Section 42-64.8-7 Meetings - Hearings - Committees.

RI Gen L § 42-64.8-7 (2019) (N/A)
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§ 42-64.8-7. Meetings - Hearings - Committees. (a) The commission shall hold meetings at such other times as it deems necessary. The commission may hold public hearings from time-to-time on matters within its purview.

(b) Each office, board, commission, council, department or agency of state government, and each political subdivision of the state, shall cooperate with the commission in carrying out the functions and duties imposed by this chapter.

(c) The commission may establish committees as it deems advisable and feasible, whose membership shall include at least one member of the commission, but only the commission itself may set policy or take other official action.

(d) The commission shall promulgate rules of procedure governing its operations.

(e) All meetings of the commission, or any committee of it, at which public business is discussed or formal action is taken shall conform to the state open meetings laws.

History of Section. (P.L. 2003, ch. 100, § 1; P.L. 2003, ch. 236, § 1.)