10877-22 An Ordinance Replacing & Amending Ch.2, Article 1, Sect 2-1 - & Including 2-9 of the SB Municipal Code (SUBSTITUTE BILL)

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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order to offer a further amendment by way of substitute, to which one (1) amendment may be offered, but neither may be withdrawn before amendment or decision is had thereon.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. (u) Appeals, questions of order, objections to the consideration of a question, the reading of papers, leave to withdraw a motion and suspension of the rules are questions which shall take precedence over and be decided before the question which gave rise to them; which several questions cannot be amended, and all questions of order which may arise pending a question which is not debatable must be decided without debate. (v) Form of ordinances and resolutions: All legislation of the City shall be by ordinance or by resolution. The word "resolution" as used in this chapter shall be the official action of the Council, and shall be limited to matters authorized by local, State or Federal law, and to matters pertaining to the internal affairs or operations of City Government. All resolutions shall be assigned a bill number by the City Clerk's office upon being properly filed with the City Clerk's office. Each resolution must have a short title identifying the subject matter of the resolution, followed by "whereas" clauses which set forth the background information of the resolution. Following the end of the "whereas" portion, the next paragraph shall begin with the words "Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, as follows:" and a section by section format shall follow thereafter. If the resolution is adopted by the Common Council and approved by the Mayor, the City Clerk's Office shall assign it a resolution number. All matters of a general and permanent nature which address issues addressed in the South Bend Municipal Code, which establish fees, or which regulate conduct, or which prescribe penalties, shall be submitted in the form of an ordinance. Each ordinance shall be identified with a bill number assigned by the City Clerk's office upon proper filing with that Office. Each ordinance must have a short title, and must specifically refer to the chapter, article and section of the Code, when it proposes an amendment to the South Bend Municipal Code. Ordinances shall be numbered in the order they are passed but shall be listed on the Council's agenda as they are introduced for filing, except when the Council may direct otherwise. The following format shall be used when introducing a proposed ordinance for Council consideration: (1) Each bill filed for ordinance consideration shall begin after a preliminary "Statement of Purpose and Intent" which shall set forth the overall purpose(s) of the bill, as well as relevant background information addressing governing local, State or Federal law or