1. The rules of order for conventions of the International shall be
2. Robert’s Rules of Order, Revised, except as otherwise provided in the
3. following rules:
4. 1. These rules may be amended at any regular meeting of the
5. International by a majority vote of the Delegates present.
6 2. The daily sessions of the convention shall begin at 9:00 a.m.
7. and adjourn at 2:00 p.m. Evening sessions may be called by a majority
8. vote of the Delegates to begin at 8:00 p.m. Instead of a roll call,
9. appropriate checks shall be collected from the Delegates as a means of
10. recording attendance.
11. 3. The convention shall meet daily excepting Saturdays, Sundays,
12. and legal holidays and, for parliamentary purposes, shall be considered
13. to be in continuous session until adjourned on the last day.
14. 4. The General Secretary and Treasurer shall supply each Officer
15. and Delegate with a list of Delegates and standing committees.
16. Proceedings of each day’s meeting shall be printed and shall be
17. distributed the following morning.
18 5. Officers and Delegates shall be admitted upon display of their
19. identification badge and will take their seats without ceremony.
20 6. No person except Officers and Delegates of the International
21. shall be admitted to the floor reserved for Delegates. Other officers
22. and members of the United Transportation Union may attend the
23. convention as visitors on presentation of a receipt for current dues or
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24. membership card.
25. 7. The International President, or in his/her absence, the Assistant
26. President, shall preside. He/she may speak to points of order in
27. preference to other Officers and Delegates. He/she shall decide points
28. of order without debate, subject to appeal by five (5) or more
29. Delegates. No Delegate may speak more than once on such appeal.
30. 8. No main motion shall be debated until it has been scheduled
31. and stated by the presiding officer who may require the motion to be
32. put in writing before it is stated.
33. 9. While in the Committee of the Whole, a Delegate may speak
34. but once on any subject or motion. The maker of a motion may close
35. debate but will not be permitted to speak in excess of five (5) minutes
36. in the exercise of this right.
37. 10. After a question has been decided, any two (2) Delegates who
38. voted with the majority may, at any time during the session, move to
39. reconsider the question. No debate will be permitted on such motions.
40. Should the motion to reconsider be carried, the question at issue may
41. then be debated in the same manner as a new motion.
42. 11. When a question is put, every Delegate in the assembly must
43. vote on it unless excused by a majority vote of the Delegates.
44. 12. Except as provided in Article 6, a majority of each
committee
45. will be appointed by the International President and a minority by the
46. Assistant President. The person named first on a committee shall be
47. the chairperson.
48. 13. A yea and nay vote will be taken on any question when called
49. for by one-third of the Delegates present.
so. 14. The convention is prohibited from considering proposed
51. constitutional amendments not previously presented to the Constitution
52. Committee.
53. 15. All constitutional changes recommended by the Constitution
54. Committee and all such proposals printed and distributed to Officers
55. and Delegates will show the current constitutional provision and the
56. proposed change printed on the same sheet in a manner which will
57. permit easy and accurate comparison. Portions of the Constitution
58. which are not involved in amendment proposals will not be read during
59. sessions of the Committee of the Whole and such portions will,
60. therefore, be identified and passed upon by making appropriate
61. references to their number and/or title.
62. 16. Affirmative action by the Committee of the Whole in rescinding
63. a former action is not subject to a motion to reconsider. If the motion
64. to rescind in a case of this kind fails to carry, a motion to reconsider
65. would be proper but the matter can be acted upon but once.
66. 17. During debate the presiding officer will recognize the Delegate
67. first in line before each microphone in series beginning with
68. microphone No. 1, and continuing through the number of microphones
69. on the floor before again recognizing microphone No. 1. Recognition
70. shall be alternated between proponents and opponents on all
71. questions, odd number microphones for proponents, and even numbers
72. for opponents. When a Delegate wishes to speak he/she shall proceed
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73. to one of the microphones. When recognized by the presiding officer,
74. the Delegate shall give his/her name and local number. He/she shall
75. confine remarks to the pending question.
76. 18. If the report of a committee is adopted, the report becomes
77. the act of the convention. If the report fails of adoption, it may be
78. referred back to the committee for further consideration.
79. 19. The report of the Committee on International Officers’ Reports
80. will be distributed to Delegates on the first day of the convention. The
81. report will be considered, without reading, as a special order of
82. business on the fourth day of the convention.
