The city clerk shall keep the journal of the proceedings of the city council in printed form, and shall sign his name at the foot of the journal for each meeting of the city council. From time to time he shall have the journal for a series of consecutive meetings bound together into book form for permanent filing.
The city clerk shall cause copies of the journal of the proceedings of each meeting of the city council to be printed and published in pamphlet form as soon after the close of each meeting as conveniently may be, and shall as often as annually cause a limited number of such pamphlet copies for successive meetings of the city council to be bound into permanent book form together with an index thereto, for convenient reference. Such printed pamphlet copies of the journal shall carry an inscription or legend showing that they are published by authority of the city council. All ordinances passed by the city council which are required by statute to be published in pamphlet form before taking effect shall be printed in full text in such published pamphlet copies of the journal of the proceedings of the city council for the respective council meetings.
The city clerk shall provide duplicate copies of the journal of proceedings to members of the city council and the departments and agencies of the city government without charge. The city clerk shall have authority to charge a reasonable fee for providing a single duplicate copy of any journal of proceedings to persons outside the city government. The fee shall be based on the cost of duplicating the journal of proceedings, but shall not exceed the charges allowable under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, as amended. The city clerk may also provide copies of the journal of proceedings to any person outside the city government who requests copies on a subscription basis. The fee for an annual subscription shall be $600.00, to cover duplication costs, postage or other delivery charges incurred by the clerk, and the cost of maintaining subscription records. No duplication or subscription fee shall be charged to educational, charitable, religious, eleemosynary or veterans' organizations that are organized on a not-for-profit basis. Fees due under this section shall be paid to the department of finance.
(Prior code § 5-5; Amend Coun. J. 2-9-94, p. 45017; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. I, § 2)