Motions which are Not Debatable

Resource: RONR V (12th Edition)

V. Motions Which Are Not Debatable and Not Amendable

Adjourn (when privileged; 21)

Amend an amendment to an undebatable motion (12)

Appeal, if it: (a) relates to indecorum or a transgression of the rules of speaking; (b) relates to the priority of business; or (c) is made when an undebatable question is immediately pending or involved in the appeal (24)

Authorize a motion outside society's object (10:26(2))

Blank in an undebatable motion, proposals for filling (12:92–113)

Call for a Division of the Assembly (29)

Call for separate vote(s) on one or more of a series of unrelated resolutions which have been offered by a single motion (10:25, 27:10), or on one or more of a series of amendments on which the chair has stated the question in gross (12:14, 27:11, 51:48(b), 52:13, 52:23)

Call for the Orders of the Day (18)

Call up a motion to Reconsider, or a motion to Reconsider and Enter on the Minutes (37)

Calling a member to order (61:11)

Dispense with reading of the minutes (48:11)

Grant permission to continue speaking after indecorum (61:11)

Lay on the Table (17)

Objection to the Consideration of a Question (26)

Parliamentary Inquiry (33:3–5)

Point of Order (except one referred to assembly by chair on which appeal would be debatable, or one where debate is permitted at chair's discretion by way of explanation; 23)

Previous Question (16)

Raise a Question of Privilege (19)

Receive a report (51:28)

Reconsider an undebatable motion (37)

Request for Information (33:6–10)

Request for Permission to Modify a Motion (33:11–13, 33:19)

Requests or motions to grant requests, in these cases:

For Permission to Withdraw a Motion (33:11–18)

For Permission to Read Papers (33:20–21)

For Any Other Privilege (33:22)

Rise, or Rise and Report, in a committee of the whole (52:4ff.)

Suspend the Rules (25)

Take from the Table (34)

Take up a question out of its proper order (14:11; 25; 41:37–39)