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MAR 07 '98 Z3:33 RANDALL DEHNGOODRICH P.5/4 § 410.12 CITIES, METROPOLITAN AREAS time for review is needed. After reviewing the proposed amendment; the charter commission shall approve or reject the proposed amendment,or suggest a substitute amendment. The commission shall promptly notify the council of the action taken. On notification of the charter commission's action, the council may submit to the people, in the same manner as provided in subdivision 4, the amendment originally proposed by it or the substitute amendment proposed by the charter commission. The amendment shall become effective only when approved by the voters as provided in subdi~,ision 4. tf so approved it shall be filed in the same manner as other amendments. No .thing in this subdivision precludes the charter commission from proposing charter amendments in ~he manner provided by subdivision 1. Sub& 6. Amendments, elttes of the fourth class. The council of a city of the fourth class having a home rule charter may propose charter amendments by ordinance without submission to the charter commission. Such ordi- nance, if enacted, shall be adopted by at least a four-fifths vote. of all its members after a public hearing upon two weeks' published notice containing the text of the proposed amendment and shall be approved by the mayor and published as in the case of other ordinances. The council shall submit the proposed amendment to the people in the manner provided in subdivision 4, but not sooner than three months after the p~ssage of the ordinance.~ The amendment becomes effective only when approved by the voters as pro.~ided in subdivision 4. If so approved, it shall be filed in the same manner as iother amendments. Subd. 7. Amendmentiby ordinance. Upon recommendation of the ~char- ter commission the city :council may enact a charter amendment by ordi. nonce. Such an ordinance, if enacted, shall be adopted by the council by an affirmative vote of all its members after a public hearing upon two Weeks' published notice containing the text of the proposed amendment, and sh'~ll be approved by the mayor agd published as in the case of other ordinances,. An ordinance amending a city charter shall not become effective until 90, days after passage and publication or at such later date as is fixed in the ordinance. Within 60 days after passage and ,publication of such an ordinance, a petition requesting a referendum on 'the ordinance may be filed with the city clerk. Such petition shall be signed by qualified, voters equal in number to two percent of the total humidor of votes cast in the city at the last state general election or 2,000, whichever is less. If the city has a system of permanent registration of voters, only registered voters are eligible to sign the petition. If the requisite petition i~ filed within the prescribed period, the ordinance shall not become effective until it is approved by the voters as in the case of charter amendments submitted by the charter commission, the council, 9r by petition of the voters, except that the council may submit the ordinance at any general or special election held at least 60 days after submission of the petition, or it may reconsider its action in adopting the ordinance. As far as practicable the requirements of subdivisions I to 3 apply to petitions sub- mitred under this section, to an ordinance amending a charter, and to the filing of such ordinance when approved by the vote'rs. Amended by Laws 1949, c. 122, § 1; Laws 1959, c. 305, §§ 3, 4; Laws 1961, c, 608, §§ 5, 6; Laws 1969, c. 1027, § 3, elf. June 7, 1969; Laws 1973, c. 503, §§ 1 to 4; ~Laws 1986, c. 444. ~ 70