Rules of Order

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Rules of Order

• GROUP 10
• Sara Mazhar Lyndon
  
  Knutson
• Luis Carmona Casimer Riffel
• Brett Geiger Dustin Weiss

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Bourinot's Rules explain how members of
  Parliament should conduct themselves, assemblies
  in general, and proceedings at public meetings.

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• General   
• Constitution And Quorum 
• Meetings  
• Notice Of Meetings 
• Presiding Officer   
• Order Of Business 
• Question Period    
• Motions           

• Amendments
• Notice Of Motion
• Subsidiary Motions
• Debate
• Putting The Question
• Order
• Privilege
• Closing The Meeting
• Secretary And Records

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Constitution and Quorum

• Constitution outlines, objectives, roles of
  officers, methods and procedures.
• Requires 8 members for a meeting to take

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Meetings

• Cannot exceed 2 hrs.
• 5 members are need to address president for
  meeting.
• Are held in open session

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Notice of Meetings

• A notice of meeting is given 2 weeks prior to
  meeting
• The agenda should be distributed 8 days prior to
  meeting
• The distribution of both agenda and notice are
  done by the secretary

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• Presiding Officer

• The chair runs the meeting
• The Vice-Chair takes control of the meeting in
  the absence of the chair or when told to do so by
  the chair

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• Order of Business

• A brief indication of the order of events.

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• Call to Order
• Roll Call

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Readings about previous meeting
• Reports of committees, board members

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Old business
• New business
• Announcements

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• Adjournment

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Question Period

• TWO PARTS
• Chair attends questions
• Questions added to agenda

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Motions

• One motion at a time
• Majority votes win
• Tie means lost

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• Amendments

• What if someone wishes to change a motion?
• A motion is made to make slight changes to other
  motions.

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• Notice in Motion

• Simply a notice that an issue affecting the
  constitution, policies, or procedures is to be
  raised.

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Subsidiary Motions

• Motion to Adjourn
• Previous Question Motion
• Motion to Table
• Motion to Refer
• Motion to Speak

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• Debate

• All members of senate have equal rights to floor.
• All remarks carried out should be initially
  addressed to the chair.
• Chair establishes order of speakers who wish to
  speak.

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Putting the Question

• Chair inquires appropriate time to put forward
  question.
• Question shall be voted on by senate body.
• Chair has authority to over rule a motion with no
  controversy.

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Bourinots Rules of Order

• Order

• Responsibility of Chair to govern order in senate
  body.
• Allowed to introduce an undebatable motion which
  could pass and overturn chairs ruling.
• Recessing and adjourning the meeting.

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• Privilege

• Rights or interests of Senate may be raised at
  any time.
• The Chair decides if the question is admissible

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• Closing the meeting

• When all agenda items have been dealt with
• The Chair may recess a meeting or to adjournment

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• Secretary and Records

• Be organized
• Be Knowledgeable
• Work closely with the chair
• Listen actively
• Briefly record every item of business
• Be kind for the future reader
• Avoid personal comments

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Reference

• Gral. Henry M. Robert. Roberts Rules of Order
  Revised. Toronto The Ryerson Press, 1915.
• Dubroy, J.G. Bourinots Rules of Order. 2nd ed.
  Toronto McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1963.
• Robert, Henry M. 1915. Roberts Rules of Order
  Revised for Deliberative Assemblies. Bartleby.
  7 Feb. 2005.lthttp//www.bartleby.com/176/gt

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