(A) (1) While the Council is in session, the members must preserve order and decorum, and a member shall neither, by conversation or otherwise, delay or interrupt the proceedings or the peace of the Council, nor disturb any member while speaking or refuse to obey the lawful order of the Council or its Mayor, except as otherwise herein provided.
(2) Any person making personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks or who shall become boisterous and unruly while addressing the Council shall be forthwith, by the Mayor, barred from further audience before the Council at that meeting unless permission to continue be granted by a majority vote of the Council.
(Prior Code, § 2-615)
(B) The Chief of Police or a member or members of the Police Department, as he or she may designate, shall be sergeant-at-arms of the Council meetings. He, she or they shall carry out all lawful orders and instructions given by the Mayor for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum of the Council meeting. Upon instructions of the presiding official, 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 or her to be prosecuted under the provisions of this code, the complaint to be signed by the presiding official. (Prior Code, § 2-616)
(Ord. 1632, passed 3-7-00)