Legal Opinion
Opinion No. 80-218 (1980) Ag
Oklahoma Attorney General Reports
Decided October 16, 1980Published
1Opinion of the Court
The Attorney General has received your opinion request which asks, in effect: Where the charter of a home-rule city provides that all city council meetings shall be open to the public, may the council nevertheless go into executive session as allowed by the State Open Meeting Act, or could this action be taken only upon amendment of the charter? Any city of 2,000 people may "frame a charter for its own government," a charter which, along with municipal ordinances, constitutes the "organic law" of these home-rule cities. Okla. Const., Article XVIII, Section 3(a); 11 O.S. 13-101 [11-13-101]…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- State v. Granville Alexandrian SocietyOhio Supreme Court · 1841
- Ex Parte JohnsonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1921
- City of Pryor Creek v. Public Service Co. of OklahomaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1975
- Moore v. City of TulsaSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1977
- Lee v. NorickSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1968
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