Georgia Code
Article 3 - Local Boards of Education
§ 20-2-58. Regular Monthly Meeting of Local Boards With Public Comment; Adjournment; Temporary Presiding Officer; Notice of Date; Template for Financial Review; Open Meetings

History. Ga. L. 1919, p. 288, § 83; Code 1933, § 32-908; Ga. L. 1955, p. 625, § 1; Ga. L. 1973, p. 700, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 612, § 2; Ga. L. 1991, p. 726, § 1; Ga. L. 2020, p. 62, §§ 1-3, 4-1/SB 68; Ga. L. 2022, p. 148, § 1/SB 588.
The 2020 amendment, effective July 1, 2021, designated the existing provisions as subsection (a), added “and to review the financial status of the local school system” at the end of the first sentence in subsection (a), and added subsection (b) twice.
The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, in subsection (a), added the present second through fifth and last sentences, in the sixth sentence inserted “regular monthly”, and in the seventh sentence, substituted “dates of its regular monthly meetings and shall publish such dates” for “date of its meeting and shall publish it”, substituted “dates; provided, however, that the dates” for “date; provided, however, that the date”, and inserted “or dates” following “new date” near the end; and rewrote subsection (c), which read: “Each local board of education shall provide a public comment period during every regular monthly meeting. Such public comment period shall be included on the agenda required to be made available and posted prior to the meeting pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection (e) of Code Section 50-14-1. A local board of education shall not require notice by an individual more than 24 hours prior to the meeting as a condition of addressing the local board during such public comment period. The chairperson of the local board of education shall have the discretion to limit the length of time for individual comments and the number of individuals speaking for or against a specific issue.”
Cross references.
Open Meetings Act, § 50-14-1 et seq.
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1987, in the last sentence (of now subsection (a)), a comma was deleted between “12 months” and “and” and a comma inserted between “and” and “if changed”.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2020, the second subsection (b) as added by Ga. L. 2020, p. 62, § 4-1/SB 68 was designated as subsection (c).
Law reviews.
For article, “The Amended Open Meetings Law: New Requirements for Publicly Funded Corporations As Well As Governmental Agencies,” see 25 Ga. St. B. J. 78 (1988).

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