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HomeMy WebLinkAbout347_Adopting Rules for City Council Meetings430659 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2030 CITY OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA ORDINANCE NO. 347 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING CERTAIN RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR THE CITY OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA, WITH RESPECT TO THE CONDUCT OF MEETINGS OF SAID CITY COUNCIL, PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER. WHEREAS, by authority granted under the provisions of Section 2 -11 of the Charter of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, the City Council of said City may promulgate rules regulating the procedure for the conduct of City Council meetings of said City; and, WHEREAS, these proposed rules were reviewed by members of the City Council and by the office of the City Manager and City Attorney; and, WHEREAS, the proposed written rules of procedure of the Owasso City Council, a true and correct copy thereof being attached hereto, made a part hereof, and marked Exhibit "A ", will promote and foster the orderly conduct of City Council meetings and improve the conduct of the City's business; and, WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, finds that it would be in the best interest of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, to adopt said Rules of Procedure of the Owasso City Council. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, as follows: Section 1: That the written Rules of Procedure of the City Council of the City of Owasso, a true and correct copy of BOOK 4908 PAGE 2031 said Rules of Procedure hereby adopted is attached hereto, made a part hereof, and is marked Exhibit "A ", be and same are hereby approved and adopted; and, Section 2: That the provisions of this Ordinance shall be made a part of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, and the sections of the Ordinance shall be placed within Part 2 - Administration and Government as Chapter 4 - City Council Rules of Procedure, and numbered sequentially in the fashion as set forth in Exhibit "A "; and, Section 3: That all ordinances, resolutions or rules of procedure, written or otherwise, in conflict herewith are hereby specifically repealed. DATED this 5TH day of Nov., 1985. CITY OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA By: Mayor Boyd M. Spencer Attest: Ann Hendrickson, City Clerk Approved as to form: Ronald D. Cates, City Attorney STATE OF OKLAHOMA TULSA COUNTY FILED OR RECORDED 1985 NOV 26 PM 12:33 JOAN HASTINGS TULSA COUNTY CLERK BOOK 4908 PAGE 2032 EXHIBIT "A" RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA SECTION 4 -101: General Provisions. The following provisions, unless modified by subsequent Ordinance consistent with Section 1 -106 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, shall govern the conduct of all regular, special and emergency meetings of the City Council of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma. SECTION 4 -102: Regular Meetings. A. Time. The City Council shall hold regular meetings on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 P.M.; PROVIDED, however, that when the day fixed for any regular meeting of the City Council falls on a day designated by law as a legal or national holiday, a day wherein an election is held within said City, or a day wherein a majority of the members of the City Council shall be absent from said City, the Council, not less than ten (10) days prior to the date for implementation of any such change, may, by motion, change the date, time or place of a regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council, provided written notice thereof is contemperaneously given the City Clerk of said City. B. Place. All regular meetings of the City Council shall be held in the Council Chambers, 207 South Cedar, Owasso, Oklahoma, unless otherwise provided in sub - section A hereof. BOOK 4908 PAGE 2033 SECTION 4 -103: Special Meetings. The Mayor may call special meetings of the City Council whenever in his or her opinion the public business may require it, or a special meeting shall be called at the express written request of any three (3) members of the City Council. Whenever a special meeting shall be called, a notice in writing signed by the Mayor or the City Clerk attesting to the Mayoral call shall be served upon each member of the Council either in person or by notice left at said Council Member's place of residence, stating the date, place and hour of the meeting and the purpose for which such meeting is called, and no business shall be transacted thereat, except such as is stated in the notice. SECTION 4 -104: Agenda. All reports, communications, ordinances, resolutions, contract documents, or other matters to be submitted to the Council shall, at least five (5) calendar days prior to each Council Meeting, be delivered to the City Clerk, whereupon the City Clerk shall arrange a list of such matters according to the order of business and furnish each member of the Council, the City Manager and the City Attorney with a copy of same prior to the Council Meeting and as far in advance of the meeting as time for preparation will permit. The foregoing should not be interpreted as precluding the utilization of addendum to the agenda; provided however, that same complies with the requirements of the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act, and further, is of an urgent nature as well as concerns a matter which 2 