Robert's Rules of Order - Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies by Henry M. Robert
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page 71 of 154 (46%)
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abridged by a mere majority:
An Objection to the Consideration of a Question .............. § 15. To Take up a Question out of its proper order ................ § 13. To Suspend the Rules ......................................... § 18. The Previous Question ........................................ § 20. To Close or Limit Debate ..................................... § 37. To Amend the Rules (requires previous notice also) ........... § 43. To Make a special order ...................................... § 13. === Page 81 ============================================================ Art. VII. The Officers and the Minutes. [§§ 40, 41.] 40. Chairman* [In connection with this section read § 44, and also § 40, 41.] or President. The presiding officer, when no special title has been assigned him, is ordinarily called the Chairman (or in religious assemblies more usually the Moderator); frequently the constitution of the assembly prescribes for him a title, such as President. His duties are generally as follows: To open the session at the time at which the assembly is to meet, by taking the chair and calling the members to order; to announce the business before the assembly in the order in which it is to be acted upon [§ 44]; to state and to put to vote [§ 38] all questions which are regularly moved, or necessarily arise in the course of proceedings, and to announce the result of the vote; |
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