Sec. 47. General order of business.
At every regular meeting of the council the order of business
shall be as follows:
1. Roll call.
2. Reading of minutes. The journal of the preceding meeting
shall be read, and no objection being made, shall be approved and
signed by the person presiding. Such ordinances as may have
been adopted at the preceding meeting and copied in the ordinance
book shall also be read, unless reading is dispensed with, and no
objection being made, shall be approved and signed by the person
presiding.
3. Petitions and communications. After their purport has been
briefly stated by the member offering same the council may consider
the same, or otherwise dispose of them.
4. Reports and communications from city officers, including
financial statements.
5. Reports of committees.
6. Ordinances for second reading.
7. Offering of original resolutions, orders and ordinances.
8. Miscellaneous and unfinished business.
The order of business shall not be departed from except by
unanimous consent. (Id.)
