Legal Notice
ORDINANCE #2025-02
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF HALEYVILLE, ALABAMA, THAT THE ORDER OF PROCEDURE IN ALL INSTANCES FOR MEETING OF THE COUNCIL SHALL BE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the rules of order of procedure herein contained shall govern deliberations and meetings of the council of Haleyville, Alabama.
SECTION 2. Regular Meetings of the Council shall be held on the following dates: The First and Third Monday of each month.
SECTION 3. Special Meetings may be held at the call of the Mayor by serving notice on each member of the Council not less than twenty-four hours before the time set for such Special Meetings; or Special Meetings may be held as provided by Section 11-43-50 of the Code of Alabama, 1975, whenever two council members request in writing the presiding officer call such meeting; upon the failure or refusal of the presiding officer to call such meeting when requested, the two council members making the request shall have the right to call such meeting. Notice of all special meetings shall be posted on a bulletin board accessible to the public 24 hours prior to such meetings.
SECTION 4. A quorum shall be determined as provided by Section 11-43-48 of the Code of Alabama, 1975.
SECTION 5. All regular meetings shall convene at 5:30 P.M. at the City Hall and all meetings, regular and special, shall be open to the public.
SECTION 6. Following shall be the order of business, as applicable:
1. A call to order
2. Roll Call
3. Reading and
approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
4. Reports of
Standing Committees
5. Reports of Special Committees
6. Reports of
Officers
7. Reading of petitions, applications, complaints, appeals, communications, etc.
8. Auditing
accounts
9. Resolutions, ordinances, orders, and other business
10. Public comment
SECTION 7. No
member shall speak more than twice on the same subject without permission of the presiding officer.
SECTION 8. No
person, not a member of the Council, shall be allowed to address the same while in session without permission of the presiding officer.
SECTION 9. Every
officer, whose duty it is to report at the Regular Meetings of the Council, who shall be in default thereof, may be fined at the discretion of the Council.
SECTION 10. Motions shall be reduced to writing when required by the presiding officer of the Council or any member of the Council. All ordinances shall be in writing and resolutions may be presented orally and later reduced to writing.
SECTION 11. Motions to reconsider must be by a member who previously voted with the majority, and must be made at the same or next succeeding meeting of the Council.
SECTION 12.
Whenever it shall be required by one or more members, the “yeas” and “nays” shall be recorded; and any member may call for a division on any question.
SECTION 13. All questions of order shall be decided by the presiding officer of the Council with the right to appeal to the Council by any member.
SECTION 14. The presiding officer of the Council may, at his discretion, call any member to take the chair, to allow him to address the Council, make a motion, or discuss any other matter at issue.
SECTION 15. Motions to lay any matter on the table shall be in order; and on all questions, the last amendment, the most distant day, and the largest sum shall be put first.
SECTION 16. All meetings of the Council shall be open to the public, except when the council meets in executive session as authorized by state law.
SECTION 17. The council may meet in executive session only for those purposes authorized by state law. When a council member makes a motion to go into executive session for an enumerated purpose, the presiding officer shall put the motion to a vote. If a majority of the council shall vote in favor of the motion to go into executive session, the body shall then move into executive session to discuss the matter for which the executive session was called. No action may be taken in an executive session. When the discussion has been completed, the council shall resume its deliberations in public.
SECTION 18. A
motion for adjournment shall always be in order.
SECTION 19. The
rules of the Council may be altered, amended or temporarily suspended by a vote of two-thirds of the members present.
SECTION 20. The chairman of each respective committee, or the council member acting for him in his place, shall submit or make all reports to the Council when so requested by the presiding officer or any member of the council.
SECTION 21. All
ordinances, resolutions or propositions submitted to the Council which require the expenditure of any money shall lie over until the next regular meeting; provided, that such ordinances, resolutions, or propositions may be considered earlier by unanimous consent of the Council; and provided further, that this rule shall not apply to the current operating expenses of the City, or contracts previously made with, or regular salaries of officers, or wages of employees of the City.
SECTION 22. The
Clerk, Engineer, Attorney, and Chief of Police, and such other officers or employees of the City of Haleyville shall, when requested, attend all meetings of the Council and shall remain in the council room for such length of time as the Council may direct.
SECTION 23. No
ordinance or resolution of a permanent nature shall be adopted at the meeting at which it is introduced unless unanimous consent be obtained for the immediate consideration of such ordinance or resolution, such consent shall be by roll call and the vote thereon spread on the minutes.
SECTION 24.
Repealer. That ordinance # 589, 829, 2006-10, 2008-07, 2012-11, and all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SECTION 25.
Robert’s Rules of
Order is hereby adopted as the rules of the procedure for this council in those situations which cannot be resolved by the rules set out in this ordinance.
SECTION 26. This ordinance shall go into effect upon the passage and publication as required by law, in the Northwest Alabamian Newspaper.
SECTION 27.
Severability. That all prior ordinances and sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, then such ruling shall not affect any other paragraphs and sections, since the same would have been enacted by the municipality council without the incorporation of any such unconstitutional
phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Adopted and approved this 3rd day of November 2025.
Attest:
Christy Harbin
Acting City Clerk
Ray Boshell
Mayor
ORD_2025-02
Nov 12, 19
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