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(A) While the Town 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 Town Council nor disturb any member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the Town Council or its presiding officer, except as otherwise here provided.
(B) Any person making personal, impertinent, or slanderous remarks or who shall become boisterous while addressing the Town Council shall be forthwith, by the presiding officer, barred from further audience before the Town Council, unless permission to continue be granted by a majority vote of the Council.
(‘82 Code, § 2-302(13))
The Chief of Police or such member of the Police Department as he may designate, shall be Sergeant-at-Arms of the Town Council meetings. He, or they, shall carry out all orders and instructions given by the presiding officer for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum at the Town Council meetings. Upon instructions of the presiding officer, it shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to place any person who violates the order and decorum of the meeting under arrest and to eject him from the meeting place.
(‘82 Code, § 2-302(14)) (Am. Ord. 327, passed 3-10-82)
Any member of the Town Council shall have the right to have the reasons for his dissent from, or protest against, any action of the Town Council, entered on the minutes. He may, if he shall so desire, deliver to the Clerk-Treasurer, in triplicate, a typewritten list of those reasons within 48 hours after adjournment of the meeting which shall become a part of the Council’s minutes of the meeting as a supplement thereto.
(‘82 Code, § 2-302(15))
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