§ 2-301. Definitions.

City records means records of the city and shall be created, maintained, and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of this article or procedures authorized by it and in no other manner: any document, paper, letter, book, map, photograph, sound or video recording, microfilm, magnetic tape, electronic medium, or other information recording medium, regardless of physical form or characteristic and regardless of whether public access to it is open or restricted under the laws of the state, created or received by the city or any of its officers or employees pursuant to law, including an ordinance, or in the transaction of public business.

Department head means the director or officer who by ordinance or administrative policy is in charge of an office of the city that creates or receives records.

Essential record means any record of the city necessary to the resumption or continuation of its operations in an emergency or disaster, to the recreation of its legal and financial status, or to the protection and fulfillment of obligations to the people of the state.

Permanent record means any record of the city for which the retention period on a records control schedule is given as permanent.

Records control schedule means a document prepared by or under the authority of the records management officer listing the records maintained by the city, their retention periods, and other records disposition information that the records management program may require.

Records management means the application of management techniques to the creation, use, maintenance, retention, preservation, and disposal of records for the purposes of reducing the costs and improving the efficiency of recordkeeping. The term includes the development of records control schedules, the management of filing and information retrieval systems, the protection of essential and permanent records, the economical and space-effective storage of inactive records, control over the creation and distribution of forms, reports, and correspondence, and the management of microfilming and electronic and other records storage systems.

Records management officer means the person designated in section 2-304 of this article.

Records management plan means the plan developed under section 2-305 of this article.

Retention period means the minimum time that must pass after the creation, recording, or receipt of a record, or the fulfillment of certain actions associated with a record, before it is eligible for destruction.

(Ord. No. 09-1814, § 1, 7-20-2009)