(A) Statement; reading of written resolution and the like. When any question or resolution is moved and seconded, it shall be stated by the presiding officer of the Common Council before debate. If any question or resolution is in writing, it shall be handed to the Clerk, who shall read it aloud before debate.
(B) Oral; written; generally. Ordinary motions before the Common Council may be oral; however, upon demand of any member, any motion may be required to be reduced to writing, except a motion to do the following:
(1) Adjourn;
(2) Adjourn to a day or time certain;
(3) Postpone indefinitely;
(4) Commit;
(5) Amend;
(6) Suspend the rules; and/or
(7) Concur.
(C) Withdrawal. After a motion is stated by the presiding officer, it shall be deemed to be in the possession of the Council, but may be withdrawn by the mover thereof at any time before the decision or amendment.
(D) When question pending. When any question before the Common Council is pending or under debate, no motion shall be in order except the following, which shall have precedence in the order enumerated:
(1) To adjourn;
(2) To lay on the table;
(3) Previous question;
(4) To commit; and
(5) To amend.
(E) Motion to adjourn, generally. A motion to adjourn a meeting of the Common Council shall always be in order, except when a motion to adjourn has been decided in the negative. It shall not be in order to entertain or repeat another motion to adjourn then, until some other business has intervened.
(F) Debate. At meetings of the Common Council, all motions to adjourn, to lay on the table and for the previous question shall be decided without debate.
(G) Reconsideration of tabled motion. Any matter laid upon the table may be taken up by a vote of the Council at any time; provided, that a motion to reconsider, once laid upon the table, cannot again be considered.
(Prior Code, § 30.13)