The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-10-15

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 magls-
trate, and q Legislative body OF
either one or two houses and, IL
of two houses, at least one of them
shall be elected by a general vote
OF the electors, or 1t 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 OF
such city or village. any alternative
section or article may be presented
Tor the choice of the voters and may
be voted on separately without
prejudice to other articles or sec
lions of the charter. or any amend
ments thereto or revision thereon.
The legislature may provide gen.
eral laws relative to affairs of
cities, the application of which may
De limited to cities of over fifty
Thousand inhabitants, or to cities OF
nifty 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
ply equally to all cities of either
class, or If so specified in the law,
% all cities in either such class not
having ing charters adopted pursuant
20 this amendment, but no general
Jaw limited to one or more of SAID
classes of cities shall apply to any
city existing under a charter framed
under this section of the constI,
tuition unless such general law shall
be made applicable to such city by
declaration, therein, naming the
city; Such laws shall be paramount
while in force to the provisions re-
lating to the same matter included
In the local charter herein provided
for.
The legislature shall enact any
and all laws necessary or proper
to carry into effect the provisions
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. of
the state defining or punlshlng
crimes or misdemeanors."
PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The pur
pose and object of this amendment 1
10 permit cities already incorporate
and villages desiring to be incorporate
rs cities to include in their charters
)r by amendment or revision thereof
4 commission form of government kaV
ng legislative and administrative pow
FRS. The amendment sought enlarge
the power of such municipalities Il
their own charters, reservini
to the legislature, however, the author
Ity to prescribe the general limit
within which the said charters shall b
framed.
A commission form of city govern
nent is generally understood to incIud
the following characteristic features
|. A small governing board; 2. Th
exercise of both legislative and admin
strative duties by this board; 3. TIL
division among the members of tn
board of the administrative work of tn
,ity by departments over which a singl
member 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
precincts or districts. >. TIL
adoption of methods of direct pOpulR
control over the action and the con
tinuance in office of the members of tn
board.