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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 49', '§ 49', '§ 49', '§ 49', '§ 49', '§ 49', '§ 49', '§ 49', '§ 49', 'Art. 6', '§ 84', '§ 49', '§ 49', '§ 49', '§ 88', '§ 88', 'Art. 6', '§ 87', '§ 49', '§ 49', '§ 87']

Town of Cornwall, NY Records, Public Access to
§ 49-1 Purpose and scope.
§ 49-2 Designation of records access officers.
§ 49-3 Designation of fiscal officer.
§ 49-4 Location of records.
§ 49-5 Hours for inspection.
§ 49-6 Requests for access to records.
§ 49-7 Denial of access; appeals.
§ 49-8 Fees.
§ 49-9 Public notice.
Chapter 49: Records, Public Access to
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Cornwall 4-14-1975. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Chapter 49 : Records, Public Access to
The people's right to know the process of government decision-making and the documents and statistics leading to determinations is basic to our society. Access to such information should not be thwarted by surrounding it with the cloak of secrecy or confidentiality.
Editor's Note: See Public Officers Law, Art. 6, § 84 et seq.
The Supervisor of the Town of Cornwall is responsible for ensuring compliance with the regulations herein and designates the following persons as records access officers:
Town Clerk, Town Hall, Cornwall, New York.
Building Inspector, Town Hall, Cornwall, New York.
Assessor, Town Hall, Cornwall, New York.
Police Chief, Town Hall, Cornwall, New York.
Superintendent of Public Works, Town Garage, Route 32, Cornwall, New York.
Records access officers are responsible for ensuring appropriate agency response to public requests for access to records. However, the public shall not be denied access to records through officials who have in the past been authorized to make records or information available. Records access officers shall assure that personnel:
Upon locating the records, take one of the following actions in accordance with § 49-6B:
Make a copy available upon payment or offer to pay established fees, if any, in accordance with § 49-8; or
The Town of Cornwall is not the legal custodian for such records; or
The records of which the Town of Cornwall is a legal custodian, after diligent search, cannot be found.
The Supervisor, Town Hall, Cornwall, is designated as the fiscal officer, who shall certify the payroll and respond to requests, in accordance with § 49-6B, for an itemized record setting forth the name, address, title and salary of every officer or employee of the agency.
The fiscal officer shall make the payroll items listed above available to any person, including bona fide members of the news media, as required under § 88(1)(g), (1)(i) and (10) of the Freedom of Information Law.[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 88 has been renumbered. See now Public Officers Law, Art. 6, § 87.
Town Hall, 183 Main Street, Cornwall, New York;
Town Garage, Route 32, Cornwall, New York;
Cornwall Sewer Plant, River Road, Cornwall, New York; or
At the location where they are kept.
Requests for public access to records shall be accepted and records produced during all hours regularly open for business. These hours are 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
If, because of extraordinary circumstances, more than five business days are required to respond to a request, receipt of the request shall be acknowledged within five business days after the request is received. The acknowledgment shall state the reason for delay and estimate the date when a reply will be made.
However, a request for any or all records falling within a specific category conforms to the standard that records be identifiable.
No records may be removed by the requester from the office where the record is located without the permission of the Supervisor of the Town of Cornwall, Town Hall, Cornwall, New York.
If requested records are not provided promptly, as required in § 49-6B of these regulations, such failure shall also be deemed a denial of access.
The following person or persons or body shall hear appeals from denial of access to records under the Freedom of Information Law: Town Board, Town of Cornwall, Town Hall, 183 Main Street, Cornwall, New York, Telephone 914-534-3770.
Whether the denial of access was in writing or was by failure to provide records promptly as required by § 49-6B.
The charge for copies and/or certified copies is $0.25 for each page or portion thereof measuring up to nine inches by 14 inches or the actual cost of reproducing any other record, except when a different fee is otherwise prescribed by statute.
[Amended 11-14-1977; 9-25-1989 by L.L. No. 4-1989]
The charge for copies and/or certified copies of a record that requires a different medium for reproduction other than the medium described in Subsection B herein may be the actual cost of reproduction of the record, plus the hourly salary of the lowest qualified worker, if such reproduction time exceeds two hours, in accordance with New York Public Officers Law § 87.
[Added 3-9-2015 by L.L. No. 2-2015]