105.01 Definitions.
105.02 Notice of regular and organizational meetings.
105.03 Notice of special meetings.
105.04 Notice to news media of special meetings.
105.05 Notification of discussion of specific types of public business.
105.06 General provisions.
CROSS REFERENCES
Sunshine Law - see Ohio R.C. 121.22
Council meetings - see CHTR. §3.06(D)
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Clerk" means the Clerk of Council.
(b) "Day" means calendar day.
(c) "Meeting" means any prearranged discussion of the public business of the municipal body of a majority of the members of the municipal body.
(d) “Municipal body” means each of the following:
Council
Planning and Zoning Commission
Board of Zoning Appeals
and committees of the aforesaid municipal bodies comprised of members of such bodies if such committees are comprised of a majority of the members of the main municipal body or are decision-making committees.
(e) "Oral notification" means notification given orally either in person or by telephone, directly to the person for whom such notification is intended or by leaving an oral message for such person at the address or if by telephone, at the telephone number of such person as shown on the records kept by the Clerk of Council under this chapter.
(f) "Post" means to post in an area accessible to the public during the usual business hours at the office of the Clerk of Council and at the following locations:
Groveport Town Hall
Groveport Carry Out
Groveport Municipal Building
Madison Township Police Station
Groveport Laundry
A notice identifying the locations at which notifications will be posted pursuant to this chapter shall be published by the Clerk of Council within ten calendar days after the adoption of this chapter.
(g) "Published" means published once in a newspaper having a general circulation in the Municipality, as defined in Ohio R.C. 7.12, except that no portion of such newspaper need be printed in the Municipality. If at the time of any such publication there is no such newspaper of general circulation, then such publication shall be in a newspaper then determined by the Clerk of Council to have the largest circulation in the Municipality.
(h) "Special meeting" means a meeting which is neither a regular meeting nor an adjournment of a regular or special meeting to another time or day to consider items specifically stated on the original agenda of such regular or special meeting.
(i) "Written notification" means notification in writing mailed, telegraphed or delivered to the address of the person for whom such notification is intended as shown on the records kept by the Clerk of Council under this chapter, or in any way delivered to such person. If mailed, such notification shall be mailed by first-class mail, deposited in a U. S. Postal Service mailbox no later than the second day preceding the day of the meeting to which such notification refers, provided that at least one regular mail delivery day falls between the day of mailing and the day of such meeting.
(Ord. 2-76. Passed 1-26-76.)
(a) The Clerk of Council shall post a statement of the time(s) and place(s) of regular meetings of each municipal body for each calendar year not later than the second day preceding the day of the first regular meeting, other than the organizational meeting, of the calendar year of that municipal body. The Clerk of Council shall check at reasonable intervals to insure that such statement remains so posted during such calendar year. If at any time during the calendar year the time or place of regular meetings, or of any regular meeting, is changed on a permanent or temporary basis, a statement of the time and place of such changed regular meetings shall be so posted by the Clerk of Council at least twenty-four hours before the time of the first changed regular meeting.
(b) The Clerk of Council shall post a statement of the time and place of any organizational meeting of a municipal body at least twenty-four hours before the time of such organizational meeting.
(c) Upon the adjournment of any regular or special meeting to another day, the Clerk of Council shall promptly post notice of the time and place of such adjourned meeting.
(Ord. 2-76. Passed 1-26-76.)
(Ord. 2-76. Passed 1-26-76.)
(a) Except in the case of a special meeting referred to in Section 105.04(d), the Clerk of Council shall, no later than twenty-four hours before the time of a special meeting of a municipal body, post a statement of the time, place and purposes of such special meeting.
(b) The statement under this section and the notifications under Section 105.04 shall state such specific or general purpose or purposes then known to the Clerk of Council to be intended to be considered at such special meeting and may state, as an additional general purpose, that any other business as may properly come before such municipal body at such meeting may be considered and acted upon.
(Ord. 2-76. Passed 1-26-76.)
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