2014 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 9 - ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER 2 - AGENCIES, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND DEPARTMENTSGENERALLY
ARTICLE 4 - STATE ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT
9-2-406. Director; management of public records.

9-2-406. Director; management of public records.

(a) The director shall properly manage and safely keep all public records in his custody, and administer the state archives. He shall:

(i) Manage the archives of the state;

(ii) Centralize the archives of the state to make them available for reference and scholarship and to insure their proper preservation;

(iii) Inspect, inventory, catalog and arrange retention and transfer schedules on all record files of all state departments and other agencies of state government;

(iv) Maintain and secure all state public records and establish safeguards against unauthorized removal or destruction;

(v) Establish and operate state record centers for preserving, servicing, screening and protecting all state public records which must be preserved temporarily or permanently, but which need not be retained in office space and equipment;

(vi) Gather and disseminate to interested agencies information on all phases of records management and current practices, methods, procedures and devices for efficient and economical management of records;

(vii) Establish and operate a central microfilm division in which all memoranda, writing, entry, print, representation or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, may be microfilmed. The division shall microfilm public records approved for filming by the head of the office of origin and by the director, and shall establish standards for microfilming. All state departments, agencies and subdivisions of the state government and all counties, municipalities and political subdivisions thereof shall consult with the director prior to microfilming within the departments, agencies or political subdivisions and shall comply with the standards for all microfilming established by the central microfilm division. The central microfilm division may microfilm records which are required to be kept a specified length of time or permanently, or to be destroyed by specific methods or under specific supervision. When records are microfilmed, the microfilm may be substituted for the original documents and retained in lieu of the original documents and the original documents may be destroyed;

(viii) Maintain necessary facilities for the review of records approved for destruction and their economical disposition by sale, shredding or burning, and supervise the destruction of public records.