Ohio Administrative Code › Title 151 - Ohio Public Facilities Commission › Chapter 151-1 - Notice of Meetings › Section 151-1-01 - Notification of meetings to the public and news media

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) This Ohio public facilities commission
			 has adopted this rule, pursuant to and in compliance with division (F) of
			 section   121.22   of the Revised Code, for the purposes of establishing a
			 reasonable method for any person to determine the time and place of all
			 regularly scheduled meetings, and the time, place and purpose of all special
			 meetings, making provisions for giving advance notice of all special meetings
			 to the news media that have requested notification, and making provisions for
			 persons to request and obtain reasonable advance notification of all meetings
			 at which any specific type of public business is to be discussed. This rule is
			 in addition to any applicable legal requirements as to notices to members of
			 the commission and to designees, pursuant to section   151.02   of the Revised
			 Code, of such members.
(B) As used
			 in this rule the following terms have the indicated meanings:
(1) "Day" means calendar day.
(2) "Meeting" means any prearranged
			 discussion of the public business of the commission by four or more members, or
			 by any duly appointed committee of the commission at which meeting a majority
			 of the members of the committee are present.
(3) "Member" means member of the commission
			 or a designee of a member of the commission acting pursuant to section   151.02  
			 of the Revised Code and the commission bylaws.
(4) "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 shown
			 on the records kept by the secretary under this rule.
(5) "Post" means to post in an area
			 accessible to the public during the usual business hours at the office of the
			 secretary ("Rhodes State Office Tower, 30 East Broad Street, 34th floor,
			 Columbus, Ohio"), and to deliver to the clerk of the "Statehouse pressroom,
			 Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio." The secretary may also post items on the
			 commission's page on the office of budget and management website
			 .
(6) "Published" means published once in a
			 newspaper having a general circulation in the city of Columbus, as defined in
			 section   7.12   of the Revised Code, except that no portion of such newspaper need
			 be printed in that city. 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 secretary to have the largest circulation in
			 that city.
(7) "Secretary" means
			 the secretary of the commission, being the director of budget and management,
			 or the assistant secretary appointed by the commission.
(8) "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.
(9) "Written notification" means notification
			 in writing mailed, faxed, emailed or delivered to the address of the person for
			 whom such notification is intended as shown on the records kept by the
			 secretary under this rule, 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 fourth day preceding the day of the
			 meeting to which such notification refers.