Subsection 3: Meetings

Sessions of the Assembly of French Guyana shall be public. However, at the request of five members or the President, the Assembly may decide, without debate, by an absolute majority of the members present or represented, that it shall meet in camera. Without prejudice to the powers conferred on the Chairman by article L. 7122-12, these sittings may be broadcast by audiovisual communication media.

The chairman alone is responsible for policing the assembly. He may have any individual who disturbs order expelled from the auditorium or arrested. In the event of a crime or misdemeanour, he draws up a report and the matter is immediately referred to the public prosecutor.

The minutes of each meeting, drawn up by one of the secretaries, are approved at the beginning of the following meeting and signed by the Chairman and the secretary. The minutes shall contain the date and time of the sitting, the names of the Chairman, the members of the Assembly present or represented and the secretary or secretaries of the sitting, the quorum, the agenda for the sitting, the resolutions…