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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 111', '§ 111', '§ 111', '§ 111', '§ 111', '§ 111', '§ 111', '§ 111', '§ 111', '§ 84', '§ 111', '§ 111', '§ 84', '§ 111']

Town of New Berlin, NY Records
Ch 111 Art I Public Access to Records
§ 111-1 Purpose and scope.
§ 111-2 Records access officer.
§ 111-3 Location of records.
§ 111-4 Hours for inspection.
§ 111-5 Requests for access.
§ 111-6 Subject matter list.
§ 111-7 Denial of access; appeals.
§ 111-8 Fees.
§ 111-9 Public notice.
Town of New Berlin, NY / Part II, General Legislation
Chapter 111 Records
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of New Berlin: Art. I, at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Personnel shall furnish to the public the information and records required by the Freedom of Information Law (§ 84 et seq. of the Public Officers Law), as well as records otherwise available by law.
Any conflict among laws governing public access to records shall be construed in favor of the widest possible availability of public records.
The Town Board of the Town of New Berlin is responsible for ensuring compliance with the regulations herein and designates the Town Clerk and, in his absence, the Deputy Town Clerk as records access officer, who shall be responsible for ensuring appropriate agency response to public requests for access to records. The designation of a records access officer shall not be construed to prohibit officials who have in the past been authorized to make records or information available to the public from continuing to do so.
Make a copy available upon payment or offer to pay established fees, if any, in accordance with § 111-8; or
The Town of New Berlin is not the custodian for such records; or
The records of which the Town of New Berlin is a custodian cannot be found after diligent search.
Records shall be available for public inspection and copying at the office of the Town Clerk, Municipal Building, New Berlin, New York.
Requests for public access to record shall be accepted and records produced during all hours that the Clerk's office is regularly open for business.
A written request may be required, but oral requests may be accepted.
A request shall reasonably describe the record or records sought. Wherever possible, a person requesting records should supply information regarding dates, file designations or other information that may help to describe the records sought.
If the records access officer does not provide or deny access to the records sought within five business days of receipt of a request, he shall furnish a written acknowledgment 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 acknowledgment of receipt of a request, the request may be construed as a denial of access that may be appealed.
If requested records are not provided promptly, as required in § 111-5D of this chapter, such failure shall also be deemed a denial of access.
The Town Board shall hear appeals for denial of access to records under the Freedom of Information Law.[1] Such appeal shall be made within 30 days of a denial.
Editor's Note: See § 84 et seq. of the Public Officers Law.
Whether the denial of access was in writing or due to failure to provide records promptly as required by § 111-5D.
The Town Board shall inform the appellant and the Committee on Open Government of its determination, in writing, within 10 business days of receipt of an appeal. The determination shall be transmitted to the Committee on Open Government in the same manner as set forth in Subsection E of this section.
The fee for photocopies not exceeding eight and one-half by fourteen (81/2 x 14) inches is $0.25 per page.
The fee for copies of records not covered by Subsections A and B of this section shall not exceed the actual reproduction cost (which is the average unit cost for copying a record, excluding fixed costs of the town, such as operator salaries).