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Parliamentary Procedure at a Glance

(Based on The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure by Alice Sturgis)

Incidental Motions

TO DO THIS

YOU SAY THIS

May You

Must You Be

Is The Motion

What Vote is

Interrupt

Seconded?

Debatable?

Required?

Speaker?

Vote on a ruling by the

"I appeal the Chair’s

YES

MAJORITY

Chair

decision"

Consider something out

"I move to suspend the

YES

TWO-THIRDS

of its scheduled order

rules and consider…"

To discuss an issue

"I move that we

YES

MAJORITY

without restrictions of

consider informally…"

parliamentary rules

To call attention to a

"I rise to a point of

YES

NONE

violation of the rules or

order"

error in procedure, and to

secure a ruling on the

question raised

To ask a question

"I rise to a

YES

NONE

relating to procedure

parliamentary inquiry"

To allow the maker of a

"I move to withdraw my

YES

NONE

motion to remove the

motion"

motion from

consideration

To separate a multi-part

"I move division of the

NONE

question into individual

question"

questions for the purpose

of voting

To verify an indecisive

"I move to divide the

YES

NONE

voice or hand vote by

Assembly"

requiring voters to rise

and be counted

*Amendable

**Debatable if no Other Motion is Pending

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