Town of Clarence, NY
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2023-05-10
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 19 Ethics, Code of
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Article IV Maintenance of and Access to Records
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Appearance Tickets
- Ch 7 Conservation Advisory Council
- Ch 8 Conservation Easements
- Ch 13 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 19 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 19 Art IV Maintenance of and Access to Records
- § 19-11 Records maintenance.
- § 19-12 Records access.
- Ch 32 Meetings
- Ch 39 Officers and Employees
- Ch 43 Ordinances, Publication of
- Ch 45 Planning Board
- Ch 48 Receiver of Taxes and Assessments
- Ch 50 Supervisor
- Ch 52 Tax Bills
- Ch 54 Zoning Board of Appeals
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 57 Advertising Materials
- Ch 59 Alarm Devices
- Ch 63 Bingo
- Ch 67 Building Code Administration
- Ch 69 Buildings, Demolition of
- Ch 71 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 75 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 77 Cannabis
- Ch 79 Clearing, Filling and Grading
- Ch 81 Comprehensive Plan
- Ch 83 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 87 Dumps and Dumping
- Ch 89 Electrical Standards
- Ch 91 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 93 Excavations
- Ch 96 Farming
- Ch 99 Fees
- Ch 101 Fences
- Ch 103 Firearms
- Ch 107 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 111 Games of Chance
- Ch 113 Gasoline, Retail Sale of
- Ch 117 Historic Preservation
- Ch 121 Improvements, Public and Private
- Ch 123 Industrial Hazardous Waste
- Ch 131 Landscape and Tree Conservation
- Ch 135 Manufactured Housing Parks
- Ch 143 Property and Facilities, Town
- Ch 147 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 149 Picketing of Dwellings
- Ch 151 Plumbing
- Ch 153 Propane Tanks, Retail
- Ch 155 Property Maintenance
- Ch 157 Railroad Crossings
- Ch 161 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 165 Recovery of Attorney's Fees
- Ch 168 Rental Property
- Ch 173 Satellite Antennas, Telecommunication Towers, Small Wireless Facilities and Wind Energy Conversion Systems
- Ch 177 Sewers
- Ch 181 Signs
- Ch 183 Snowplowing
- Ch 184 Solar Photovoltaic Systems
- Ch 185 Solid Waste
- Ch 187 Special Events
- Ch 188 Storm Sewers
- Ch 188A Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 189 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 193 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 196 Swimming Pools
- Ch 199 Taxation
- Ch 203 (Reserved)
- Ch 209 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 213 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 217 Vending Machines
- Ch 223 Water
- Ch 229 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
The Town Clerk's Office shall be the repository for
all records generated in compliance with this Code.
B.
All records, except advisory opinions and written
decisions in response to complaints, shall be destroyed after seven
years from the date of filing.
C.
Records shall include, but not be limited to, the
following:
(1)
List of Town officials and employees, to be updated
by January 25 of each year by the Town Clerk.
(2)
Annual Statements of Disclosure.
(3)
Transactional Statements of Disclosure.
(4)
Requests for advisory opinions.
(5)
Advisory opinions.
(6)
Complaints received, summary of complaint investigations,
determinations and recommendations.
A.
Those records generated by this Code and the Ethics
Board shall be governed by the Freedom of Information Law of the State
of New York.
B.
Certain records generated by this Code and the Ethics
Board as set forth herein are deemed to be documents the disclosure
of which would violate an employee's privacy and are not open to public
inspection. Documents exempt from such disclosure shall include, but
not be limited to, the following:
(1)
Complaints against specific Town officials and/or
employees and all materials related to such actions, including determinations
and recommendations.
(2)
Materials of any nature relating to ongoing investigations
by the Ethics Board.
(3)
Requests for advisory opinions in accordance with
this Code.
(4)
Advisory opinions.
C.
It shall be a violation of this Code for a Town official
or employee to inspect or copy a publicly accessible document for
any unlawful purpose.
D.
A Town official or employee whose disclosure form
is accessed pursuant to the above provisions shall be promptly notified
in writing by the Town Clerk of such access and the requestor's identity.
