The Clerk's Manual of Rules, Forms and Laws for the Regulations and Business in the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York ...

them from the service of the House for a given period, may inflict such censure or pecuniary penalty as they may deem just on those who, on being called on for that purpose, shall not render a sufficient excuse for their absence.

35. For the purpose of securing the attendance of members, a call of the House may be made, but such call shall not be in order after the main question has been ordered, nor after the voting on the question has commenced, nor after the third reading of a bill has been completed. While a call of the House is in progress no other business shall be transacted except by order of the House.

36. When less than a quorum vote on any subject under the consideration of the House, it shall be in order, on motion, to close the bar of the House, whereupon the roll of members shall be called by the Clerk, and if it is ascertained that a quorum is present, either by answering to their names or by their presence in the House, the yeas and nays shall again be ordered by the Speaker, and if any member present refuses to vote, such refusal shall be deemed a contempt, and unless purged, the House may order the Sergeant-at-Arms to remove said member or members without the bar of the House, and all privileges of membership shall be refused the person or persons so offending until the contempt be duly purged.

37. Whenever any person shall be brought before the bar of the House for adjudged breach of its privileges, no debate shall be in order, but the Speaker shall proceed to execute the judgment of the House without delay or debate.

38. No person shall have access to or be permitted within or by the Clerk's desk during the session of the House, except officers of the House in the discharge of their official duties. During the sessions of the House no person other than a member shall occupy the chair of a member.

OF ORDER AND DECORUM

39. No member rising to debate, to give notice, make a motion or report, or to present a petition or other paper, shall proceed until he shall have addressed the Speaker from his place and have been recognized by him.

40. While a member is speaking, no member shall entertain any private discourse or pass between him and the Chair.

41. While the Speaker is putting a question, or a roll call is in progress or a count is being had, no member shall speak or leave his place.

42. When a motion to adjourn is carried, the members and officers shall keep their seats and places until the Speaker declares the House adjourned.

OF ORDER IN DEBATE

43. No member shall speak, except in his place, nor more than twice on any question, without leave of the House. No member shall speak for more than fifteen minutes at a time except by consent of two-thirds of the members present.

44. If any member, in speaking, transgresses the rules of the House, the Speaker may call him to order, in which case the member so called to order shall im

mediately sit down, and shall not rise unless to explain or proceed in order.

45. All questions relating to the priority of one question or subject-matter over another, under the same order of business, shall be decided without debate.

46. When the House shall be equally divided on any question, including the Speaker's vote, the question shall be deemed to be lost.

47. If any question contains several distinct propositions, it shall be divided by the Chair at the request of any member, but a motion to strike out and insert shall be indivisible.

48. In all cases where a bill, order, motion or resolution shall be entered on the Journal, the name of the member introducing or moving the same shall also be entered on the Journal.

49. The yeas and nays may be taken on any question, whenever so required by any ten members (unless a division by yeas and nays be pending), and when so taken shall be entered on the Journal.

50. In all cases where unanimous consent is asked for advancing a bill out of its order, it shall be the duty of the Speaker to order a roll-call for the purpose of determining if such consent will be granted.

51. All questions of order, as they shall occur, with the decisions thereon, shall be entered in the Journal, and, at the close of the session, a statement of all such questions and decisions shall be printed at the close of and as an appendix to the Journal.

52. Any member requesting to be excused from voting upon the final passage of a biii or upon the pas

sage of a resolution requiring the expenditure of money, may make, when his name is called, a brief statement of the reason for making such request, not exceeding two minutes in time, and the House, without debate, shall decide if it will grant such request; but nothing in this rule contained shall abridge the right of any member to record his vote on any question previous to the announcement of the result.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

53. No reporter for the Assembly, who has an appointment as reporter in the Senate, shall receive any order for stationery from the Clerk of Assembly.

54. It shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at-arms, at all times, to prevent smoking in the Assembly Chamber.

SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

55. No standing rule or order of the House shall be changed, suspended or rescinded unless one day's notice shall have been given of the motion therefor; nor shall such change be made unless by a vote of a majority of all the members elected to the Assembly; any such rule, or order, however, may be suspended by unanimous consent. But such notice shall not be necessary on the last day of the session. The notice and motion shall, in all cases, state specifically the object of the suspension, and every case of suspension of a rule under such notice and motion shall be held to apply only to the object specified therein.

Such notice shall be given and such motion made under the order of business in which the matter proposed to be advanced by the suspension shall stand.

INDEX TO ASSEMBLY RULES

Absentees, measures to secure presence of.

Appeal, speaker may assign reason for decision on.
on, from decision, member to speak but once..

Assembly chamber, deemed bar of the house.

use of, how granted...