(A) The Records Management Officer shall develop a records management plan for the municipality for submission to the Council. The plan must contain policies and procedures designed to reduce the costs and improve the efficiency of recordkeeping, to adequately protect the essential records of the municipality, and to properly preserve those records of the municipality that are of historical value. The plan must be designed to enable the Records Management Officer to carry out his or her duties prescribed by state law and this chapter effectively.
(B) Once approved by the Council, the records management plan shall be binding on all offices, departments, divisions, programs, commissions, bureaus, boards, committees, or similar entities of the municipality and records shall be created, maintained, stored, microfilmed, or disposed of in accordance with the plan.
(C) State law relating to the duties, other responsibilities, or recordkeeping requirements of a department head to not exempt the department head or the records in the department head's care from the application of this chapter and the records management plan adopted under it and may not be used by the department head as a basis for refusal to participate in the records management program of the municipality.