Or. Admin. Code § 199-050-0010

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 11, November 1, 2024

Section 199-050-0010 - Governing Bodies Subject to the Public Meetings Law

(1) The Public Meetings Law applies to the following types of governing bodies:

(a) Decision-Making Bodies. A decision-making body is a body with the authority to make decisions for the public body on policy or administration. A body meets this standard if its decision-making authority includes the power to exercise governmental power and act on behalf of the public body.

(b) Advisory Bodies. An advisory body is a body with authority to make recommendations to a public body on policy or administration.

(2) The Public Meetings Law does not apply to the following types of bodies:

(a) Fact Gathering Bodies. Bodies with only the authority to gather and provide purely factual information to a public body, and that do not have the authority to make decisions or recommendations.

(b) Bodies Advising Individual Public Officials. Bodies appointed by an individual public official with authority to make recommendations only to that individual public official who has the authority to act on the body's recommendations and is not required to pass the recommendations on unchanged to a public body.

(c) Certain Multi-Jurisdiction Bodies. Multi-jurisdictional bodies whose Oregon members do not constitute a majority of the governing body's voting members.

Or. Admin. Code § 199-050-0010

GEC 1-2024, adopt filed 09/24/2024, effective 10/1/2024

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 244.290

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 244.610 & ORS 192.685