As used in this chapter:
(a) "Clerk" means the Clerk of Council.
(b) "Day" means a calendar day.
(c) "Meeting" means any prearranged discussion of the public business of a Municipal body by a majority of the members of the Municipal body.
(d) "Municipal body" means each of the following:
(1) Council;
(2) The Board of Building and Zoning Appeals;
(3) The Planning Commission;
(4) The Civil Service Commission;
(5) Assessment equalization boards;
(6) The Industrial Commission;
(7) (Editor’s Note: Former subsection (d)(8) was repealed by implication);
(8) Youth Commission;
(9) Tree Commission; and
(10) Committees of the above Municipal bodies 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 and at the following locations:
(1) The City Hall; and
(2) Porter Public Library.
A notice identifying the locations at which notifications will be posted pursuant to this chapter shall be published by the Clerk within ten 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.
(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 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 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. 1975-177. Passed 12-4-75; Ord. 2020-149. Passed 2-18-21.)