Section and Paragraph Numbering
Preface to the Twelfth Edition
Principles Underlying Parliamentary Law
I
THE DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLY: ITS TYPES AND THEIR RULES
1:1 Nature of the Deliberative Assembly
1:9 Types of Deliberative Assembly
1:24 Applicability of Modified Parliamentary Rules in Small Boards and in Committees
§2 Rules of an Assembly or Organization
II
THE CONDUCT OF BUSINESS IN A DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLY
§3 Basic Provisions and Procedures
3:3 Minimum Composition of a Deliberative Assembly
3:15 Call to Order; Order of Business
3:21 Means by Which Business Is Brought Before the Assembly
3:30 Obtaining and Assigning the Floor
4:2 How a Motion Is Brought Before the Assembly
4:25 The Consideration of a Main Motion: Basic Steps
4:58 Adoption of a Motion, or Action Without a Motion, by Unanimous Consent
4:64 Relation of Other Motions to the Main Motion
III
DESCRIPTION OF MOTIONS IN ALL CLASSIFICATIONS
§5 Basic Classifications; Order of Precedence of Motions
5:3 Secondary Motions as an Underlying Concept
§6 Description of Classes and Individual Motions
6:25 Motions That Bring a Question Again Before the Assembly
§7 Standard Descriptive Characteristics of Motions
§8 Meeting, Session, Recess, Adjournment
8:3 Interrelation of the Concepts
§9 Particular Types of Business Meetings
10:2 Distinction Between Original Main and Incidental Main Motions
10:8 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
10:9 The Framing of Main Motions
10:26 Main Motions That Are Not in Order
10:28 Treatment of Main Motions
10:37 Notes on Example Format Throughout the Book
10:44 Previous Notice of Motions
10:52 Motion to Adopt and Motion to Ratify
§11 Postpone Indefinitely
(To drop the main motion without a direct vote on it)
11:2 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
11:3 Further Rules and Explanation
12:7 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
12:8 Further Rules and Explanation (with Forms)
13:7 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
13:8 Further Rules and Explanation
§14 Postpone to a Certain Time (or Definitely)
14:4 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
14:5 Further Rules and Explanation
§15 Limit or Extend Limits of Debate
15:5 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
15:6 Further Rules and Explanation
16:5 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
16:6 Further Rules and Explanation
17:3 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
17:4 Further Rules and Explanation
§18 Call for the Orders of the Day
(To demand to take up the proper business in order)
18:4 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
18:5 Further Rules and Explanation
§19 Raise a Question of Privilege
19:6 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
19:7 Further Rules and Explanation
20:5 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
20:6 Further Rules and Explanation
21:6 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
21:7 Further Rules and Explanation
§22 Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn
22:6 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
22:7 Further Rules and Explanation
23:2 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
23:3 Further Rules and Explanation
24:3 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
24:4 Further Rules and Explanation
25:2 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
25:3 Further Rules and Explanation
§26 Objection to the Consideration of a Question
26:2 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
26:3 Further Rules and Explanation
27:3 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
27:4 Further Rules and Explanation
§28 Consideration by Paragraph or Seriatim
28:2Standard Descriptive Characteristics
28:3 Further Rules and Explanation
29:4 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
29:5 Further Rules and Explanation
§30 Motions Relating to Methods of Voting and the Polls
30:3 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
30:4 Further Rules and Explanation
§31 Motions Relating to Nominations
31:2 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
31:3 Further Rules and Explanation
§32 Request to Be Excused from a Duty
32:2 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
32:3 Further Rules and Explanation
33:2 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
33:3 Further Rules and Explanation (with Forms)
33:6 B. Request for Information
33:11 C. Request for Permission (or Leave) to Withdraw or Modify a Motion
33:20 D. Request to Read Papers
33:22 E. Request for Any Other Privilege
IX
MOTIONS THAT BRING A QUESTION AGAIN BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY
34:2 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
34:3 Further Rules and Explanation
§35 Rescind; Amend Something Previously Adopted
