2.10.110 Motions – Question under debate – Motions received.
A. When a question is under debate, the presiding officer shall receive any of the following motions but no other:
1. To adjourn;
2. To recess;
3. To raise a question of privilege;
4. To call for the order of the day, or the regular order;
5. To lay on the table;
6. For the previous question;
7. To limit or extend limits of debate;
8. To postpone to a certain time;
9. To refer;
10. To amend;
11. To postpone indefinitely.
B. When one of the above motions has been made, none of the others inferior to it in the order in which they stand above shall be made, and in proceeding to vote, motions pending shall be put in the order of their rank as above arranged. The first seven are not subject to debate.
A motion to postpone to a certain time, refer, amend, or to postpone indefinitely may be amended; the previous question may be demanded before an amendment, which motion shall be decided without debate. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order; provided, that business of a nature to be recorded in the journal has been transacted since any previous motion to adjourn has been defeated. No motion or proposition of a subject different to that under consideration shall be admitted under color of an amendment.
C. When a matter has been especially assigned to be taken up at a fixed time, or at a certain stage of proceedings, such matter shall, at the appointed time or at any time subsequent thereto, be in order upon the call of any member, and take precedence over all other business.