Section 1066. City Record

a.  There  shall  be  published daily, except
  Saturdays,  Sundays  and  legal  holidays,  under  contract  or  by  the
  department  of  citywide administrative services, a paper to be known as
  the City Record.
    b. There shall be inserted in the City Record nothing aside from  such
  official matters as are expressly authorized.
    c.  All  advertising  required  to  be  done  for  the city, except as
  otherwise provided by law, shall be inserted at the  public  expense  in
  the City Record and a publication therein shall be sufficient compliance
  with any law requiring publication of such matters or notices.
    d. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the publication elsewhere of
  any advertisement required by law to be so published.
    e.  The commissioner of citywide administrative services shall cause a
  continuous series of the City Record to be bound as completed  quarterly
  and to be deposited with his or her certificate thereon in the office of
  the  city  register,  in the county clerk's office of each county and in
  the office of the city clerk; and copies of the contents of any part  of
  the  same, certified by such register, county clerk or city clerk, shall
  be received in judicial proceedings as prima facie evidence of the truth
  of the contents thereof.
    f. The commissioner of citywide administrative services shall  provide
  copies  of  each issue of the City Record to the municipal reference and
  research center where they shall be  available  without  charge  to  any
  member of the public requesting a copy on the publication date or within
  a  reasonable  period  of  time  thereafter,  to  be  determined  by the
  commissioner of records and information services. The commissioner shall
  also provide free subscriptions to  the  City  Record  to  each  borough
  president,  council  member,  community  board, and branch of the public
  library and  to  the  news  media  as  defined  in  paragraph  three  of
  subdivision  b  of  section one thousand forty-three of the charter. The
  commissioner  of  citywide   administrative   services,   each   borough
  president,  council member and community board shall, upon receipt, make
  copies of each issue of the City Record available  in  their  respective
  offices for reasonable public inspection without charge.