For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(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 by a majority of the members of the municipal body.
(ORC 121.22 (B)(2))
(d) “Municipal body” means each of the following bodies listed below and committees of those municipal bodies comprised of a majority of the members of the main municipal body, or are decision making committees.
(1) Council.
(2) Planning and Zoning Commission.
(3) Boards of Building and Zoning Appeals.
(4) Civil Service Commission.
(5) Assessment Equalization Boards.
(6) Recreation Board.
(7) Any other municipal boards, committees, or commissions.
(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 the person as shown on the records kept by the Clerk under this chapter.
(f) “Post” means to post in an area accessible to the public during the usual business hours on the bulletin board on which public notices are usually posted in the lobby of the Municipal Building.
(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 the newspaper need be printed in the Municipality. If at the time of any such publication there is no such newspaper of general circulation, then the publication shall be in a newspaper then determined by the Clerk 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 the notification is intended as shown on the records kept by the Clerk under these rules, or in any way delivered to such person. If mailed, the 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 the meeting.
(Res. 1975-44. Passed 12-9-75)