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5-15-6-1.6. “Records Management”

Sec. 1.6. As used in this chapter, “records management” means a program to apply management techniques to the purchase, creation, utilization, maintenance, retention, preservation, and disposal of records undertaken to improve efficiency and reduce costs of record keeping, including management of the following: (1) Filing and microfilming equipment and supplies. (2) Filing and information retrieval […]

5-15-5.1-13. Confidential Records; Destruction

Sec. 13. Records designated as confidential by law shall be so treated by the administration in the maintenance, storage, transfer, or other disposition of those records. Confidential records scheduled for destruction shall be destroyed in such a manner that they cannot be read, interpreted, or reconstructed. As added by Acts 1979, P.L.40, SEC.1. Amended by […]

5-15-5.1-15. Public Official’s Delivery of Records to Successor; Deposit of Records With Archives and Records Administration Upon Termination of State Agency or Local Government

Sec. 15. (a) A public official who has the custody of any records, excluding personal records, shall at the expiration of the public official’s term of office or appointment, deliver to the public official’s successor, or to the administration if there is no successor, all materials defined as records by this chapter. (b) Upon the […]

5-15-5.1-17. State or Local Government Official’s Delivery of Books, Records, and Other Materials to Archives and Records Administration; Copying

Sec. 17. (a) A state or local government official may turn over to the administration, in accordance with the rules of the administration for permanent preservation, any official books, records, documents, original papers, newspaper files, or printed books or materials not in current use in the official’s office. (b) Subject to subsection (c), the administration […]

5-15-5.1-4. Director; Qualifications; Staff; Salaries

Sec. 4. (a) The governor shall appoint a director as the executive head of the administration. The director must be versed in the principles of information and forms management, archives, and the affairs and organization of state government. It is the intent of the general assembly that the director be a person who is qualified […]

5-15-5.1-18. Oversight Committee; Composition; Secretary; Compensation and Expenses

Sec. 18. (a) The oversight committee on public records consists ex officio of: (1) the governor or the governor’s designee; (2) the secretary of state or the secretary’s designee; (3) the state examiner of the state board of accounts or the state examiner’s designee; (4) the director of the state library; (5) the director of […]

5-15-5.1-5. Duties and Powers of the Archives and Records Administration

Sec. 5. (a) Subject to approval by the oversight committee on public records created by section 18 of this chapter, the administration shall do the following: (1) Establish a forms management program for state government and approve the design, typography, format, logo, data sequence, form analysis, form number, and agency file specifications of each form. […]

5-15-5.1-19. Duties of Oversight Committee

Sec. 19. (a) It is the duty of the oversight committee to: (1) function as the policy making body for the administration; and (2) determine what records have no apparent official value but should be preserved for research or other purposes. (b) The oversight committee shall maintain a master list of all record series that […]