Opinion No. (1997)

Dear Representative Clay Pope,

¶ 0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General's Opinion, in which you ask, in effect, the following question:

Section 8-108 of Title 11 provides that a member of a municipalgoverning body who is absent from more than one-half of allmeetings of that body held within any four consecutive months,shall cease to hold office. Who determines whether a member of amunicipal governing body, by virtue of his or her absences frommeetings of that body, has vacated the office?

¶ 1 As you pointed out in your question, 11 O.S. 1991, §8-108[11-8-108]…