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410.12 MINNESOTA STATUTES 2021 2 <br /> The foregoing affidavit shall be strictly construed and any affiant convicted of swearing falsely as regards <br /> any particular thereof shall be punishable in accordance with existing law. <br /> Subd. 3. May be assembled as one petition.All petition papers for a proposed amendment shall be <br /> assembled and filed with the charter commission as one instrument. Within ten days after such petition is <br /> transmitted to the city council, the city clerk shall determine whether each paper of the petition is properly <br /> attested and whether the petition is signed by a sufficient number of voters. The city clerk shall declare any <br /> petition paper entirely invalid which is not attested by the circulator thereof as required in this section.Upon <br /> completing an examination of the petition, the city clerk shall certify the result of the examination to the <br /> council.If the city clerk shall certify that the petition is insufficient the city clerk shall set forth in a certificate <br /> the particulars in which it is defective and shall at once notify the committee of the petitioners of the findings. <br /> A petition may be amended at any time within ten days after the making of a certificate of insufficiency by <br /> the city clerk,by filing a supplementary petition upon additional papers signed and filed as provided in case <br /> of an original petition.The city clerk shall within five days after such amendment is filed,make examination <br /> of the amended petition, and if the certificate shall show the petition still to be insufficient, the city clerk <br /> shall file it in the city clerk's office and notify the committee of the petitioners of the findings and no further <br /> action shall be had on such insufficient petition. The finding of the insufficiency of a petition shall not <br /> prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose. <br /> Subd. 4. Election.Amendments shall be submitted to the qualified voters at a general or special election <br /> and published as in the case of the original charter. The form of the ballot shall be fixed by the governing <br /> body. The statement of the question on the ballot shall be sufficient to identify the amendment clearly and <br /> to distinguish the question from every other question on the ballot at the same time. If 51 percent of the <br /> votes cast on any amendment are in favor of its adoption, copies of the amendment and certificates shall be <br /> filed, as in the case of the original charter and the amendment shall take effect in 30 days from the date of <br /> the election or at such other time as is fixed in the amendment. <br /> Subd. 5. Amendments proposed by council.The council of any city having a home rule charter may <br /> propose charter amendments to the voters by ordinance.Any ordinance proposing such an amendment shall <br /> be submitted to the charter commission. Within 60 days thereafter,the charter commission shall review the <br /> proposed amendment but before the expiration of such period the commission may extend the time for <br /> review for an additional 90 days by filing with the city clerk its resolution determining that an additional <br /> time for review is needed.After reviewing the proposed amendment,the charter commission shall approve <br /> or reject the proposed amendment or suggest a substitute amendment.The commission shall promptly notify <br /> the council of the action taken. On notification of the charter commission's action,the council may submit <br /> to the people, in the same manner as provided in subdivision 4,the amendment originally proposed by it or <br /> the substitute amendment proposed by the charter commission.The amendment shall become effective only <br /> when approved by the voters as provided in subdivision 4.If so approved it shall be filed in the same manner <br /> as other amendments.Nothing in this subdivision precludes the charter commission from proposing charter <br /> amendments in the manner provided by subdivision 1. <br /> Subd. 6. Amendments, cities of the fourth class. The council of a city of the fourth class having a <br /> home rule charter may propose charter amendments by ordinance without submission to the charter <br /> commission. Such ordinance, if enacted, shall be adopted by at least a four-fifths vote of all its members <br /> after a public hearing upon two weeks'published notice containing the text of the proposed amendment and <br /> shall be approved by the mayor and published as in the case of other ordinances. The council shall submit <br /> the proposed amendment to the people in the manner provided in subdivision 4, but not sooner than three <br /> months after the passage of the ordinance. The amendment becomes effective only when approved by the <br /> voters as provided in subdivision 4.If so approved,it shall be filed in the same manner as other amendments. <br /> Official Publication of the State of Minnesota <br /> Revisor of Statutes <br />