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Exhibit"A" <br /> RULE NO. 14 <br /> MOTIONS <br /> 1. No motion may be received and considered by the Council or a Committee until <br /> the same has been seconded. A second does not require recognition from the chairperson <br /> before it is made. <br /> copy of the amended version has been presented to the County Clerk for preparation and <br /> . . • - , . . .. - <br /> limited to correction of manifest clerical or typographical errors or errors in numbering, spelling, <br /> alter the meaning or effect of the underlying bill or resolution.] <br /> [3] 2. After a motion is stated or read, it is deemed to be in the possession of the Council <br /> or Committee, and it shall be disposed of by vote of that body. However, any motion may be <br /> withdrawn by the [ tit-ova-lit-1 member making the motion without consent of the corresponding <br /> second at any time before a decision or amendment. <br /> [4.] 3. Whenever any question is under discussion, the precedence of commonly used <br /> motions thereto shall be to: <br /> (a) Lay on the table. <br /> This motion is to interrupt the pending business temporarily when something <br /> else of immediate urgency has arisen and is out of order if the evident intent <br /> is to kill or avoid dealing with a measure. So long as the question remains on <br /> the table, the decision when or if it will be taken up is left open until resumed <br /> for discussion by a majority vote at the current meeting or until close of the <br /> next regular meeting. A question laid on the table can remain live only until <br /> the end of the next regular meeting, and, unless taken from the table earlier, <br /> the matter dies with the adjournment of that meeting. This motion is not <br /> debatable. (Example: I move to lay Resolution "X" on the table.) <br /> (b) Call for the question. <br /> The object of this motion is to cut off debate. However,when this motion is <br /> carried by two-thirds (2/3) majority, the introducer of the main subject <br /> under discussion shall be permitted to close the debate, after which the main <br /> question shall be put; provided, however, that the introducer may delegate to <br /> another such right to close. The motion is voted on separately from the <br /> matter to which it is applied and is not debatable. (Some versions are: "I <br /> 1 <br />