N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 143: Maintenance of records

§ 143. Maintenance of records. 1. The board is authorized and

empowered to use electronic means in accordance with section three

hundred five of the state technology law 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 board shall have the power to authorize the destruction, sale

to a historical, educational, or scientific organization or to otherwise

dispose of 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.