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employees, and to members of the City Commission and shall refrain at all times from using or making rude, derogatory, impertinent, abusive, threatening, obscene, profane, vulgar, or defamatory language, asserting reflections as to integrity of any individuals, making statements directed to motives and personalities, hate speech, or language characterized as fighting words. B. Speakers and members of the public shall not use terminology or gestures that cause a disruptive environment for public officials in the discharge of their duties or cause a disruptive environment hostile to the participation of other members of the public. C. Speakers and members of the public shall not engage in boisterous, violent, threatening or tumultuous conduct threatening the safety of another, or conduct creating danger to another's property. D. Speakers and members of the public shall not engage in active or passive political campaigning, including but not limited to the display or wearing of on his or her person any article of clothing or use any object which bears any type of political advertisement or displays any information which may be construed to support or oppose a particular candidate or issue. E. Speakers and members of the public shall not address the City Commission from the audience. BF. Speakers and members of the public shall notN-9 clapping, applaud+eg, ""heckle or engage in verbal outbursts in support or opposition to a speaker or his or her remarks 544 be peFmi mea. Signs or placards may be disallowed in the Commission chamber by the presiding officer. Persons eingexiting the Commission chambers shall do so quietly. A speaker or member of the public violating these rules of decorum or otherwise disrupting a meeting may be deemed out of order by the presiding officer, and if the speaker or member of the public willfully refuses to abide by the lawful orders of the presiding officer to cede the floor and cease and desist all disruptive behavior, the speaker may be removed and/or placed under arrest by law enforcement, as permitted by law. However, a speaker may not be removed merely because the content of the speech is not politically pleasing or acceptable. ARTICLE VII - Rules of Debate § 74-22. Rules of debate. A. Questions under consideration. In order for debate to ensue Son any actionable agenda item, in A-rder {^r debate to eRs e, the presiding officer shall close the public hearing and ask for discussion of the matter at hand., Nether ^-di^a^Ee, Fese' t;GA, .ROt;9R, eU—., If the Commission, upon conclusion of the discussion and debate, wishes to adopt the legislation, open a motion shall be made in substantially the same form as: "I move we adopt o8rdinance (resolution) as readL' (or "as amended" by Commissioner )." The City Attorney or the City Clerk may request and/or assist with a restatement of the 02024 Amend Chap 74 2nd Rdg Page 8 of 13