2025 North Dakota Parliamentary Procedure Exam State Exam

The motion to Lay on the Table is commonly misused in place of the motion to:

• Adjourn.

• Reconsider.

• Commit.

• Postpone Definitely (To a Certain Time)

In a non-legislative assembly that has no rules of its own relating to the length of a member's debate, no member can speak longer than:

• 2 minutes.

• 5 minutes.

• 10 minutes.

• 12 minutes.

If the chairman makes a mistake and calls on the wrong member, attention to correct the error can be called by a member immediately by:

• Yelling out the word "mistake."

• Raising a Point of Order.

• Raising a Question of Privilege.

• Calling out "Question."

If you were the presiding officer, what would be the next step you would pursue after an amendment to a main motion was adopted?

• More new business

• A motion to adjourn

• Debate on the adopted amendment

• Debate on the amended main motion

The Orders of the Day can be set aside by:

• Any member who objects.

• A two-thirds (2/3) vote in the negative.

• The chair if there is an important item being debated.

• A motion to Reconsider.

If two secondary motions and a main motion are pending at a time, which motion is the immediate pending question?

• The main motion.

• The first secondary motion stated by the chair.

• The motion most recently stated by the chair.

• They are all immediately pending questions.

To call for a Division of the Assembly:

• You must have been in the majority of the original vote announcement.

• You must make the call before the vote is officially announced by the chair.

• Requires the chair to vote again by having the members rise.

• Requires the chair to vote again by counting the vote.

If you obtained new information about your motion that has been adopted that might change the way members voted, the proper motion that you could propose is:

• Rescind.

• Discharge a Committee.

• Reconsider.

• Repeal.

An FFA chapter which has adopted Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised as its parliamentary authority:

• Must follow the order of business listed in the parliamentary authority.

• May change any item in the parliamentary authority by a two-thirds (2/3) vote.

• May use a different parliamentary authority at committee meetings.

• May adopt its own particular order of business.

The subsidiary motion Previous Question:

• Take precedence over all other subsidiary motions except Postpone Definitely.

• Can be applied to an entire series of pending debatable or amendable motions.

• Can only stop debate on the immediate pending motion.

• Yields to the order to Extend the Limits of Debate.