Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/To Rescind
TO RESCIND.
140. When an assembly desires to annul or reverse an action taken at some former meeting, and it is too late to reconsider such action because the motion to reconsider had not been made within the prescribed time, the proper procedure is to rescind.
The motion to reconsider and to rescind should not be confounded, since it is not in order to move to rescind during the time a motion to reconsider is in order; in other words, reconsider an action taken at this meeting, rescind an action taken at some former meeting.The motion to rescind is debatable if the action it is sought to rescind was debatable, and any subsidiary action may be taken upon it. It requires the same vote as did the question to which it refers.
It cannot be reconsidered, because it is in itself a reconsideration of the former vote. If decided in the affirmative the former action is rescinded; if decided in the negative the former action is reaffirmed.
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