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-10- • licensed on-sale inEoxicating establishments and private clubs are the only authorized locations for operation of video games of chance. Violation of the law constitutes a misdemeanor and other state gambling laws apply as well. This law became effective May 3, 1984, but the Liquor Control Division is gearing up for July 1, 1984 licensing. GENERAL GOVERNMENT Cable commission membership Chapter 371 (S.F. 1475) allows a city council to be represented by a designee on a joint cable communication commission. Current law provides that. the city representative must be a council member. Effective Aug. 1, 1984. Duties and bonds of statutory city clerks Chapter 384 (H.F. 1503) provides that a statutory city council may by ordinance delegate all or part of the city clerk's bookkeeping duties to another officer or employee. The employee who the ordinance is makes responsible shall furnish a fidelity bond conditioned for the faithful exercise of his or her duties. The council may pay for the premium on the official bond from city funds. If the ordinance delegates bookkeeping ' functions of the clerk to the city treasurer, the council shall provide for an annual audit of the city's financial affairs. A copy of the ordinance must go to the state auditor. The act also clarifies the ability of statutory cities to buy blanket-position fidelity bonds, as well as individual bonds. Effective April 17, 1984. • Data Practices amendments Chapter 436 (S.F. 989) amends the data practices law by: defining "not public data" as government data which statute, federal law, or temporary classification classifies as confidential, private, nonpublic, or protected nonpublic; allowing responsible authorities to charge a reasonable fee in addition to the costs of making', certifying, and compiling copies of governmental data that has commercial value and is an entire formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, process, data base, or system that required a significant expenditure of public funds. The responsible authority must provide sufficient documentation to explain and justify the fee; ' requiring, upon the request of any person denied access to data, the responsible authorities or designees to certify in writing that they denied the request and cite the specific statutory section, temporary classification, or specific provision of federal law which was the basis for denial; treating both private and confidential data as private data; clarifying the authority of government subdivisions to acquire z copyrights or patents for computer software programs or components of programs and treating such data as trade secret information; setting the expiration date of temporary classifications as 10 days . after the end of the second complete regular legislative session that follows the commissioner's granting of the temporary classification; classifying as nonpublic data the number of sealed bids a government agency has received; • prohibiting the release of payroll time sheets or other, comparable data if release of time 'sheet data would reveal the employee'.s reasons for the use of sick or other medical leave or other not public data; 1