(a)There shall be a president of the senate whose duties
shall be:
(i)To take the chair at the hour fixed for the
meeting of the senate, and call the members to order;
(ii)To announce the business before the senate in
the order in which it is to be taken up;
(iii)To receive and submit in proper manner all
motions and propositions presented by the members, and to
announce the result;
(iv)To receive messages and other communications
from other branches of the government, and to announce them to
the senate;
(v)To authenticate by his signature, when necessary,
all bills, orders and proceedings of the senate;
(vi)To name the members of all committees, unless
otherwise directed by the senate.
(b)He may call any member to the chair, but such
substitution shall not extend beyond an adjourn
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(a) There shall be a president of the senate whose duties
shall be:
(i) To take the chair at the hour fixed for the
meeting of the senate, and call the members to order;
(ii) To announce the business before the senate in
the order in which it is to be taken up;
(iii) To receive and submit in proper manner all
motions and propositions presented by the members, and to
announce the result;
(iv) To receive messages and other communications
from other branches of the government, and to announce them to
the senate;
(v) To authenticate by his signature, when necessary,
all bills, orders and proceedings of the senate;
(vi) To name the members of all committees, unless
otherwise directed by the senate.
(b) He may call any member to the chair, but such
substitution shall not extend beyond an adjournment, except that
in the case of sickness, he may, with the approval of the
senate, appoint a member to perform the duties of the president
for a period not exceeding ten (10) days.
(c) He shall have the regulation of such parts of the
capitol and its passages, and any building in which the
legislature meets while displaced from the capitol, as are or
may be set apart for the use of the senate and its officers.
(d) He shall refer all matters to be committed to the
committee most appropriate to take charge of the same.
(e) He shall, whenever a motion is made and carried to
shut the doors of the senate chamber, in the discussion of any
question which may, in the opinion of any member, require
secrecy, direct the senate chamber to be cleared, and during the
discussion of such question, the doors shall remain closed.
(f) He shall call a member to fill the chair whenever the
senate resolves itself into a committee of the whole, and the
chairman so called shall have the power of the president of
senate, until such committee rise.
(g) He shall preserve order and decorum and may speak to
points of order, in preference to other members, rising from his
seat for that purpose.