[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.