{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-25-25-311","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 25, § 25-311","heading":"Public bodies - Notice","body":"A. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, all regularly\n\nscheduled, continued or reconvened, special or emergency meetings of\n\npublic bodies shall be preceded by public notice as follows:\n\n1. All public bodies shall give notice in writing by December\n\n15 of each calendar year of the schedule showing the date, time and\n\nplace of the regularly scheduled meetings of such public bodies for\n\nthe following calendar year;\n\n2. All state public bodies including, but not limited to,\n\npublic trusts and other bodies with the state as beneficiary, shall\n\ngive such notice to the Secretary of State;\n\n3. All county public bodies including, but not limited to,\n\npublic trusts and any other bodies with the county as beneficiary,\n\nshall give such notice to the county clerk of the county wherein\n\nthey are principally located;\n\n4. All municipal public bodies including, but not limited to,\n\npublic trusts and any other bodies with the municipality as\n\nbeneficiary, shall give such notice to the municipal clerk of the\n\nmunicipality wherein they are principally located;\n\n5. All multicounty, regional, areawide or district public\n\nbodies including, but not limited to, district boards of education,\n\nshall give such notice to the county clerk of the county wherein\n\nthey are principally located, or if no office exists, to the county\n\nclerk of the county or counties served by such public body;\n\n6. All governing boards of state institutions of higher\n\neducation, and committees and subcommittees thereof, shall give such\n\nnotice to the Secretary of State. All other public bodies covered\n\nby the provisions of the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act which exist under\n\nthe auspices of a state institution of higher education, but a\n\nmajority of whose members are not members of the institution's\n\ngoverning board, shall give such notice to the county clerk of the\n\ncounty wherein the institution is principally located;\n\n7. The Secretary of State and each county clerk or municipal\n\nclerk shall keep a record of all notices received in a register open\n\nto the public for inspection during regular office hours, and, in\n\naddition, shall make known upon any request of any person the\n\ncontents of the register;\n\n8. If any change is to be made of the date, time or place of\n\nregularly scheduled meetings of public bodies, then notice in\n\nwriting shall be given to the Secretary of State or county clerk or\n\nmunicipal clerk, as required herein, not less than ten (10) days\n\nprior to the implementation of any such change;\n\n9. a. In addition to the advance public notice in writing\n\nrequired to be filed for regularly scheduled meetings,\n\ndescribed in paragraph 1 of this subsection, all\n\npublic bodies shall, at least twenty-four (24) hours\n\nprior to such regularly scheduled meetings, display\n\npublic notice of the meeting by at least one of the\n\nfollowing methods:\n\n(1) by posting information that includes date, time,\n\nplace and agenda for the meeting in prominent\n\npublic view at the principal office of the public\n\nbody or at the location of the meeting if no\n\noffice exists, or\nall\n\npublic bodies shall, at least twenty-four (24) hours\n\nprior to such regularly scheduled meetings, display\n\npublic notice of the meeting by at least one of the\n\nfollowing methods:\n\n(1) by posting information that includes date, time,\n\nplace and agenda for the meeting in prominent\n\npublic view at the principal office of the public\n\nbody or at the location of the meeting if no\n\noffice exists, or\n\n(2) by posting on the public body's Internet website\n\nthe date, time, place and agenda for the meeting\n\nin accordance with Section 3106.2 of Title 74 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes. Additionally, the public\n\nbody shall offer and consistently maintain an\n\nemail distribution system for distribution of\n\nsuch notice of a public meeting required by this\n\nsubsection, and any person may request to be\n\nincluded without charge, and their request shall\n\nbe accepted. The emailed notice of a public\n\nmeeting required by this subsection shall include\n\nin the body of the email or as an attachment to\n\nthe email the date, time, place and agenda for\n\nthe meeting and it shall be sent no less than\n\ntwenty-four (24) hours prior to the meeting.\n\nAdditionally, the public body shall make the\n\nnotice of a public meeting required by this\n\nsubsection available to the public in the\n\nprincipal office of the public body or at the\n\nlocation of the meeting during normal business\n\nhours at least twenty–four (24) hours prior to\n\nthe meeting.