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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 18:39:14+00:00

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§ 90-1 Designation of records access officer.
§ 90-2 Duties of records access officer.
§ 90-3 Designation of location of records.
§ 90-4 Hours for public inspection of records.
§ 90-5 Requests for access.
§ 90-6 Subject matter list.
§ 90-7 Denial of access; appeals.
The Town Clerk is hereby designated as records access officer.
The Town Clerk's office, located at 5 South Grove Street, East Aurora, New York, is designated as the location where records shall be available for public inspection and copying.
Records shall be available for inspection during all hours that the Town Hall is regularly open for business.
A request may be made orally or in writing for records available under this chapter.
The Town shall respond to any request reasonably describing the record or records sought within five business days of receipt of the request.
A request shall reasonably describe the record or records sought. Whenever possible, a person requesting records should supply information regarding dates, file designations or other information that may help to describe the record sought.
If the Town does not provide or deny access to the record sought within five business days of the receipt of the request, the Town shall furnish a written acknowledgement of receipt of the request and a statement of the approximate date when the request will be granted or denied. If access to records is neither granted nor denied within 10 business days after the date of acknowledgement or receipt of a request, the receipt may be construed as a denial of access that may be appealed.
The Town shall maintain a reasonably detailed current list, by subject matter, of all records in its possession, whether or not records are available pursuant to Subdivision 2 of § 87 of the Public Officers Law.
The Town Board shall hear appeals or shall designate a person or board to hear appeals regarding denial of access to records under the Freedom of Information Law.
Editor's Note: See § 84 et seq. of the Public Officers Law.
Denial of access shall be in writing, stating the reason therefor and advising the person denied access of his or her right to appeal to the person or body established to hear appeals; and that person or body shall be identified by name, title, business address and business telephone number. The records access officer shall not be the appeals officer.
If an agency fails to respond to a request within five business days of receipt of a request as required in this chapter, such failure shall be deemed a denial of access by the Town.
The Town shall transmit to the Committee on Public Access to Records copies of all appeals upon receipt of an appeal. Such copies shall be addressed to the Committee on Public Access to Records, Department of State, 162 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York, 12231.
The person or body designated to hear appeals shall inform the appellant and the Committee on Public Access to Records of its determination, in writing, within seven business days of receipt of an appeal. The determination shall be transmitted to the Committee on Public Access to Records in the same manner as set forth in Subsection F of this section.
The fee for copying records shall not exceed $0.25 per page for photocopies not exceeding 9 x 14 inches.
The fee for copies of records not covered by Subsection B(1) of this section shall not exceed the reproduction cost, which is the average unit cost for copying a record, excluding fixed costs of the agency such as operator salaries.

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