Adjournments & closing
“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
—Winston Churchill

A meeting can end in four different ways:
Conclude the meeting: all business is completed
Terminate the meeting: cancels all unfinished business
Adjourn to a fixed time: to resume unfinished business later
Recess: for an hour or less

Motion to conclude or terminate
A motion to conclude or terminate the meeting needs a seconder and it can not be amended or debated. It requires a simple majority. (Rule #192)

Out of order
A motion to conclude or adjourn a meeting cannot be made when:

When someone has the floor (speaking).

When a point of order, parliamentary inquiry, point of information or a question of privilege is being considered.

immediately after a similar motion was defeated and no further business conducted.

A meeting cannot be terminated while a vote is being taken or ballots are being counted.
(Rule #190)

The chairman and the owners should make every effort to continue the meeting until all business is concluded. The chair should not accept a motion to adjourn if, in his or her opinion, it is being moved merely to obstruct business.
(Rule # 81)

Adjourn to a fixed time
This motion, if passed by a simple majority, suspends the meeting to reconvene on the day fixed. It needs seconding and cannot be amended or debated except as to the time and place.

The agenda is not changed and the proxies remain valid.

Recess
This motion, if passed, suspends the meeting for a short time, usually not more than an hour.

The motion requires seconding and is not amendable or debatable except for the time to reconvene.

It has no effect on the agenda.

Power of the chairman
The chair has no power to close the meeting without the consent of the meeting except when:

the discussion has degenerated and the transaction of business becomes impossible or the view of the majority cannot be ascertained.

a quorum is lacking.

all the business has been concluded.

Disqualification
A chair may disqualify himself by improperly adjourning the meeting, vacating the chair or refusing to continue the meeting.

If the chair disqualifies himself, a temporary chair holds an election among the owners to elect a new chair. As long as a quorum is maintained, the new chair will preside for the remainder of the meeting. (Rules 81, 82)

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