2006 Minnesota Statutes

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    Subd. 3.[Repealed, 1967 c 289 s 18]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.
History: 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