§ 33:104 — Organization, meetings, and rules

§104. Organization, meetings, and rules
A. A commission shall elect a chairman from its membership and create and fill such
other of its offices as it may determine. The term of chairman shall be one year, with
eligibility for reelection. A commission shall hold at least one regular meeting in each
month. It shall adopt rules for transaction of business and shall keep a record of its
resolutions, transactions, findings, and determinations, which record shall be a public record.
B.(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A of this Section, a commission
located in any municipality with a population of not less than six thousand one hundred
twenty-five persons and not more than six thousand five hundred persons according to the
latest federal decennial census may cancel a monthly commission meeting if there are no
items to be placed on the agenda for the meeting. The commission shall provide notice to
the public that the meeting is cancelled no less than five days prior to the scheduled meeting
by placing a notice of cancellation in the official journal of the municipality in which the
commission is located and by posting a copy of such notice on the door of the building in
which the meeting is to be held and via the internet on the official website of the municipality
in which the commission is located.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A of this Section, the Washington
Parish planning commission may cancel a monthly meeting if there are no items to be placed
on the agenda for the meeting. The commission shall provide notice to the public that the
meeting is cancelled no less than five days prior to the scheduled meeting by placing a notice
of cancellation in the official journal of the parish and by posting a copy of such notice on
the door of the building in which the meeting is to be held and on the official website of the
parish.

Legislative History

Acts 2014, No. 268, §1; Acts 2019, No. 98, §1.