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<br />Optional Plan A or B. Only one plan shall be so submitted at <br />anyone election, except that any such plan shall be submitted <br />at the election on incorporation of a city if the incorporation <br />petition so requests and the population of the proposed city, <br />when the submission of Optional Plan B is proposed, is more than <br />1,000. No plan, except a Home Rule Charter submitted under <br />chapter 410, shall be submitted in any city in which another <br />optional plan is already in effect until the latter plan has <br />been in effect for at least three years. <br /> <br />Subd.2. Form of ballot. The proposals for the <br />adoption of optional plans shall be stated on the ballot <br />substantially as follows: <br /> <br />"Shall Optional Plan A, modifying the standard plan of city <br />government by providing for the appointment by the council of <br />the clerk and treasurer be adopted for the government of the <br />city?" <br /> <br />"Shall Optional Plan B, providing for the council-manager <br />form of city government, be adopted for the government of the <br />city?" <br /> <br />If the city has combined the offices of clerk and <br />treasurer, the word "clerk-treasurer" shall be substituted for <br />the words "clerk and treasurer" in the question on the ballot on <br />adoption of Optional Plan A. In any of these cases, the <br />question shall be followed by the words, "Yes" and "No" with an <br />appropriate square before each in which a voter may record a <br />choice. <br /> <br />Subd. 3. Adoption. If a majority of the votes cast <br />on the question of adoption of Optional Plan A or B is in the <br />