The administrator and every other custodian of public records shall carefully protect and preserve such records from deterioration, mutilation, loss or destruction and, whenever advisable, shall cause them to be properly repaired and renovated. All paper, ink and other materials used in public offices for the purposes of permanent records shall be of durable quality.
History: 1953 Comp., § 71-6-13, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 245, § 13.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For durability of county clerks' records, see 14-8-7 NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 66 Am. Jur. 2d Records and Recording Laws § 10.
76 C.J.S. Records § 30 et seq.