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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 74 Pa.C.S.A. Transportation § 1715. Meetings, quorum, officers and records

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Meetings.--Regular meetings of the board shall be held in the metropolitan area at least once in each calendar month except July or August, the time and place of the meetings to be fixed by the board. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. All action of the board shall be by resolution, and the affirmative vote of a majority of all the members shall be necessary for the adoption of any resolution. No action by the board to which an express objection has been made, under this section, by a board member or members representing a county or counties having one-third or more of the population of the metropolitan area, as determined by the most recent decennial census, shall be carried unless supported at a subsequent regular meeting of the board by the votes of at least three-quarters of the membership of the board. In case of disagreement between members representing the same county, each member shall be deemed to represent one-half of the population of that county.

(b) Officers.--The board shall elect from among its members a chairman and a vice chairman, each of whom shall serve for a term of one year and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified and who shall perform those duties as the board shall, by resolution, determine.

(c) Public meetings and records.--

(1) The board shall be subject to the act of June 21, 1957 (P.L. 390, No. 212),  1 referred to as the Right-to-Know Law, and the act of July 3, 1986 (P.L. 388, No. 84),  2 known as the Sunshine Act.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of the Sunshine Act, one or more persons may participate in a meeting of the board, or of any committee thereof, by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, including, in the case of a meeting open to the public, all other persons present at the place of meeting designated by public notice. Participation by one or more members of the board in a meeting pursuant to this subsection shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.

1 65 P.S. § 66.1 et seq. (repealed); see 65 P.S. § 67.102.
2 65 P.S. § 271 et seq. (repealed); see 65 Pa.C.S.A. § 701 et seq.
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