New York Preserving And Copying Records.




 
    §  7-620  Preserving  and  copying records. Whenever by reason of age,
  exposure or any casualty, any public records,  maps  or  papers  in  the
  custody  of the register shall become mutilated, obliterated or rendered
  unfit for public service, it shall be the duty of the register to  cause
  copies  thereof to be made and certified for public use, and such copies
  when so made shall for all purposes  take  the  place  of  the  original
  records.