Wyoming § 5-7-103 - Filing, preserving and use of papers; electronic record retention permitted.

§ 5-7-103. Filing, preserving and use of papers; electronic record retention permitted.

The clerk shall file together and carefully preserve in his office, all papers delivered to him for that purpose in every action or proceeding. He shall not permit the papers to be taken from his office except to be used at a session of the court or upon legal process, and he shall be liable upon his official bond to the party suffering injury on account of any violation of this section. This section shall not apply to matters in probate. Upon the order of the judge of the district, the clerk may transmit by express or registered mail to an attorney of the state appearing in the action or proceeding, who resides in a different county or away from the county seat, such original files as are not represented by copies in the clerk's office, and the clerk shall take the attorney's receipt for each paper in each case. Nothing in this section shall limit or prohibit the clerk from scanning or digitizing papers, disposing of the originals in accordance with any rule or order issued by the supreme court and retaining the digitized or imaged records in a case management system in lieu of retaining the original papers in a physical file.