Board Meeting And Resolution In North Carolina
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The North Carolina open meetings law1 gives the general publiight to attend official meetings of public bodies, except in those cases where the law permits closed sessions.
(a) Except as provided in G.S. 143‑318.11, 143‑318.14A, and 143‑318.18, each official meeting of a public body shall be open to the public, and any person is entitled to attend such a meeting.
Section § 132-6 of the North Carolina Public Records Law states that a custodian of public records shall make them available “at reasonable times and under reasonable supervision by any person, and shall, as promptly as possible, furnish copies thereof upon payment of any fees as may be prescribed by law.”
To reiterate, minutes are a record of a meeting and the (general or special) resolutions passed are the decisions made in a meeting. Meetings are held physically, in the sense that all attendees must be present at the same time.
Board meetings are meetings of the directors and general meetings meetings of the members (shareholders) of the company.
Upon finding a violation of the Open Meeting Law, the Attorney General may impose a civil penalty upon a public body of not more than $1,000 for each intentional violation.
The Open Meeting is an opportunity for interested parties to discuss the rationale, to review the evidence and to provide feedback on proposed Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs).
Open meeting laws, also called sunshine laws, require that, with notable exceptions, most meetings of federal and state government agencies and regulatory bodies be open to the public, along with their decisions and records.
The policy of the state of North Carolina is to allow public access to the business of government. We help by acting as a liaison between public officials and the public. Open government laws are known as “sunshine laws” because they help shed light on the government's work.
North Carolina's open meetings law, Chapter 143, Article 33C of the General Statutes, sets out the requirements for notifying the public of official meetings and describes the limited circumstances under which closed meetings may be held.
