the members debate the motion (if debatable);

the moderator puts the question (has the members vote), and

the moderator announces the result of the vote.

Purpose: To bring business before the judicatory.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is debatable; is amendable; requires only a majority vote (with few exceptions, see Robert's Rules of Order); can be reconsidered.

Purpose: To assist the judicatory in treating or dispensing of main motions.

Postpone Indefinitely
Purpose: To kill a main motion for the duration of the session and avoid a direct vote on the question.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is debatable; is not amendable; requires only a majority vote; an affirmative vote can be reconsidered, a negative vote cannot.

Amend
Purpose: To modify the wording--and within certain limits (see Robert's Rules of Order, Section 12) the meaning--of a pending motion.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is debatable; is generally amendable; requires only a majority vote; can be reconsidered.

Commit or Refer
Purpose: To send a pending question to a committee so that the question may be carefully investigated and put into better condition for the judicatory to consider.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is debatable; is amendable; requires only a majority vote; can be reconsidered if the committee has not begun consideration of the question.

Postpone to a Certain Time (or Definitely)
Purpose: To defer action on a pending question within limits (see Robert's Rules of Order, section 14) to a definite day, meeting, or hour, or until after a certain event.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is debatable; is amendable; requires only a majority vote; can be reconsidered.

Limit or Extend the Limits of Debate
Purpose: To exercise special control over debate.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is not debatable; is amendable but any amendment is undebatable; requires a two-thirds vote; can be reconsidered without debate any time before the order limiting or extending debate is exhausted.

Previous Question
Purpose: To bring the judicatory to an immediate vote on one or more pending questions.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is not debatable; is not amendable (except another member can move the previous question on more or fewer pending questions); requires a two-thirds vote; can be reconsidered (before any vote has been taken).

Lay on the Table
Purpose: To allow the judicatory to lay the pending question aside temporarily.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is not debatable; is not amendable; requires only a majority vote; cannot be reconsidered.

Purpose: To allow the judicatory, without debate, to deal with special matters of immediate and overriding importance that do not relate to the pending business.

Call for the Orders of the Day
Purpose: To require the judicatory to follow its adopted program or agenda.
Characteristics: Does not require a second; is not debatable; is not amendable; does not require a vote, but can be set aside by a two-thirds vote; cannot be reconsidered.

Raise a Question of Privilege
Purpose: To permit a request or main motion relating to the rights and privileges of the judicatory or any of its members to be brought up for immediate consideration while business is pending.
Characteristics: Does not require a second; is not debatable; is not amendable; is ruled upon by the moderator; cannot be reconsidered.

Recess
Purpose: To permit a short intermission in the judicatory's proceedings which does not close the meeting, and after which business will be immediately resumed at the point where it was interrupted.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is not debatable; is amendable as to the length of time, but such an amendment is not debatable; requires only a majority vote; cannot be reconsidered.

Adjourn
Purpose: To close the present meeting when no time for adjourning has been set and provision for a future meeting exists.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is not debatable; is not amendable; requires only a majority vote; cannot be reconsidered.

Fix Time to Which to Adjourn
Purpose: To set the time, and sometimes the place, for another meeting to continue business of the session with no effect on when the present meeting will adjourn.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is not debatable; is amendable as to the date, hour or place, but such amendments are not debatable; requires only a majority vote; can be reconsidered.

Purpose: To raise incidental questions (usually questions of procedure). Incidental questions usually must be decided before business can proceed.

Point of Order
Purpose: To call upon the moderator for a ruling and an enforcement of the rules of order.
Characteristics: Does not require a second; is not debatable; is not amendable; is ruled upon by the chair (no vote is taken unless the moderator is in doubt or his ruling is appealed); cannot be reconsidered.

Appeal
Purpose: To take the moderator's ruling to the judicatory for final decision.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is normally undebatable (see Robert's Rules of Order for exceptions); is not amendable; a majority or tie vote sustains the decision of the moderator; can be reconsidered.

