Guest Selectman Posted January 25, 2019 at 01:30 PM Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 at 01:30 PM What is the difference between Parliamentary Procedures and Roberts Rules of Order? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Honemann Posted January 25, 2019 at 01:37 PM Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 at 01:37 PM 2 minutes ago, Guest Selectman said: What is the difference between Parliamentary Procedures and Roberts Rules of Order? What leads you to believe that there is any material difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transpower Posted January 25, 2019 at 03:26 PM Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 at 03:26 PM Robert's Rules of Order contain a comprehensive set of parliamentary procedures, but there are others. Robert's is by far the most commonly used by ordinary societies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Selectman Posted January 25, 2019 at 03:47 PM Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 at 03:47 PM Mr. Honemann, There is another person on the Select Board who contends that we go by Parliamentary Procedures and not Roberts Rules of Order. I believe it is one and the same, basically. Am I correct ? Transpower, what are the other Parliamentary Procedures and when do you use them ? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstackpo Posted January 25, 2019 at 04:17 PM Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 at 04:17 PM You are a "selectman", so this may not be pertinent: Many state legislators use "Masons Manual" as the basis for their procedure. But for "ordinary societies" RONR is the sine qua non. Municipal boards and the like commonly adopt RONR (or did a long time ago and have forgotten about it) and then overlay RONR's rules with special rules more appropriate to their situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted January 25, 2019 at 07:55 PM Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 at 07:55 PM (edited) 6 hours ago, Guest Selectman said: What is the difference between Parliamentary Procedures and Roberts Rules of Order? 4 hours ago, Guest Selectman said: Mr. Honemann, There is another person on the Select Board who contends that we go by Parliamentary Procedures and not Roberts Rules of Order. I believe it is one and the same, basically. Am I correct ? Transpower, what are the other Parliamentary Procedures and when do you use them ? Thank you! Parliamentary law is the type of rules which apply to a deliberative assembly, that is, a group which meets and deliberates to decide upon a course of action. The term parliamentary procedure is often used synonymously with parliamentary law, although in RONR it refers to parliamentary law as it is used in a particular assembly, together with the rules and customs of the particular assembly. Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR) is a particular manual on parliamentary law as it is used in ordinary assemblies (that is, assemblies other than state or national legislatures). It is the most widely used manual for this purpose. It is intended to be adopted by organizations as their parliamentary authority, in which event it becomes binding upon the organization, to the extent that it does not conflict with the organization’s other rules or applicable procedural rules in statute. State and national legislative assemblies generally use parliamentary authorities other than RONR. Additionally, some ordinary societies also choose to use authorities other than RONR, such as The Standard Code or Demeter. All of these societies, however, are using parliamentary law (or parliamentary procedure). So a society which uses RONR is also using parliamentary procedure, since RONR is a book about such procedures, but there are societies which use parliamentary procedure, but do not use RONR. If you are interested in a further discussion of this topic, you can see a discussion in RONR, 11th ed., pgs. xxix-xxx. Edited January 25, 2019 at 07:56 PM by Josh Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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