When a motion is before the Village Council, only the following procedural motions shall be entertained with precedence in the order listed:
(A) Motion to lay question on table. Approval of a motion to lay the question on the table temporarily lays the question aside so that it may be taken up when it is in order or when no other question is before the Village Council. No amendments or debate of the subject may be considered. If the motion prevails, all amendments and documents accompanying the question shall adhere to the item. The consideration of the question may be resumed only upon motion of a member voting with the prevailing and with the consent of a majority of the Village Council.
(B) Motion for the previous question. Approval of a motion for the previous question to close debate shall be by at least five votes of the members. Adoption of a motion for the previous question shall close debate and the Village Council shall immediately proceed to a vote on the pending question.
(C) Motion to postpone to a time certain or make special order. Approval of a motion to postpone to a time certain defers consideration of a question to another day or to a certain hour when, after pending business is disposed of, it will have the right of consideration over all questions except a specific order or reconsideration. It may be amended as to time by a vote of a majority of the Village Council. Approval of a motion to make an item a special order defers consideration to a certain hour and will allow the matter to interrupt pending business. It may be adopted or be amended as to time by a majority of the Village Council.
(D) Motion to refer. Approval of a motion to refer may commit or recommit any pending question to a specific standing committee or may refer the matter to a special committee, the Village Manager, a board or commission or a department director for investigation, report or action. The response to such referral shall be made to the Village Council or as the Village Council otherwise directs.
(E) Motion to amend or fill blank. A motion to amend may only be amended once. An amendment once rejected may not be moved again substantially in the same form. A motion to fill a blank shall be made prior to voting on a resolution or ordinance.
(F) Motion to postpone indefinitely. Approval of a motion to postpone indefinitely rejects the question without a direct vote. If it is carried, the principal question shall be declared last. An affirmative vote may be reconsidered, a negative vote may not. If the motion to postpone indefinitely carries and is not reconsidered, the question cannot be brought up again during that the Village Council meeting.
(1995 Code, § 38.108)