Suspend the Rules
Purpose: To allow the judicatory to do something it cannot do without violating one or more of its regular rules.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is not debatable; is not amendable; requires a two-thirds vote; cannot be reconsidered.

Objection to the Consideration of a Question
Purpose: To enable the judicatory to avoid a particular main motion when it believes it would be undesirable for the motion to even come before the judicatory.
Characteristics: Does not require a second; is not debatable; is not amendable; a two-thirds vote against consideration is required to sustain the objection; a vote sustaining the objection can be reconsidered, but one not sustaining the objection cannot.

Division of a Question
Purpose: To allow the parts of a question to be separated.
Procedure: The motion to divide must clearly state the manner in which the question is to be divided. A motion cannot be divided unless each part presents a proper question for the judicatory to act upon if none of the other parts are adopted. If a series of independent questions are offered in one motion, the questions must receive separate consideration at the request of a single member and the motion for Division of a Question is not used. (See Robert's Rules of Order, Section 27).
Characteristics: Requires a second; is not debatable; is amendable; requires only a majority vote; cannot be reconsidered.

Consideration by Paragraph or Seriatim
Purpose: To allow a report or long motion consisting of a series of resolutions, paragraphs, articles, or sections to be considered by opening the different parts to debate and amendment separately.
Procedure: Each sub-division should be read, explained by its proponent and then opened for debate and amendment. Amendments are voted on as they arise, but no sub-division is finally adopted at that time. After all parts have been considered, the entire document is opened for amendment. Following this, the vote is taken on the entire document as amended.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is not debatable; is amendable; requires only a majority vote; cannot be reconsidered.

Division of the Judicatory
Purpose: To allow a member, whenever that member doubts the results of a voice vote, or a vote by show of hands, or that a representative number of the members present have voted, to require a standing vote.
Characteristics: Does not require a second; is not debatable; is not amendable; does not require a vote since a single member can demand a division; cannot be reconsidered.

Purpose: To allow the judicatory to bring questions before it again through special procedures.

Take from the Table
Purpose: To bring before the judicatory a motion or a series of adhering motions that has previously been laid on the table.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is not debatable; is not amendable; requires only a majority vote; cannot be reconsidered but can be renewed each time that any business has been transacted.

Rescind; Amend something previously Adopted (two forms of one motion)
Purpose: To allow a previous action or order to be canceled or countermanded. The form to Rescind should be used when the object is to delete; the form to Amend Something Previously Adopted should be used when the object is to change a portion or all of a text.
Characteristics: Require a second; are debatable; are amendable; require a two-thirds vote, a negative vote can be reconsidered, but an affirmative cannot. These motions are not in order when it has previously been moved to reconsider the vote on the main motion, and the question can be reached by calling up the motion to Reconsider. There is no time limit on these matters and they can be moved by any member, regardless of how the member voted on the original question.
To Expunge: It shall require the unanimous vote of the members present to expunge any matter from the records.

Discharge a Committee
Purpose: To take a matter out of a committee's hands before the committee has made a final report on it. So long as a question is in the hands of a committee, the judicatory cannot consider another motion involving practically the same question.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is debatable; is amendable; requires a two-thirds vote; a negative vote can be reconsidered, but not an affirmative vote.

Reconsider
Purpose: To allow the judicatory--within a limited time and without notice--to bring back for further consideration a motion which has already been voted on.
Characteristics: Requires a second; is debatable when the original question was debatable; is not amendable; requires only a majority vote regardless of the vote necessary to adopt the motion to be considered; cannot be reconsidered.
Special requirements of this motion:

Until the moderator states the question, the maker has the right to modify the motion or to withdraw it.

After the question has been stated by the moderator, the motion becomes property of the judicatory and cannot be modified or withdrawn without the judicatory's consent.

If the maker of a motion modifies it before the question is stated, the member who seconded it has a right to withdraw the second.