The Trustees of the Village of Belgium shall
constitute the Village Board. The Village Board shall be vested with
all the powers of the Village not specifically given some other officer,
as well as those powers set forth elsewhere throughout this Code.
The Village Board, on behalf of the Village,
may join with other counties, villages, cities, towns or other governmental
entities in a cooperative arrangement for executing any power or duty
in order to attain greater economy or efficiency, including joint
employment of appointive officers and employees.
The President and other Trustees who make up
the Village Board, whether operating under general or special law,
may by majority vote of all the members of the Village Board determine
that an annual salary be paid the President and Trustees. Salaries
heretofore established shall so remain until changed by ordinance
and shall not be increased or diminished during their terms of office.
[Amended 3-8-2010 by Ord. No. 2-10]
A. Village President to preside. The Village President
shall preside over meetings of the Village Board. In the absence of
the Village President, the President Pro Tem shall preside. In case
of absence of the Village President and President Pro Tem, the Village
Clerk shall call the meeting to order and the Trustees present shall
elect one of their number Acting President Pro Tem.
B. President Pro Tem. The Village Board, at its first
meeting subsequent to the regular election and qualification of new
members, shall, after organization, choose from its members a President
Pro Tem, who, in the absence of the President, shall preside at meetings
of the Board and, during the absence or inability of the Village President,
shall have the powers and duties of the Village President, except
that he shall not have the power to approve an act of the Board which
the Village President has disapproved by filing objections with the
Village Clerk.
C. Duties. The presiding officer shall preserve order
and decorum, decide all questions of order, and conduct the proceedings
of the meeting in accordance with the parliamentary rules contained
in Robert's Rules of Order, unless otherwise provided by statute or
by these rules. Any member shall have the right to appeal from a decision
of the presiding officer. Such appeal is not debatable and must be
sustained by a majority vote of the members present, excluding the
presiding officer. In the absence of the Village Clerk, the presiding
officer shall appoint a Village Clerk Pro Tem.
[Amended 2-12-1996 by Ord. No. 3-96]
A. All general ordinances of the Village and all regulations
imposing any penalty shall be posted according to state law and shall
be immediately recorded, with the affidavit of posting, by the Village
Clerk in a book kept for that purpose and/or the Village Code. A printed
copy of such ordinance or regulation in any book, pamphlet or newspaper
and published or purporting to be published therein by direction of
the Village Board shall be prima facie proof of due passage and recording
thereof.
[Amended 3-8-2010 by Ord. No. 2-10]
B. All ordinances shall take effect and be in force from
and after passage and posting thereof, unless otherwise provided.
When a question has been once decided, any member
of the majority or, in case of a tie, any member voting in the affirmative
may move a reconsideration thereof, but if a motion to reconsider
is made on a day subsequent to that on which the ordinance question
was decided, a vote of the majority of the entire Board shall be required
to sustain it.
The Village Board has the power to preserve
order at its meetings. Whenever any disturbance or disorderly conduct
shall occur in any of the meetings of the Board, the President may
cause the room to be cleared of all persons causing such disorderly
conduct.
The rules of this chapter shall not be rescinded
or amended unless the proposed amendment or motion to rescind has
laid over from a regular meeting, and then it shall require a vote
of 2/3 of all the members of the Board.
These rules shall not be suspended except by
a two-thirds vote of all the members of the Board.