List of motions

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The following is a list of motions in parliamentary procedure and their classification according to Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure, and Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure.

• Main motion
• Subsidiary (Descending order of Precedence)

• Privileged (Descending order of Precedence)

• Incidental (No order of Precedence)
  • Point of order
  • Appeal (motion)
  • Suspend the rules
  • Objection to the consideration of a question
  • Division of a question
  • Consideration by paragraph or seriatim
  • Division of the assembly
  • Motions relating to methods of voting and the polls
  • Motions relating to nominations
  • Request to be excused from a duty
  • Requests and inquiries
    • Parliamentary inquiry
    • Point of information (motion)
    • Request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion
    • Request to read papers
    • Request for any other privilege

• Motions that bring a question again before the assembly