Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 24-416

  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

(a) The board of directors shall meet at least once each year. At such meeting, the board shall adopt a resolution stating the time, date and place of all regular meetings of the board. The resolution also shall state that if the regular meeting date occurs on a Sunday or on a legal holiday or a holiday specified by the board, the meeting shall be held at the same time and place on the next day following the holiday. The resolution shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the district is located. Meetings may be held on the call of the chairperson or at the request of a majority of the members of the board. Written notice of any special meeting shall be given to members of the board at least two days in advance of the meeting. The notice shall specify the time, place and purpose of the special meeting.

(b) A majority of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and in the absence of the presiding officer or secretary a quorum at any meeting may select a presiding officer and a secretary pro tem. All meetings shall be open to the public and no meeting shall be held by the board or any of the members thereof to which the public is denied admission and the board shall not at any time go into executive session.