Fix the time to which to adjourn

Question 1

What is the purpose of the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn?

Answer 1

To set a time (and sometimes a place) for another meeting to continue the business of the meeting.

Question 2

Can the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn be applied to any other motions

Answer 2

No

Question 3

Your question has three parts:

1) Is the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn amendable?
2) Is an amendment applied to it debatable?
3) Explain your answer.

Answer 3

1) Yes
2) No
3) The motion to which it is applied is not debatable. Therefore, an amendment is not debatable

Question 4

Can the privileged motion to Fix the Time to which to Adjourn be reconsidered?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

Can the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn be made after the assembly has voted to adjourn?

Answer 5

Yes, if the chair has not declared the assembly adjourned.

Question 6

Your question has three parts:

1) Must the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn be seconded?
2) What is the purpose of seconding a motion?
3) Does a member who seconds a motion have to vote in favor of it?

Answer 6

1) Yes
2) To prevent time from being used by the assembly’s having to dispose of a motion that only one person wants to see introduced.
3) No

Question 7

Can the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn be made when another member has the floor?

Answer 7

No

Question 8

What is the highest ranking of all motions?

Answer 8

The privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn

Question 9

Your question has two parts:

1) What vote is required to adopt the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn?
2) What dos a majority vote mean?

Answer 9

1) Majority
2) More than half the votes cast by persons legally entitled to vote, excluding blanks or absentees, at a meeting at which a quorum is present.

Question 10

If thirty members at a meeting cast a vote on the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn, what would be the minimum number that would have to vote in the affirmative to adopt it?

Answer 10

Sixteen

Question 11

Name three privileged motions that the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn takes precedence over.

Answer 11

1) Adjourn
2) Recess
3) Question of Privilege

Question 12

One way to amend the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn is to change the date. Name two other items that may be changed in the motion by amending.

Answer 12

1) The hour

2) The place

Question 13

What is an adjourned meeting?

Answer 13

A continuation of the meeting at which the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn is adopted.

Question 14

Does the adoption of the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn, adjourn the present meeting?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

A motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn is a Main Motion if it is made when no question is pending.

1) Would it be debatable?
2) What vote would be the vote required to adopt it?
3) Could it be reconsidered?

Answer 15

1) Yes
2) Majority
3) Yes

Question 16

What is the form for making the privileged motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn?

Answer 16

I move that, when this meeting adjourns, it adjourns to meet next (state day) at (state time).

Question 17

Your question has two parts:

1) Explain when the motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn is not a privileged motion.
2) What motion is it handled as if it is not a privileged motion?

Answer 17

1) It is not a privileged motion if made when no question is pending ]
2) It is handled as a Main Motion

Question 18

Your question has two parts:

1) What does it mean when a motion is said to be pending?
2) What is another expression that has the same meaning?

Answer 18

1) A motion has been stated by the chair

2) A motion that is “on the floor.”