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Chicago City Council Rules of Order

Reports Of Committees.

RULE 44. All reports of committees (other than a Committee of the Whole, which may submit a verbal report through its Chairman or other member) shall be addressed in writing "To the President and Members of the City Council". They shall briefly describe the matter referred, and the conclusion shall be summed up in the form of an ordinance, order, resolution, recommendation or some other distinct proposition; and shall contain a statement showing the number of members of the committee who voted for and the number who voted against the recommendation contained in the report.

Each subject matter considered by a committee shall be presented to the City Council in a separate report except claims, payment of hospital and medical expenses of police officers and firefighters injured in the line of duty, routine traffic matters and condominium refuse rebate claims.

Reports of all committees dealing with proposed ordinances, orders and resolutions shall recommend that such proposed ordinances, orders or resolutions "pass" or "do not pass".

Each committee report recommending action by the City Council shall be presented to the Council by the chairman of the committee or by any other member of the committee designated by the chairman. The chairman or member presenting the report may have up to five (5) minutes for the purpose of explaining the report, notwithstanding a motion or demand to defer and publish.

If a committee report recommends that the Council adopt or pass an ordinance, resolution or order, the report may be taken up and acted upon after its presentation, subject to deferral by appropriate action.

If a committee report recommends that the Council do not adopt or do not pass an ordinance, resolution or order, at the time such report is presented, or at the next meeting of the Council if action on such report has been deferred, such ordinance, resolution, or order shall be automatically tabled and may not be further considered, unless a member of the body moves to disapprove the committee report and such motion is adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Aldermen entitled by law to be elected. The motion to disapprove the committee report may be deferred only until the next regular meeting of the Council, and may not be renewed thereafter. If the motion to disapprove is adopted, the ordinance, resolution or order shall be before the Council.

A committee may report a substitute for ordinances, resolutions and orders referred to it, and such substitute shall be reported with a "do pass" recommendations. Such committee report shall identify the matters referred to it for which its recommendations substitutes, and all such matters shall be deemed recommended "do not pass".

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