21.1 - INTENT -- DECLARATION OF POLICY. - Iowa Statutes

21.1 INTENT -- DECLARATION OF POLICY. This chapter seeks to assure, through a requirement of open meetings of governmental bodies, that the basis and rationale of governmental decisions, as well as those decisions themselves, are easily accessible to the people. Ambiguity in the construction or application of this chapter should be resolved in favor of openness.          Section History: Early Form [C79, 81, § 28A.1]          Section History: Recent Form C85, §21.1