Upon all questions other than the passage of an ordinance or the adoption of a resolution, a viva voce vote shall be sufficient, unless the yeas and nays have been demanded, and the Clerk shall enter upon the journal the yeas and nays upon the passage of all ordinances and the adoption of all resolutions, except in cases where the rule is made otherwise by the Codified Ordinances, and except upon a demand for the previous question. A majority of the quorum present shall be sufficient to decide all questions. All questions shall be distinctly stated by the Chair, and shall be put in the following form: "Gentlemen, you who are of a contrary opinion will say no" or if, upon the passage of an ordinance or the adoption of resolution, or upon a question upon which the yeas and nays have been demanded then the question shall be put in this form: " Gentlemen you who are of the opinion that the ordinance pass, or that the resolution be adopted, or that the motion prevail will, as your names are called, say yea; you who are of the contrary opinion will say no". The Chair shall after each vote declare the result and state the effect thereof. An adjournment shall carry the question pending to the table, and all petitions, memorials, remonstrances, ordinances, resolutions and questions shall go to the table in all cases until the next regular meeting, when they shall come up in order under the call for unfinished business.
(1955 Code §111.17)