Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/Effect of Adjournment on Unfinished Business
EFFECT OF ADJOURNMENT ON UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
85. The effect of an adjournment to the pending question varies according to the nature of the assembly. When a question is interrupted by adjournment of the session (30) of an assembly whose members are elective, and the terms of a portion of them expire with the session, or when the meeting is one called for some special purpose, the question under consideration at the time of adjournment would be defeated and would not stand before the assembly at the next session; the same question may, however, be introduced at the next session as if it had never been before the assembly.
86. If the adjournment does not close the session the question should come up at the next meeting after the reading of the minutes and be treated as if there had been no adjournment. When the adjournment closes the session of an assembly holding regular sessions oftener than once each year, said adjournment does not put an end to unfinished business; all such business should be taken up in its regular order at the next session under the order of unfinished business and consideration upon it resumed at the point where it was interrupted by adjournment.
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