF this amendment. and shall pre-
scribe ith;n by law the general limits It's
framed: No local charter, provision
or ordinance passed thereunder
shall supersede any general law OF
the state defining or Furnishing
crimes or misdemeanors'
PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The pur
pose and object Of this amendment
~ permit cltAcS dATCduy 1nCO1POA"eS
and villages desiring to be incorporate
as cities to include In their charter
or by amendment or revision thereot
a commission form Of government hav
ing legislative and administrative pow
erS. The amendment sought enlarge
the pOweE of such municipalities 1
framing their own charters, reservin
to the legislature, however, the author
fty to prescribe the general limit
within which the said charters shall b
framed.
commission form of city govern
nent Is generally understood to includ
the following characteristic feature,
1. A small governing board; 2. TIL
exercise Of both legislative and admin
istrative duties by this board; 3. TIL
division among the members of TIL
board of the administrative work of til
city by departments over which a singl
member of the governing board of TIL
city has control; 4. The election of til
members of the governing board by a
of the voters of the city and not b
wards, precincts or districts. 5. TIL
adoption of methods of direct pOpuls
control over the action and the cor
tinuance in Office of the members of til
cOve rnine hoard.