When a question or proposition is before Council or under debate, no motion shall be received, except the following: first, to adjourn or recess; second, to lay on the table; third, for the previous question; fourth, to postpone to a certain day; fifth, to commit or amend; sixth, to postpone indefinitely, which several motions shall have precedence in the order named. The motion to adjourn or recess shall always be in order, unless Council is engaged in voting, and the motion to adjourn or to lay on the table, and for the previous question, shall be decided without debate, but the member making a motion to lay on the table may offer an explanation as to the reason for such motion.
(Ord. 59 (78-79). Passed 7-20-78.)