The Mayor or, in his or her absence, a President Pro Tempore of the Council shall be the presiding officer of the Council pursuant to I.C. 36-4-6-8, and meetings shall be conducted pursuant to the applicable statutes, I.C. 36-4-6-10 through 36-4-6-17, and in accordance with the following rules.
(A) Calling meeting to order. The Mayor shall take the chair precisely at the hour fixed for the meeting and shall call the Common Council to order if a legal quorum be present.
(B) Order of business. The order of business to be followed at a meeting of the Council shall be as follows unless suspended by the Mayor or presiding officer upon two-thirds’ vote of the Council:
(1) Roll call;
(2) Minutes of last meeting;
(3) Consideration of claims;
(4) Communications;
(5) Petitions, remonstrances, and memorials;
(6) Reports of committees;
(7) Reports of officers;
(8) Ordinances and resolutions;
(9) Unfinished business;
(10) New business; and
(11) Adjournment.
(C) Contempt and disorder in the Council room.
(1) No person shall use violent or contemptuous language, behave in a disorderly manner, or refuse to obey the orders of the Mayor or presiding officer in the Council room while the Council is in session. The Mayor or presiding officer may order the removal of any person who disturbs the decorum of a Council meeting.
(2) (a) If any member of the Council should engage in any conduct which is out of order during a Council meeting, the Mayor shall rule him or her to be out of order, and he or she shall then cease his or her conduct. The member may appeal the order of the Mayor to the Council who shall then decide, by a majority vote, whether the member was out of order.
(b) If the member should lose or fail to take the appeal and still persist in being out of order, the Chief of Police or his or her delegate shall eject him or her from the Council chambers. If the member then tries to reenter and participate in the Council meeting, he or she shall be subject to the penalty provided for in § 10.99.
(D) Introduction and adoption of ordinances and resolutions.
(1) All ordinances shall be regularly filed with the Clerk-Treasurer at least seven days before a regular meeting.
(2) All ordinances shall be read two times before being passed, and no ordinance shall pass on the same day in which it is introduced unless the provisions of I.C. 36-4-6-13 are complied with.
(3) Resolutions shall be subject to the same rule in the method of introduction and only require one reading for adoption.
(4) On the passage or adoption of any ordinance or resolution, the yeas and nays shall be taken and entered in the record, and the ordinance shall be processed in accordance with I.C. 36-4-6-14 through 36-4-6-17.
(Prior Code, § 30.26) (Ord. 1160, passed 8-29-1983)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see I.C. 36-4-6-8 and 36-4-6-10 through 36-4-6-17