The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-10-22

the corporate limits, or expiration
or term OF office, shall be filled by
appointment in the same manner as
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-
vide for the commission form OF
government having Legislative and
administrative powers, or 1t may
provide for mayor or chief magiS-
Irate. and legislative body Of
either one or two houses and. II
or two houses, at least one of them
shall be elected by a general vote
or the electors, or it may provide
for any other plan or system OF
municipal government; provided
that the plan or form Of govern
ment so adopted shall not violate
the constitution of the state as
hereby amended.
In submitting any such charter
or amendment thereto, or revision
thereof to the qualified voters or
such city or village, any alternative
section or article may be presented
Tor the choice of the voters and may
De voted on separately without
prejudice to other articles or sec
tions OF the charter, or any amend
ments thereto or revision thereof
The legislature may provide gen.
eral laws relative to affairs or
cities. the application of which may
De limited to cities of over fifty
thousand inhabitants, or to cities or
nfty thousand and not less than
twenty thousand inhabitants, or to
cities OF twenty thousand and not
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,
20 all cities in either such class not
having charters adopted pursuant
20 this amendment. but no general
n or sNF
classes of cities shall apply TO any
city existing under charter framed
under this section of the consti.
tuition unless such general law shall
De made applicable to Such city by
a. declaration, therein, naming enc
city: Such laws shall be paramount
while In force to the provisions re-
iatlng to the same matter included
In the local charter herein provided
for.
The legislature shall enact any
ana all laws necessary or proper
to carry into. effect the provisions
or this amendment, and shall pre-
scribe by law the general limits
within which such charter shall be
framed. No local charter, provision
o or ordinance passed thereundere
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 be incorporate
nm cities to include I'm their charters
Or by amendment or revision thereof
N commission form of government hav
Ing legislative and administrative pow
ers. The amendment sought enlarge
the power OF such municipalities Il
their own charters, reservlni
to the legislature, however, the author
Fly to prescribe the general limit
within which the said charters shall b
framed.
commission form OF city govern
ment is generally understood to IncIud
the following characteristic features
1. A small governing board; 2. Tn
exercise of both Legislative and admin
Istrative duties by this board; 3. Tn
division among the members of tn
board of the administrative work OF TIN
city by departments over which IN singl
OF the governing board OF TIN
city has control; A. The election of tn
members of the governing board by mi
of the voters of the city and mot b,
precincts or districts. 5. Th
adoption of methods of direct pOpula
control over the action and the con
tfnuance I'm office of the members of thu
governing board.