§ 2.08.090. Duties.

A.

Duties of the Presiding Officer. The presiding officer shall preserve order and decorum and may speak to points of order in preference to other members and shall decide all questions of order subject to appeal. The presiding officer may speak to matters being considered by the village board without relinquishing his or her chair. If he or she refuses to allow the trustees to exercise their right to appeal a decision of the chair, the trustees may consider and pass on the matter in spite of the chair's failure to grant them an appeal.

In case of any disturbances or disorderly conduct, the presiding officer shall have the power to require the chamber to be cleared.

B.

Duties of Members. While the presiding officer is putting the question, no member shall walk across or out of the board room.

Every member, prior to speaking, making a motion, or seconding the same, shall address himself or herself to the presiding officer and appropriately address the mayor and shall not proceed with his or her remarks until recognized and named by the chair. He or she shall confine himself or herself to the question under debate, avoiding personalities and refraining from impugning the motives of any other member's argument or vote.

When two or more members address the chair at the same time, the presiding officer shall name the member who is first to speak. By the concurrence of two-thirds of the trustees then holding office, a trustee may be expelled from a meeting for disorderly conduct on a motion to so act. A trustee may not be expelled a second time for the same incident.

(Ord. 08-04-95 § 2 (part): Ord. 97-05-01 § IV)