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§ 33.012 CITY COUNCIL; PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE.
   Unless the City Council provides otherwise, the rules of parliamentary procedure specified in this section shall apply to meetings of the City Council. The Mayor shall preserve order during meetings of the City Council and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the City Council. When any person is called to order, he or she shall be seated until the point is decided. When the Mayor is putting the question, no person shall leave the meeting room. Every person present, previous to speaking, shall rise from his or her seat and address the presiding officer and while speaking shall confine his or her comments to the question. When two or more persons rise at once, the Mayor shall recognize the one who spoke first. All resolutions or motions shall be reduced to writing before being acted upon, if requested by the City Clerk or any member of the City Council. Every member of the City Council who is present when a question is voted upon shall cast his or her vote unless excused by a majority of the members of the City Council present. No motion shall be put or debated unless seconded. When seconded, it shall be stated by the Mayor before being debatable. In all cases where a motion or resolution is entered on the minutes, the name of the member of the City Council making the motion or resolution shall be entered also. After each vote, the “yeas” and “nays” shall be taken and entered in the minutes. Before the vote is actually taken, any resolution, motion, or proposed ordinance may be withdrawn from consideration by the sponsor with the consent of the member of the City Council seconding the resolution, motion, or ordinance. When, in the consideration of an ordinance, different times or amounts are proposed, the question shall be put on the largest sum, or the longest time. A question to reconsider shall be in order when made by a member voting with the majority, but the motion to reconsider must be made before the expiration of the third regular meeting after the initial consideration of the question. When any question is under debate, no motion shall be made, entertained, or seconded except the previous question, a motion to table, and to adjourn. Each of those motions shall be decided without debate. Any of the rules of the City Council for meetings may be suspended by a two-thirds vote of the members present. In all cases in which provisions are not made by these rules, Robert’s Rules of Order is the authority by which the City Council shall decide all procedural disputes that may arise.
§ 33.013 MINUTES.
   (A)   Each public body shall keep minutes of all meetings showing the time, place, members present and absent, and the substance of all matters discussed.
   (B)   The minutes of all meetings and evidence and documentation received or disclosed in open session shall be public records and open to public inspection during normal business hours.
   (C)   Minutes shall be written and available for inspection within ten working days or prior to the next convened meeting, whichever occurs earlier, except that the city may have an additional ten working days if the employee responsible for writing the minutes is absent due to a serious illness or emergency.
(Neb. RS 84-1413)
§ 33.014 CHANGE IN OFFICE.
   (A)   The Mayor and City Council shall meet at the time and place of the first regular meeting in December in each election year, and the outgoing officers and the outgoing members of the City Council shall present their reports. Upon the outgoing City Council having completed its business, the outgoing members of the City Council shall surrender their offices to the incoming members, and the outgoing officers shall thereupon each surrender to their successors in office all property, records, papers, and moneys belonging to the same.
   (B)   The newly elected members of the City Council and those continuing in office shall convene immediately after the prior City Council adjourns and proceed to organize themselves for the ensuing year. The Mayor shall call the meeting to order. The Clerk shall report to the City Council the names of all City Council members-elect who have qualified for their respective offices. The City Council shall examine the credentials of its members and any other elective officers of the city to see that each has been duly and properly elected and to see that such oaths and bonds as are required have been given. The City Clerk’s report shall be spread upon the minutes of the meeting preceding the roll call.
   (C)   After ascertaining that all City Council members and officers are duly qualified and after the City Clerk has called the roll, the City Council shall elect a President of the City Council. The Mayor shall nominate his or her candidates for appointive offices in which the terms of incumbents are expired and call for a vote on approval of the candidates. The Mayor shall then proceed with the regular order of business.
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