Reopening a meeting after motion to adjourn

[Guest Jack black]

Can a meeting be reopened by the president after the motion to adjourn has been excepted and passed?

[George Mervosh]

9 minutes ago, Guest Jack black said:

Can a meeting be reopened by the president after the motion to adjourn has been excepted and passed?

Not if he has declared it adjourned.

[Richard Brown]

3 hours ago, Guest Jack black said:

Can a meeting be reopened by the president after the motion to adjourn has been excepted and passed?

 

3 hours ago, George Mervosh said:

Not if he has declared it adjourned.

While I agree almost completely with my friend Mr. Mervosh, RONR does contain one small exception on page 240 to the general rule that once the chair declares the meeting adjourned, it is over.  Here is the pertinent passage:

"If the chair learns, immediately after declaring the assembly adjourned, that a member seeking the floor for one of these purposes had risen and addressed the chair before the adjournment was declared, then, since the adjournment was improper and this breach was promptly noted, the chair must call the meeting back to order—but only long enough for the purpose for which the member legitimately sought the floor."

[Weldon Merritt]

2 hours ago, Richard Brown said:

 Here is the pertinent passage:

"If the chair learns, immediately after declaring the assembly adjourned, that a member seeking the floor for one of these purposes had risen and addressed the chair before the adjournment was declared, then, since the adjournment was improper and this breach was promptly noted, the chair must call the meeting back to order—but only long enough for the purpose for which the member legitimately sought the floor."

And "these purposes" are:

   

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   •    to inform the assembly of business requiring attention before adjournment;
    •    to make important announcements;
    •    to make (but not to take up*) a motion to reconsider a previous vote; 
    •    to make a motion to Reconsider and Enter on the Minutes (pp. 332–35); 
    •    to give notice of a motion to be made at the next meeting (or on the next day, in a session consisting of daily meetings) where the motion requires previous notice (see pp. 121–24); and 
    •    to move to set a time for an adjourned meeting (9, 22) if there is no meeting scheduled for later within the same session. 

RONR,  p. 238, l. 21 to p. 239,  l. 9. So the exception is very limited indeed.

[Richard Brown]

Thanks, Weldon! I realize I probably should have included that detail as well!