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Introduced Session

This bill enables a municipality to allow a newly elected member of the municipality's governing body to participate in a meeting where the public is excluded. Under the bill, a municipality may, by resolution or ordinance, allow a newly elected member of the municipality's governing body to participate in a meeting where the public has been excluded before the newly elected member has taken their required oaths of office. The bill, thereby, provides the opportunity for a newly elected member of a municipal governing body to engage in important municipal issues in advance of the reorganization municipal meeting. Additionally, the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs would create an official statement for a newly elected member of a municipality's governing body to sign acknowledging that the newly elected member will abide by the municipality's rules concerning official conduct regarding meetings where the public has been excluded. This official statement signed by the newly elected member would be filed with the municipal clerk.

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Sean Kean (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 02/23/2021)