(A) Any information acquired by any official, agent or employee of the city as a result of any returns, investigations, hearings or verifications required or authorized by this chapter, shall be confidential, except for official purposes and except in accordance with proper judicial order, or as otherwise provided by law, and any person or agent divulging such information shall, upon establishment of said fact, be subject to all appropriate actions against said person(s) as provided by law and liable to the aggrieved party for such remedies as are then provided by law.
(B) However, the city may disclose to the Commissioner of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or his or her duly authorized agent, all such information and right to inspect any of the books and records of the City Clerk, provided said Commissioner of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Kentucky grants to the Department of Finance of city the reciprocal right to obtain information from the files and records of the Department of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and maintains the privileged character of the information so furnished to him or her.
(C) The city may publish statistics based on such information in such a manner as not to reveal data with respect to the individual returns of any person or employer.
(Ord. 16-2007, passed 11-13-07; Am. Ord. 7-2008, passed 7-14-08; Am. Ord. 6-2017, passed 1-22-18)