2005 Minnesota Statutes - 412.541 — Optional plans.

     412.541 Optional plans. 


    Subdivision 1.    Optional Plan A.  Any statutory city 
 may provide for the appointment of its clerk and treasurer, or 
 clerk-treasurer and the election of an additional council member 
 as hereinafter provided in this chapter.  These departures from 
 the standard form of government are referred to hereafter as 
 Optional Plan A.  


    Subd. 2.    Optional Plan B.  Any statutory city of 
 more than 1,000 population may provide for the council-manager 
 plan of government hereinafter provided in this chapter and 
 referred to as Optional Plan B.  


    Subd. 3.  Repealed, 1967 c 289 s 18 


    Subd. 4.    Adoption or abandonment; standard form.  Any 
 one of such plans may be adopted or abandoned in a city by 
 following the procedures set forth in section 412.551.  Until 
 the adoption of an optional plan, and except as provided in 
 section 412.572, every city shall operate under the standard 
 form of government earlier provided in this chapter under which 
 the voters elect the treasurer, if there is one, and a council 
 consisting of a mayor, three or five council members, and the 
 clerk or clerk-treasurer.  


    HIST: 1949 c 119 s 66; 1965 c 417 s 6,7; 1967 c 289 s 8,9; 
 1973 c 123 art 2 s 1 subd 2; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 30 s 6