(A) The grantee shall maintain an office within the town. The town shall have the right, upon reasonable notice, to inspect and copy or transcribe at any time during normal business hours, all books, records, maps, plans, financial records, service complaint logs, performance test results and other like materials of the grantee kept or maintained by grantee or under its control concerning the operations, finances, affairs, transactions or property of grantee when necessary to ascertain the grantee’s compliance with this chapter or the franchise agreement. Access to the aforementioned records shall not be denied by the grantee on the basis that the records contain proprietary information. Access to proprietary information shall be allowed at a site of the grantee’s choosing and shall be held in confidence by the town.
(B) If any maps or records are not kept in the town, or upon reasonable notice made available in the town, and if the town shall determine that an examination of the records is necessary or appropriate, all reasonable expenses necessarily incurred in making the examination shall be paid by grantee.
(Ord. passed - -) Penalty, see § 10.99