Chapter 7
ENHANCED ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS
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7-1. Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to establish a
policy for enhanced access to public records in accordance with Act 462 of 1996
of the Public Acts of the State of Michigan.
Sec.
7-2. Definitions. The following
definitions shall apply to this chapter.
a.
“Enhanced access” means a public record’s immediate
availability for public inspection, purchase, or copying by digital means. Enhanced access does not include the transfer
of ownership of a public record.
b.
“Geographic information system (GIS)” means an
informational unit or network capable of producing customized maps based on a
digital representation of geographical data.
c.
“Operating expenses” includes, but is not limited to,
the City’s direct cost of creating, compiling, storing, maintaining,
processing, upgrading, or enhancing information or data in a form available for
enhanced access, including the cost of computer hardware and software, system
development, employee time, and the actual cost of supplying the information or
record in the form requested by the purchaser.
d.
“Person” means that term as defined in section 2 of the
Freedom of Information Act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.232.
e.
“Public record” means that term as defined in section 2
of the Freedom of Information Act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.232.
f.
“Reasonable fee” means a charge calculated to enable
the City to recover over time only those expenses directly related to the
City’s provision of enhanced access.
g.
“ Software” means a set of statements or instructions
that when incorporated in a machine-usable medium is capable of causing a
machine or device having information processing capabilities to indicate,
perform, or achieve a particular function, task, or result.
h.
“Third party” means a person who requests access to a
geographical information system or output from a geographical information
system. However, a third party does not
include a person for whom a fee authorized under this ordinance is waived in
accordance with an intergovernmental agreement described in Section 7-3.
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7-3. Policy. The City Manager may provide enhanced access
for the inspection, copying, or purchasing of a public record that is not
confidential or otherwise exempt by law from disclosure. Subject to Section 7-4, a fee shall be
charged in accordance with Section 21-160 for providing enhanced access and for
providing access to either the City’s geographic information system or the
output from the City’s geographic information system. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the City
Manager may provide another public body, without charging a fee to that public
body, if the access to or output from the geographic information system is
provided in accordance with a written agreement that contains all of the
following:
a.
A
statement specifying that the public body receiving access to or output from
the geographic information system without charge is prohibited from providing
access to the geographic information system output to a third party unless that
public body does both of the following:
i.
Collects
from the third party a fee described in Section 21-160, or waives that fee in
accordance with the written terms of the intergovernmental agreement.
ii.
Conveys
to the City that portion of any fee collected that is attributable to the
operating expenses of the City from the geographic information system to the
third party.
b.
A
statement specifying the public purpose for which access to or output from the
City’s geographic information system is being provided.
c.
A
statement specifying the portion of any fee collected under Section 21-160 and
collected from a third party that the receiving public body shall convey to the
City.
Sec.
7-4. Charges related to a public
body for enhanced access.
A public body that receives access to or output from the City’s
geographic information system under an intergovernmental agreement described in
Section 7-3 may collect from a third party to whom it provides access to the
output from the City’s geographic information system a reasonable fee that
includes both of the following:
a.
An
amount that enables the City to recover over time its operating expenses
directly related to providing access to or output from its system to a third
party.
b.
An
amount that enables the receiving public body to recover over time its
operating expenses directly related to providing to a third party access to or
output from its system.
(Ord. No. 1667,
§ 1, 11-10-08)
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* Editors Note: Ord. No. 1512,
§ 9, adopted July 23, 2001, repealed ch. 7, art. I--IV, in its entirety.
Formerly, ch. 7 pertained to the electrical code and derived from Ord. No. 921,
§ 2, adopted November 7, 1977; Ord. No. 998, § 1, adopted May 11, 1981; Ord.
No. 1262, §§ 1, 2, adopted April 26, 1993; Ord. No. 1469, § 1, adopted March
20, 2000.
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