TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT
DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
§ 9908. Times and Places for Meeting; Emergencies; Exceptions. (a) The governing body of a public agency shall provide the time for holding regular meetings by ordinance, resolution, bylaws, or by whatever other rule is required for the conduct of business by that body. Unless otherwise provided for in the act under which the public agency was formed, meetings of the governing body must be held within the boundaries of the territory over which the public agency was formed. Meetings of the governing body must be held within the boundaries of the territory over which the public agency exercises jurisdiction. If at any time any regular meeting falls on a holiday, such regular meeting shall be held on the next business day. (b) If, by reason of typhoon, flood, or fire, law enforcement or other emergency, there is need for expedited action by a governing body to meet the emergency, the presiding officer of the governing body may provide for a meeting site other than the regular meeting site and notice requirements of this chapter shall be suspended during such emergency. In the event of an emergency meeting the governing body shall: (1) State in writing the reasons for its finding that an emergency exists; (2) Take a vote whereby two-thirds of all members to which the board is entitled agree that an emergency exists; (3) File an emergency agenda and the findings on the emergency in the official records of the governing body. Source: PL 8-41, § 9, modified.