What is the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA)? 

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• This bill requires that the public and the press have advance notice of and the opportunity to attend most meetings, including executive sessions of public bodies, except where the public interest or individual rights would be jeopardized.

• To insure the right of citizens to have adequate advance notice of and the right to attend meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting the public is discussed or acted upon in any way except in those circumstances where the public interest would be endangered or the personal privacy or rights of individuals would be endangered

• "MEETING" means and includes any gathering whether corporeal or by means of communications equipment, which is attended by, or open to, all of the members of a public body, held with the intent, on the part of the members of the body present, to discuss or act as a unit upon the specific public business of that body.

• "PUBLIC BUSINESS" means and includes all matters which relate in any way, directly or indirectly to the performance of the public body's functions or the conduct of its business.

• "ADEQUATE NOTICE" means written advance notice of at least 48 hours, giving the time, date, location and to the extent known, the agenda of any regular, special or rescheduled meeting, which notice shall accurately state whether formal action may or may not be taken and which shall be etc. as noted in N.J.S.A. 10:4-8

• "OFFICIAL NEWSPAPERS" means paid, published and circulated in the municipality, and if there be no such newspaper, then in at least one published in the county in which the municipality is located and said newspaper is circulated.

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