Chapter 8: Parliamentary Procedure

Which motion below could be made so that the chair would be called on to enforce a violated rule?

Point of Order

A point of Order yields to all

Privileged Motions

If a Point of Order is raised while an amendment is immediately pending, the

point of order is disposed of first.

After a member makes a Point of Order, the chair should always

try to make a ruling on it.

When a member makes a Point of Order, how is it normally decided?

The chair rules on it.

The normal grounds for a member to rise to a Point of Order are

a breach of rules.

Which motion below would be proper to use if the presiding officer at your organization's meeting asked for debate on a main motion before it was seconded?

Point of Order

Which statement below is true regarding a Point of Order?

If a motion is not seconded, and is debated and then adopted, a point of order is too late.

Which motion below may be made if a member wants a speaker to conclude debate and is unsure that this member has breached a rule?

Reserve a Point of Order

Assume that a member at a meeting is debating the main motion while an amendment is the immediately pending question. What could you do to stop the member from speaking on the main motion?

Rise, and without obtaining the floor say, "I rise to a point of order.

If you were chairman and were unsure on how to rule on a Point of Order, what would you do?

Submit it to a vote of the assembly

An appeal from the decision of the chair is a

Disagreement with the ruling of the chair.

A characteristic of the motion to Appeal is that

Takes two members to Appeal a chair's decision, yields to all priviledged motions, and yields to the Previous Question

The incidental motion to Appeal is used

To have the chairman's ruling voted on by the assembly

The chair's ruling can be appealed

At the time of the ruling

The incidental motion to Appeal

must be seconded

The incidental motion to Appeal is debatable unless it

Is made while the immediate pending question is undebatable, relates to indecorum or a transgression of the rules of speaking, and relates to priority of business

When the incidental motion to Appeal is debatable, no member can speak more than once except the

Presiding officer, who may speak twice

A tie vote on the motion to Appeal from the decision of the chair

Sustains the decision of the chair

Which of the following would not be subject to an Appeal?

The chair's response to a parlimentary inquiry, the chair's announcement of the results of a vote, and the chair's response to a point of information

Assume you are chairman and a member appeals your announcement of the results of a vote. What would you do?

Suggest that the member should call for a Divison.

Assume you do not agree with the chairman's ruling on your Point of Order. What could you do?

Rise, and without obtaining the floor say, "I appeal from the decision of the chair.

The proper language to use by the chair for putting the affirmative vote of the question on an appeal is

as many as are in favor of sustaining the chair's decision , say 'aye.'

When a member wishes to do something at a meeting that he/she cannot do without violating one or more of its regular rules, the assembly can adopt a motion to

Suspend the rules

The incidental motion to Suspend the Rules

must be seconded

The incidental motion to Suspend the Rules

usually is adopted by a two-thirds vote

The object of the incidental motion to Suspend the Rules is to suspend one or more rules contained in the

parliamentary authority, special rules of order, and standing rules of the assembly

In making the motion to Suspend the rules, the motion must

state its specific purpose

Rules that cannot generally be suspended are those that

protect absentees, protect the basic rights or individual members, and are in the bylaws (or constitution)

Which motion below would be used to dispense with the regular order of business and proceed to a subject that is scheduled later in the meeting?

Suspend the Rules

The minimum affirmative vote necessary to suspend the rules of parliamentary procedure that are in an established parliamentary procedure manual is

two- thirds.

Which of the following cannot be suspended by a majority vote?

None of the above

The minimum affirmative vote necessary to suspend Standing Rules is

A majority without notice.

Which motion below would you make if an original main motion is proposed that is strongly undesirable?

Object to the Consideration of the Question

An Objection to the Consideration of the Question can be raised only before

there has been any debate or any subsidiary motion has been stated by the chair.

An Objection to the Consideration of the Question can be applied to

original main motions

An Objection to the Consideration of the Question

Requires a 2/3 vote to sustain the objection

Which motion below can a chairman make?

Object to the Consideration

If an objection to the consideration of a main motion is sustained,

The main motion is dismissed for that session.

Assume that an undesirable main motion has been moved and seconded. At this stage, how could you keep this motion from coming before the assembly?

Obtain the floor and say, "I object to the consideration of the motion.

When a member raises an objection to the consideration of a question, the chair should ask,

The consideration of the question has been objected to. Shall the question be considered?

The motion calling for a Division of a Question is used to

Seperate, debate, and vote on different, distinct parts of a motion.

MEMBER:-(After obtaining the floor) "I move that we buy our president a new lectern and a new gavel." Which motion would you use in order to make the motion above two separate motions?

Division of the Question

The incidental motion calling for a Division of the Question

Cannot be made on the main question while an amendment to the main question is pending.

Which motion below would be the most appropriate to be divided?

I move we buy our secretary a new personal computer and a new laser printer.

If a member is not in agreement with a portion of a main motion that is indivisible, the member can

move to strike out the part that is unfavorable.

When a series of main motions that deal with different subjects is offered in one motion,

a single member can demand that each motion recieve seperate consideration

Assume a member has proposed a motion "that we send our president and all the other officers to Hawaii." You want to discuss "sending our president to "Hawaii" and "sending all the other officers to Hawaii" separately. What could you do?

