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13 <br /> beyond reasonable standards of courtesy in his or her remarks, or entertaining and <br /> answering a question of parliamentary law or procedure may be appealed to the board <br /> as specified in Rule 11. This appeal is in order immediately after such a decision is <br /> announced and at no other time. The member making the motion need not be <br /> recognized by the presiding officer and the motion, if timely made, may not be ruled out <br /> of order. <br /> Comment:Rule 11 allows the ruling of the presiding officer on certain procedural matters to be <br /> appealed to the board. This appeal must be made as soon as the presiding officer's decision is <br /> announced, so this motion is accorded the highest priority. See Rule 11 and its comment for <br /> further discussion of this motion. <br /> 2. To Adjourn. The motion may be made at the conclusion of action on a pending"matter; <br /> it may not interrupt deliberation of a pending matter. <br /> Comment: This motion differs from the Robert's Rules of Order motion in several respects. In <br /> Robert's Rules of Order, it is not debatable or amendable and can be made at any time, even <br /> interrupting substantive deliberations. In view of the small number of members and the <br /> available procedures to limit debate, this rule allows debate and amendment of the motion to <br /> adjourn but allows the motion to adjourn only when action on a pending matter is over. The <br /> motion to defer consideration or to postpone to a certain time or day may be used if the board <br /> wants to adjourn before completing action on a matter. <br /> 3. To Take a Recess. <br /> Comment: Robert's Rules of Order does not allow debate on this motion, but since the number <br /> of members is small and procedures to limit debate are available, this rule allows debate on <br /> the motion.As in Robert's Rules of Order, the motion is in order at any time. Note that under <br /> Rule 11, the chair also has the power to call a brief recess. <br /> 4. To Call to Follow the Agenda. The motion must be made at the first reasonable <br /> opportunity or it is waived. <br /> Comment:Tbis motion differs from the call for the orders of the day in Robert's Rules of Order:it may be debated <br /> and must be made when an item of business that deviates from the agenda is proposed or the right to insist on <br /> following the agenda is waived for that item. <br /> 5. To Suspend the Rules.The motion requires a vote equal to a quorum. <br /> Comment: This motion differs from Robert's Rules of Order in that it is debatable and <br /> amendable and the number of necessary votes is a quorum rather than two-thirds. Thus if a <br /> board has seven members, four members (a quorum) must vote for the motion; if only four <br /> members are present at a particular meeting, all four must vote for the motion in order to <br /> adopt it. This motion is in order when the board wishes to do something that it may legally do <br /> but cannot without violating its own rules.The procedure will pose some problems for a three- <br /> member board, as it can be used to prevent one member from participating in the board's <br /> deliberations. Frequent use of the motion to prevent one member from presenting proposals to <br /> the board or from speaking on an issue before the board is of doubtful legality.A three-member <br /> board may decide to require a unanimous vote to suspend the rules. <br /> 6. To Divide a Complex Motion and Consider it by Paragraph. This motion is in order <br /> whenever a member wishes to consider and vote on subparts of a complex motion <br /> separately. <br />