The mayor shall put the previous question which shall be decided without debate, and
all debate upon the question shall be suspended until the previous question shall
be decided. After the adoption of the call for the previous question, the same sense
of the council shall be taken forthwith upon all pending amendments and then upon
the main question. All incidental questions of order arising after a motion for the
previous question shall be decided without debate.
(Ord. No. 1877, § 1; Ord. No. 2250; Code 1961, § 2-20)