[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Rye Brook 6-28-2022 by L.L. No. 6-2022. Amendments noted where applicable.]
It is the intent of this chapter to give members of the Village's
local public bodies, as such term is defined in Public Officers Law
§ 103-a(1), the authority to participate in meetings via
videoconferencing in a manner consistent with the authority granted
in Public Officers Law § 103-a upon request to the Board
of Trustees from the chairperson of the Village's local public body
and prior approval of such request by the Board of Trustees.
This chapter is adopted pursuant to Public Officers Law § 103-a
which expressly permits the Village Board of Trustees to adopt a local
law to authorize the use of videoconferencing for itself and all local
public bodies, including committees and subcommittees, of the Village
which are subject to Public Officers Law, Article 7. Members of such
local public bodies may participate in meetings via videoconferencing
from locations not accessible to the public so long as a quorum of
the public body participates from locations where the public may be
physically present and all conditions set forth in Public Officers
Law § 103-a are met.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Rye Brook hereby authorizes
members of the Village's local public bodies to participate in meetings
using videoconferencing technology in a manner consistent with Public
Officers Law § 103-a upon request to the Board of Trustees
from the chairperson of the Village's local public body and prior
approval of such request by the Board of Trustees.
The provisions of this chapter and Public Officers Law § 103-a
do not limit the existing authority set forth in the Public Officers
Law § 104(4) which allows all public bodies to remotely
connect multiple public locations from which members and the public
may attend. The Village's local public bodies may continue to hold
proper open meetings by videoconferencing from multiple physical locations
which are identified in the meeting notice, open to the public and
connected remotely together by videoconferencing.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or
part of this chapter or the application thereof to any person, individual,
corporation, firm, partnership, entity, or circumstance shall be adjudged
by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional,
such order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the
remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or part of this chapter,
or in its application to the person, individual, corporation, firm,
partnership, entity, or circumstance directly involved in the controversy
in which such order or judgment shall be rendered.
This chapter shall take effect immediately upon filing with
the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York.
