Any information gained by the City Clerk-Treasurer or any other 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, except in accordance with a proper judicial order or as otherwise provided by law. The City Clerk-Treasurer may disclose to the state’s Commissioner of Revenue, or his or her duly authorized agent, all such information and grant the right to inspect any of the books or records of the City Clerk-Treasurer if the Commissioner grants to the City Clerk-Treasurer the reciprocal right to obtain information from the files and records of the Revenue Cabinet of the state and maintains the privileged character of the information so furnished to him or her. The city may publish statistics based on such information in such a manner as not to reveal data respecting the gross receipts of any person.
(Prior Code, § 113.08) (Ord. 541, passed 9-1-1992)