Section 4500.20  Definitions

a)         "Agency" means any court, and all parts, boards, departments, bureaus and commissions, municipal corporation or political subdivisions within Cook County.  (Ill. Rev. Stat., 1985, ch. 116, par. 43.103.)

b)         "Public Record" means any book, paper, map, photograph or other official documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, 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, decisions, procedures, or other activities thereof, or because of the informational date contained therein.  This includes, among other things, microfilm, magnetic tapes and punch cards.  (Ill. Rev. Stat., 1985, ch. 116, par. 43.103.)

c)         Types of "non-record" materials include but are not limited to the following:

1)         Library and museum material made or acquired and preserved solely for reference or exhibition purposes.

2)         Extra copies of documents preserved solely for convenience of reference.

3)         Stocks of publications and of processed documents.  (Ill. Rev. Stat., 1985, ch. 116, par. 43.103.)