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<section article="ggp" article_name="General Provisions" number="3-302" title_number="3" title_name="Open Meetings Act" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Open Meetings Requirements">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Before meeting in a closed or open session, a public body shall give reasonable advance notice of the session.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Whenever reasonable, a notice under this section shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>be in writing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>include the date, time, and place of the session; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>if appropriate, include a statement that a part or all of a meeting may be conducted in closed session.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A public body may give the notice under this section as follows:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>if the public body is a unit of State government, by publication in the Maryland Register;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>by delivery to representatives of the news media who regularly report on sessions of the public body or the activities of the government of which the public body is a part;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>if the public body previously has given public notice that this method will be used:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>by posting or depositing the notice at a convenient public location at or near the place of the session; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>by posting the notice on an Internet website ordinarily used by the public body to provide information to the public; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>by any other reasonable method.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A public body shall keep a copy of a notice provided under this section for at least 3 years after the date of the session.</text>
  </level>
</section>
