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To amend City Code ? 2-1351, concerning definitions related to open data and a transparency program, and to amend ch. 2, art. VII, div. 4 of the City Code by adding therein a new section 2-1361, concerning a Freedom of Information Act request library, for the purpose of establishing an online Freedom of Information Act library.
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THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:
? 1. That section 2-1351 of the Code of the City of Richmond (2020) be and is hereby amended and reordained as follows:
Sec. 2-1351. Definitions.
For the purposes of this division, the words or terms used in this division shall be interpreted as set forth in this section, except where the context clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended:
Agency means a board, commission, department, office, or like organizational unit of the City.
Agency head means the highest ranking appointed, elected, or designated authority for an agency.
Data means factual, geospatial, narrative, qualitative, quantitative, statistical, tabular, or textual information, and datasets that are maintained or created by or on behalf of the City.
Dataset means a named collection containing related data, including metadata, formatted or organized in a prescribed or specific manner, such as in tabular form.
Freedom of Information Act Request Library means a publicly available webpage to publish public records requests, provided documentation, and associated costs.
FOIA manager means the Chief Administrative Officer or the designee thereof.
Legal encumbrance means a restriction on the use of data deriving from intellectual property rights under Federal or State law or from a contract to which the City is a party.
Machine-readable means any widely accepted, nonproprietary, platform-independent method for formatting data that permits automated processing of such data and facilitates search capabilities.
Open data means data that is made available to t...
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