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| Adjourn | This motion closes the meeting, cannot interrupt a speaker, and requires a second. |
| Amend | An amendable motion that is debatable if the motion it is applied to is debatable. |
| Appeal | An incidental motion that challenges the ruling of the chair and sustains the chairÕs decision on a majority or tie vote. |
| Call for the Orders of the Day | The undebatable motion that may interrupt the speaker, and requires that the meeting follow the agenda. |
| Commit or Refer | This debatable and amendable motion sends the main motion to a smaller group for further examination and refinement before the group votes on it . |
| Division of a Question | An amendable, incidental motion that must be seconded, and that results in voting on parts of a motion separately. |
| Division of the Assembly | This motion does not need to be seconded and requires a rising vote on demand of a single member who doubts the results of a voice vote. |
| Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn | A motion that may be reconsidered, is amendable, sets the time for a continued meeting, and does not adjourn the meeting. |
| Lay on the Table | An undebatable, unamendable motion that requires a majority vote, and puts a motion aside for later consideration. |
| Limit or Extend Limits of Debate | This motion always requires a two-thirds vote to be adopted and is amendable. |
| Main Motion | The lowest ranking amendable motion that brings before the assembly any particular subject when no other business is pending. |
| Objection to the Consideration of a Question | For this motion, a speaker may be interrupted, a second is not required, and the negative vote may be reconsidered. |
| Parliamentary Inquiry | A motion that may interrupt a speaker that is raised by a member to ask a question about parliamentary procedure. |
| Point of Information | A motion that may interrupt a speaker in order for a member to ask a question not related to parliamentary procedure, but about the pending business. |
| Point of Order | This motion can interrupt a speaker and requires that the chair make a ruling and enforce the rules. |
| Postpone Indefinitely | A debatable, subsidiary motion that can only be applied to a Main Motion. |
| Postpone to a Certain Time | This debatable and amendable motion puts off a motion to a specific time. |
| Previous Question | A motion that requires a second, is unamendable, always requires a two-thirds vote to be adopted, and may be reconsidered. |
| Raise a Question of Privilege | A motion that cannot be reconsidered, amended, or debated, and asks urgent questions regarding rights of the assembly. |
| Recess | A privileged, amendable motion that establishes a brief intermission which does not close the meeting. |
| Reconsider | An unamendable motion that allows consideration of a motion again after it is voted on. |
| Rescind | An amendable motion that repeals or annuls a previously adopted motion. |
| Secondary Amendment | This motion proposes a change to a primary amendment and requires a majority vote. HINT: The first five letters of the first word of this motion are ÒSeconÓ _ _ _ _. |
| Suspend the Rules | An incidental, undebatable motion that allows the assembly to violate the rules (not the bylaws). |
| Take From the Table | An undebatable motion that resumes considering a motion that was laid on the table. |
| Withdraw a Motion | A motion that may not interrupt a speaker and removes a motion from consideration. |
