Subsection 3: Meetings

Sessions of the Martinique Assembly are public. However, at the request of five members or its 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 that the chairman of the meeting holds under article L. 7222-12, 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.

To organise the work of the assembly, the president of the assembly of Martinique is assisted by four vice-presidents elected under the conditions provided for in Article L. 7223-2. The President and Vice-Presidents form the Bureau of the Martinique Assembly.

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…