As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
AUTHORITY
Any of the following Village entities having custody of a
Village record: an office, elected official, agency, board, commission,
committee, council, department or public body corporate and politic
created by constitution, law, ordinance, rule or order; or a formally
constituted subunit of the foregoing.
CUSTODIAN
That officer, department head, division head, or employee of the Village designated under §
74-3 or otherwise responsible by law to keep and preserve any Village records or file, deposit or keep such records in his or her office, or is lawfully in possession or entitled to possession of such public records and who is required by this section to respond to requests for access to such records.
RECORD
Any material on which written, drawn, printed, spoken, visual,
or electromagnetic information or electronically generated or stored
data is recorded or preserved, regardless of physical form or characteristics,
which has been created or is being kept by an authority. "Record"
includes, but is not limited to, handwritten, typed or printed pages,
maps, charts, photographs, films, recordings, tapes, optical disks,
and any other medium on which electronically generated or stored data
is recorded or preserved. "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 or
her 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 at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. III)]
Any Village officer, or the director of any department or division of Village government, may, subject to the approval of the Village Board, keep and preserve public records in his or her possession by means of microfilm or other photographic reproduction method. Such records shall meet the standards for photographic reproduction set forth in § 16.61(7)(a) and (b), Wis. Stats., and shall be considered original records for all purposes. Such records shall be preserved along with other files of the department or division and shall be open to public inspection and copying according to the provisions of state law and of §§
74-4 and
74-6 of this chapter.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. III)]
A. Whenever
the Assessor, in the performance of the Assessor's duties, requests
or obtains income and expense information that is provided to the
Assessor, such information shall be held by the Assessor on a confidential
basis, except that the information may be disclosed to and used by
persons:
(1) In the
discharge of duties imposed by law;
(2) In the
discharge of duties imposed by the user's office (including use by
the Assessor in performance of official duties of the Assessor's office
and use by the Board of Review in the performance of its official
duties); or
(3) Pursuant
to the order of a court.
B. Income and
expense information provided to the Assessor under § 70.47(7)(af),
Wis. Stats., is not subject to the right of inspection and copying
under § 19.35(1), Wis. Stats., unless a court determines,
before the first meeting of the Board of Review, that the information
is inaccurate.