\n\nb. In addition to the notice requirements of this\n\nsection, all state public bodies, as defined in\n\nparagraph 2 of this subsection, shall, at least\n\ntwenty-four (24) hours prior to regularly scheduled\n\nmeetings, display public notice of the meeting by:\n\n(1) posting information that includes date, time,\n\nplace and agenda for the meeting in prominent\n\npublic view at the principal office of the public\n\nbody or at the location of the meeting if no\n\noffice exists, and\n\n(2) posting on the public body's Internet website the\n\ndate, time, place and agenda for the meeting in\n\naccordance with Section 3106.2 of Title 74 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes;\n\n10. The twenty-four (24) hours required in paragraph 9 of this\n\nsubsection shall exclude Saturdays, Sundays and holidays legally\n\ndeclared by the State of Oklahoma. The posting or distribution of a\n\nnotice of a public meeting as described in paragraph 9 of this\n\nsubsection shall not preclude a public body from considering at its\n\nregularly scheduled meeting any new business. \"New business\", as\n\nused herein, shall mean any matter not known about or which could\n\nnot have been reasonably foreseen prior to the time of the posting;\n\n11. In the event any meeting is to be continued or reconvened,\n\npublic notice of such action including date, time and place of the\n\ncontinued meeting, shall be given by announcement at the original\n\nmeeting. Only matters appearing on the agenda of the meeting which\n\nis continued may be discussed at the continued or reconvened\n\nmeeting;\n\n12. Special meetings of public bodies shall not be held without\n\npublic notice being given at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to\n\nthe meetings. Such public notice of date, time and place shall be\n\ngiven in writing, in person or by telephonic means to the Secretary\n\nof State or to the county clerk or to the municipal clerk by public\n\nbodies in the manner set forth in paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of\n\nthis subsection. The public body also shall cause written notice of\n\nthe date, time and place of the meeting to be mailed or delivered to\n\neach person, newspaper, wire service, radio station and television\n\nstation that has filed a written request for notice of meetings of\n\nthe public body with the clerk or secretary of the public body or\n\nwith some other person designated by the public body. Such written\n\nnotice shall be mailed or delivered at least forty-eight (48) hours\n, time and place of the meeting to be mailed or delivered to\n\neach person, newspaper, wire service, radio station and television\n\nstation that has filed a written request for notice of meetings of\n\nthe public body with the clerk or secretary of the public body or\n\nwith some other person designated by the public body. Such written\n\nnotice shall be mailed or delivered at least forty-eight (48) hours\n\nprior to the special meeting. The public body may charge a fee of\n\nup to Eighteen Dollars ($18.00) per year to persons or entities\n\nfiling a written request for notice of meetings, and may require\n\nsuch persons or entities to renew the request for notice annually.\n\nIn addition, all public bodies shall, at least twenty-four (24)\n\nhours prior to such special meetings, display public notice of the\n\nmeeting, setting forth thereon the date, time, place and agenda for\n\nthe meeting. Only matters appearing on the posted agenda may be\n\nconsidered at the special meeting. Such public notice shall be\n\nposted in prominent public view at the principal office of the\n\npublic body or at the location of the meeting if no office exists.\n\nTwenty-four (24) hours prior public posting shall exclude Saturdays,\n\nSundays and holidays legally declared by the State of Oklahoma. In\n\nlieu of the public posting requirements of this paragraph, a public\n\nbody may elect to follow the requirements found in division (2) of\n\nsubparagraph a of paragraph 9 of this subsection, provided that\n\nforty-eight-hour notice is required for special meetings and that\n\nthe forty-eight-hour requirement shall exclude Saturdays, Sundays\n\nand holidays legally declared by the State of Oklahoma;\n\n13. In the event of an emergency, an emergency meeting of a\n\npublic body may be held without the public notice heretofore\n\nrequired. Should an emergency meeting of a public body be\n\nnecessary, the person calling such a meeting shall give as much\n\nadvance public notice as is reasonable and possible under the\n\ncircumstances existing, in person or by telephonic or electronic\n\nmeans; and\n\n14. A public body that gives public notice of a meeting for\n\nwhich there will be a videoconference option in accordance with\n\nSection 307.1 of this title shall not modify the method of meeting\n\ndescribed in the notice prior to the meeting and shall conduct the\n\nmeeting according to the methods described in the notice. If a code\n\nor password is required to access the videoconference meeting, the\n\ncode or password shall be included in the public notice.\n\nB. 1. All agendas required pursuant to the provisions of this\n\nsection shall identify all items of business to be transacted by a\n\npublic body at a meeting including, but not limited to, any proposed\n\nexecutive session for the purpose of engaging in deliberations or\n\nrendering a final or intermediate decision in an individual\n\nproceeding prescribed by the Administrative Procedures Act.\n\n2. If a public body proposes to conduct an executive session,\n\nthe agenda shall:\n\na. contain sufficient information for the public to\n\nascertain that an executive session will be proposed,\n\nb. identify the items of business and purposes of the\n\nexecutive session, and\n\nc. state specifically the provision of Section 307 of\n\nthis title authorizing the executive session.","path":["OK Code","Title 25"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os25.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"f53120312f6cdf4d82af0f90e25b71b916ebab5266c4f7eaf681a6b2a61a241b","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-25-25-310","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-25-25-311.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}