Obtain the floor and say, "I move to divide the motion so as to consider seperately the question of 'sending our president to Hawaii' and 'sending all the other officers to Hawaii.'

A long motion consisting of several paragraphs can be considered by proposing a motion to open different parts to debate without a division of the question. This motion is called Consideration by Paragraph

or Seriatim

The incidental motion for Consideration by Paragraph

Requires a majority vote

When a document is considered by paragraph, a member can debate each paragraph

twice.

If the chair suggests consideration of a document by paragraph, and you wanted to save time by acting on the entire document, what would you do?

Obtain the floor and say, "I move that it be considered as a whole.

A complicated resolution having several paragraphs is on the floor. You feel that it could be dealt with more efficiently if each paragraph could be handled seperately. What could you do?

Obtain the floor and say, "Madam President, I move that the resolution be considered seriatim.

Which of the following must be ordered after a demand by only one member?

Division of the Assembly

If you call for a Division of the Assembly at a meeting of seventy members, this means that the vote must be taken again by

rising.

A member can call for a division of the assembly on a motion from the time a voice vote is taken and up until

the chair has stated the question on another motion.

The motion to call for a Division of the Assembly

does not require a second.

If a member calls for a Division when a voice vote is obviously a majority, the chairman should

declare to the assembly that the call for a Divison is dilatory.

The chairman has announced the results of a voice vote on an amendment. The result was close. What could you say from your seat, without obtaining the floor, to demand that the chair take another vote by rising?

Division", "I call for a division", and " I doubt the result of the vote

An example of a legal method of voting other than a voice vote is by

Ballot, Roll Call, and Conducting a Standing Vote

Incidental motions related to the method of voting and the polls

can be applied to any motion on which the assembly is called on to vote.

If different methods of voting are suggested, they are treated as filling blanks. In what order are they voted?

The method that takes the most time is voted on first.

Motions relating to nominations may include

Methods of making nominations, motions to close nominations, and motions to open nominations

One characteristic of incidental motions related to nominations is that they

are not debatable.

Which one of the following is usually made by the chairman?

Declaring that nominations are closed

Which subsidiary motion below cannot be applied to a request to be excused from duty?

Amend

A motion for a Request to be Excused from a Duty yields to

Other incidental motions

A motion for a Request to be Excused from a Duty

Sometimes does not require a second

A motion to Request to be Excused from a Duty

None of the above

If a member who has accepted an office finds that he or she is unable to perform it, what is the proper process to use in resigning?

Submit a written resignation, and the chair will proceed to have it voted on

Which of the following are motions that members may use to obtain information or have something done that requires permission of the assembly?

Point of Information

A Parliamentary Inquiry and Point of Information are not

seconded, voted on, subject to reconsideration

Which motion below would you use to obtain the chairman's opinion on a matter related to parliamentary procedure as it relates to the pending business?

Parliamentary Inquiry

The chair is obligated to answer all Parliamentary Inquiry questions except those that

are hypothetical in nature.

A motion to call for the Previous Question is pending, and you are uncertain if this motion is amendable. How could you find out?

Rise, and without obtaining the floor say, "I rise to a parliamentary inquiry.

The chair's reply to a parliamentary inquiry is not subject to an appeal beacuse

the reply is an opinion and not a ruling.

A Point of Information is a request directed through

Presiding officer

A Point of Information is a request directed to the chair, or through the chair to another member, for information relevant to

the business at hand, but not concerned with parliamentary procedure.

A main motion is pending, and you have a question that needs to be answered by the maker of the motion. What could you do?

Rise, and without obtaining the floorsay, "Mr. Chairman, I rise to a point of information.

Why should the chair ask a member if he or she will yield to a question when another member calls for a point of information?

The time consumed in answering the question will be taken out of the member's allowed time.

Which statement below is true regarding the incidental motion to Withdraw a Motion?

A motion may be withdrawn by the maker without the consent of anyone before it is stated by the chairman.

You have made a motion "to have a dance next Saturday." Immediately after it has been seconded and before the chair has stated the motion to the assembly, you realize that the club's picnic is the same day. How could you cancel your motion?

Rise, and without obtaining the floor say, "I withdraw the motion.

To withdraw a motion that has been stated by the chair requires

permission of the assembly

After a motion has been stated by the chair, it belongs to the meeting as a whole." What does this statement mean?

The maker of the motion must request the assembly's permission to withdraw a motion.

A request for permission to withdraw a motion can be made

At any time before voting on the question has begun, after the motion has been amended, and even though subsidiary or incidental motions may be pending

If the following motions are all before the assembly at the same time, which is the immediately pending motion?

Withdraw the main motion

After a motion has been withdrawn, the same motion

can be made again at the same meeting.

If you were chairman, and a member offered an amendment to a pending motion and the maker of the motion "accepted" it, what would you do?

Notify the assembly that the amendment has to be put in the form of a motion before it can be considered.

Assume a member wishes to read some pages during debate at a meeting. Another member objects. What would you do as chairman?

Put the question on granting permission.

If a member has specific duties that are imposed in a society's bylaws and wishes to be excused from one of the duties, what can be done?

None of the above.