The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-10-24

me corporate limits, or expiration
OF term 81 Office, shall be filled by
appointment in the same manner az
said o hns bonrd was created, a i1s
1ull complement Of members.
Any such charter or any amend
ment or revision thereof may pro.
vide Tor the commission form OF
administrative powers, or it may
provide for a mayor or chief magis.
trate, and a legislative body OF
! either one or two houses and. If
shall be elected by a general vote
Of the electors, or it may provide
for any other plan or system Of
municipal government; provided
ment so adopted shall not violate
the constitution of the state as
hereby amended
In submitting any such charter
or amendment thereto, or revision
such city OR village, any alternative
section or article may be presented
Tor the choice of the voters and may
pc pc voted on separately without
lions Of the charter, or any amend
ments thereto or revision thereof.
Inc legislature may provide gen.
e eit;a laws relative to. affairs OF
be limited to cities Of over fifty
thousand Inhabitants, or to cities Of
nIty thousand and not less than
Twenty thousand Inhabitants, or to
less than ten thousand Inhabitants,
or TO cities of ten thousand in
hab1tants or less. which shall ap-
Ply equally to all cities Of either
to ali Cities in eft fS9rs SUCH class as not
having charters adopted pursuant
70 TINS amendment, but no general
law limited to one or more of said
classes Of cities shall apply to any
under this section of the consti-
tuition unless such general law shall
be made applicable to such city by
a declarat1on. therein, naming the
while in force to the provisions re:
iating to the same matter included
n n 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-
sc 1th.e by law the general limits It's
framed; No local charter. provision
or ordinance passed thereunder
snail supersede any general law OF
the state defining or Furnishing
crimes or misdemeanors."
PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The pur
pose and object OF this amendment
TO permit cities already incorporate
md villages desiring to be incorporate
~ cities to include in their charters
,r by amendment or revision thereof
1 commission form of government hav
ng Legislative and administrative pow
>rs. The amendment sought enlarge
the power of such municipalities II
their own charters, reservinI
10 the Legislature, however, the author
[ty to prescribe the general limit
within which the said charters shall b.
framed.
A commission form of city govern
nent IL generally UNDERWOOD to includ
the following characteristic features
l. A small governing board; 2. Tn
exercise of both legislative and admin
strative duties by this board; 3. Tn
aiv1sfon among the members of tn
board of the administrative work of tn
.ity by departments over which a singl
of the governing board of tn
,ity has control; 4. The election of tn
members of the governing board by al
of the voters of the city and not b,
wards, precincts or districts. 5. TIL
adoption of methods of direct pOpula
control over the action and the con
tinuance In Office of the members of tn
board.