§ 115.09. Rules and regulations.

(a)

Council may, by resolution as well as by ordinance, make proper rules and regulations for its own government and for the conduct of its meetings, the transaction of its business and the official conduct of its members, and may include therein reasonable penalties for the violation thereof; but no such rule shall be inconsistent with the state law or these Codified Ordinances. Such rules may include, among other subjects, the following:

(1)

Appointment, jurisdiction and duties of standing and special committees of Council.

(2)

Attendance at meetings of Council by members and by others.

(3)

Investigations and hearings, and compulsory attendance thereat of witnesses and the production of books and papers.

(4)

Parliamentary procedure.

(5)

Preservation of order at meetings.

(6)

Manner and form of petitions, applications and other papers intended for presentation to Council, and procedures relating thereto.

(b)

All rules adopted pursuant to the provisions of this section on or after the effective date of the ordinance from which this section is derived shall be spread upon the minutes of Council and duly entered of record in the office of the Clerk of Council. As such rules may from time to time be repealed, amended or added to, the file copies of these Codified Ordinances and the record of repealed and amended portions shall be brought up to date and maintained in a current status in the same manner as provided for ordinances in Section 117.04.

(Code 1979, § 2-2-14; Code 1991, § 115.09)