Conducting meetings
128 Conducting meetings
A question at a meeting of the council is to be decided by a majority of the votes of members at the meeting.
Each member at the meeting has a vote on each question to be decided and, if the votes are equal, the member presiding also has a casting vote.
A member who is at a meeting but abstains from voting is taken to have voted for the negative.
A meeting may be held by using any technology that reasonably allows members to hear and take part in discussions as they happen.
Example of use of technology—
teleconferencing
A member who takes part in a meeting under subsection (4) is taken to be at the meeting.
A resolution is validly made by the council, even if the resolution is not passed at a meeting, if—
notice of the resolution is given under procedures approved by the council; and
a majority of the members agree in writing to the resolution.
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