Admission to floor

§ 2. Admission to floor. Persons not members of the Senate, or\nofficers or employees thereof, shall be admitted to the floor of the\nSenate only as follows:\n a. The Governor, his or her secretary and messenger.\n b. The members and Clerk of the Assembly, and clerks and messengers of\nthe Assembly in the exercise of an official duty directly connected with\nthe business of the Senate.\n c. The elected State officers, heads of departments and their\ndeputies.\n d. Reporters of the Senate and of the Assembly designated under the\nrules, unless a designation theretofore given them has been revoked.\n e. Members of a Senator's family, or of the family of the President of\nthe Senate.\n f. Former members of the Senate.\n g. Any person not hereinbefore named may be admitted to the floor of\nthe Senate, with the permission of the Secretary of the Senate.\n h. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions a through g of this\nsection, no person shall be admitted to the floor of the Senate who is\ninterested in pending or contemplated legislation, or who is employed by\nor receives compensation from any public or private source for\ninfluencing legislation.\n i. During the sessions of the Senate, no person other than a Senator\nshall occupy the chair of a Senator, or stand in or otherwise occupy any\npart of the area between the last row of Senators' chairs on the east\nand west sides of the Chamber, and the east and west walls thereof,\nrespectively. All persons in the Senate Chamber shall observe proper\nrules of order and decorum.\n j. It shall be the duty of the Sergeant at Arms strictly to enforce\nthe provisions of this section, and it shall be in order for any Senator\nto call a breach thereof to the attention of the Presiding Officer.\n