Source: https://ecode360.com/10939604
Timestamp: 2020-08-13 06:11:26
Document Index: 88402557

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 39', '§ 39', '§ 39', '§ 39', '§ 39', '§ 39', '§ 39', '§ 39', '§ 86']

Town of West Bloomfield, NY Records
Ch 39 Art I Public Access
§ 39-2 Records access officers designated.
§ 39-3 Powers and duties of records access officers.
§ 39-4 Location of records; when available.
§ 39-5 Request to be in writing.
§ 39-6 Records of town officers and employees.
§ 39-8 Fees.
Ch 39 Art II Retention and Disposition
§ 39-9 Standards adopted.
§ 39-10 Disposition.
Chapter 39 Records
[Adopted 1-14-1986 by L.L. No. 2-1986]
The Town of West Bloomfield and its departments, divisions, offices, bureaus and boards or commissions created or appointed by the Town Board; and
Any special or improvement district of the town, other than a library district, a fire district, a district corporation or district having a separately elected governing body.
The same meaning as set forth in Subdivision 4 of § 86 of the Public Officers Law.
The following persons are hereby designated as records access officers for the agency: the Town Supervisor, Town Hall, Main Street, West Bloomfield, New York 14585; and the Town Clerk, Town Hall, Main Street, West Bloomfield, New York 14585.
Comply with the requirements and provisions of the Freedom of Information Law, the rules and regulations of COG and with this article in providing access to agency records.
Explain, in writing, reasons for denial of access and advise requester of right of appeal, setting forth name, title, business address and telephone of persons to whom appeal may be taken.
Permit requester to make his or her own copy, without damaging the record and without relinquishing custody of the same.
Records of the agency are located at the Town Hall, Main Road, Routes 5 and 20, West Bloomfield, New York.
All requests for public access to records shall be accepted and records produced during all hours that the Town Hall is regularly open for business, i.e., 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
A request to inspect or for a copy of a record shall reasonably describe the same, and shall be in writing.
The Town Board is hereby designated to hear and determine appeals from a denial of access to agency records, in accordance with the Freedom of Information Law, rules and regulations of COG and this chapter.
Unless another fee is prescribed by state law:
The fee for photocopying a record not exceeding nine inches by 14 inches shall be $0.25.[1]
The fee for other records shall be the actual cost of reproduction excluding fixed cost such as salary of employee.
The fee for a typed or handwritten transcript shall consist of the actual clerical time involved in making the transcript.
Prior to disposal of any records, they shall be forwarded to the Town Historian for his or her use, and then to the West Bloomfield Historical Society for their use.