yjnkdawg
02-06-2016, 01:41 PM
This is taken directly from the MS Public Records Act and off the Ethic's' Commission's Website. It used to be 14 day years ago. So 14 working days is the limit. period. It also tells how and when to file a complaint, if a person can't obtain the requested records. Somebody being out of the office is a joke and a stall mechanism.
"(b) If a public body is unable to produce a public record by the seventh working day after the request is made, the public body must provide a written explanation to the person making the request stating that the record requested will be produced and specifying with particularity why the records cannot be produced within the seven-day period. Unless there is mutual agreement of the parties, in no event shall the date for the public body's production of the requested records be any later than fourteen (14) working days from the receipt by the public body of the original request."
"(b) If a public body is unable to produce a public record by the seventh working day after the request is made, the public body must provide a written explanation to the person making the request stating that the record requested will be produced and specifying with particularity why the records cannot be produced within the seven-day period. Unless there is mutual agreement of the parties, in no event shall the date for the public body's production of the requested records be any later than fourteen (14) working days from the receipt by the public body of the original request."