(a) The functions of the City Records Commission shall be to provide rules for the retention and disposal of records of the municipal corporation and to review applications for one-time records disposal and schedules of record retention and disposition submitted by municipal offices. Records may be disposed of by the Commission pursuant to the procedure outlined in this section. The Commission may at any time review any schedule it has previously approved and for good cause shown may revise that schedule.
(b) When municipal records have been approved for disposal, a list of such records shall be sent to the Auditor of the State. If he disapproves of the action of the Commission, in whole or in part, he shall so inform the Commission within a period of sixty days and these records shall not be destroyed. Before public records are disposed of, the Ohio Historical Society shall be informed and given the opportunity for a period of sixty days to select for its custody such public records as it considers to be of continuing historical value.
(Ord. 2014-56. Passed 4-21-14.)
CITY OF ASHTABULA