5.06.100 CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS.

(a) Any affidavit, declaration, return, statement, and certificate, and any other documents required by this title to be filed, shall be deemed confidential in character and shall not be subject to public inspection, and shall be kept so that the contents thereof shall not become known except to the persons charged with the administration of this title. Any officer or employee of this city who wilfully violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor or infraction as charged pursuant to Chapter 1.04, and such violation shall be cause for discharge from the City's service.

(b) EXCEPTION. Persons charged with the administration of this title are authorized to allow inspection of affidavits, declarations, returns, statements, certificates, and any other documents required by this title to be filed by a business license tax consultant hired by a business association or hired by the City to assist in establishing a downtown benefit assessment district, provided, however, that said consultant is hired shall be required to keep confidential the contents of such affidavits, declarations, returns, statements, certificates and other documents. Allowance of such inspection shall not be a violation of subsection (a) hereof. It is unlawful for a consultant to provide the contents of any affidavits, declarations, returns, statements, certificates, or other documents obtained from city to any other person.