<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 2-27. - Organization; rules; meetings; records.</div>
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               (a)
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               Within 30 days after appointment, the planning board shall meet and elect a chairman
               and create and fill such offices as it may deem necessary. The term of the chairman
               and other officers shall be for one year, with eligibility for reelection.
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               (b)
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               The planning board shall adopt rules for transaction of its business and shall keep
               a record of its members' attendance and of its resolutions, discussions, findings
               and recommendations, which record shall be a public record. All planning board meetings
               shall be open to the public, as provided by law. A quorum shall consist of five members
               for the purpose of taking any official action required by this article. All members
               of the board shall have voting power on all matters of business. However, any member
               who is a party at interest to matters under consideration by the board shall declare
               such interest prior to a vote of the board on the question and shall abstain from
               voting on the question. This provision shall not prohibit such members from participation
               in discussions of the board on such matters prior to the vote.
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               (Ord. of 2-2-76, Â§ 2)
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