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3 MINNESOTA STATUTES 2021 410.12 <br /> Subd. 7. Amendment by ordinance.Upon recommendation of the charter commission the city council <br /> may enact a charter amendment by ordinance. Within one month of receiving a recommendation to amend <br /> the charter by ordinance,the city must publish notice of a public hearing on the proposal and the notice must <br /> contain the text of the proposed amendment. The city council must hold the public hearing on the proposed <br /> charter amendment at least two weeks but not more than one month after the notice is published. Within <br /> one month of the public hearing,the city council must vote on the proposed charter amendment ordinance. <br /> The ordinance is enacted if it receives an affirmative vote of all members of the city council and is approved <br /> by the mayor and published as in the case of other ordinances. An ordinance amending a city charter shall <br /> not become effective until 90 days after passage and publication or at such later date as is fixed in the <br /> ordinance. Within 60 days after passage and publication of such an ordinance, a petition requesting a <br /> referendum on the ordinance may be filed with the city clerk. The petition must be signed by registered <br /> voters equal in number to at least five percent of the registered voters in the city or 2,000,whichever is less. <br /> If the requisite petition is filed within the prescribed period, the ordinance shall not become effective until <br /> it is approved by the voters as in the case of charter amendments submitted by the charter commission, the <br /> council, or by petition of the voters, except that the council may submit the ordinance at any general or <br /> special election held at least 60 days after submission of the petition, or it may reconsider its action in <br /> adopting the ordinance. As far as practicable the requirements of subdivisions 1 to 3 apply to petitions <br /> submitted under this section, to an ordinance amending a charter, and to the filing of such ordinance when <br /> approved by the voters. <br /> History: (1286)RL s 756; 1907 c 199 s 1; 1911 c 343 s 1; 1939 c 292 s 1; 1943 c 227 s 1; 1949 c 122 <br /> s 1; 1959 c 305 s 3,4; 1961 c 608 s 5,6; 1969 c 1027 s 3; 1973 c 503 s 1-4; 1986 c 444; 1998 c 254 art I s <br /> 107; 1999 c 132 s 42; 2005 c 93 s 1; 2008 c 331 s 7; 2010 c 184 s 43 <br /> Official Publication of the State of Minnesota <br /> Revisor of Statutes <br />