§ 2-73.2. Production of transcripts; fees.
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Any person may request the Township Clerk, or any Township custodian or person required by law, to transcribe any public meeting, any public hearing or other Township public event so recorded, or portion thereof, upon payment of a transcription fee to cover production of no less than an original and one copy of each transcript. The original transcript, and such additional copies ordered, shall be provided to the person requesting transcription, one copy to be retained by the Township or Township entity whose public meeting, hearing or event, or portion thereof, was transcribed.
b.The transcription fee shall be as charged by the transcribing company. A statement of account signed by the maker of the transcript, calculated in the manner aforesaid, shall be tendered at the time the transcript(s) is (are) completed and delivered.
c.Deposits; final payment.
1.The Township Clerk, custodian or person authorized or designated to make the transcript shall secure from the person making the transcript request a sum equal to the estimate of cost for completion. No transcript of any public meeting, hearing or other Township event, or portion thereof, shall be commenced unless such deposit is made.
2.Prior to delivery of any completed transcript, or copies thereof, the Township Clerk, custodian or person so authorized or designated to make the transcript shall first collect any balance of payment due. In the event that the initial deposit exceeds final transcript costs, the difference thereof shall be refunded to the party who tendered the deposit.
3.There shall be an additional charge of $5 for a Clerk's or custodian's certificate of certification.
d.If requested, the Township Clerk may at the Clerk's option, provide an audio tape of the meeting upon payment of a reasonable fee.