N.Y. Arts and Cultural Affairs Law § 57.19: Local government records management program

§ 57.19. Local government records management program. The governing

body, and the chief executive official where one exists, shall promote

and support a program for the orderly and efficient management of

records, including the identification and appropriate administration of

records with enduring value for historical or other research. Each

local government shall have one officer who is designated as records

management officer. This officer shall coordinate the development of and

oversee such program and shall coordinate legal disposition, including

destruction of obsolete records. In towns, the town clerk shall be the

records management officer. In fire districts, the district secretary

shall be the records management officer. In villages, the village clerk

shall be the records management officer. In other units of government,

except where the governing body shall have enacted a local law or

ordinance establishing a records management program and designating a

records management officer prior to the date that this article shall

take effect, the chief executive official shall designate a local

officer to be records management officer, subject to the approval of the

governing body.