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Timestamp: 2018-12-18 17:19:38
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 62', '§ 62', '§ 62', '§ 62', '§ 62', '§ 62', '§ 62', '§ 62', '§ 62', '§ 62', '§ 62']

Town of Thompson, NY RECORDS
Ch 62 Art I Public Access to Records
§ 62-1 Applicability of Freedom of Information Law.
§ 62-2 Records access officer.
§ 62-3 Fees.
§ 62-4 Hours for inspection.
Ch 62 Art II Records Management
§ 62-5 Establishment; department officer.
§ 62-7 Records Advisory Board.
§ 62-8 Custody.
§ 62-9 Replevin; recovery of records.
§ 62-10 Disposal of records.
§ 62-11 Definitions.
[Adopted 7-7-1981 by L.L. No. 5-1981 as Ch. 91 of the 1981 Code]
§ 62-1 Applicability of Freedom of Information Law. [1]
The provisions of the Freedom of Information Law, as amended, shall be applicable to the Town of Thompson, as shall also the rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the State Committee on Open Government, subject to the rules and regulations now or hereafter adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Thompson which are not more restrictive than those adopted by the State Committee.
The Town Clerk is designated records access officer.
Fees for photocopies of records shall be $0.25 per copy.
Records may be inspected at the respective offices at which kept at the Town Hall during regular business hours.
[Adopted 11-1-1994 by L.L. No. 6-1994]
There shall be a records management program established under the aegis of the Town Board headed by a records management officer (RMO). The officer will be responsible for administering the noncurrent and archival public records and storage areas for the Town in accordance with local, state and federal laws and guidelines. The RMO shall be the Town Clerk or his designee.
The officer shall have all the necessary powers to carry out the efficient administration, determination of value, use, preservation, storage and disposition of the noncurrent and archival public records kept, filed or received by the offices and departments of the Town.
The records management officer shall establish guidelines for proper records management in any department or agency of the Town in accordance with local, state and federal laws and guidelines.
The officer shall establish a Town archives and perform the following functions:
Advise and assist Town departments in reviewing and selecting material to be transferred to the Town archives for preservation.
Provide information services to other Town offices.
Collect archival materials which are not official Town records but which have associational value to the Town or a close relationship to the existing archival collection. Such collecting shall be subject to archive space, staff and cost limitations and to the potential endangerment of such materials if they are not collected by the archives.
There shall be a Records Advisory Board designated to work closely with and provide advice to the records management officer. The Board shall consist of the Town Board, Town Attorney and Town Comptroller. The Board shall meet periodically and have the following duties:
A Town department is the legal custodian of its records and shall retain custody of records deposited in the records center. Records transferred to or acquired by the archives shall be under the custody and control of the archives rather than the department which created or held them immediately prior to their being transferred to the archives.
Those official records which have been determined by the officer and Advisory Board to have sufficient historical or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the local government.
The transfer of records to the records center/archives for temporary storage of inactive records and permanent storage of records determined to have historical or other sufficient value warranting continued preservation; and