Opinion ID: 1243449
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: public meetings act

Text: The townships further contend that the provisions of the 1968 public meetings act were ignored. [41] The act defines public meeting as follows: `Public meeting' means that part of any meeting of a board during which it votes upon any ordinance, resolution, motion or other official action proposed by or to the board dealing with the receipt, borrowing or disbursement of funds or the acquisition, use or disposal of services or of any supplies, materials, equipment or other property or the fixing of personal or property rights, privileges, immunities, duties or obligations of any person or group of persons. The term `public meeting' shall not mean any meeting, the publication of the facts concerning which would disclose the institution, progress or result of an investigation undertaken by a board in the performance of its official duties. 1968 PA 261; MCLA 15.251(2); MSA 4.1800(1)(2). The hearing before the commission did not concern the receipt, borrowing or disbursement of funds or the acquisition, use or disposal of services or of any supplies, materials, equipment or other property. Nor, for reasons already stated, did it concern the fixing of personal or property rights, privileges, immunities, duties or obligations of any person or group of persons.