Privileged Motions
Terminates the meeting
What is Adjourn
Lays a pending question aside temporarily when something more urgent has risen
What is Lay on The Table
Allows a question previously disposed of to come again before the assembly as if it has previously not been considered
What is reconsider
Challenges an error in procedure and requires a ruling by the chair
What is point of order
Used when a member wishes to with drawl their motion
What is with drawl
Ends debate and orders an immediate vote
What is previous question
Allows the assembly to resume consideration of a motion previously laid on the table
What is take from the table
Challenges a ruling of the chair, majority vote sustains the ruling
What is appeal from the ruling of the chair
Permits a short intermission in a meeting
What is Recess
Gives a motion more detailed attention or permits it to be handled in privacy
What is refer to a committee
Takes a matter out of the committee's hands and places it again before the assembly as a whole
What is discharge a committee
suppresses business that is undesirable or that might prove damaging to the organization
What is objection to consideration
Allows the group to avoid a motion entirely if its not in the best interest of the group
What is objection to the consideration
Modifies debate by limiting or extending the number or length of speeches
What is limit or extend debate
Voids a motion previously passed
What is rescind a motion previously adopted
Temporarily sets aside a rule to permit the assembly to take an action it could not otherwise take
What is suspend the rules
Requires that the adopted agenda or order of business me followed
What is call for the orders of the day
Defers consideration to a definite day, meeting, or hour, or until after some particular event
What is postpone to a certain time
A motion which brings business before the assembly and which can be made only while no other motion is pending
What is main motion
Permits a motion to be divided into two or more parts i order that they may be considered separtely
What is division of a question