Substitute Bill No. 42-22 Replacing & Amending Chapter 2, Article 1, Sect 2-1

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(h) The presiding officer shall decide whether any question is carried by affirmative or a negative vote; but if the presiding officer is in doubt, and the "ayes" and "nays" or a division be called for, the presiding officer shall call for a roll call vote. (i) When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received, but to adjourn, for the previous question(which motion shall be decided without debate), to lay on the table, to postpone to a day certain, to refer, to amend, or to postpone indefinitely, which several motions shall have preference in the order in which they are here arranged. (j) The motion to adjourn and the motion to fix a time to which the Council shall adjourn shall always be in order, the latter motion taking precedence over the former. (k) The motion to lay an amendment on the table shall not affect the subject which it is proposed to amend. (1) A "call for question" motion shall be proper after each member present has had the opportunity to address the specific issue under debate. Said motion shall not require a second and upon such a motion all debate shall cease. The presiding officer shall then repeat the"call for question"motion pending before the Council and ask for a voice vote on said issue. (m) The motion to postpone to a date certain can be amended by altering the time. (n) The motion to commit may be amended by altering the committee or by giving instructions. (o) A motion to amend and a motion to amend that amendment shall be in order, and it shall also be in order to offer a further amendment by way of substitute, to which one (1) amendment may be offered, but neither may be withdrawn before amendment or decision is had thereon. (p) No motion or proposition postponed indefinitely shall be taken up again at the same or next succeeding meeting. (q) A question shall be divided on the demand of any member if it includes two (2) or more distinct propositions. (r) A motion to strike out and insert shall be indivisible,but a motion to strike out being lost shall neither preclude amendment, nor motion to strike out and insert, and no motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be submitted under color of amendment. (s) Motion to reconsider: When a motion has been made and carried or lost, it shall be in order for any member of the majority at the same or the next regular meeting, to move for the reconsideration thereof. Such a motion upon being made may be seconded by any Council Member and may be made at any time. It shall be debatable and requires a majority vote to prevail. No such motion shall be introduced at a subsequent meeting unless the member intending to make the same shall have given written notice of such intention at the meeting at which the vote which he or she desires to have reconsidered was taken. (t) When a resolution is offered or a report or other matter presented, the presiding officer may take the reception thereof for granted, unless objection be made, when a formal motion shall be required.