(a) Any person desiring to address Council shall first secure the permission of the presiding officer to do so.
(b) While Council is in session the members must preserve order and decorum, and a member shall neither by conversation or otherwise delay or interrupt the proceeding or the peace of Council, nor disturb any member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the Council or its presiding officer.
(c) Any person making personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks, or who shall become boisterous while addressing the Council shall be forthwith by the presiding officer barred from further audience by Council unless permission by a majority vote of Council be granted.
(d) The Chief of Police, or such member or members of the Police Department as he may designate shall be Sergeant-At-Arms of the Council meetings. He, or they, shall carry out all orders or instructions of the presiding officer for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum at the Council meetings. Upon instructions of the presiding officer, 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 to be prosecuted under the provisions of this section, the complaint to be signed by the presiding officer.
(1978 Code Sec. 2-5)
(e) Any person or persons violating any provision or provisions of this section shall be subject to the General Code penalty in Section 101.99.