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Temuka Leader, Issue 1239, 13 September 1884, Page 3

Y LAWS NOS. 1 and 2 of the GKERALDINB i TOWN BOARD. BY-LAW NO. 1. j Whereas by Section 36 of the Town District Act, 1881, the > Board is empowered to make By-Laws in manner provided_ with respect to Borough Councils by Part XII. of the “Municipal I Corporations Act, 1876,” and in relation to any matters comt prised therein, the said Part XII., together with R n 3 T i enactment passed in amendment of any of the provisions con- , tained in the said part, shall apply to any By-Laws made by ! any Board under this Act in relation to any of the aforesaid matters. . Times of Meetings. i 1. The date of Ordinary Meetings shall be fixed by the Board from time to time as may be requested. 2. The Cl >rk shall convene a special meeting on the written order of the Chairman, or of any three of the M. mbers, such order to state the nature of the business to be transacted. 3. All meetings shall be called by circular, which shall be posted at least three clear days before the date of Meeting. 4. Pour Members must be present to form a quorum. 5. If at the expiration of half-an-hour after the time fixed for any Meeting there be not a quorum present, the Meeting shall stand adjourned, and the hour at which such adjournment is made, and the names of the Mm;hors present, shall be inserted in the minute book of the Board. Meetings may adjourn from time to time as may be foum. necessary. Order of Proceedings. 6. The business of the Board shall commence on all occasions as soon after the time fixed by the Board as a sufficient number of Members present to form a quorum, feuch Meeting shall be open to the representatives of the Press and the Public, unless the Board otherwise decide. 7. At all meetings of the Board, the Chairman, or in his absence such Member of the Board as the majority of the Members assembled shall choose, shall preside, .and such Chairman or presiding Member shall have a deliberative vote, and in all cases of equality of votes shall also have a casting vote. g every meeting of the Town Board the first business thereof shall be the reading and putting a question for the confirmation of the minutes of the proceedings at the preceding meeting, and the reading of the minutes of Ihe proceedings of any Committee presented at any such preceding meeting, and no discussion shall be permitted thereon except as to their accuracy as a record of the proceedings, and the said minutes of the proceedings at the preceding meeting snail then be signed as by this Act required, and the rough minutes of the proceedings of the Board at any meeting shall bo read at the close of such meeting. 9. After the signing of the minutes as aforesaid, the order of business at an ordinary Meeting shall be as follows, or as near thereto as may be practicable, but for the greater convenience of the Board at any particular Meeting thereof it may be altered by resolution to that effect ; (a.) Reading of copies jif letters sent by the authority of the Board. (b.) Reading letters received and considering and ordering thereon. (c.) Reception and reading of petitions and memorials. (d.) Presentation of reports of Committees and departmental reports and returns. (e.) Ordinary business. (/.) Orders of the day, including subjects continued from proceedings of former Meetings, and any business which the Chairman or any Member may think fit to bring under consideration. (g.) Other motions of which previous uotice has been given. (A.) Payments. (I.) Notice of motion. 10. The order of business at a Special Meeting shall be the ; order in which such business stands in notice tiiereof. ] 11. No motion, except that for receiving the same, shall, unless under some urgent circumstance be made on any petition, f memorial or other application, until the next ordinary Meeting of the Board after that at which it was presented. 1 12. Except by leave of the Board, motions shall be moved t In the order in which they have been received and recorded by £ the Clerk in the Notice of Motion Book, and if not so moved, or postponed, shall lapse. r 13. No motion entered in the Notice of Motion Book shall c be proceeded with in the absence of the Member who gave notice of the same, unless by some other member producing written t authority from him to that effect. 14. Any Member d&sirous of proposing a motion or amend- c ment or of discussing any matter under consideration, must rise c and address the Chairman, and shall uot be interrupted, unless i, called to order, in which case he shall sit down, and the Member p calling to order shall be heard thereon and the question of order disposed of, when the Member in possession of the Chair may 0 proceed with the subject. s 15. Any Member desirous of proposing an original motion p or amendment must state the nature of the same before bead- q dresses the Board thereon. 16. No motion or amendment shall be withdrawn without p leave cf the Board. t 17. No motion or amendment shall be discussed or put to \ the vote of the Board unless it be seconded ; but a Member may, g however, require enforcement of a Bye-Law of the Board by directing the Chairman’s attention to the infraction thereof. 18. A Member moving a motion shall be held to have f spoken thereon, but a Member merely seconding a motion shall (j not be held to have spoken upon it. 19. Tf two or more Members rise to speak at the same time, p the Chairman shall decide which is entitled to priority. s 20. The Chairman shall rise in addressing the Board to discuss any question, and shall not leave the chair on such occasions. . s 21. No Member shall speak a second time on the same t question, unless entitled to reply, or in explanation when ho has j been misrepresented or misunderstood. 22. Any Member moving a suspension of the By-Laws, or ] of any clause of the same, shall be enlitled simply to state the s nature of such motion and the objects thereof, but no discussion , shall take place upon such motion, and immediately after the ] decision of the question for the purpose for which they were suspended, they shall come into force again. _ s 23. The Chairman when called upon to decide upon points of order or practice, shall state the provision, rule, or practice, a which he deems applicable to the case, without discussing or commenting on the same, and his decision as to order or ex- e planation in each case shall be final. _ c 24. No Member shall digress from the subject matter of g the question under discussion, or comment upon tbewords used by any other Member in a previous debate, and all imputations of improper motives, and all personal reflections on Members, shall be deemed highly disorderly. 25. Whenever any Member shall make use of an expression disorderly, or capable of being applied offensively to any other Member, the Member so offending shall be required by the Chairman to withdraw his expression and to make satisfactory apology to the Board. c 26. A Member called to order, shall sit down, unless permitted to explain. f 27. Any Member using offensive or disorderly language, and having been twice called to order, or to withdraw, or # apologise for such conduct, and refusing so to do, shall be guilty ‘ of an offence. 28. Any person (not being a member) who shall, having been admitted to any Meeting of the Board, be guilty thereat of i any improper or disorderly conduct, or who shall not leave 1 when lawfully requested by the Chairman so to do, may be forthwith removed by him, and shall bo deemed guilty of an offence. 29. Any Member may of right demand the production of any documents of the Board applying to the question under discussion.

30. The Board shall vote by show of hands. 31. The Chairman shall, on taking the sense of the Board, put the question, first in the affirmative, then in the negative, and the result thereof shall be recorded in the minutes. 32. At every meeting of the Board, all motions, whether original motions or amendments, shall be reduced into writing signed by the mover, and delivered to the Chairman immediately on their being moved and seconded. 33. No second or subsequent amendment whether upon an original proposition or on an amendment, shall be taken into consideration until the previous amendment is disposed of. 34:. If an amendment be carried, the question or amendment as amended shall become itself the question or amendment, whereupon any further amendment upon any portion of the question or amendment coming after such lirst-mentioned amendment may be moved. 35. If an amendment be negatived then a second may be moved to the question to which the first-mentioned amendment was moved, but only one amendment shall he submitted to the Board for discussion at a time. 36, Ihe mover of every original proposition, but not ot | any amendment, shall have a right to reply, immediately after [ which the question shall be put from the Chair, and no member