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2034 could not have otherwise been transmitted to said City Clerk in a timely fashion. Inclusion of the foregoing matters on the agenda shall be by request of the Mayor or Council Member or by the City Manager or the City Clerk or the City Attorney of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma. Administrative Officers may present matters for inclusion on the agenda, provided however, prior approval thereof has been given by the City Manager of City. SECTION 4 -105 Presiding Official - Election of Duties. The presiding official of the City Council shall be the Mayor who shall be elected annually at the first meeting in May of each year, by the members from their membership. The Mayor shall assume the chair of the presiding official immediately after his election. The presiding official shall preserve strict order and decorum at all regular, special and emergency meetings of the City Council. He shall state every question coming before the Council, announce the decision of the Council on all subjects and decide all questions of order; subject, however, to an appeal to the Council, in which event a majority vote of the Council shall govern and conclusively determine such question of order. He shall vote on all questions, his name being called last. He shall sign all ordinances and resolutions, and all other obligations of the City as authorized by the City Council, adopted by the Council during his presence. In the event of the absence of the Mayor, a Vice - Mayor, elected from the membership at the first meeting 3 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2035 in May of each year, shall be the presiding official as well as sign all ordinances, resolutions or obligations of the City as adopted the City Council, during his presence. SECTION 4 -106 Order. The Mayor, or in his absence, the Vice - Mayor, or upon the occurrence of three (3) Councilpersons being present, the City Clerk, or his assistant, shall call the Council to order; whereupon a temporary chairman shall be elected by the three (3) members of the Council present. Upon the arrival of the Mayor or Vice - Mayor, the temporary chairman shall immediately relinquish the chair upon the conclusion of the business immediately before the Council. SECTION 4 -107 Roll Call. Before proceeding with the business of the Council, the City Clerk or his Deputy shall call the roll of the members, and the names of those present shall be entered in the minutes. SECTION 4 -108 Quorum. A majority of all the members elected to the Council shall constitute a quorum at any regular, special or emergency meeting of the Council. In the absence of a quorum, the Mayor or Vice -Mayor in the Mayor's absence, shall, at the instance of any Council Member's present, compel the attendence of absent members. SECTION 4 -109 Order of Business. All meetings, regular, special and emergency, except executive sessions as authorized by law, shall be open to the public. No person shall be barred unless such person is disorderly or refuses to obey the order of the Mayor, or Vice -Mayor in the Mayor's 4 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2036 absence, or temporary chairman upon the event of absence of either the Mayor or Vice - Mayor, who may order the Chief of Police or any attending police officer to eject any such person. The police department shall have at least one officer present or standing by at each Council meeting. Promptly at the hour set by law on the day of each regular, special or emergency meeting, the members of the City Council, the City Manager, the City Clerk and the City Attorney shall take their regular stations in the Council Chambers and the business of the City Council shall be taken up for consideration and disposition in the following order; 1. Call to order 2. Flag Salute 3. Roll Call 4. Approval of minutes of previous meeting 5. Consideration of unfinished business from previous meeting 6. Introduction and adoption of resolutions and ordinances 7. Consideration of petitions, contracts and communications 8. Report of officers 9. Approval of claims 10. New business 11. Consideration of request for executive sessions. The order of disposition of the matters to be taken up for consideration by the Council may be rearranged by the direction of the Mayor, or the Vice -Mayor in the Mayor's 5 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2037 absence, or the temporary chairman in the event of absence of the Mayor and Vice - Mayor, the concept of the Mayoral perogative being hereby preserved. SECTION 4 -110 Reading of Minutes. Unless the reading of the minutes of a Council meeting is requested by a member of the Council, such minutes may be approved without reading if the City Clerk has previously furnished each member with a synopsis thereof. SECTION 4 -211 Rules of Debate. A. Mayor or Vice -Mayor May Debate and Vote The Mayor, Vice -Mayor or temporary chairman, as the case may be, may move, second and debate from the chair, subject only to such limitations of debate as are by these rules imposed on all members and shall not be deprived of any of the rights and privileges of a Council member by reason of acting as the presiding officer. B. Getting the Floor, Improper References to nteruptions. Every member desiring to speak shall address the chair, and say, "Mr. Mayor ", and such member shall not proceed with the member's remarks until named and recognized by the presiding officer. If any member is speaking, or otherwise, transgresses the rules of the City Council, the Mayor shall, or any member