1. The Administrator shall, with due regard for the functions of the agencies concerned:
(a) Establish standards, procedures, and techniques for effective management of records;
(b) Make continuing surveys of records and information operations and recommend improvements in current records management practices including the use of space, equipment and supplies employed in creating, maintaining, storing and servicing records;
(c) Establish standards for the preparation of schedules providing for the retention of state records of continuing value and for the prompt and orderly disposal of state records no longer possessing sufficient administrative, legal or fiscal value to warrant their further keeping;
(d) Establish programs for the selection and preservation of essential records; and
(e) Obtain reports from agencies as are required for the administration of the program.
2. The Administrator may remove an essential record from its legally designated and customary location if a disaster has occurred or is imminent, make or cause to be made preservation duplicates, and designate as preservation duplicates existing copies of essential records.
Added by Laws 1961, p. 498, § 5, eff. Jan. 2, 1962. Amended by Laws 1989, c. 367, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 1989.