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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40', '§ 40']

Town of East Fishkill, NY Records
Ch 40 Art I Public Access
§ 40-1 Purpose and scope.
§ 40-2 Designation of records access officers; responsibilities.
§ 40-3 Designation of fiscal officer; responsibilities.
§ 40-4 Location.
§ 40-5 Hours for public inspection.
§ 40-6 Request procedure.
§ 40-7 Denial of access to records; appeals procedure.
§ 40-8 Fees.
§ 40-9 Public notice.
Ch 40 Art II Retention and Disposition
§ 40-10 Standards adopted.
§ 40-11 Disposition.
Chapter 40 Records
[Adopted 7-10-1975 by L.L. No. 5-1975]
Personnel shall furnish to the public the information and records required by the Freedom of Information Law and those which were furnished to the public prior to its enactment.[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection D, regarding construal of public access to records laws, which immediately followed this subsection, was deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.).
[1]The Supervisor of the Town of East Fishkill is responsible for ensuring compliance with the regulations herein and designates the following persons as records access officers in their respective areas of responsibility:
Secretary to the Supervisor.
Secretary to the Highway Superintendent.
Secretary to the Planning Board.
Secretary to the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Clerk to the Justices.
Clerk to the Assessor.
Clerk to the Building and Zoning Administrator.
Clerk to the Police.
Chairman of Recreation Commission.
Chairman of Environmental Conservation Commission.
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 of information available. Record access officers shall assure that personnel:
Upon locating the records, take one of the following actions in accordance with § 40-6B:
Make a copy available upon payment or offer to pay established fees, if any, in accordance with § 40-8; or
The Town of East Fishkill is not the legal custodian for such records; or
The records of which the Town of East Fishkill is a legal custodian, after diligent search, cannot be found.
The Supervisor is designated the fiscal officer, who shall certify the payroll and respond to requests, in accordance with § 40-6B, 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 the Freedom of Information Law.[1]
Records shall be available for public inspection and copying at the Town of East Fishkill Office Building, Route 376, Hopewell Junction, New York.
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 4:00 p.m.
Time periods for response.
A current list, by subject matter, of all records produced, filed or first kept or promulgated after September 1, 1974, shall be available for public inspection and copying. The list shall be sufficiently detailed to permit the requester to identify the file category sought.
No records may be removed by the requester from the office where the record is located without the permission of the Supervisor.
If requested records are not provided promptly, as required in § 40-6B of these regulations, 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.
Whether the denial of access was in writing or was by failure to provide records promptly as required by § 40-6B.
The fee for photocopies, not exceeding 8 1/2 x 14 inches, is $0.25 per page.