may, call such person to order, and the member called to order shall immediately cease, unless permitted to explain, and the Council, if appealed to, shall decide without debate. If the decision be in favor of the member 6 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2038 called to order, he shall be at liberty to proceed. If against him and the case requires, he shall be liable to the censure of the Council. No person shall speak more than twice on the same question, unless permitted by the Council. No member of the Council shall leave his seat to speak to any other member of the Council or any other person in the Council Chamber without first obtaining permission of the Mayor. When the City Council is in session, or when a member is speaking, or the City Clerk is reading any paper to the City Council, no member shall in any way disturb the proceedings of the City Council. No member of the City Council shall be permitted to talk upon any one given subject longer than five (5) minutes at any given meeting, except when permission be granted for an extension of time by a two - thirds (2/3) vote of the members present at such meeting of the Council. No members of the Council shall, at any time in addressing any meetings thereof, indulge in any personalities or indecorous language or in any matters or things not pertaining to the subject under discussion. The right of the floor of the Council shall be accorded only to the members of the Council and to the appointive officers of the City unless otherwise provided for herein. C. Privilege of Closing Debate. A Council member moving for the adoption of an ordinance or resolution shall have the privilege of closing the debate thereon. In all other cases the closing of debate shall be governed by the presiding official unless by two - thirds (2/3) 7 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2039 vote of the members present at such meeting the Council decides to extend debate for a time certain. D. Motion to Reconsider A motion to reconsider may be made either immediately during the same session, or at a recessed and reconvened session thereof only. Such motion need not be made by one not of the prevailing side, and be seconded by any Council member. Such motion shall take precedence over all other motions and it shall be debatable. E. Remarks of Council Members When Entered In the Minutes. Any Council Member may request, through the presiding official, the privilege of having an abstract of said Council member's statement on any subject under consideration by the Council entered in the minutes. If the Council consents thereto, such statement shall be entered in the minutes. F. Synopsis of Debate - When Entered In the Minutes. The City Clerk may be directed by the presiding official, with consent of the Council, to enter in the minutes a synopsis of discussion on any question coming regularly before the Council. G. Motions. When a question before the Council contains several propositions, any member may call for a division of the question so as to vote on each proposition separately. Unless such request for division is made, after preliminary discussion of an agenda item, the Mayor shall, consistent 8 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2040 with these Rules, call the matter for determination by the Council. Subsequent to the Mayor calling the matter for determination the procedure shall be as follows: Main Motion - Any member of the Council desiring to offer a motion on a particular agenda item shall so indicate by raising his or her hand to obtain the Mayor's recognition. Subsequent to the Mayor recognizing said member, the member will thereupon, in clear and concise terms, move to 1) continue the matter; 2) table the matter indefinitely; 3) to take a certain course of action; 4) approve for award a bid pending the signing of the contract and furnishing the required bond; 5) adoption of Ordinance # and that the reading of the Ordinance be waived; 6) adoption of Resolution #_ and that the reading of the Resolution be waived; 7) approve or reject the claim of in the amount of; or, 8) approve consent agenda items. Thereafter, members desiring to second such motion shall so indicate to the Mayor by raising said member's hand. Subsequent to the main motion receiving a second, the Mayor shall call for a vote; whereupon, the City Clerk shall in varying order, with the Mayor being called last, call for a roll call vote. In all cases, the member making the motion, the member seconding the motion and the vote of the members thereon shall be entered in the minutes of the Council. Every Council member abstaining from voting on a motion or being silent to same shall be recorded as having cast a negative vote on such matter. If no member offers a motion on an agenda item, the Mayor 9 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2041 shall again call for motions. If no motion is presented after the second calling, the Mayor shall declare the item fails for lack of motion. Similarly, if know one seconds another members motion, the Mayor shall, after calling twice therefor, declare that the motion fails for lack of a second. Upon a motion having been offered and seconded, the Mayor shall call for a vote. Anytime prior to the Mayor's calling for vote of the Council, a member may move to amend the motion, which shall require a second. An amendment must be germane to the main motion and be accepted by the member making said main motion and the member seconding same, if applicable. H. Items Previously Voted On By Council. An Item previously decided by the City Council may be placed on the agenda as a new item of business only under the following circumstances: 1. When the vote by the City Council occurred at least six (6) months before the item again appears on the agenda; 2. Annually, when Council members have been sworn into office and the time was voted on by the previous Council. 