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The code of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, 1945 :

the charter of the city and the general ordinances of the city ; enacted as a whole April 16, 1945, effective May 1, 1945
  
  
  
  
  

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Page 56

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.)