10.1(1)Unless disqualified to vote by reason of interest or otherwise upon a by-law, resolution, motion or for any other purpose, each member present, including the mayor, shall announce his or her vote openly and individually, and the clerk shall record it, and no vote shall be taken by ballot or by any other method of secret voting, and every vote so taken is of no effect.

10.1(2)Notwithstanding subsection (1), a municipality may, in a procedural by-law enacted pursuant to section 10.3 or in a municipal charter or private or special Act of the municipality, provide that the mayor shall not vote except to have a casting vote in the event of a tie.