Petitions, memorials, remonstrances, propositions, declarations, proclamations and
other commemoratives requested by council members shall be presented to the council
by the member sponsoring or making them under new business pursuant to the regular
order of business. The requests shall be reduced to writing, if not already, and signed
by the member sponsoring or making them at the request of any other member, and such
shall not be regarded as before the council for action thereon before it has been
read at least once by its title or otherwise. Upon approval by city council, the document
shall be presented to its recipient, if appropriate, at a succeeding 7:00 p.m. prefatory
meeting of the council.
(Ord. No. 1877, § 1; Ord. No. 2250; Code 1961, § 2-29; Ord. No. 4068-90, § 1)