Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-155.7v1: County records - Photographing, digitizing,

photostating, reproducing on film or storing on optical disks.

A. County officers may have any or all records kept by any

county office photographed, digitized, photostated, reproduced on

film or stored on optical disk. Such film or reproducing material

shall be of durable material and the device used to reproduce such

records on film or other material shall be such as to accurately

reproduce and perpetuate the original records in all details.

B. The photostatic copy, photograph, digital copy, photographic

film or optical disk of the original records shall be deemed to be

an original record for all purposes, and shall be admissible in

evidence in all court or administrative agencies, or by the county

for accounts payable and inventory. A facsimile, exemplification or

certified copy thereof shall, for all purposes recited herein, be

deemed to be a transcript, exemplification or certified copy of the

original.

C. Whenever such reproduced records shall be placed in

conveniently accessible files and provisions made for preserving,

examining and using same, the county officer may certify those facts

to the board of county commissioners. All such records shall be

archived or disposed of according to the provisions of the Oklahoma

State Statutes and any other such restrictions as may be applicable.

D. The clerk of each county may elect to sign, accept, or

receive documents using a digital signature system.