or substitute sites or places as the emergency temporary
location or locations of government where all or any part of the
public business may be transacted and conducted during the
emergency situation. These sites or places may be within or
without the territorial limits of the [political subdivision]
municipality and may be within or without this Commonwealth.
Section 4. Title 53 is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 1122.1. Emergency meetings by authorized telecommunications
device.
(a) Authorization.--Whenever the governing body of a
municipality is required to establish a quorum of members
physically present to conduct hearings, meetings, proceedings or
other business, the governing body may conduct its business
through the use of an authorized telecommunications device
during an emergency if the conditions that have rendered a
meeting with the physical presence of the participants unsafe,
hazardous to human health or impossible would be alleviated
through the use of an authorized telecommunications device.
(b) Quorum.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
hearing, meeting, proceeding or other business conducted through
an authorized telecommunications device under this subsection
shall not require the physical presence at a meeting location of
a quorum of the participating members if a quorum is otherwise
established by the participating members through the authorized
telecommunications device.
(c) Advance notice.--The governing body of a municipality
shall post no less than 12 hours advance notice of each meeting
conducted under subsection (a) on the entity's publicly
accessible Internet website, if any, or in an advertisement in a
newspaper of general circulation, or both. Public notice shall
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