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<baltimore-city-law heading="Rule 4-6 Appeal from President’s decision">
  <section prefix="Rule" num="4-6" heading="Appeal from President’s decision">
    <para num="(a)">When in order.<para num="(1)">An appeal from the decision of the President shall be made promptly, before consideration of the next order of business.</para>
      <para num="(2)">An appeal may not be entertained if its passage would violate a provision of the Charter or of these Rules.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)">President to relinquish chair. During the determination of an appeal on a point of order, the President shall:<para num="(1)">call on the Vice-President or, if the Vice-President is absent or was the one who made the appeal, another Councilmember to preside over the appeal; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">take a place on the floor of the Council.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)">Debate.<para num="(1)">An appeal is not debatable:<para num="(i)">when the ruling relates to indecorum;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">when the appeal relates to the priority of business;</para>
        <para num="(iii)">if the appeal is made while the previous question is pending; and</para>
        <para num="(iv)">while the immediately pending motion is not debatable.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">Debate is restricted to the decision of the Chair and may not extend to the main question.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)">Member to relinquish floor. A Councilmember who had the floor at the time of the ruling from which the appeal is taken shall relinquish the floor pending disposition of the appeal.</para>
    <para num="(e)">Amendment; reconsideration.<para num="(1)">The question presented by an appeal cannot be amended.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The vote taken on an appeal may be reconsidered.</para>
    </para>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
