§ 36. Provisions for adoption of new or revised city charter proposed\nby a charter commission. 1. A local law providing a new or revised city\ncharter also may be adopted in any city pursuant to the provisions of\nthis section.\n 2. The legislative body may adopt a local law providing for (a) the\nestablishment of a commission to draft a new or revised city charter, or\n(b) the submission to the electors of such city at a general or special\nelection of the question: "Shall there be a commission to draft a new or\nrevised city charter as proposed by local law number . . . . . . for\nthe year . . . . . ?" Such question may also specify the composition of\nsuch commission as provided in such local law. Such election shall be\nheld not less than sixty days after the adoption of such local law. Such\nlocal law shall fix or provide the method of determining the number of\nmembers of such commission and determine whether the members shall be\nelected or appointed, or partly elected and partly appointed. It shall\nalso prescribe the manner of appointment of appointive members, the\nmanner of election of elective members and whether elective members\nshall be elected by the city at large or by districts described in such\nlocal law. In a case where a question is so submitted, the elective\nmembers of the commission, if any, shall be elected at the election at\nwhich the question is submitted. If the question be answered in the\naffirmative by a majority vote of the qualified electors of such city\nvoting thereon, the members of the charter commission, appointed or\nelected thereto, shall be a charter commission of such city, except that\nif at the same election more than one proposal for establishing a\ncharter commission receives such approval only the proposal receiving\nthe largest number of affirmative votes shall be deemed adopted.\n 3. A local law for the creation of a commission to draft a new or\nrevised city charter also may be adopted in the following manner:\nQualified electors of a city, registered to vote therein at the last\npreceding general election, in number equal to at least fifteen per\ncentum of the total number of votes cast for governor at the last\ngubernatorial election in such city, or forty-five thousand, whichever\nis less, may file in the office of the city clerk a petition for the\nsubmission to the electors of such city of a proposed local law for the\ncreation of a commission to draft a new or revised city charter for such\ncity and if such petition is found to meet all the requirements of law,\nthe legislative body of the city shall submit such local law to the\nelectors of such city at the next general election therein held not less\nthan sixty days after the filing of such petition. Such proposed local\nlaw shall fix or provide the method of determining the number of members\nof such commission and shall provide for its composition. It may name\nall or any of such members and may provide for the election or\nappointment of all or any of them. It shall prescribe the manner of\nappointment of appointive members and the time and manner of election of\nelective members. It shall also determine whether elective members shall\nbe elected from the city at large or by districts described in such\nlocal law. Such petition shall conform to the provisions of section\ntwenty-four in relation to petitions. It shall be examined and reported\non by the city clerk as prescribed in such section, and objections\nthereto shall be disposed of by the supreme court as prescribed by such\nsection. The city clerk shall transmit such proposed local law in the\nform in which it is to be submitted, which shall include the proposed\ncomposition of such commission, to the election officers charged with\nthe duty of publishing the notice of such election. If two or more such\npetitions are filed providing for the submission of different proposed\nlocal laws, the city clerk shall designate each such proposed local law\nnumeric
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