(A) All public meetings, as defined by law, shall be held in a city public building which shall be open to attendance by the public. All meetings shall be held in the public building in which the City Council usually holds meetings unless the publicized notice hereinafter required shall designate some other public building or other specified place. The advance publicized notice of all public convened meetings shall be simultaneously transmitted to all members of the City Council and to the public by a method designated by the City Council or by the Mayor/Chairperson if the City Council has not designated a method. The notice shall contain the time and specific place for each meeting and either an enumeration of the agenda subjects known at the time of the notice, or a statement that an agenda kept continually current shall be readily available for public inspection at the office of the City Clerk.
(B) Except for items of an emergency nature, the agenda shall not be altered later than:
(1) Twenty-four hours before the scheduled commencement of the meeting; or
(2) Forty-eight hours before the scheduled commencement of a meeting of the City Council scheduled outside corporate limits of the city.
(C) The City Council shall have the right to modify the agenda to include items of an emergency nature only, at such public meetings. The minutes of the City Clerk shall include the record of the manner and advance time by which the advance publicized notice was given, a statement of how the availability of an agenda of the then known subjects was communicated, the time and specific place of the meetings, and the names of each member of the City Council present or absent at each convened meeting. The minutes of the City Council shall be a public record open to inspection by the public upon request at any reasonable time at the office of the City Clerk.
(D) Any official action on any question or motion duly moved and seconded shall be taken only by roll call vote of the City Council in open session. The record of the City Clerk shall show how each member voted, or that the member was absent and did not vote.
(Prior Code, § 1-501)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Nev. RS 84-1408, 84-1409, 84-1411, 84-1413