As used in this chapter:
(a) “Clerk” means the Clerk of Council.
(b) “Day” means calendar day.
(c) “Meeting” means a prearranged discussion of the public business of a Municipal body by a majority of the members of such Municipal body.
(d) “Municipal body” means any of the following:
(1) Council;
(2) Personnel boards;
(3) The Civil Service Commission;
(4) The Planning Board;
(5) The Parks and Recreation Board;
(6) The Board of Appeals; and
(7) Committees of the Municipal bodies enumerated in paragraphs (d)(1) through (d)(5) hereof, such committees to be comprised of members of such bodies, if such committees are:
A. Comprised of a majority of the members of the main Municipal body; or
B. 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 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.
(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.
(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 record kept by the Clerk 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 United States Postal Service mailbox not 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. 75-26. Passed 1-5-76; Ord. 19-12. Passed 7-1-19.)