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Meetings of Governing Board
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499. (1) The Governing Board shall hold such and so many meetings as may be necessary for the due performance of its functions, but in each year shall hold not less than one meeting in each period of 3 months.
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(2) The Governing Board may hold or continue a meeting by the use of any means of communication by which all the participants can hear and be heard at the same time.
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(3) The chairperson of the Governing Board shall fix the date, time and, subject to subsection (2), place of the first meeting of the Governing Board.
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(4) The quorum for a meeting of the Governing Board shall be 3.
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(5) At a meeting of the Governing Board—
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(a) the chairperson of the Governing Board shall, if present, be the chairperson of the meeting, and
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(b) if and so long as the chairperson is not present, or if the office of chairperson of the Governing Board is vacant, the members of the Governing Board who are present shall choose one of their number to act as the chairperson of the meeting.
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(6) Each member of the Governing Board present at a meeting of the Governing Board shall have a vote.
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(7) At a meeting of the Governing Board, a question on which a vote is required shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members of the Governing Board present and, in the case of an equal division of votes, the chairperson of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
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(8) Subject to this Act, the Governing Board may determine its own procedures.
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(9) Subject to subsection (4), the Governing Board may act notwithstanding one or more vacancies in its membership.
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