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<br />412.541 Optional plans. <br /> <br />Subdivision 1. Optional Plan A. Any statutory city <br />may provide for the appointment of its clerk and treasurer, or <br />clerk-treasurer and the election of an additional council member <br />as hereinafter provided in this chapter. These departures from <br />the standard form of government are referred to hereafter as <br />Optional Plan A. <br /> <br />Subd.2. Optional Plan B. Any statutory city of <br />more than 1,000 population may provide for the council-manager <br />plan of government hereinafter provided in this chapter and <br />referred to as Optional Plan B. <br /> <br />Subd. 3. Repealed, 1967 c 289 s 18 <br /> <br />Subd.4. Adoption or abandonment; standard form. Any <br />one of such plans may be adopted or abandoned in a city by <br />following the procedures set forth in section 412.5?1. Until <br />the adoption of an optional plan, and except as provided in <br />section 412.57~, every city shall operate under the standard <br />form of government earlier provided in this chapter under which <br />the voters elect the treasurer, if there is one, and a council <br />consisting of a mayor, three or five council members, and the <br />clerk or clerk-treasurer. <br /> <br />412.551 Election on optional plan. <br /> <br />Subdivision 1. One plan per election. The council <br />may, and upon petition therefor signed by voters equal in number <br />to at least 15 percent of the electors voting at the last <br />previous city election, shall, submit to the voters at a regular <br />or special election the question of adoption by the city of <br />