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Robert's Rules of Order
Parliamentary Rules
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Professional
06/13/2011

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Subsidiary Motions

Definition
    1. Postpone Indefinitly
    2. Amend
    3. Commit
    4. Postpone to a Time Certain
    5. Limit or Extend Debate
    6. Move the Previous Question
    7. Table
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Privileged Motion List

Definition
    1. Call for the Orders of the Day
    2. Question of Privilege
    3. Recess
    4. Adjourn
    5. Fix Time to Adjourn
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Incidental Motion List

Definition
  1. Point of Order
  2. Appeal
  3. Suspend the Rules
  4. Objection to Consideration of a Question
  5. Division of A Question
  6. Consideration by Paragraph
  7. Division
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Motions That

Brings a Question Back

Definition

 

  1. Take from the Table
  2. Rescind, Amend Something Previously Adopted
  3. Discharge from a Committee
  4. Reconsider
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Suspend the Rules

(Privileged)

Definition

Takes precedence over related motions

Yields to Table and Orders for the Day

2nd'ed - Not debatable - Not Amendable

Needs 2/3's

By-Laws or fundamentals can't be suspended

 

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Lay on the

Table

Definition

 

Subsidiary + takes precedence over other subs

Applied to pending motions include Orders

2nd'ed, Not debatable or amend

Doesn't interrupt, Majority

Negative can be reconsidered

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Recess

(Privileged)

Definition

 

Precedent over all ex. Adjourn & Fix Adjourn

Amendable - 2nd'ed 

Not debatable

Majority

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Take from the

Table

Definition
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