Chair
The chair (presiding officer), after determining that a quorum is present, rises, waits for quiet, and says:
What is the meeting will now come to order.
Brings business before an assembly for consideration and action. They can be introduced only when no other business is pending.
What is a motion?
Modify an existing motion
What is an amendment?
A short intermission in a meeting, even while business is pending.
What is recess?
This motion is generally used to send a question to a relatively small group of selected person.
What is Commit or Refer?
A member rises when no one else has the floor and addresses the chair:
What is Mr./Madam President/Chair?
A member makes a motion by stating:
I move that.....
There are three type of amendments.
What is insert, strike out or insert or strike out.
The chair makes a ruling when a member states an urgent request or motion.
What is Raise of Question of Priviledge?
This motion is used to end debate and requires a 2/3 vote.
What is Previous Question?
After the Secretary reads the minutes, the chair says:
What is are there any corrections to the minutes?
In order for a motion to be considered by the group, it must what?
What is seconded?
An amendment proposed must be closely related to or having bearing on the subject of the motion to be amended.
What is germane?
This motion does not require a second but can interrupt business when the adopted program or order of business is not being followed.
What is Call for the Orders of the Day?
This motion takes precedence over nothing except the main motion to which it is applied.
What is postpone indefinitely?
The chair puts a motion to a vote by stating:
What is are you ready for the question?
When a motion is pending, privileged and subsidiary motions are listed in order from highest to lowest.
What is precedence or ranking motions?
This amendment applies directly to the pending main motion and this amendment applies directly to the pending amendment.
What are primary and secondary amendments?
This motion sets the time and sometimes the place, for another meeting to continue business of the session, with no effect on when the present meeting will adjourn.
What is Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn?
To interrupt the pending business so as to permit doing something else immediately.
What is Lay on the Table?
In cases where there seems to be no opposition in routine business or on little importance, the chair can save time by using this procedure.
What is unanimous consent?
Sections 11 thru 37 of RONR contain detailed descriptions of particular motions, with a section for each motion.
What are Standard Descriptive Characteristics or SDC's?
Inserting the word not as an amendment or proposing to change one of the form amendment to another form.
What is an improper amendment?
This motion closes the meeting and can be considered a privileged or a main motion depending on a number of conditions.
What is adjourn?
This motion allows a pending question to be put off, within limits, to a definite session, day, meeting, or hour or until after a certain event.
What is Postpone to a Certain Time?