§ 2-55. Decorum.

(a)

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 city council or disturb any member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the city council.

(b)

Any person making personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks or who shall become boisterous while addressing the city council shall be forthwith by the presiding officer barred and removed from further audience before the city council unless permission to continue is granted by a majority vote of the city council.

(c)

The chief of police or such members of the police department as he may so designate, shall be sergeant-at-arms at city council meetings. They shall carry out all orders and instructions given by the presiding officer for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum at city council meetings, upon instructions of the presiding officer, unless overruled by a majority vote of the city council. It shall be the duty of the sergeant-at-arms 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 Code.

(Code 1966, § 1-1.10; Code 1982, § 2-27; Ord. No. 1528, § 11, 8-12-1974; Ord. No. 2889, § 1, 8-15-2005)