Fees charged by the city secretary's office for certified copies
of death certificates and birth certificates shall be as authorized
by V.T.C.A., Health and Safety Code § 191.0045(d), plus
a $1.00 preservation fee as authorized by Health and Safety Code § 191.0045(h)
or, if greater, as may otherwise be authorized for a municipality,
it being the intent of this section that such fees shall automatically
increase as applicable with any amendment to state law providing for
such fees.
(1966 Code, § 2-10; Ordinance 2003-65, § 1, adopted 9/22/2003; Ordinance 2006-013, § 5,
adopted 10/9/2006)
All papers, correspondence, memoranda, accounts, reports, maps,
plans, photographs, sound and video recordings, files, microfilm,
magnetic or paper tapes, punch cards or other documents, regardless
of physical form or characteristic, which have been or shall be created,
received, filed or recorded by any city office or department or its
lawful successor, or officials thereof in pursuance of all ordinances,
or in the conduct, transaction or performance of any business, duty
or function of public business, whether or not confidential or restricted
in use, are hereby declared to be public records of the city and shall
be created, maintained and disposed of in accordance with the provisions
of this article or procedures authorized by this article, unless provided
for in other codes or chapters of this Code. Library and museum materials
acquired solely for reference, exhibit or display and stocks of publications
shall not constitute records for purposes of this article.
(1966 Code, § 2-120)
The records manager shall develop a procedure to ensure the
permanent preservation of the historically valuable records of the
city. The records manager shall provide housing for records no longer
required in the conduct of current business by any office of the city,
and such records shall be promptly transferred to the records center
or to the storage facilities or archives of the state library or to
be destroyed, whichever is applicable, at the time such action is
designated on an approved records schedule.
(1966 Code, § 2-123)