83. 20. Documents of interest to the convention shall be printed in the
84. minutes without being read to the convention. This includes resolutions
85. and other matters which direct themselves to appropriate committees
86. for consideration prior to being brought to the floor of the convention.
87. 21. Reports of the Sick Committee will be printed in each day’s
88. minutes.
89. 22. The daily sessions of the convention may be opened with a
9o. prayer by a member of the clergy or, in the absence of same, by a
91. Delegate.
92. 23. The General Secretary and Treasurer may advance travel
93. allowances and per them payments to Delegates upon request without
94. approval of the convention.
95. 24. While in the Committee of the Whole, a motion to stop debate
96. shall apply only to the specific subject then under debate.
97. 25. Election of International officers will commence not later than
98. the first order of business on the second Monday of the convention.
99. When electing International officers the following rules will apply:
100. Where an individual officer or position is involved, and no candidate
101. receives a majority of legal votes cast on the first ballot, and there
are
102. more than three (3) candidates on the ballot, all candidates except the
103. top three (3) will be dropped. Thereafter, the candidates receiving the
104. lowest number of votes will be dropped on each ballot, until one of the
105. candidates receives a majority of legal votes cast. In placing the
106. names of candidates on ballots or voting machines, the names of
107. incumbent officers shall appear first with the names of other candidates
108. following in alphabetical order. When elections are run simultaneously
109. log no member may be a candidate for more than one office or position.
110. In addition to the foregoing the following procedure will govern the
ill. election of International officers:
112. After the election of the President, the election of the Assistant
113. President will be conducted. After the election of the Assistant
114. President, the General Secretary and Treasurer shall be elected. After
115. the election of the General Secretary and Treasurer, the National
116. Legislative Director and Canadian Legislative Director will be elected.
117. Nominations will be accepted for Vice Presidential positions 1 through
118. 14, until there are four contested positions after which an election shall
119. be conducted. In other words, it is contemplated that contested Vice
120. President positions will be elected simultaneously in groups of four,
121. until all Vice President positions are filled.
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122. The Assistant to the President – Yardmasters and the Alternate
123. Assistant to the President – Yardmasters will be elected.
124. The Alternate National Legislative Director, and the Alternate
125. Canadian Legislative Director shall be elected next. Alternate Vice
126. Presidents shall be elected as follows – First Alternate in the Eastern
127. territory, First Alternate in the Western territory, First Alternate in
the
128. Southern territory, Alternate Canadian Vice President, First Alternate
129. Bus Vice President in the Western territory and Alternate Commuter
130. Vice President, to be elected simultaneously. Second Alternate in the
131. Eastern territory, Second Alternate in the Western territory, Second
132. Alternate in the Southern territory, and Second Alternate Bus Vice
133. President in the Eastern territory, to be elected simultaneously.
134. Boards of Appeals will be elected simultaneously. The United
135. States Board – (Five members). One (1) member from engine service,
136. position one; one (1) member from road train service, position two;
137. one (1) member from yard train service, position three; one (1)
138. member from Commuter Authorities, position four; and one (1)
139. member from the Bus Department, position five. The Canadian Board –
140. (Three members). Three (3) positions At Large.
141. Executive Board – (Five members). Four (4) members from the
142. United States in position one, two, three, and four and one member
143. from Canada in position five will be elected simultaneously.
144. Alternate to the Executive Board – One (1) Alternate to the
145. Executive Board to be elected from the United States.
146. The demarcation lines for the various territories are as follows:
147. Western Territory – All territory lying west of and including
the
148. southern lines of the Illinois Central Railroad (prior to the merger with
149. the Gulf Mobile and Ohio) and lying on the West side of Lake Michigan,
150. and south of Lake Superior, and northwest of a line laid through Sault
151. Ste. Marie, Michigan, and shall be bounded on the South side by the
152. Mexican border.
153. Eastern Territory – Shall be composed of the territory east of
the
154. aforementioned line and north of the lines of the Chesapeake and Ohio
155. Railway.
156. Southern Territory – Shall comprise the territory south of and
157. including the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and as far west as the
158. Illinois Central Line, mentioned as the boundary of the Western
159. Territory. Lines of the former Gulf Mobile and Ohio shall be included in
160. the Southern Territory.
161. 26. When an election for a particular office or board is
162. commenced, the same must be completed before the convention
163. adjourns for the day.
164. 27. International officers may speak but shall have no vote in
165. convention.
