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Adjourn

Close the meeting

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Adopt

Accept/agree

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Agenda

Order of business

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Amend

Modify wording or meaning

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Appeal

Members question chair's ruling

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Aye

Affirmative voice vote

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Board

Administrative body

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Bylaws

Basic rules of a society

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Commit or refer

Send to a committee

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Convention

Assembly of delegates

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Debate

Discussion of merits of pending question

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Executive session

Proceedings are secret

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Incidental motions

Deal with questions of procedure

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Lay on the table

Set main motion aside tenporarily

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Main motion

Introduces business to the assembly

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Majority vote

More than half of votes cast

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Mass meeting

Unorganized group

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Meeting

Single official gathering

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Minutes

Written record of the proceedings

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Motion

Formal proposal to take action

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Request for information

Inquiry as to facts

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Point of Order

Call for enforcement of rules

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Postpone definitely

Postpone to a certain time

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Postpone indefinitely

Dispose of the question without a direct vote

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Precedence

Rank

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Previous question

Close debate

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Pro tem

Temporary

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Quorum

Members required to transact business

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Ratify

Make valid action already taken

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Recess

Short intermission

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Regular meeting

Periodic business meeting

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Rescind

Repeal

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Second

Agreement that motion be considered

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Secretary

Recording officer of an assembly

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State the question

Place the motion before the assembly

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Standing committee

Constituted to perform a continuing function

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Take from the table

Resume consideration of a main motion

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The chair

Person presiding

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Unanimous consent

No opposition

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Viva voce

Voice vote

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Corporate charter

1st highest

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Constituents/bylaws

2nd highest

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Rules of Order

3rd highest

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Standing rules

4th highest

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Custom

5th highest

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Members of an assembly

May attend meetings, make motions, debate, and vote.

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47

The actions of any deliberative assembly are subject to

The bylaws and other rules of its organization plus all applicable procedural laws.

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The basic principle of decision in a deliberative assembly is that

A motion must be adopted by a majority vote.

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When a decision is to be based on more than a majority vote, a common requirement is a

Two-thirds vote and/or previous notice.

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50

Two forms of deliberative assembly are

Convention and board.

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51

According to RONR and most state statutes, electronic meetings

May be conducted if provided for in the bylaws, everyone can hear each other at the same time and additional rules are advisable.

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Admittance to a mass meeting

May be limited to the invited category.

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The local assembly of an organized society is limited to persons who

Are recorded on the rolls as voting members in good standing.

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The bylaws of an organized local society usually provide that it shall hold

Regular meetings at stated intervals.

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Large boards

Generally follow parliamentary procedure the same as any assembly.

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The corporate charter should contain only

What is necessary to obtain it and to obtain the desired status under the law.

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The constitution or bylaws of a society should contain

Its own basic rules relating principally to itself as an organization.

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Except for the corporate charter, the highest body of rules in a society is the

Bylaws.

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The term rules of order refers to

The written rules of parliamentary procedure adopted by an assembly or organization.

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Standing rules, except in the case of conventions, are

Related to the details of the administration of a society.

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61

A custom of an organization

Falls to the ground if a conflict with a written rule is raised by a Point of Order.

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T or F: A two-thirds vote means two-thirds of those present and voting.

True

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T or F: A series of meetings leading up to the organization of a society are in the nature of Mass meetings.

True

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T or F: The bylaws of a local organized society should establish a procedure for calling special meetings.

True

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T or F: While a board may or may not function autonomously, its operation is determined by responsibilities and powers delegated to it or conferred on it by the authority outside itself.

True

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T or F: If a society has a corporate charter, it is not necessary to have a constitution or bylaws.

False

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Reading and Approval of Minutes

1st order

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Reports of Officers, Boards, and Standing Committees

2nd order

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Reports of Special Committees

3rd order

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Special Orders

4th order

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Unfinished Business and General Orders

5th order

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New Business

6th order

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The quorum of an assembly

Is the minimum number of members who must be present for business to be validly transacted.

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In the absence of a provision in the bylaws, the quorum of an organized society is

A majority of the entire membership.

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The minimum essential officers for the conduct of business are

A presiding officer and secretary or clerk

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The chair's announcement of the result of the vote should include

The ayes (or noes) have it, the motion is adopted (or lost) and the effect of the vote.

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A "friendly amendment"

Must be adopted by the body, either by vote or unanimous consent.

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A proper way to begin the debate process is for the chair to say

"Is there any debate?"

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Sessions of permanently organized bodies usually follow

An established order of business.

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Calling a meeting to order is

Not a part of the order of business.

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In the standard order of business the reports of officers are presented

Immediately after approval of the minutes.

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82

Reports of officers are commonly presented

In the order in which the officers are listed in the bylaws.

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83

The main motion is one that

Brings business before the assembly.

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84

Before a member in an assembly can speak in debate he must

Obtain the floor.

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A person who is not the first to rise and address the chair may be given preference in being recognized if

He is the maker of the motion and has not spoken to the question.

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86

If the chair make a mistake in assigning the floor, a member may

Raise a Point of Order.

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87

T or F: The minimum number of members who must be present at the meetings of a deliberative assembly for business to be validly transacted is the quorum of the assembly.

True

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88

T or F: The quorum should be fixed at the number of members who can reasonably be expected to attend the meeting.

True

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T or F: In meetings of a convention, unless the bylaws of the organization provide otherwise, the quorum is a majority of the delegates who have been registered at the convention.

True

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T or F: In a mass meeting the quorum consists of those who attend the meeting.

True

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T or F: Even in a small meeting, the presiding officer should not be addressed or referred to by name.

True

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T or F: The presiding officer of an assembly always stands when calling the meeting to order.

True

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T or F: The first item of business at a regular meeting is the report of officers.

False

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T or F: The order of business in a convention is usually known as the program or agenda.

True

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T or F: A member in an assembly may make a main motion or speak in debate without obtaining the floor.

False

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T or F: A member can establish prior claim to the floor by rising just before it has been yielded.

False

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97

Member makes a motion.

1st order

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Another member seconds the motion.

2nd order

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Chair states the question.

3rd order

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Members debate the question.

4th order

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