The Board hereby designates the office of the Village Clerk-Treasurer
as the location where public records shall be available for public inspection
and copying.
The Village Clerk-Treasurer shall accept requests for public access
to records and produce records during all hours during which the Clerk-Treasurer's
office is regularly open for business.
Except when a different fee is otherwise prescribed by law:
A. There shall be no fee charged for the following:
(3) Any certification pursuant to this article.
B. The Village Clerk-Treasurer may provide copies of records
without charging a fee.
C. The Village Clerk-Treasurer may charge a fee for copies
of records, provided that:
(1) The fee for copying records shall not exceed $0.25 per
page for photocopies not exceeding nine inches by 14 inches.
(2) The fee for copies of records not covered by Subsection
C(1) shall not exceed the actual reproduction cost, which is the average unit cost for copying a record, excluding fixed costs of the Village such as operator salaries.
Records Retention and Disposition Schedule MU-1, issued pursuant to
Article 57-A of the Arts and Cultural Affairs Law and containing legal minimum
retention periods for municipal government records, is hereby adopted for
use by all municipal officers in disposing of municipal government records
listed therein.
In accordance with Article 57-A:
A. Only those records will be disposed of that are described
in Records Retention and Disposition Schedule MU-1 after they have met the
minimum retention period prescribed therein.
B. Only those records will be disposed of that do not have
sufficient administrative, fiscal, legal or historical value to merit retention
beyond established time periods.