3. This section shall not apply to any matters dealing with initiation, prosecution, defense or settlement of litigation brought by or against the City, its employees or agencies. SECTION 4 -112 Addressing the Council. Any person desiring to address the Council shall first 10 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2042 secure the permission of the Mayor to do so; provided, however, that under the following headings of business, any qualified person may address the Council without securing prior permission: A. Written communications. Interested parties or their authorized representatives may address the Council by written communications in regards to matters then under discussion. B. Oral communications. Taxpayers or residents of the City, or their authorized legal representatives, may address the Council by oral communications on any matter concerning the City's business, or any matter over which the Council has control; provided, however, preference shall be given those persons who have notified the City Clerk in advance of their desire to speak in order that same may appear on the Agenda of the City Council. Absent an emergency situation, no action will be taken by the City Council on a matter deemed not listed on the agenda and falling within the new business section of said agenda. SECTION 4 -113 Addressing the Council After Motion Made. After a motion is made by the Council, no person shall address the Council without first securing permission of the Council to do so. SECTION 4 -114 Manner of Addressing Council, Time Limit. Each person addressing the Council shall stand up and seek the Mayor's recognition. Upon recognition by the Mayor such person addressing the Council shall give his name and address in an audible tone of voice for the records, and 11 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2043 unless further time is granted by the Council shall limit his address to five (5) minutes. All remarks shall be addressed to the Council as a body and not to any member thereof. No person, other than the Council and the person having the floor shall be permitted to enter into any discussion, either directly or through a member of the Council, without the permission of the Mayor. No questions shall be asked of the Councilman except through the Mayor. SECTION 4 -115 Decorum. A. By Council Members. While the 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 Council nor disturb any member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the Council or it's Mayor, except as otherwise herein provided. B. By persons. Any person making personal, impertinent, or slanderous remarks or who shall become boistrous and unruly while addressing the Council shall be forthwith, by the Mayor, barred from further audience before the Council, unless permission to continue be granted by a majority vote of the Council. SECTION 4 -116 Enforcement of Decorum. The Chief of Police, or such member or members of the Police Department as he may designate, shall be Sargeant -at -Arms of the Council meetings. He, or they, shall carry out all orders and instructions given by the Mayor for the purpose of 12 BOOK 4908 pace 2044 maintaining order and decorum of the Council meeting. Upon instructions of the presiding official, it shall be the duty of the Sargeant -at -Arms, or any of them present, 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, the complaint to be signed by the presiding official. SECTION 4 -118 Special Committees. All special committees shall be appointed by the presiding official, with confirmation by the Council. SECTION 4 -119 Standing Committee. The only standing committee of the Council shall be the committee of the whole. The Mayor shall be the presiding official of the committee of the whole and the rules of proceedings of the Council shall be observed in a committee of the whole as far as the same may be applicable. SECTION 4 -120 Members May File Protest Against Council Action. Any member shall have the right to have the reasons for his dissent from, or protest against, any action the Council entered on the minutes. SECTION 4 -121 Claims Against City. No account or other demand against City shall be allowed until the same has been considered and reported upon and approved by the Council. SECTION 4 -122 Ordinances, Resolutions, Motions and Contracts. A. Ordinances. All ordinances unless otherwise 13 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2045 provided for herein shall be prepared by the City Attorney. No ordinance shall be prepared for presentation to the Council unless ordered by a majority vote of the Council, or requested in writing by the Mayor or City Manager. B. Prior Approval By Administrative Staff. All ordinances, resolutions and contract documents shall, before presentation to the Council, have been approved as to form and legality by the City Attorney or his authorized representative, and further, such shall have been examined and approved for administration by the City Manager or his authorized representative, where there are substantive matters of administration involved. All such instruments shall have first been referred to the head of the department under whose jurisdiction the administration of the subject matter of the ordinance, resolution or contract document would devolve and be approved by said department head; provided, however, that if approval is not given, then the same shall be returned to the City Manager with a written memorandum of the reasons why such approval is withheld. In the event the questioned instrument is not redrafted to meet a department head objection, or objection is not withdrawn and approval in writing given, then the City Manager shall so advise the Council and give the reasons advanced by the department head for withholding approval. C. Ordinances and Resolutions, Introduction for passage and approval. 