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City of Geneva City Clerk's Office
Clerk's News
The City Clerk’s Office along with the Comptroller’s and Assessor’s Offices have temporarily relocated to the second floor of the First Niagara Bank building. Please call ahead for directions.If you have an unlicensed dog or any wild animal, please contact the City Clerk’s Office about obtaining a license.
If you have questions or problems with a solicitor at your door, please contact the City Clerk’s Office during normal business hours or the police department after hours.
1st Floor, City Hall
Geneva, New York 14456
Phone:(315) 789-2603
Fax:(315) 789-0604
City Clerk/Registrar: Lori Guinan
Deputy City Clerk/Registrar: Mary Alice Wheeler
The City Clerk's office in conveniently located in downtown Geneva. Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday. For marriage licenses, please arrive by 4:00 p.m.
Two employees, the City Clerk and the Deputy City Clerk, staff the office. The Office issues several licenses (including dog licenses, marriage licenses, conservation licenses, bingo and games of chance licenses, taxi owner and operator licenses, coin amusement devices, refuse collectors, peddlers and autioneers), records the minutes of all City Council meetings, and records all vital statistics in the City (births, deaths and marriages). The City Clerk is also the RMO (Records Management Officer) and processes all Freedom of Information requests and claims for distribution to the proper departments. Cemetery records for both Washington and Glenwood Cemeteries are also recorded in the office. Staff is committed to supplying information, knowledge, reference and cooperation to the general public, all departments and elected officials.
Mission
The Geneva City Clerk's Office is committed to accepting the challenges of improving the quality of life in the City of Geneva by continuing to be adept at supplying information, knowledge, reference, and cooperation to the general public, all departments and elected officials. The office demands versatility, alertness, accuracy, and patience in its unending focus of problem-solving, communications, decision-making, always being cognizant of what is taking place at all levels of government and world affairs, and its unending desire to acquire the confidence of the citizens of the City of Geneva.