Section 370.262 - Meetings By Telephone Conference Call(a) Chapter 551, Government Code, does not prohibit any open or closed meeting of the board, a committee of the board, or the staff, or any combination of the board or staff, from being held by telephone conference call. The board may hold an open or closed meeting by telephone conference call subject to the requirements of Sections 551.125(c)-(f), Government Code, but is not subject to the requirements of Subsection (b) of that section.(b) A telephone conference call meeting is subject to the notice requirements applicable to other meetings.(c) Notice of a telephone conference call meeting that by law must be open to the public must specify the location of the meeting. The location must be a conference room of the authority or other facility in a county of the authority that is accessible to the public.(d) Each part of the telephone conference call meeting that by law must be open to the public shall be audible to the public at the location specified in the notice and shall be tape-recorded or documented by written minutes. On conclusion of the meeting, the tape recording or the written minutes of the meeting shall be made available to the public.Tex. Transp. Code § 370.262
Amended by: Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 281 (H.B. 2702), Sec. 2.75, eff. June 14, 2005Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1325, Sec. 2.01, eff. June 21, 2003.