Code of Alabama - Title 41: State Government - Chapter 13 - Public Records

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 41-13-1 Public records defined
  As used in this article, the term "public records" shall include all written, typed or printed books, papers, letters, documents and maps made or received...
• Section 41-13-4 Assistance of public officials in preserving, filing, etc., of public records by Department of Archives and History
  The Department of Archives and History may examine into the condition of public records and shall at the request of the custodian thereof give advice...
• Section 41-13-5 Destruction, etc., of public records having no significance, importance or value
  Any public records, books, papers, newspapers, files, printed books, manuscripts, tapes or other public records which have no significance, importance or value may, upon the...
• Section 41-13-6 Use of Social Security numbers on documents available for public inspection
  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a state department, licensing or regulatory board, agency, or commission is prohibited from placing or otherwise revealing the...
• Section 41-13-7 Identifying information of state employees on records available for public inspection
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) EMPLOYEE. Any person who is regularly employed by the state...
• Article 2 State and Local Government Records Commissions.
• Section 41-13-20 State Records Commission created; composition; compensation; meetings
  There is hereby created a State Records Commission consisting of nine members as follows: The Director of the Department of Archives and History, who shall...
• Section 41-13-21 State Records Commission to make determination as to state records to be preserved or destroyed, etc., after or without microfilming; classification of records; state officers, etc., not to cause destruction, etc., of records without prior approval of commission; Supreme Court to determine disposition of court records
  The State Records Commission shall be charged with the responsibility of determining which state records shall be permanently preserved because of historical value, which state...
• Section 41-13-22 Local Government Records Commission created; composition; compensation; meetings
  There is hereby created a Local Government Records Commission consisting of 16 members as follows: The Director of the Department of Archives and History, who...
• Section 41-13-23 Local government commission to make determination as to county, municipal, etc., records to be preserved or destroyed, etc., after microfilming; classification of records; officials not to cause destruction, etc., of records without prior approval of commission
  The Local Government Records Commission shall be charged with the responsibility of determining which county, municipal, and other local government records shall be permanently preserved...
• Section 41-13-24 Conduct of surveys by State and Local Government Records Commissions authorized; issuance, etc., by commissions of regulations classifying public records, etc
  (a) Both the State Records Commission and the Local Government Records Commission are hereby empowered to conduct surveys of public records in carrying out the...
• Section 41-13-25 Payment of expenses of certain members of State and Local Government Records Commissions
  The expenses allowed by law for the county, municipal, and other local government officials who are members of the Local Government Records Commission shall be...
• Article 3 Photographing or Microphotographing of Records.
• Section 41-13-40 Photographing or microphotographing of records, books, files, etc.; admissibility in evidence, etc., of photographs, microfilms, etc
  The head of any office, court, commission, board, institution, department or agency of the state or of any political subdivision thereof may cause any record,...
• Section 41-13-41 Photographing or microphotographing of state records centralized in Department of Archives and History; charges for photographing or microphotographing
  The photographing or microphotographing of public records, except the public records of counties, municipalities and other political subdivisions of the State of Alabama, shall be...
• Section 41-13-42 Purchase or lease of photographic or microphotographic equipment and supplies by Department of Archives and History authorized; appropriation of funds therefor
  The Department of Archives and History is hereby authorized to purchase or lease photographic or microphotographic equipment and supplies necessary to carry out the duties...
• Section 41-13-43 Appropriation of funds by counties or municipalities for photographing or microphotographing of public records authorized
  The county commission of any county or municipality may appropriate an amount sufficient to cover the cost of photographing or microphotographing the public records belonging...
• Section 41-13-44 State and county officials, etc., not to destroy, etc., public records until microfilmed copies processed and checked for accuracy
  No state or county official or employee shall destroy, dispose of or cause to be destroyed or disposed of any public record that has been...

Last modified: May 3, 2021