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21.1 - INTENT -- DECLARATION OF POLICY.



        21.1  INTENT -- DECLARATION OF POLICY.
         This chapter seeks to assure, through a requirement of open
      meetings of governmental bodies, that the basis and rationale of
      governmental decisions, as well as those decisions themselves, are
      easily accessible to the people.  Ambiguity in the construction or
      application of this chapter should be resolved in favor of openness.
         Section History: Early Form
         [C79, 81, § 28A.1]
         Section History: Recent Form
         C85, §21.1