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2020 SESSION
SB 869 Hearing notice by localities; timely notice related to planning or zoning matter to newspaper, etc.
Introduced by: Bill DeSteph | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:
Hearing notice by localities. Provides that in any instance in which a locality in Planning District 23 has submitted a timely notice of public hearing to a newspaper published or having general circulation in the locality and the newspaper fails to publish the notice, such locality shall be deemed to have met certain notice requirements so long as the notice was published in the next available edition. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2022. This bill is identical to HB 166.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Hearing notice by localities. Provides that if a locality has submitted a timely notice request related to a planning or zoning matter to a newspaper of general circulation and the newspaper fails to publish the notice, a locality shall be deemed to have met public hearing notice requirements so long as notice of the agenda, including the item intended for publication in the newspaper, was published on the locality's website at least three weeks before the hearing.