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AN ORDINANCE. ESTABLISHING RULES, REGULATIONS AND
FEES REGARDING EXAMINATION OF PUBLIC. RECORDS
WHEREAS, periodic requests for the inspection and copying of
public records are made. to the City, and it is necessary and appropriate
to adopt an ordinance establishing. rules and regulations to minimize
disruption to the conduct of City business and to charge the requesting
party costs to the City of providing such information, now, therefore,
THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF CENTRAL POINT DO ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:.
Chapter 2.42 of the Central Point Municipal Code is amended
to read as follows:
CHAPTER 2.52
PROCESSING FEES
2.52.010 Dishonored Checks. When any fee, fine or other
payment is made to the City by any person by check, and such check
is dishonored by the bank upon which it was written for insufficient
funds having been on account, a processing fee of $5.00 shall be added
to said fee, fine or other sum due the City for each check thus
returned, and said processing fee shall be subject to collection in
the same manner as the underlying fee, fine or other sum due.
2.52.020 Inspection of Public Records. When any person
has made a request to inspect and copy any public records of the
City, and a determination has been made that such person is entitled
to do so, the following rules, regulations and fees shall be
applicable:
A. Request. The request for inspection of documents in
possession of the City shall be made to the City Administrator, who
shall within seven (7) working days upon receipt thereof make a
determination as to whether or not any of the requested information
is exempt, and advise the requesting party of his determination and
a date and time for the inspection and the estimated cost,
B. Date of Time of Inspection, The date and time of
inspection shall. be during the normal City Hall office hours, but
shall be scheduled in such a manner as to cause the. least possible
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disruption to the ongoing City business. Such date and time of
inspection shall in no event be more than ten (10) working days
from the date and time of the initial request.
C. Manner of Inspection. The Gity Administrator or
his designee shall be present at all times during any inspection
of the documents. The requesting party may have photocopies of
any non-exempt documents requested, but such copying shall be
done only by City personnel and shall be done only upon prepayment
of all inspection and copying charges required by this ordinance.
D. Inspection and Copying Charges, Upon receipt of a
request to inspect public documents, the City Administrator shall
determine and charge the reasonable cost to the City of such request
and may require payment in advance by the requesting party of such
costs, prior to allowing inspection and copying to occur. The City
Administrator shall be entitled to include in such costs the
reasonable costs of any and all employee time in dealing with the
request., including locating the requested documents, witnessing
the inspection and preparation of copies, anal reasonable charges
for copies.
Passed by the Council and signed by me in authentication
of its passage this lath day of
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May , 1984.
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