Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/Privileged Motions
PRIVILEGED MOTIONS.
80. Privileged motions (sometimes called independent motions) are those which on account of the importance, and of the needs of the assembly as a deliberative body, or by reason of the necessity or urgency of their nature, are entitled to precedence over the main question (27) and over all subsidiary (93) and incidental (123) questions and are as follows in their order of precedence among themselves;[1]
To fix the time (or place) to which to adjourn.
To adjourn.
Questions of privilege.
Orders of the day.
- ↑ Note.—It is understood that any of these questions may be interrupted, but is not cut off by any of the following:
A question of privilege requiring immediate action.
Points of order relating to the question.
Notice to have entered on the minutes a motion to reconsider.
Motions as to the method of voting.
Parliamentary inquiries—or any question which from necessity or urgency requires immediate action.
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