A call for the orders of the day, in parliamentary procedure

Parliamentary procedure

Parliamentary procedure is the body of rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies, and other deliberative assemblies...

, is a motion to require a deliberative assembly

Deliberative assembly

A deliberative assembly is an organization comprising members who use parliamentary procedure to make decisions. In a speech to the electorate at Bristol in 1774, Edmund Burke described the English Parliament as a "deliberative assembly," and the expression became the basic term for a body of...

 to conform to its agenda or order of business.

Explanation and Use

Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR)

The "call" may be made by one member, and does not require a second. The chair must then proceed to the scheduled item of business, unless the assembly decides otherwise by a two-thirds vote.

The Standard Code

This motion is not recognized under The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure

The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure

The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure is a book of rules of order. It is the second most popular parliamentary authority in the United States after Robert's Rules of Order. It was first published in 1950...

, which calls it "quaint" and "often puzzling to many in the assembly." The Standard Code instead suggests that a member simply request that the body take up the scheduled item of business, or make a more formal point of order

Point of order

A point of order is a matter raised during consideration of a motion concerning the rules of parliamentary procedure.-Explanation and uses:A point of order may be raised if the rules appear to have been broken. This may interrupt a speaker during debate, or anything else if the breach of the rules...

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