Open Meetings Act
New Mexico · Public Officers and Employees · §§ 10-15-1 to 10-15-4 · 5 sections
Overview
The Open Meetings Act governs public access to the meetings of governmental bodies, establishing the general rule that gatherings at which public business is considered or decided must be open to the public. It defines which bodies and which gatherings fall within that rule, sets requirements for giving advance notice of meetings and for keeping a record of the proceedings, and identifies the limited circumstances in which a body may exclude the public and meet in closed session. It also provides the means by which compliance is enforced and violations may be challenged. One thing worth flagging: the section titles supplied here carry no substantive content — "Title 3 › Subtitle 1–5" tells you nothing about notice, exemptions, records, or remedies. Everything above is derived from the act's name and the general character of open meetings statutes, not from the enactment you passed in. If this generator is running over many acts, structural-only titles like these should probably be detected and routed to a shorter, name-only description rather than treated as evidence for mechanism claims.
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In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 6 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 378 SO2D 677 - Miglionico v. Birmingham News Co.
Sections covered
- § 10-15-1 NMSA 1978Formation of public policy; procedures for open meetings; exceptions and procedures for closed meetings6 cites
- § 10-15-1.1 NMSA 1978Short title
- § 10-15-2 NMSA 1978State legislature; meetings
- § 10-15-3 NMSA 1978Invalid actions; standing
- § 10-15-4 NMSA 1978Penalty
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