This chapter is adopted under authority granted
under § 19.35, Wis. Stats.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
AUTHORITY
Any of the following having custody of a record: an elected
official, agency, board, commission, committee, council or department
or public body corporate and politic of the Town, created by constitution,
law, ordinance, rule or order, or a formally constituted subunit of
the foregoing.
RECORD
Any material on which written, drawn, printed, spoken, visual
or electromagnetic information is recorded or preserved, regardless
of physical form or characteristics, which has been created or is
being kept by an authority of the Town. "Record" includes, but is
not limited to, handwritten, typed or printed pages, maps, charts,
photographs, film, recordings, tapes (including computer tapes), computer
printouts and optical disks. "Record" does not include drafts, notes,
preliminary computations and like materials prepared for the originator's
personal use or prepared by the originator in the name of a person
for whom the originator is working; materials which are purely the
personal property of the custodian and have no relation to his office;
materials to which access is limited by copyright, patent or bequest;
and published materials in the possession of an authority other than
a public library which are available for sale or which are available
for inspection at a public library.
[Amended 4-21-2005]
The Town Board does hereby designate the Town Clerk to be the legal custodian of all records kept in the Town, except those kept by the Treasurer and Assessor, and accordingly such Clerk is the authority under §
82-2 of such records. The Town Assessor is designated to be the legal custodian of his records and the authority under §
82-2, and the Town Treasurer is designated to be the legal custodian of his records and the authority.
Access to records for the purpose of either
inspection or copying may be had by giving an oral or written notice
to the legal custodian of the records, and it is further provided
that the legal custodian shall have at least 48 hours to locate and
make available the requested record.