(A) Decorum.
(1) By Council members. While the City Council is in session, the members must preserve order and decorum, and a member shall neither, by conversation or otherwise, delay or interrupt the proceedings or the peace of the Council nor disturb any member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the Council or its presiding officer, except as otherwise herein provided.
(2) By persons. 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 before the Council, unless permission to continue be granted by a majority vote of the Council.
(B) Enforcement of decorum. The Chief of Police, or such member or members of the Police Department as may be designated, shall be Sergeant-at-Arms of the Council meetings. He or she, or they, shall carry out all orders and instructions given by the presiding officer for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum at the Council meeting. Upon instructions of the presiding officer, it shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms, or any officer present, to place any person who violates the order and the decorum of the meeting under arrest, and cause him or her to be prosecuted under the provisions of this code, the complaint to be signed by the presiding officer.
(Prior Code, § 32.24) (Ord. 60-1, passed 12-19-1960)