When used in this article and unless otherwise expressly stated
or unless the content otherwise requires, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
AGENCY
Any public benefit corporation, not-for-profit corporation
or public authority whose members are appointed by the City Manager
or by the Council of the City of Newburgh or which by law have elected
officials of the City of Newburgh as members of their governing boards.
LOCAL OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE
All elected officials, all members of appointed boards or
commissions, the City Manager, all department heads and their deputies
of the City of Newburgh or of any agency of the City of Newburgh and
all City staff whose positions or titles are listed by the City Council
in the form of a resolution or local law as required to file an annual
letter of disclosure; except the term "local officer or employee"
shall not mean a judge, justice, officer or employee of the unified
court system.
SPOUSE
The husband or wife, or domestic partner, as this term is
defined hereinabove, of the reporting individual unless living separate
and apart from the reporting individual with the intention of terminating
marriage or unless permanently separated pursuant to a judicial order,
decree or judgment or a legally binding separation agreement.
UNEMANCIPATED CHILD
Any son, daughter, stepson, or stepdaughter by marriage or
adoption of the reporting individual and/or of the spouse or domestic
partner of the reporting individual who is under age 18, unmarried
and living in the household of the reporting individual and who is
not financially and otherwise self-sufficient or independent or legally
emancipated from the reporting individual.
Any person required to file an annual letter of disclosure who
knowingly and willfully fails to file such annual letter or who knowingly
and willfully, with intent to deceive, makes a false statement or
gives false information which such individual knows to be false with
respect to any statement or form filed pursuant to this article shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.
The statements and forms filed pursuant to this article shall
be made available to the public, except that any information contained
therein which is of a sensitive personal nature and which is protected
and/or exempt from disclosure under any other provision of law, including
but not limited to the Freedom of Information Law, Personal Privacy
Protection Law or other such federal or state law, rule or regulation,
such as for example Social Security numbers, information relating
to personal health status, or information relating to the welfare,
safety or security of any person or entity which would be impaired
if such were publicly disclosed, may be deleted therefrom prior to
making such statements and forms publicly available.
This article shall take effect on January 1, 1993.
If any provision of this article is held by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, that decision shall not affect the validity
and effectiveness of the remaining provisions of this article, as
long as the meaning, sense and purpose thereof is preserved.