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§ 67.901. General rule

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 65 P.S. Public OfficersEffective: January 1, 2009

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 65 P.S. Public Officers (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 3A. Right-to-Know Law (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 9. Agency Response
Effective: January 1, 2009
65 P.S. § 67.901
§ 67.901. General rule
Upon receipt of a written request for access to a record, an agency shall make a good faith effort to determine if the record requested is a public record, legislative record or financial record and whether the agency has possession, custody or control of the identified record, and to respond as promptly as possible under the circumstances existing at the time of the request. All applicable fees shall be paid in order to receive access to the record requested. The time for response shall not exceed five business days from the date the written request is received by the open-records officer for an agency. If the agency fails to send the response within five business days of receipt of the written request for access, the written request for access shall be deemed denied.

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2008, Feb. 14, P.L. 6, No. 3, § 901, effective Jan. 1, 2009.
65 P.S. § 67.901, PA ST 65 P.S. § 67.901
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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