35:2 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
35:3 Further Rules and Explanation
35:13 Rescind and Expunge from the Minutes
36:4 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
36:5 Further Rules and Explanation
37:9 Standard Descriptive Characteristics
37:10 Further Rules and Explanation
37:46 Reconsider and Enter on the Minutes
X
RENEWAL OF MOTIONS; DILATORY AND IMPROPER MOTIONS
38:4 Nonrenewability During the Same Session, and Exceptions
38:8 Conditions That May Impede Renewal at a Later Session
§39 Dilatory and Improper Motions
XI
QUORUM; ORDER OF BUSINESS AND RELATED CONCEPTS
40:2 Rules Pertaining to the Quorum
40:11 Manner of Enforcing the Quorum Requirement
§41 Order of Business; Orders of the Day; Agenda or Program
41:5 Usual Order of Business in Ordinary Societies
41:37 Taking Up Business out of Its Proper Order
XII
ASSIGNMENT OF THE FLOOR; DEBATE
§42 Rules Governing Assignment of the Floor
42:6 Assignment of the Floor When More Than One Person Claims It
42:18 Interruption of a Member Assigned the Floor
43:4 Summary of Procedures Incident to Debate
43:8 Length and Number of Speeches
43:14 Modification of General Limits of Debate
43:29 Rule Against the Chair’s Participation in Debate
43:31 Occasions Justifying Brief Discussion Outside Debate
43:35 Principles Governing the Debatability of Motions
§44 Bases for Determining a Voting Result
44:1 Majority Vote—the Basic Requirement
44:7 Modifications of Usual Bases for Decision
44:12 Tie Votes and Cases in Which the Chair’s Vote Affects the Result
45:1 Rights and Obligations in Voting
45:11 Regular Methods of Voting on Motions
XV
OFFICERS; MINUTES AND OFFICERS’ REPORTS
47:2 Principles Applying to Holding of Office
47:43 Appointed Officers or Consultants
§48 Minutes and Reports of Officers
49:3 The Executive Board of an Organized Society
49:12 Bodies Subordinate to a Board
49:15 Conduct of Business in Boards
50:11 Appointment of Committees
50:21 Conduct of Business in Committees
§51 Reports of Boards and Committees
51:2 General Considerations Affecting Board and Committee Reports
51:23 Form and Reception of Committee Reports in General
51:30 Disposition of Particular Types of Committee Reports
51:60 Oral Reports; Partial and Minority Reports
§52 Committee of the Whole and Its Alternate Forms
52:19 Quasi Committee of the Whole (Consideration as if in Committee of the Whole)
52:28 Aids to the Crystallization of Opinion
XVII
MASS MEETINGS; ORGANIZATION OF A PERMANENT SOCIETY
53:1 Distinguishing Characteristics of a Mass Meeting
53:3 Organization of a Mass Meeting
53:14 Transaction of Business Specified in the Call
53:32 Series of Mass Meetings; Temporary Society
§54 Organization of a Permanent Society
54:2 First Organizational Meeting
54:11 Work of the Bylaws Committee
54:14 Second Organizational Meeting
§55 Merger, Consolidation, and Dissolution of Societies
§56 Content and Composition of Bylaws
56:1 Nature and Importance of Bylaws
56:3 Committee to Draw Up Bylaws
56:16 Content of Bylaw Articles
56:68 Some Principles of Interpretation
57:2 Method of Handling Bylaw Amendments
57:10 Amending a Proposed Amendment to the Bylaws
57:14 Giving Notice of Amendments
57:15 Time at Which a Bylaw Amendment Takes Effect
57:18 Captions, Headings, and Article and Section Numbers
58:6 Basic Provisions in Bylaws
58:11 Convention Members and Alternates
§59 Organization of a Convention of an Established Society
59:9 Services of a Parliamentarian
59:10 Formal Organization Procedure at the Convention
59:27 Committee on Standing Rules
59:61 Convention Arrangements Committee
§60 Conventions Not of a Permanent Society
§61 Discipline of Members and Guests
61:6 Dealing with Offenses in a Meeting
61:22 Offenses Elsewhere Than in a Meeting; Trials
§62 Removal from Office and Other Remedies for Dereliction of Duty in Office or Misconduct
62:2 Remedies for Abuse of Authority by the Chair in a Meeting
63:2 Rights of the Society and the Accused
63:7 Steps in a Fair Disciplinary Process
I. Chart for Determining When Each Subsidiary or Privileged Motion Is in Order
II. Table of Rules Relating to Motions
III. Sample Forms Used in Making Motions
IV. Motions and Parliamentary Steps
• Which Are in Order When Another Has the Floor and Do Not Require a Second
• Which Are in Order When Another Has the Floor but Must Be Seconded
• Which Are out of Order When Another Has the Floor but Do Not Require a Second
V. Motions and Parliamentary Steps
• Which Are Not Debatable and Not Amendable
• Which Are Not Debatable but Are Amendable
• Which Are Not Amendable but Are Debatable
VI. Motions Which Require a Two-Thirds Vote
VII. Motions Whose Reconsideration Is Prohibited or Limited
• Cannot Be Reconsidered At All
• A Negative Vote Cannot Be Reconsidered
• An Affirmative Vote Cannot Be Reconsidered
VIII. Table of Rules for Counting Election Ballots