1. Ordinances and Resolutions must be introduced and 14 BOOK 4968 PAGE 2046 sponsored by a member of the Council, except that the City Manager may present ordinances and resolutions, and any Council member may assume sponsorship thereof by moving that such ordinance or resolution be adopted; otherwise, they shall not be considered. 2. No ordinance shall relate to more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title and no ordinance, or section thereof. 3. When any person, persons or corporations shall present an ordinance to the Council asking for any franchise, lease, privilege, right -of -way, occupancy or otherwise, of any street, alley, wharf, landing, park, square, or any public ground or property, or any extension of a previous grant of the same or the closing of any street or alley, they shall furnish to the Council an original and eight (8) copies of the ordinance printed, and if required by a majority vote of the Council, the person, persons, or corporations presenting such ordinance shall provide each member of the Council, the City Manager, the City Attorney, and the City Clerk, a plat of the property. No ordinance shall be considered until these terms have been complied with. SECTION 4 -123 Adjournment. A Motion to adjourn shall always be required to end any meeting of the Council. Further, a motion to adjourn shall always be in order and decided without debate. SECTION 4 -124 Disturbinq Council Meetings. It shall be unlawful for any person to, during the course of any 15 BOOK 4908 PAGE 2047 regular, special or emergency meeting of the City Council of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, engage in any conduct calculated to or resulting in a disruption or disturbance of the administration of the public business coming before the City Council. Any person deemed in violation of this ordinance may be summarily removed from said Council chambers of said City Hall by the Sargeant at Arms on order of the presiding official of any meeting. Any violation of this ordinance may be punishable in the manner provided in Section 1 -108 of the Code of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma. 56-1 16 TULSA DAILY BUSINESS JOURNAL & LEGAL RECORD A Division of Retherford Publications, Inc. 8545 E. 419t Tulsa, Ok. 74145 Neighbor Newspapers PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT PUBLICATION DATE(S) 11 -15 -85 NUMBER LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Ss. COUNTY OF TULSA I, of lawful age, being duly sworn, am a legal representative of The Tulsa Daily Business Journal & Legal Record of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a daily newspaper of general circulation in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, printed in the English Language and published in the City of Tulsa, in Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma, regularly, continuously and uninterruptedly publish- ed in the County for a period of more than 104 consecutive weeks prior to the first publication of the attached notice, and having paid circulation therein and with admission to the United States mails as second class mail matter and printed in Tulsa, Tulsa County, where delivered to the United States mail. That said notice, a true copy of which is attached thereto, was published in the regular edition of said newspaper during the period and time of publication and not in a supplement, on the ABOVE LISTED DATE(S) (Representative Signature} 10TH Subscribed and swo to before me this NOVEMBER 85 , day of 19 Notay Public Attys. CITY OF OWASSO a $ 62.40 Form BJ -27 123617 Published in the Tulsa Daily Business Journal A LggW Record November 15,1065. CITYOFOWASS&,OKLAHOMA OF order the of the Charter a the Of Owasso, Dklahunre, the City Council of said City may Procedure promulgate full cwdud M City Council meetings of said City: and, WHEREASI three proposed rules were reviewed by members of the City Council and by the I f mof the City Manages and City Attorney; and, WHEREAS, O, proposed wrltten rules of procedure of the owassa City Council, a time and correct copy thereof being attached hereto, made marked Ebibit and aster the the conduct NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City Of Owasso, Oklahoma, as Inflows: a Procedure Of tthee City o the City a OweaaO, a true and cor- rect copy a said Rules of Procedure hereby adopted Is attached hereto, made is part hereol, and is marked A" be sod same are hereby approved and adopted: and, this Ordinance snail be r made a part Of the Cade of Ordinances of the City of Owasso. Oklahoma, and the Sai firma a the Ordinance she➢ be placed within Part 2 - Admndsh's- thm and Government- Procedure, pymbered sequentially in the whim as ad froth in Exhibit "A ": and, section 3. That all "timeams, rvaolutlora or rules of . procedure, written or otherwise, specifically herewith are hereby rep TED this Nn day of November, ISM CITY OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA