When any hearing before the Planning Board or Board of Adjustment, as the case may be, shall carry over two or more meetings, a member of the municipal agency conducting said hearing absent for one or more of the meetings, shall be eligible to vote on the matter upon which the hearing was conducted, notwithstanding his absence from one or more of the meetings, provided, however, that said member has available to him/her a transcript or recording of the meeting from which he/she was absent and certifies in writing to the agency that he/she has read such transcript or listened to such recording, prior to his voting or participating on any decision on the matter.