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