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When Council decides to go into a Committee of the Whole, the President of Council or a Council Member designated by the President of Council, shall preside. The rules of Council, insofar as practicable, shall be observed in the Committee of the Whole, except ...

Unless changed by the Council President, business of all regular meetings of Council shall be transacted in the following order:    (1)   Call to order.    (2)   Invocation.    (3)   Pledge of Allegiance.    (4)   Roll call.    (5)   Reading and disposal of th...

On the passage of every ordinance or resolution and on the appointment of every officer the vote shall be taken by roll call vote, entered in full upon the records and written or typed in the official journal. On any other question the roll call vote shall be ...

When a question is before Council, no motion shall be entertained except the following:    (1)   To adjourn.    (2)   To fix the hour of adjournment.    (3)   To lay on the table.    (4)   To amend.    (5)   For the previous question.    (6)   To refer to a co...

When the previous question is moved and seconded, it shall be put as follows: “Shall the main question be now put?”. There shall then be no further amendment or abate, but pending amendments shall be put in their order before the main question. If this questio...

If the question contains two or more divisible propositions, the Presiding Officer may, and upon the request of a member, shall, divide the same, but a motion to strike out a provisions and insert a substitute is not divisible.

After the decision on any question, any member who voted with the prevailing side, or who was absent during the voting on the question, may move a reconsideration of any action at the same or the next succeeding meeting. A motion to consider shall require the ...

If any emergency ordinance or resolution fails to receive a two-thirds affirmative vote, such measure shall cease to be before Council as an emergency measure and shall have the standing that a measure would have had if it had not been read as an emergency mea...

When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be upon the request of any member of Council, stated by the Presiding Officer before any debate shall be in order. Any such motion may be withdrawn by the maker with the consent of the second before it has been amen...

When required by any member, any motion or proposition (except privileged questions) shall be reduced to writing before action is taken thereon. At any time any member deems it proper to prefer any charges against another member, person, company or corporation...

 To motion to adjourn shall always be in order unless Council is engaged in voting. A motion to adjourn, or to lay on the table, or for the previous question, shall be decided without debate.

 A motion to take from the table shall be in order only when that order of business is being transacted in which the matter to be taken up was laid upon the table. Such motion shall be decided without debate. However, the mover and the chairman of the committe...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Former Rule 29 was repealed by Ordinance 8-03

Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in Council only by members of Council then present, with their names endorsed thereon, except such ordinances and resolutions as may be presented to Council upon recommendation of some committee of Council or some...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Former Rule 31 was repealed by Ordinance 21-03.

The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be “Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Sheffield Lake, State of Ohio”. All ordinances before introduction shall be in a typewritten form. No ordinance or resolution or section thereof shall be revised or am...

Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to the subject of the appropriation. No money shall be appropriated except by ordinance. (Ord. 45-72. Passed 4-25-72.)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Former Rule 34 was repealed by Ordinance 21-03.