Order of Business: Orders of the Day: Agenda - PPTQ Sec 41

Which of the following terms or phrases deal with the order in which business is taken up in a session?

• Agenda

• Order of Business

• Orders of the Day

• All of the above

Any established sequence that prescribes that business will be taken up at a session is called an

• order of business.

• adjournment sine die.

• order of the day.

• All of the above

Which one of the following is not a subdivision of a "standard" order of business?

• Reading and Approval of Minutes

• Roll Call

• New Business

• Reports of Officers, Boards, and Standing Committees

The agenda for a regular business meeting calls for unfinished business to be taken up

• before committee reports.

• before new business.

• immediately after the call to order.

• immediately after the reading of the minutes.

The actual reading of the minutes by a society's secretary may be waived if

It is generally more efficient to approve and to handle the correction of the minutes by

• conducting a rising vote after the chair offers a formal motion.

• a member proposing a formal motion.

• the chair stating "they are correct as read" immediately after they are read.

• unanimous consent.

The minutes do not become the official record of a society's proceedings until they are

In most societies it is customary to hear reports from all officers, boards, and standing committees

A motion arising out of a report of an officer, board, or committee is taken up

Special committees are called on to report