Microfilm
and Electronic
Imaging Approval
The Law
Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S.) § 41-1348.
Production and reproduction by agencies of the state and political subdivisions; admissibility; violation; classification
- Each agency
of the state or any of its political subdivisions may implement
a program for the production or reproduction by photography or
other method of reproduction on film or electronic media of records
in its custody, whether obsolete or current, and classify, catalogue
and index such records for convenience reference. The agency prior
to the institution of any such program of production or reproduction,
shall obtain approval from the director (of the State Library,
Archives and Public Records) of the types of records to be produced
or reproduced and the methods of production, reproduction and
storage and the equipment which the agency proposes to use in
connection with the production, reproduction and storage.
- Except
as otherwise provided by law, records reproduced as provided in
subsection A of this section are admissible in evidence.
- The provisions
of this section shall not be applicable to permit destruction
of original affidavits of registration as that term is used in
§ 16-163.
- A
head of an agency of this state or a political subdivision of
this state who violates this section is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.
Request
for Imaging Utilization
(Download the Form)
Updated: 06/07/2006
