Records shall be available for public inspection
and copying at the office of the Village Clerk, 65 Broad Street, Waterford,
New York.
Requests for public access to records shall
be accepted and records produced during all hours that the Clerk's
office is regularly open for business.
A notice containing the title or name and business
address of the records access officer and appeals body and the location
where records can be seen or copies made shall be posted in a conspicuous
location wherever records are kept and/or published in a local newspaper
of general circulation.
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.