Except where the context indicates otherwise, the terms used in this chapter are defined as follows:

    "Agency" means all parts, boards, departments, bureaus and commissions of the city.

    "Officer" means any elected or appointed official of the city.

    "Public record" means any book, paper, map, photograph or other official documentary material regardless of physical form or character, made, produced, executed or received by any agency or officer pursuant to law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by such agency or officer, or any successor thereof, as evidence of the organization, function, policies, decision, procedures or other activities thereof, or because of the informational data contained therein. "Public record" shall also mean any reports and records of the obligation, receipt and use of public funds of any agency of the city. (Prior code § 2-4-14.1)

2.58.010    Definitions.