2012-1045 Amending City CharterCITY OF HOPKINS
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE 2012-1045
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF HOPKINS
UPON RECOMMENDATION OF THE HOPKINS CHARTER COMMISSION
PURSUANT TO M.S.A. CHAPTER 410.12, SUBD. 7
The City Council of the City of Hopkins, upon recommendation of and from the Hopkins City
Charter Commission does hereby ordain and thus amend and adopt the following changes,
deletions, and amendments of or from the following chapters and sections of the Hopkins City
Charter:
Section 1. Section 3.03, Subdivision 6 is amended as follows:
No section of the City Code or city ordinance of reef; ^" ,-hereof shall be amended or repealed
except by ordinance, and every amendment or repeal shall refer to the section or ordinance so
amended or repealed by title, date -of -passage and section number or numbers. All previous
amendments must be consolidated in a rewording of the section amended each time that the
section is changed.
Section 2. Section 4.02, Subdivision 1 is amended as follows:
A candidate for a city office shall file an affidavit t mere that 70 days andnot less than56
days befefe the .with the City Clerk, or application on behalf of any
qualified voter of the City whom they desire to be a candidate may be made as per Chapter 205,
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, of the Minnesota State Statutes. In either case, the filing fee shall
be $5.00. Such affidavit or application shall state that the candidate is a qualified voter of the
City of Hopkins, and name the office for which she or he is a candidate.
Section 3. The effective date of this ordinance shall be ninety days after publication.
First reading:
Second reading:
Date of Publication:
Date Ordinance Takes Effect:
ATTEST:
Kristine A. Luedke, City Clerk
June 5, 2012
June 19, 2012
June 28, 2012
September 27, 2012
By:
Eug e J axwell, Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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C ty Attorne ignature Date