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RELEVANT LINKS: <br />League of Minnesota Cities Handbook for Minnesota Cities 6/8/2022 <br />Elected Officials and Council Structure and Role Chapter 6 | Page 36 <br /> VI. How chapter 6 applies to home rule charter <br />cities <br /> Several sections of this chapter may be useful to charter cities. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Minn. Stat. § 410.20. Minn. <br />Const. art. VIII, § 5. <br />A.G. Op. 59a-30 (July 24, <br />1996). Minn. Stat. § 410.20. <br />In the section concerning elected officials, the discussion of statutory city <br />officers does not apply to charter cities, but the portions on eligibility, <br />removal, resignations, and vacancies generally do apply. It may be <br />possible that a charter could specify the particular conduct that would <br />result in removal of a council member for nonfeasance of office. The <br />attorney general, however, has advised that a charter provision which <br />provides that a council vacancy would occur if a council member did not <br />attend a specified number of meetings would not be valid. A charter may <br />provide for the recall of any elective municipal officer and for removal of <br />the officer by the electors of the city. <br /> If the mayor of a charter city presides at the council meeting, most of the <br />section concerning the mayor applies to charter cities. Otherwise, only the <br />portions dealing with weed inspection, election duties, and other duties <br />apply. <br /> The section concerning the statutory city council and its powers might <br />prove interesting to charter city council members since many of their <br />powers are similar to those of statutory city councils. The laws relating to <br />conflicts of interest and prohibiting gifts to local officials also apply to <br />members of charter city councils, but many charter cities have more <br />restrictive provisions concerning both issues in their charters. <br /> <br />39