Standing Rules

[ConfusedandQuestioned]

Can standing rules be suspended during a convention?  Need specific rule in the book so I can have documentation.

 

Thank 

[Rob Elsman]

Generally, yes. RONR (12th ed.) 59:37.

[Richard Brown]

42 minutes ago, ConfusedandQuestioned said:

Can standing rules be suspended during a convention?  Need specific rule in the book so I can have documentation.

 

21 minutes ago, Rob Elsman said:

Generally, yes. RONR (12th ed.) 59:37.

That is true, but with a caveat.  Here is the text of Section 59:37 from the new 12th edition of RONR:

Suspension of a Convention Standing Rule. Any standing rule of a convention (except one prescribing the parliamentary authority) can be suspended for a particular specified purpose by a majority vote, even if the rule required a two-thirds vote for its adoption. Under such a suspension, however, the applicable rules in the parliamentary authority prescribed by the bylaws (or by a rule of the convention) come into force— as if the standing rule had not been adopted. To suspend a convention standing rule and also the general parliamentary rule normally applying to the same situation requires a two-thirds vote, just as to suspend the general rule when no standing rule is involved (25). 3 No standing rule of a convention can be suspended for the remainder of the session, and no standing rule which has only a single application can be suspended, since this would be equivalent to rescinding the rule, and the case would have to be treated accordingly.