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requirement that the sessions be open and its decisions
openly arrived at, recorded for the public to see.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Storm.
DELEGATE STORM: Mr. Chairman, my memory fails,
but isn't there a provision someplace in the present
Constitution, maybe it is statutory, that all actions of
any public body should be made in public meetings, some-
thing like that?
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair is not aware of any
such provisions in the present Constitution. Delegate
Kiefer.
DELEGATE KIEFER: Mr. President, there is a
section in the administrative law which provides that all
bodies, administrative bodies will have public hearings
and make no decisions without public hearings. It is set
out in the Code. I can't tell you exactly what the number
of it is, but it provides for all State bodies and agencies,
also for all counties and county commissioners. I suggest
Delegate Case and Delegate Boyce's position is correct.
I don't think anybody disagrees with what Judge Sherbow has
in mind. Let's get on with the realistic things we know