Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 10 - General Administration
Chapter 2 - Public Meetings and Records
Section 20 CSR 10-2.300 - Meetings
Universal Citation: 20 MO Code of State Regs 10-2.300
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule complies with sections 610.023 and 610.028, RSMo regarding open meetings.
(1) Public Governmental Bodies.
(A) Department. The department is a public
governmental body under section
610.010(2),
RSMo, for purposes of meetings. The
department is meeting as a public governmental body and conducting a public
meeting whenever a majority of the employees of the department are allowed,
invited or required to attend the meeting for the purpose of discussing or
deciding the department's functions. Public meetings do not include social
gatherings where there is no intent to avoid the purposes of Chapter 610, RSMo.
Public meetings of the department also include rulemaking hearings and
contested case hearings before the director in the director's administrative or
adjudicative capacity. Contested case hearings include only those hearings at
which the director or an appointed hearing officer presides and of which all
parties to the case have notice.
(B) Divisions. The divisions of the
department are each public governmental bodies under section
610.010(2),
RSMo, for purposes of meetings. A division is
conducting a public meeting and meeting as a public governmental body whenever
a majority of the employees of the division are allowed, invited or required to
attend the meeting for the purpose of discussing or deciding the department's
functions. Public meetings do not include social or ministerial gatherings
where there is no intent to avoid the purposes of Chapter 610, RSMo. Public
meetings of the division also include rulemaking hearings and contested case
hearings before a division director in the director's administrative or
adjudicative capacity. Contested case hearings include only those hearings at
which the director or an appointed hearing officer presides and of which all
parties to the case have notice.
(C) Boards, Commissions, and Advisory
Committees. The various boards, commissions and advisory committees, whether
created by statute or by executive order of the governor are each public
governmental bodies under section
610.010(2),
RSMo, for purposes of meetings.
(D) Sections and Other Organizational Units.
Other organizational units within the department are not public governmental
bodies under section
610.010(2), RSMo.
Neither the director nor any single employee or agent of the department shall
be considered a public governmental body under section
610.010(2), RSMo for
purposes of meetings because a single member body cannot have
meetings.
(E) The department,
division, board, commission or committee official leading the public meeting
shall ensure public notice of the meeting is given under section
610.020,
RSMo, whether the meeting remains open or by vote may be closed. Such official
shall also ensure minutes of the meeting are created and maintained.
(F) In addition to any meetings that are
public by law, any meeting of the department or one of its divisions, boards,
commissions or committees that has been announced as a public meeting shall be
open to the public, except to the extent of any applicable provision of section
610.021,
RSMo. No meeting which is not described in this rule as a public meeting shall
be open to the public.
(2) Notice.
(A) Except as otherwise set forth in this
rule, notice of the time, date and place of any public meeting open to the
public, and its tentative agenda, shall be posted in the reception area to the
principal office of the department and the relevant division at least
twenty-four (24) hours prior to the commencement of the meeting, unless
circumstances under section
610.020,
RSMo, dictate otherwise. Copies of the notice shall be made available to any
representative of the news media who requests notice of a particular meeting at
least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the commencement of the
meeting.
(B) Notice of any hearing
on a proposed rulemaking shall be given by publication in the Missouri
Register under section 536.021.2(6), RSMo.
*Original authority: 374.045, RSMo 1967, amended 1993, 1995.
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