§ 2-144. Decorum.  


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  • (a)

    The following rules of decorum shall govern the council and council meetings:

    (1)

    While the council is in session, the members must preserve order and decorum, and a member shall, neither by conservation or otherwise, delay or interrupt the proceedings or the peace of the council nor disturb any member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the council or its presiding officer, except as otherwise herein provided.

    (2)

    Any person making personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks or who shall become boisterous while addressing the council shall be forthwith barred from further audience before the council by the presiding officer, unless permission to continue be granted by a majority vote of the council.

    (b)

    The city manager shall furnish a member or members of the police department to be sergeant-at-arms of the council meeting. The sergeant-at-arms shall carry out all orders and instructions given by the presiding officer for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum at the council meeting. Upon instructions of the presiding officer, it shall be the duty of the sergeant-at-arms, or any of them present, to place any person who violates the order and decorum of the meeting under arrest, and cause him to be prosecuted under the provisions of this Code, the complaint to be signed by the presiding officer.

(Code 1960, § 2-1(l))