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| 1 | AN ACT concerning government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Open Meetings Act is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 2.02 as follows:
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| 6 | (5 ILCS 120/2.02) (from Ch. 102, par. 42.02)
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| 7 | Sec. 2.02. Public notice of all meetings, whether open or | ||||||
| 8 | closed to
the public, shall be given as follows:
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| 9 | (a) Every public body shall give public notice
of the | ||||||
| 10 | schedule of regular meetings at the beginning of each calendar | ||||||
| 11 | or fiscal
year and shall state the regular dates, times, and | ||||||
| 12 | places of such meetings.
An agenda for each regular meeting | ||||||
| 13 | shall be posted at the principal office of
the public body and | ||||||
| 14 | at the location where the meeting is to be held at least 48 | ||||||
| 15 | hours in
advance of the holding of the meeting. A public body | ||||||
| 16 | that has a website that the full-time staff of the public body | ||||||
| 17 | maintains shall also post on its website the agenda of any | ||||||
| 18 | regular meetings of the governing body of that public body. Any | ||||||
| 19 | agenda of a regular meeting that is posted on a public body's | ||||||
| 20 | website shall remain posted on the website until the regular | ||||||
| 21 | meeting is concluded. The requirement of a regular
meeting | ||||||
| 22 | agenda shall not preclude the consideration of items not | ||||||
| 23 | specifically
set forth in the agenda.
Public
notice of any | ||||||
| 24 | special meeting except a meeting held in the event of a
bona | ||||||
| 25 | fide emergency, or of any rescheduled regular meeting, or of | ||||||
| 26 | any
reconvened meeting, shall be given at least 48 hours before | ||||||
| 27 | such
meeting (at least 8 hours of which must be during normal | ||||||
| 28 | business hours), which notice shall also include the agenda for | ||||||
| 29 | the special,
rescheduled,
or reconvened meeting, but the | ||||||
| 30 | validity of any action taken by the public
body which is | ||||||
| 31 | germane to a subject on the agenda shall not be affected by
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| 32 | other errors or omissions in the agenda. The requirement
of | ||||||
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| 1 | public notice of reconvened meetings does
not apply to any case | ||||||
| 2 | where the meeting was open to the public and (1)
it is to be | ||||||
| 3 | reconvened within 24 hours, or (2) an announcement of
the time | ||||||
| 4 | and place of the reconvened meeting was
made at the original | ||||||
| 5 | meeting and there is no change in the agenda. Notice
of an | ||||||
| 6 | emergency meeting shall be given as soon as practicable, but in | ||||||
| 7 | any
event prior to the holding of such meeting, to any news | ||||||
| 8 | medium which has
filed an annual request for notice under | ||||||
| 9 | subsection (b) of this Section.
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| 10 | (b) Public notice shall be given by posting a copy of the | ||||||
| 11 | notice at the
principal office of the body holding the meeting | ||||||
| 12 | or, if no such office exists,
at the building in which the | ||||||
| 13 | meeting
is to be held. In addition, a public body that has a | ||||||
| 14 | website that the full-time staff of the public body maintains | ||||||
| 15 | shall post notice on its website of all meetings of the | ||||||
| 16 | governing body of the public body. Any notice of an annual | ||||||
| 17 | schedule of meetings shall remain on the website until a new | ||||||
| 18 | public notice of the schedule of regular meetings is approved. | ||||||
| 19 | Any notice of a regular meeting that is posted on a public | ||||||
| 20 | body's website shall remain posted on the website until the | ||||||
| 21 | regular meeting is concluded. The body shall supply copies of | ||||||
| 22 | the notice of its regular
meetings, and of the notice of any | ||||||
| 23 | special,
emergency, rescheduled or reconvened meeting, to any | ||||||
| 24 | news medium
that has filed an annual request for such notice. | ||||||
| 25 | Any such news
medium shall also be given the same notice of all | ||||||
| 26 | special,
emergency, rescheduled or reconvened meetings in the | ||||||
| 27 | same manner as
is given to members of the body provided such | ||||||
| 28 | news medium has given the
public body an address or telephone | ||||||
| 29 | number within the territorial jurisdiction
of the public body | ||||||
| 30 | at which such notice may be given. The failure of a public body | ||||||
| 31 | to post on its website notice of any meeting or the agenda of | ||||||
| 32 | any meeting shall not invalidate any meeting or any actions | ||||||
| 33 | taken at a meeting.
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| 34 | (Source: P.A. 94-28, eff. 1-1-06.)
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