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PART TWO 2
• Points of order: The Mayor may speak on points of order in preference to other members, and shall
decide questions of order without debate, subject to an appeal to the Council. On every appeal, the Mayor
shall have the right to assign reasons for his decision, and such decision shall be final unless reversed by a
majority vote of all the other members present.
• Adjournment: A motion to adjourn shall be in order at any time except on an immediate repetition or
when, on the call of the previous question or the pending question, the same shall have been ordered or
when a member shall have the floor or pending the verification of a vote and such motion to adjourn shall
be decided without debate.
• Reconsideration of motions: No motion for reconsideration of an ordinance or resolution shall be in
order: (1)unless made at the same meeting at which such ordinance or resolution was considered, and
such motion shall be proposed by one (1) of the members of the prevailing side and shall require the
consent of four-sevenths ( 4/7 ) of the entire Council; or (2) a written notice at least twenty-four (24) hours
in advance has been given to each Council member that such motion shall be proposed at the next regular
Council meeting by one (1) of the members of the prevailing side and shall require the consent of four-
sevenths ( 4/7 ) of the entire Council.
• Amendment, suspension or repeal: No ordinance shall be amended, suspended or repealed except
by ordinance regularly introduced and passed, nor shall any section of an ordinance be amended unless
the whole section of the ordinance be reordained.
• Robert’s Rules: The rules of parliamentary practice comprised in “Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly
Revised,” 12th Edition, 2020 Copyright, shall be parliamentary authority in the Council except as otherwise
provided.
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