Notice of questions

(1) A question shall not be asked without notice, unless it is of an urgent character or relates to the business of the day and unless the member has obtained the leave of the Mayor to ask it. (2) Notice of a question may be handed by a member to the City Administrator when the Council is sitting or may be sent to or left in the office of the City Administrator between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on any day from Monday to Friday which is not a public holiday. Every such notice must be signed by the member giving it. (3) A member who desires an oral answer to a question shall mark his notice with an asterisk and such a question shall be put down for a day to be named by the member being a day not earlier than four clear days after notice of the question was given. A question not so marked may be put down for the next sitting of the Council and the answer when received shall be circulated with the minutes of proceedings. (4) Questions shall be put in such a manner as not to involve opinion, argument or inference and facts shall not be stated unless necessary to make the question intelligible. No member shall address the Council upon any question.