US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §  45. Sergeant-at-arms; procedure; expulsion of members.  The council
  may elect a sergeant-at-arms and such research, drafting,  clerical  and
  other   assistants   as   are   needful  to  its  purposes,  within  the
  appropriation provided therefor. It may  appoint  committees  and  shall
  appoint  a  finance committee properly staffed to consider budgetary and
  related matters and a land use committee  consisting  of  at  least  one
  council  member  from  each  borough; shall be the judge of the election
  returns and qualifications of its  own  members,  subject,  however,  to
  review  by  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction; shall keep a public
  journal of its proceedings; shall make a complete transcript of each  of
  its meetings and committee hearings available for public inspection free
  of  charge within sixty days after such meeting or hearing and provide a
  copy of any requested pages of such transcript at a  reasonable  fee  to
  cover  copying  and,  if  relevant,  mailing  costs; shall sit with open
  doors; shall have authority to compel the attendance of  absent  members
  and  to  punish  its  members  for disorderly behavior, and to expel any
  member, after charges and a hearing, with the concurrence of  two-thirds
  of all the council members.