(a) The Clerk of the Council must keep minutes of Council meetings, maintain its journal, and provide other administrative services required to assist the legislative process, including those specified in the Council rules of procedure.
(b) The Clerk may designate an employee to act in the place of the Clerk as official custodian of Council records for purposes of authenticating records and responding to subpoenas and other orders or requests for records. The designated person has the same authority and position as the Clerk for the purpose designated, and response by that person satisfies any writ or order directed to the Clerk except for any writ or order which requires a response with personal knowledge of facts by the Clerk. (1970 L.M.C., ch. 23, § 1; 1971 L.M.C., ch. 43, § 1; 1983 L.M.C., ch. 34, § 1; 1986 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 3; 1998 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 1.)