Sec. 188.22. Operation of archives facilities

(a) The director shall operate the State Archives facilities for the secure storage, preservation and research use of records deemed by the director to have sufficient administrative, legal, fiscal, educational, historical or other research value to warrant archival retention and administration.

(b) The director, in accepting records of an agency or a unit of the judiciary for preservation in an archives facility, assumes official legal and physical custody of the records, including responsibility for access to them; unless the director agrees in advance to preserve and administer records which may remain in the legal custody of an agency or a unit of the judiciary.

(c) After records are transferred to an archival facility, the director may destroy from among the archival records duplicate copies, nonrecord material, and any nonvaluable records that are so identified as the records are processed and preserved.