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CASS COUNTY COMMISSION POLICY MANUAL 14.09 SUBJECT: COUNTY FEES Page 2 of 4 9. Each county office shall remit all fees collected to the county treasurer, on a monthly basis, for credit to the county general fund. 10. Each county office shall keep a complete record of foes collected. Reference: NDCC 11-13-02.1 Duties of county official in rendering services to private individuals. firms, or corporations - Fees to be charged - Disposition of fees - Records to be kept "A county official is not required to compile statistical information for private individuals. firms. or corporations, other than that required of the county auditor by section (NDCC) 11- 13-15. A county official may compile statistical information for private individuals. firms. or corporations upon payment of a suitable charge which must be commensurate with costs to the county of providina the services. If the service takes more than an hour to provide, the board of county commissioners shall determine the fee. which mayor may not exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars per hour. excluding the initial hour, for time consumed in compilina the statistical information. The county official shall remit the fees each month to the county treasurer for credit to the county aeneral fund. The county official shall keep a complete record of fees collected under this section." NDCC 44-04-18 Access to public records - Electronically stored information "Upon request for a coPy of specific public records. any entity subiect to subsection 1 * shall furnish the requester one coPy of the public records requested. A request need not be made in person or in writing. and the COPy must be mailed upon request. A public entity may charae up to twenty-five cents per impression of a paper COPy. As used in this section. "paper coPy" means a one-sided or two-sided duplicated copy of a size not more than eight and one-half by fourteen inches r19.05 by 35.56 centimeters]. For any copy of a record that is not a paper coPy as defined in this section. the public entity may charge a reasonable fee for making the coPy. As used in this section. "reasonable fee" means the actual cost to the public entity of making the COPy. including labor. materials. and equipment. The entity may charge for the actual cost of postage to mail a COpy of a record. An entity may require payment before locating. redacting, making, or mailing the coPy. An entity may impose a fee not exceedina twenty-five dollars per hour per request, excluding the initial hour, for locating records if locating the records requires more than one hour. An entity may impose a fee not exceeding twenty-five dollars per hour per request, *subsection 1 (44-04-18.1) follows this section.