Section 8.20 - Regular and special meetings(a) If the time and place of a directors' meeting is fixed by the bylaws or the board, the meeting is a regular meeting. All other meetings are special meetings.(b) A board of directors may hold regular or special meetings in or outside this State.(c) Unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws provide otherwise, a board may permit any or all directors to participate in a regular or special meeting by, or conduct the meeting through the use of, any means of communication, including an electronic, telecommunications, and video- or audio-conferencing conference telephone call, by which all directors participating may simultaneously or sequentially communicate with each other during the meeting. A director participating in a meeting by this means is deemed to be present in person at the meeting.Added 1995, No. 179 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. 1/1/1997; amended 2009, No. 78 (Adj. Sess.), § 36, eff. 4/15/2010; 2011, No. 52, § 19, eff. 5/27/2011.