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<br />(12) COMMUNICATIONS TO BE IN WRITING.
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<br />No communication to Council shall be entertained unless the same be in writing.
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<br />(13) MOTIONS OR PROPOSITIONS TO BE IN WRITING;TO BE STATED BEFORE DISCUSSION, WHEN THERE
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<br />MAY BE WITHDRAWN.
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<br />Every motion or proposition, except such as are subsidiary or incidental
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<br />shall be in writing. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be stated by the
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<br />President before debate. A motion or proposition may be withdrawn by the mover
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<br />with consent of second, at any tine before it is decided, amended or otherwise acted
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<br />upon by the Council.
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<br />(14) MOTIONS -- AMENDMENTS MUST BE RELEVANT.
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<br />No motion, propoeition, or subject different from that under consideration,
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<br />shall be admitted under color of amendment.
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<br />(15) GENERAL ORFINANCES TO BE READ TWICE BEFORE PASSAGR. READING MAY BR DISPENSED WITH
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<br />BY MAJORITY VOTE.
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<br />Every general ordinance shall be read twice before its final passage.
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<br />The first reading shall be for information. If objection be made to the ordinance
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<br />the question shall be: "Shall the proposition be rejected?" If there be no objection
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<br />or if on a vote the objections be not sustained,the ordinance shall stand referred
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<br />without debate to the Ordinance Committee who shall report on the same at the next.
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<br />regular meeting of the Council, unless otherwise specially ordered. Upon the report
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<br />of the Ordinance Committee and upon the second reading of the ordinance, the question
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<br />shall be upon its final passage, which must be determined by a majority vote.
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<br />Any reading may be dispensed with by a majority vote.
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<br />(16) GENIERAL ORDINANCES TO BE REFERRED TO COMMITTE AND GO OVER TO NEXT
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<br />MEETING, UNLESS OTHERWISE ORERED BY THREE-FOURTHS.
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<br />No general ordinance shall be enacted, amended or repealed without being re-
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<br />ferred to the Ordinance Committee, nor until the next regular meeting after such
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<br />ordinance, amendment or repeal is proposed except by a vote of two-thrids of the ___
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<br />Council.
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<br />(17) ORDINANCES TO BE REPEALED OR AMENDED ONLY BY ORDINANCE.
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<br />EFFECT FROM DATE, UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED / ORDINANCES TO TAKE
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<br />No ordinance shall be amended or repealed except by an ordinance, provided
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<br />that the suspension of rules may be by a motion. Every ordinance shall take effect
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<br />from the date of its passage,unless otherwise provided.
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<br />(18) STYLE OF ORDIANCES AND RESOULUTIONS.
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<br />The style in which ordinances shall be enacted by the Council shall be as
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<br />follws: "Be it ordained by the Council of Charlottesville," and that in which, resole -
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<br />tions shall be passed shall be : "Be it resolved by the Council of Charlottesville."
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<br />(19)
<br />MOTIONS-- ORDER OF PROCEDURE.
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<br />When a question is under debate no motion shall be entertained unless
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<br />specially provided for, except the following, which shall take precedence in the order given;
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<br />1. To adJourn, to be made without preliminary reriarks and decided without debate..
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<br />2. To lay on the table, to be decided without debate.
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<br />3. For the Previous Question, to be decide without debate.
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<br />4 To postpone, either indefinitely, or to a day or hour certain.
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<br />5. To Refer, or Recommit.
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<br />6. To Substitute, or Amend.
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<br />6. To Adopt, Or Approve.
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<br />(20) MOTION TO ADJORN -- WHEN IN ORDER.
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<br />A motion to adjourn shall always be in order except when a member has the
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<br />floor, when the Council is engauged in voting, when the previous question has been ordered
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<br />or when the motion to adjourn has been put and lost and no other business has __
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<br />Any member who obtains the floor pending a debate and submits no of other motion
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<br />or remark, may move for the previous question which motion, if seconded shall forthwith
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<br />be put to the Council. Two-thirds of the members present shall be required to order
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<br />the main or previous question.
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<br />(21) PREVIOUS QUESTION ---HOW PUT.
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<br />The previous question shall be in this form: 'Shall the main question now __
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<br />If carried, its effect shall be to end all debate and bring the Council to a direct
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<br />vote upon a motion to commit, if pending,then upon pending amendments, if any, and then
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<br />upon the main question. If the motion for the previous question be not carried,
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<br />debate may continue as if the motion had not been made.
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<br />(22) FILLING BLANKS IN CERTAIN ORDINANCES.
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<br />In filling blanks in ordinances or resolutions involving money or time,
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<br />the question shall be rut first upon the largest sum or longest time.
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<br />(23) MAJORITY VOTE TO GOVERN UNLESS OTHERWISE ORDERED.
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<br />In all matters pending before the Council, a majority shall govern, except
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<br />in cases where it is otherwise specially provided.
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<br />(24) MEMBERS NOT TO VOTE WHEN PERSONALLY INTERESTED. IN OTHER CASES
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<br />TO VOTE UNLESS EXCUSED.
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<br />No member having an immediate personal or pecuniary interest in thr result
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<br />of any question before the Council shall vote thereon. In all other cases, every
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<br />member present when a question is put, shall vote unless excused by the Council.
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<br />(25 ) YEA AND NAY VOTE--
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<br />On the call of any member of the Council the vote on any question may be
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<br />taken by ayes and nays, and recorded, provided the demand be made before other business
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<br />has been taken up.
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