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Extend Debate when Agenda Time Expired?


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[That's a cryptic title. Sorry - here's what it means...]

 

Meeting agenda has been adopted with clearly stated time limits for consideration of particular items of business. (Adopted by 2/3, since rights are limited)

 

Debate, with amendments and what all, going hot and heavy on Agenda item C, which has (see first sentence) an overall time limit for consideration.

 

During the discussion, time runs out so the president interupts and says, in effect:  "Time's up, that's it.  We will now vote on [the pending motion]...  All those...[interruption!]..."

 

Question:  it is proper for somone to leap us as indicated, (before the voting actually starts, cf. p. 408) and move to extend the time for debate - p. 191?

 

I think so, since it is just a suspension of the rules with the usual 2/3 vote requirement; elswhere on the forum others have said "no, not proper", well, one other anyway.

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Question:  it is proper for somone to leap us as indicated, (before the voting actually starts, cf. p. 408) and move to extend the time for debate - p. 191?

 

Yes, it's certainly proper. RONR explicitly says so.

 

"When the assigned time for taking up a topic in an agenda arrives, the chair announces that fact. Then he puts to a vote any pending questions without allowing further debate, unless someone immediately moves to lay the question on the table, postpone it, or refer it to a committee. If any of these subsidiary motions are moved, they are likewise put to a vote, together with any amendment to them, without debate. Besides recognizing these subsidiary motions, the chair also should recognize a motion to extend the time for considering the pending question, if such a motion is made. While an extension under these conditions is seldom desirable and is often unfair to the next topic, it is sometimes necessary, and a motion for the extension can be adopted without debate by a two-thirds vote (see also 18)." (RONR, 11th ed., pg. 373, emphasis added)

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...; elswhere on the forum others have said "no, not proper", well, one other anyway.

 

What was his rationale? (A thread link will do, or the topic title, or the name of the original poster, or his social security number (slightly higher in Canada), or the date and time of the final post. )

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