Waukesha County Ordinances
Chapter 4: County Board Operating Procedures and Rules

CHAPTER 4
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ARTICLE III. RULES OF ORDER

Division 2. Rules of Order

Sec. 4-77. Motions allowed when question is under debate; extraneous amendments.

(a) When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received except:

1. To adjourn;
2. To lay on the table;
3. To call for the question (limit debate);
4. To call for the previous question;
5. To postpone to a day certain;
6. To commit to a committee;
7. To amend; or
8. To postpone indefinitely.

(b) The motions listed in subsection (a) shall have precedence in the order in which they stand arrayed in subsection (a). No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment and no petition, ordinance or resolution shall at any time be amended by annexing thereto, or incorporating therein, any other petition, ordinance or resolution pending before the county board of supervisors

(Mo. of 4-17-84, as amended, Rule 46; Ord. No. 158-3, §6, 04/22/03)