The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-10-24

the corporate limits, or expiration
OF term of office, shall be filled by
appointment in the same manner az
the original board was created, and
said board shall always contain its
full complement of members.
ment S or Tu revi Ha'e thereof " may pro-
vide for the commission form OF
government having legislative and
administrative powers, or it may
provide for mayor or chief magis.
either one or two houses and. II
OF two houses, at least one of them
shall be elected by a general vote
for any other plan or system OF
municipal government; provided
that the plan or form of govern
ment so adopted shall, not violate
hereby amended.
In submitting any such charter
or amendment thereto. or revision
such city or village. any alternative
section or article may be presented
for the choice of the voters and may
be voted on separately without
tions Of the charter, or any amend
ments thereto or revision thereof.
the legislature may provide gen.
eral laws relative to affairs OF
cities, the application of which may
be limited to cities of over fifty
thousand inhabitants, or to cities of
fifty thousand and not less than
twenty thousand Inhabitants, or to
less than ten thousand inhabitants,
or to cities of ten thousand in
habitants or less, which shall APP
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 genera!
law 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:
tutlon unless such general law snail
be made applicable to such city by
a declaration. therein, naming the
city. Such laws shall be paramount
while in force to the provisions re-
1ating to the same matter included
IN the local charter herein provided
The legislature shall enact any
and all laws necessary or proper
of this amendment. and shall pre-
scribe by law the general limits
within which such charter shall be
framed: No local charter. provision
or ordinance passed hereunder
shall supersede any general law or
the state defining or Furnishing
crimes or misdemeanors."
PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The pur
pose and object Of this amendment
to permit cities already incorporate
and villages desiring to he incorporate
rs cities to include in their charters
or by amendment or revision thereof
a commission form Of government hav
Ing legislative and administrative pow
ers. The amendment sought enlarge
the power of such municipalities i
framing their own charters, reservin
to the legislature, however. the author
lty to prescribe the general limit
within which the said charters shall b
framed.
A commission form of city govern
ment IL generally understood to includ
the following characteristic features
I. small governing board; 2. Tn
exercise of both Legislative and admin
istrative duties by this board; 3. TIL
division among the members of tn
board of the administrative work of tn
city by departments over which a singl
of the governing board of tn
city has control; 4. The election of til
members Of the governing board by nj
of the voters of the city and not b
wards, precincts or districts. s. TIL
adoption of methods of direct pOpula
control over the action and the con
in Office of the members of tn
board.