Oklahoma § 67-317 - Definitions
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§ 67-317. Definitions
As used in this resolution unless the context otherwise
requires:
1. Secretary of the Archives and Records Commission means and
refers to that office created under the terms of Section 204 of this
title, and to the powers, privileges, and duties assigned that
office under such statutes.
2. The Archives and Records Commission means and refers to that
Commission created under the terms of Section 305 of this title, and
to the powers, privileges, and duties assigned such Commission under
such statutes.
3. The phrase "dead storage files" refers to and includes all
rooms, storehouses, warehouses, floor space, office space, files,
filing cabinets, vaults, and other places in which are stored, kept,
maintained, or otherwise held documents, papers, records, and
archives not in actual use which belong to, or are in the custody
of, any agency, authority, board, commission, department,
institution, instrumentality, office, officer, official, or society
of the State of Oklahoma. To be in actual usage such documents,
papers, records, and archives must be in continual demand for
immediate reference purposes, for actual use in the day-to-day work
required of any agency, authority, board, commission, department,
institution, instrumentality, office, officer, official, or society
of the State of Oklahoma in their principal offices or places of
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business. Any documents, papers, records, and archives not in such
continual usage are to be considered dead storage files.
Added by Laws 1953, H.J.R. No. 512, p. 517, § 5. Renumbered from
Title 74, § 576 by Laws 1989, c. 367, § 14, eff. Nov. 1, 1989.
Amended by Laws 2024, c. 17, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2024.
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