By: /s/Boyd M. Speaece Boyd M. Spencer Attest: /$/ Ann Hendrickson City Clerk . - Annl3endrkcksoa AppmedasWForm: /a/RonaldD.CSles City Attorney Rosati Cates FOR ETHR CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OWASSO, 06LAHOMA SECTION 4-101: General Provl- slma. SECTION 4 -102: Regular SECTION 4.101: Agenda. SECTION a5: Isr fang Ot SECTION 4.100: Order. SECTION 4107: Rofl Cali. SECTION 4100:Q mom. SECTION 4.109: Order of Business. SECTION 4 -110: Reading of SECTION 4.112: Addressing the Council. SECTION 4.113: Addressing the SECON415: Decoram SECTION 4.116: Efforeement of Decorum. SECTION 4.118: Special Cam' muts . SECTION 4-119: standing Sil ECii 4-120: Members May File ProbedAgwost Co Il Actin. SECTION 4.121: Claims Against City. SEResvlatWne af4-1Baadrd4'*a, SECTION 4323: Adlaurnment. SECTION 4.124: Disturbing TULSA DAILY BUSINESS JOURNAL & LEGAL RECORD A Division of Retherford Publications, Inc. 8545 E. 41st Tulsa, Ok. 74145 Neighbor Newspapers PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT PUBLICATION DATE(S) 11 -15 -85 NUMBER LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF OKLAHOMA SS. COUNTY OF TULSA I, of lawful age, being duly sworn, am a legal representative of The Tulsa Daily Business Journal & Legal Record of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a daily newspaper of general circulation in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, printed in the English Language and published in the City of Tulsa, in Tulsa County, State of Oklahoma, regularly, continuously and uninterruptedly publish- ed in the County for a period of more than 104 consecutive weeks prior to the first publication of the attached notice, and having paid circulation therein and with admission to the United States mails as second class mail matter and printed in Tulsa, Tulsa County, where delivered to the United States mail. That said notice, a true copy of which is attached thereto, was published in the regular edition of said newspaper during the period and time of publication and not in a supplement, on the ABOVE LISTED DATE(S) ( Representative Signature 18TH Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of WVEMBER r 79 85 NotaryMy co ission expires: zl CITY OF OWASSO Publisher's Fee RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA SECTION 4401: General Provi- dm. SECTION 4 -102: Regular Meetlngs. SECTION 4-]03: Specia Meettogs. SECTION 4-104: Agenda. SECTION 4-105: Presiding Of- ficWl- Electionof Daties. SECPTON4106: Order. SECTION 4407: Rog Call. SECTION 4.1011: Qumum. SECTION 4 -109: Order of Business. SECTION 4 -110: Reading of Minutes. SECTION 4 -111: Rules of Debate. SECTION 4.112: Addressing the Camara. SECTION 4 -113: Addressing the Council After Motion Made. SECTION 4114: Maurer of Ad- dressing Council, Time Limit. SECTION4 -115: Decorum. SECTION 4116: Enfemmeut of Decorum. SECTION 4118: Special Cam - miltees. SECTION 4 -119: Standing Committee. SECTION 4120: Members May Fae Protest Apia d Cooaca Action. SECTION 4121: Claims Against City. SECTION 4 -122: Ordinances, Resdutkoe, MOUM and Contracts. SECTION 4 -123: Ad]oarnmmt SECTION 4.124: Disturbing CouocaMeethaii 123617 Published in the Tulsa Daily Business Journal A Legal Record November 15,1985. CITYOFOWASSO, OKLAHOMA ORDINANCE NO. 347 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING CERTAIN RULES OF PRO- CEDURE FOR THE CITY OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA, WITH RESPECT TO THE CONDUCT OF MEETINGS OF SAID CITY COUNCIL, PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, REPEALER. WHEREAS, by authority granted under the provistons of Section 231 -of the Charter of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, the City Council of said City may promulgate rules regulating the procedure for the conduct of City Council meetings of said City; and, WHEREAS, these proposed rules were reviewed by members of the City Council and by the office of the City Manager and City Attorney; and, WHEREAS, the proposed written rules of procedure of the Owasso City Council, a true and correct copy thereof being attached hereto, made a part hereof, and marked Exhibit "A" will promote and foster the orderly conduct of City Council meetings and Improve the conduct of the City's business; and, WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, finds that it would be in the best interest of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, to adopt said Rules of Procedure of the Owasso City Council. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, as follows: Section 1: That the written Rules of Procedure of the City Council of the City of Owasso, a true and cor- rect copy of said Rules of Procedure hereby adopted is attached hereto, made a part hereof, and is marked Exhibit "A ", be and same are hereby approved and adopted; and, Section 2: That the provisions of this Ordinance shag be made a part of the Cafe of Ordinances of the City of Owasso, Oklahoma, and the sec bons of the Ordinance shall be placed within Part 2 - Administra- tion and Government as Chapter 4 - City Council Rules of Procedure, and numbered sequentially in the fashion as set forth in Exhibit "A "; and, Section 3: That all ordinances, resolutions or rules of procedure, written or otherwise, in conflict herewith are hereby specifically repeated. DATED this 5th day of November, 1985. CITY OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA By: /s/ Boyd M. Spencer Mayor Boyd M. Spencer Attest: /s/AnnHendrickaon City Clerk Anuffeadrickson . . ApproveduslaForm: /a/ Ronald D. Cates City Attorney Ronald D. Cates