N.Y. Labor Law § 35: Maintenance of records

§ 35. Maintenance of records. 1. The department is authorized and

empowered to use electronic storage technology to record and maintain

public records, papers, documents or matters required by law to be

recorded. Such records shall be capable of being copied, photographed,

or microphotographed by a process which accurately reproduces the

original thereof in all details.

2. The copies thereof shall be deemed to be an original record for all

purposes, including introduction in evidence in all courts or

administrative agencies. A transcript, exemplification or certified copy

thereof shall, for all purposes recited herein, be deemed to be a

transcript, exemplification, or certified copy of the original.

3. The department shall have the power to dispose of or destroy its

records, subject only to receiving the consent of the commissioner of

education as may be required by article fifty-seven of the arts and

cultural affairs law.