7.1 A program or agenda is adopted by a majority vote and is always subject to change. However,
after having been adopted, a two-thirds vote is required for change.
7.2 An order of the day is a particular subject, question, or item of business that is set in
advance to be taken up at a given session, day, or meeting, or at a given hour provided that no business having
precedence over it interferes.
7.3 Orders of the day are divided into two classes: general orders and special orders. When an hour
is assigned to a particular subject on the program, that subject is thereby made a special order. Subjects for which
no hour is specified are general orders.
7.4 An order of the day that has been set for a particular hour cannot be considered before that
hour unless the rules are suspended by a two-thirds vote.
7.5 A general order cannot be considered if other business is pending or if a prior general order
has not been considered. A special order interrupts all business except certain privileged questions (See
Robert's Rules of Order).
7.6 Regular order of business:
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| a. | | Reading and Approval of Minutes (session
only) |
| b. | | Reading and Referring (or acting upon)
Communications Addressed to the Judicatory |
| c. | | Reading of Resolutions |
| d. | | Reports of Officers, Boards, Standing
Committees and Commissions |
| e. | | Reports of Select Committees |
| f. | | Unfinished Business |
| g. | | New Business |