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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
AN AMENDMENT TO THE PARLIAMENTARY RULES
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners that Chapter 2 Administration, Article III, County Board, Division 2, Rules of Organization and Procedure, Sections. 2-105 and 2-107 of the Cook County Code, is hereby amended as follows:
Sec. 2-105. - Organization.
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(g) Referrals to committees. The Board may by motion refer any item before the Board to a Committee or to a subcommittee. The Chair of a committee may refer an item pending in that committee to a subcommittee of that committee. An item referred by the Board to any committee or subcommittee, or by a committee chair to a subcommittee, shall not be jointly referred to any other committee or subcommittee. Only upon the return of the item to the Board, either by report of the committee or by the Board's discharge of the item from the committee or subcommittee, may the Board refer the item to another committee or subcommittee.
All items referred to committee or subcommittee by the Board shall be designated with a Communication Number as assigned by the Clerk Secretary to the Cook County Board of Commissioners. No committee or subcommittee shall meet for any purpose other than to consider one or more items designated by Communication Numbers.
The Clerk shall refer the draft Journal of Proceedings directly to the Committee on Rules and Administration and provide a Communication Number within 21 days of a Board Meeting.
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Sec. 2-107. - Parliamentary rules.
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(o) Submission of ordinances, resolutions and motions.
(1) All ordinances, resolutions, or motions, except motions of procedure, shall be submitted in writing by the President or a Commissioner and then may be read by the Clerk at the direction of the presiding officer or by leave of the Board. Each ordinance, resolution or motion, except motions of procedure, shall be numbered by the Clerk Secretary to the Cook County Board of Commi...
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