[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Collinsville as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 4-14-1959 by Ord. No. 121]
No order, resolution, motion or other affirmative action proposed by any Councilman shall be put to a vote by a presiding officer at any council meeting until such proposal be first seconded by some one or more councilmen present. The Mayor or other presiding officer at such meetings on receiving any such proposal shall promptly ask for a second thereto and failing to receive such second within a reasonable time shall declare in open session that such proposal fails for want of a second.
The fact that much delay will be eliminated in the council's deliberation by the passage of this article creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring ordinances to be read on three several days be and the same is hereby suspended and this article shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and is so enacted.