3/25/16- By D.E. Smoot

BOYNTON — Town officials convened an emergency meeting despite questions about whether the items discussed and acted on meet the legal definition of an emergency.

Oklahoma Open Meeting Act provisions for emergency meetings limit discussion and action to situations that involve “injury to persons or injury and damage to public or personal property.” State law also allows a public body to convene an emergency meeting when there is the potential for an “immediate financial loss.”

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