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410.12 Amendments. <br /> Subd. 3. May be assembled as one petition. <br /> All petition papers for a proposed amendment shai~ <br /> be aSsembled and filed with the charter commission as <br /> one instrument. <br /> Within ten days' after such petition is transmitted to <br />the city council, the city clerk shall determine whether <br />each paper of the petition is properly attested and <br />whether the. petition is signed by a sufficient number <br />of voters. The city clerk shall declare any petition paper entirely invalid which is not <br />attested by the circulator thereof as required in this section. Upon completing an examination <br />of the petition, the city clerk shall certify the result of the examination to the council. If the <br />city clerk shall certify that the petition is insufficient the city clerk shall set forth in a <br />certificate the particulars in which it is defective and shall at once notify the committee of the <br />petitioners of the findings. A petition may be amended at any time within ten days after the <br />making of a certificate of insufficiency by the city clerk, by filing a supplementary petit! <br />upon additional papers signed and filed as provided in case of an original petition. The city <br />clerk shall within five days after such amendment is filed, make examination of the amended <br />petition, and if the certificate shall show the petition still to be insufficient, the city clerk shall <br />file it in the city clerk's office and notify the committee of the petitioners of the findings and <br />no further action shall be had on such insufficient petition. The finding_ of the insufficiency <br />of a petition shall not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose. <br />HIST: (1286) RL s 756;. 1907 c 199 s 1; 1911 c 343 s 1; 1939 e 292 s 1; 1943 c 227 s 1; 1949 c 122 s 1; <br />1959 c 305 s 3,4; 1961 c 608 s 5,6; 1969 c 1027 s 3; 1973 c 503 s 14; 1986 ¢ 444 <br /> <br /> <br />