RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE

SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

RULE 1. President to take the chair; journal to be read. RULE 2. Order of business.

OF THE PRESIDENT.

RULE 3. May appoint senator to perform duties of chair. RULE 4. To assign door-keepers to their respective duties and stations.

RULE 5. To certify passage of all bills.

RULE 6. In the absence of the lieutenant-governor, temporary president to act.

RULE 7.
RULE 8.

RULE 9.

OF THE CLERK.

To have journals printed and placed on file.
To furnish, daily, printed list of general orders;
with president to see that all bills are acted
upon in order in which reported; calendar.
To present bills originating in senate to Gov-
ernor, and enter on journals.

RULE 10. To designate reporters.

OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SENATORS.

RULE 11. Relative to presentation of petitions, reports, resolutions, etc.

RULE 12. To preserve order while journals or public papers are being read.

RULE 13. Debate; senators to address the president, and not to proceed until recognized; limitation; president to decide who entitled to floor.

RULE 14.

Within bar of senate when question is stated, to vote, unless, etc.

RULE 15. Wishing to be excused from voting, may make brief statement.

COMMITTEES AND THEIR DUTIES.

RULE 16. Standing committees, to consist of three, unless otherwise ordered, list of committees.

RULE 17.

On public printing; to examine and report on all matters relating to printing.

RULE 18. On engrossed bills; to examine all bills, resolutions, etc., and report as correctly printed or engrossed before third reading.

RULE 19. Reports of committees on bills; proceedings when not considered at time of making.

OF GENERAL ORDERS AND SPECIAL ORDERS. RULE 20. What to constitute the general orders; business of; how taken up; no bill to be considered in committee of the whole until printed.

RULE 21. Special orders.

OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

RULE 22. Rules to be observed in; may strike out enacting clause in bills, and if report is agreed to by senate, bill to be deemed rejected.

RULE 23. Bills committed to, to be read through by sections; amendments not offered in, not in order except by unanimous consent.

RULE 24. Motion to rise and report progress always in

order.

OF BILLS.

RULE 25. How introduced.

RULE 26. Proceedings when reported by committee of the whole, when deemed lost; final question to

be taken immediately after third reading.

RULE 27. To receive three readings; not to be amended or committed until twice read; not to be read a third time out of its order; resolutions proposing amendments to Constitution to be treated as bills, except, etc., to be acted on in committee of the whole.

RULE 28. Or resolution amending Constitution, after ordered to a third reading, may not be amended, except, etc.

RULE 29. Two-thirds bills

RULE 30. Question on final passage, to be taken by ayes and nays.

RULE 31. To be printed in the order as reported by committees, unless, etc.

RULE 32. When final vote on, may be reconsidered; to be read by sections.

RULE 33. When may be laid on the table.

OF MOTIONS, AND THEIR PREFERENCE.

RULE 34. When question is before senate, no motion to be received, except, etc.: motion to adjourn or lay on the table, to be decided without debate.

RULE 35. When to be reduced to writing.

RULE 36. When questions to be divided.

RULE 37. Certain, to preclude debate of main question.
RULE 38. Filling of blanks, question, how taken.

RULE 39. Reconsideration.

RULE 40. Concurrent resolutions.

OF QUESTION OF ORDER.

RULE 41. Closing debate.

RULE 42. Of a quorum.

RULE 43. Priority of business

RULE 44. When reading of paper is called for and objected, to be decided without debate.

RULE 45. Senator called to order; to take his seat; when may proceed; words objected to, to be taken down in writing.

RULE 46. Divisions; when names to be entered alphabetically on minutes, senators to vote unless excused.

OF EXECUTIVE SESSION.

RULE 47. When president shall direct doors to be closed, etc.; secrecy to be observed.

RULE 48. Proceedings in, to be kept in separate journal. RULE 49. Senate may go into, when deemed necessary; nominations in, how referred; when consent to appointment may be transmitted.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

RULE 50. Who may be admitted within bar of senate. RULE 51. Who may take books from senate chamber; duty of librarian.

RULE 52. Superintendent of documents to place documents and bills on files; assistant sergeantat-arms to see that mails are punctually delivered.

RULE 53. Senate library, post-office and document room, to be open

RULE 54. Alteration, suspending or rescinding of rules. RULE 55. Claims before, reported adversely upon, papers relative to, to remain on files of senate, unless, etc.

RULES 56 and 57. Proceedings in absence of quorum. RULE 58. Resolutions for expenditure of moneys must be decided by a majority vote.

RULE 59. Call of the senate.

RULES OF THE SENATE.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

RULE 1. The president having taken the chair at the hour to which the senate shall have