§ 7-104. Definitions.
For the purposes of this Act:
A. “Constituent” means any person who is a citizen of the Osage Nation.
B. “General public” means the people of the community as a whole.
C. “Meeting” means the official convening of a quorum of members of a public body for the purpose of conducting public business. Meetings shall not apply to social meetings, attendance at meetings called by other public bodies, or to attendance at or travel to conventions or workshops of members of a public body, at which there is no meeting of the body then intentionally convened, if there is no vote or other action taken regarding any matter over which the public body has supervision, control, jurisdiction, or advisory power. Meetings also shall not apply to unofficial, casual or social meetings of Members of Congress, whether or not legislation is discussed, if there is no vote or official action taken regarding any matter over which the Congress, or its committees, have supervision, control, jurisdiction, or advisory power.
1. “Regular meeting” means any meeting, which is held on a regular schedule such as a regular monthly meeting.
2. “Special meeting” means any meeting, which is not a regular meeting, including but not limited to, any meeting, which must be called because of an emergency.
3. “Emergency meeting” means any meeting in which the business at hand requires immediate action of the public body or there exists an imminent threat to public health and safety or a reasonably unforeseeable situation exists for which the time requirements for public notice of such a special meeting would make the usual notice requirement impractical.
4. “Executive session” means those meetings or portions of meetings of the public bodies which constituents and the general public cannot attend.
D. “Public body” means any official entity in which a quorum is required to conduct public business and which performs a governmental function for the Osage Nation. A public body includes, but is not limited to:
1. Committees;
2. Boards;
3. Commissions;
4. Task forces. ONCA 07-53, eff. Dec. 4, 2007; ONCA 11-38, eff. Apr. 12, 2011; ONCA 15-29, eff. Apr. 30, 2015.