School Board of the City of Virginia Beach
Appendix A
SCHOOL BOARD BYLAWS
Appendix A
School Board Special Rules of Order
- It shall be the duty of the Chairman or presiding officer to preserve order
and to endeavor to conduct all business before the Board with propriety and
dispatch at all times.
- When any business is brought regularly before the Board, the consideration
of the same cannot be interrupted except by a motion: for adjournment, to
lie on the table, to postpone or for amendment.
- The Chairman may speak to points of order of preference to other members,
and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Board by
any member.
- A motion made, must be seconded, and then repeated distinctly or read aloud
by the Chairman or maker of the motion before it is debated; and every motion
shall be reduced to writing if the Chairman or any of the members requires
it.
- Any member who shall have made a motion shall have the liberty to withdraw
it, with the consent of the second, before any debate has taken place thereon;
but not after debate is begun without leave being granted by the Board.
- An amendment/substitute may be moved on any motion, and shall be decided
before the original motion, but not more than one amendment to an amendment/substitute
shall be entertained.
- If the motion under debate is composed of two or more parts, which are
so far independent of each other as to be susceptible of division into several
questions, any member may have it divided and a vote taken on each part.
- Members who consider themselves aggrieved by a decision of the Chairman
shall have the privilege to appeal to the Board, and the vote on such appeal
shall be taken without debate.
- When the Chairman has commenced taking a vote, no further debate or remark
shall be admitted unless there had evidently been some mistake, in which case
the mistake shall be rectified and the Chairman shall recommence taking the
vote.
- A motion for adjournment shall always be in order and shall be decided
without debate, except that it cannot be entertained when the Board is voting
on another question or while a member is addressing the Board.
- When a member requests to "call the question," such action requires
a second and a two-thirds vote to limit debate or force a vote.
- These special rules of order take precedence over the rules contained in
Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised, may be suspended by a two-thirds vote
and may be amended upon meeting the requirements to amend the Bylaws.
Editor's Notes
See Bylaw 1-40 for Parliamentary Authority.
See Bylaw 1-30 for Amendment of Bylaws.
Adopted by the School Board: February 20, 2001
