CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY FOURTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. RA-20-1 ENACTMENT NO. ______________________
SPONSORED BY: Pat Davis
RULES AMENDMENT
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Amending Article III, Section 4 of the City Council Rules of Procedure relating to "Proclamations and Presentations." (Davis)
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Amending Article III, Section 4 of the City Council Rules of Procedure relating to "Proclamations and Presentations."
SECTION 1. Article III, Section 4(C) is hereby amended as follows:
"(C) No more than two proclamations (Item 3 above) may be considered at any meeting of the Council; no Councilor may present more than four proclamations at a Council meeting per calendar year, except that the President may approve additional proclamation presentations in excess of four per Councilor per calendar year so long as the proclamation request is presented to the President for consideration at least one week in advance of the meeting. However, nothing herein prohibits a Councilor from sponsoring and presenting additional proclamations outside of Council meetings. Councilors wishing to sponsor a proclamation shall request assignment to a meeting agenda. Subject to approval from the President, Councilors shall file the topic or title of the proclamation with the Council Clerk no later than 10:00 a.m. on the Friday preceding the meeting at which the proclamation is to be presented. Presentations (Item 3 above) includes the Gross Receipts Tax Report at the second regular meeting each month, and any other presentation allowed at the discretion of the President."
SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. If any section, paragraph, word or phrase of this rule amendment is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this proposition. The Council hereby declares that it would have passed this proposition and each section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word...
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