A. The Chief of Police, or such member of the Police Department as he may designate, shall be sergeant-at-arms of the City Council, and he shall attend meetings at the request of the presiding officer, City Manager, or City Council. He shall be available to respond to all meetings immediately upon call. He shall carry out all orders given by the presiding officer or Council for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum at the Council meetings. Any Councilmember may move to require the presiding officer to enforce the rules, and the affirmative vote of a majority of the Councilmembers present shall require him to do so.

B. Rules adopted to expedite the transaction of the business of the Council in an orderly fashion are deemed to be procedural only and the failure to strictly observe such rules shall not affect the jurisdiction of the Council or invalidate any action taken at a meeting that is otherwise held in conformity with law.

C. Any member of the Council or other person using vulgar, profane, loud or boisterous language at any meeting or otherwise interrupting the proceedings of the Council, or who refuses to carry out orders and instructions given by the presiding officer for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum at the Council meeting, or who interrupts proceedings, shall upon conviction be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

D. Upon instructions of the presiding officer, it shall be the duty of the sergeant-at-arms, or any of them present, to place any person who violates the order and decorum of the meeting under arrest.

E. For the purpose of this chapter, a criminal complaint shall be signed by the presiding officer. (Ord. 1486 § 2, 1973; prior code § 1.224).