take place with privacy constraints and the realities imposed by financial administration and
practicalities in operating government bodies.
Section 4. Definitions.
(a) As used in this Act, unless the content indicates otherwise, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) "Action" means any transaction of official business by a governing body.
(2) "Final action" means a collective positive or negative decision by a governing body on a particular
issue with substantive relevance to the public or a vote by a majority of the members of a governing
body, when sitting as a body or entity and making decision or voting upon a bill, motion, proposal,
resolution, order, report, or ordinance.
(3) "Governing body" means any government entity created under the Constitution of the Republic,
by treaty, by law, by regulation, or by executive order, including quasi-government entities, such as,
for example, Palau Public Utilities Corporation, Palau National Communications Corporation,
National Development Bank of Palau, and any subdivisions of a government entity or quasigovernment entity.
(4) "Notice" means to publish the time and place where a governing body will meet along with a brief
description of the matter that is to be discussed or the final action that may take place, and to
announce such notice over at least one (1) radio station and post such notice at the Palau Supreme
Court and the Olbiil Era Kelulau at least twenty-four (24) hours before the time that the meeting is
scheduled to commence.
(5) "Public record" means any written or printed report, book, paper, map, or plan of a governing
body, which is the property thereof and in or on which an entry has been made or is required to be
made by law, or which any public officer or employee of a governing body has received or is required
to receive for filing, but shall not include records that invade the right of privacy of any person or
business entity as defined in this Act.
Section 5. Meetings shall be open and public.
(a) All meetings of a governing body shall be open and public, and all persons shall be permitted to
attend any meeting of the governing body, unless otherwise provided by this Act or other law.
(b) The minutes of all meetings of any governing body that are open and public shall be available
upon request.
(c) A meeting of a governing body, and the minutes of that meeting, shall not be required to be open
and public where the matter under discussion relates to information that shall not be disclosed to the
public under Section 8.
Section 6. No conditions to attendance may be required.
(a) A governing body shall not require registration or any other prerequisite information to be filed