(2009)

Dear Susan G. Phelps

In connection with the ongoing code revision process, you have requested our opinion whether three statutory provisions enacted in 1954 that require certain public entities to hold meetings in public may be repealed, in light of the more recent enactment of the Open Meetings Act, without effecting a substantive change in the law.

In our opinion, the older statutory provisions are, in large part, duplicative of the Open Meetings Act and may be repealed as part of code revision without effecting a substantive change in the law. However, the part of each provision that states…