Public Observation

(a)If the open meetings law requires that the public be able to observe contemporaneously all or part of a meeting of a public body:

(1)the public body shall permit the public to observe contemporaneously a virtual meeting, or the part of a virtual meeting that would be required to be open to the public if it were an in-person meeting; and TITLE 5 GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CH. 11 PUBLIC MEETING DURING EMERGENCIES ACT

(2)the public body shall provide technological means to allow members of the public who observe the virtual meeting to see and hear members of the public body and members of the public authorized by the public body to speak in the meeting.

(b)A document, exhibit, or other record presented to a public body in a virtual meeting that under the open meetings law would have been available to the public at an in-person meeting must be made available to the public, including members of the public observing or participating in a virtual meeting under § 11106 of this Chapter, contemporaneously with the virtual meeting to the extent practicable.