CPA · Municipal Government Act
Part 5 — Councils, Councillors and Council Committees Division 1 Councils and Council Committees
197 Public presence at meetings
meetings in public unless subsection (2) or (2.1) applies.
(2) Councils and council committees may close all or part of their
meetings to the public if a matter to be discussed is within one of
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the exceptions to disclosure in Division 2 of Part 1 of the Access to
Information Act.
(2.01) Repealed 2019 c22 s10(5).
(2.1) A municipal planning commission, subdivision authority,
development authority or subdivision and development appeal
board established under Part 17 may deliberate and make its
decisions in meetings closed to the public.
(3) When a meeting is closed to the public, no resolution or bylaw
may be passed at the meeting, except a resolution to revert to a
meeting of a council or council committee held in public.
(4) Before closing all or any part of a meeting to the public, a
council or council committee must by resolution approve
(a) the part of the meeting that is to be closed, and
(b) the basis on which, under an exception to disclosure in
Division 2 of Part 1 of the Access to Information Act, the
part of the meeting is to be closed.
(5) After the closed meeting discussions are completed, any
members of the public who are present outside the meeting room
must be notified that the rest of the meeting is now open to the
public, and a reasonable amount of time must be given for those
members of the public to return to the meeting before it continues.
(6) Where a council or council committee closes all or part of a
meeting to the public, the council or council committee may allow
one or more other persons to attend, as it considers appropriate.
(7) Repealed 2019 c22 s10(5).
RSA 2000 cM-26 s197;2015 c8 s19;2019 c22 s10(5);AR 141/2025