Nebraska State Laws on Optical Images
§ 27-101. Rule 101. Scope
These rules govern proceedings in the courts of the State of Nebraska, to the extent and with the exceptions stated in § 27-1101.
§ 27-801. Rule 801. Definitions.
The following definitions apply under this Article:
(a) Statement. A "statement" is (1) an oral or written assertion or (2) nonverbal conduct of a person, if it is intended by the person as an assertion.
(b) Declarant. A "declarant" is a person who makes a statement.
(c) Hearsay. "Hearsay" is a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.
(d) Statements which are not hearsay. A statement is not hearsay if:
(1) Prior statement by witness. The declarant testifies at the trial or hearing and is subject to cross-examination concerning the statement. and the statement is (A) inconsistent with declarant's testimony. or (B) consistent with the declarant's testimony and is offered to rebut an express or implied charge against the declarant of subsequent fabrication, improper influence or motive, or (C) one of identification of a person made after perceiving the person: Or
(2) Admission by party-opponent. The statement is offered against a party and is (A) the party's own statement, in either an individual or a representative capacity, of (B) a statement of which he has manifested his adoption or belief in its truth, or (C) a statement by a person authorized by the party to make a statement concerning the subject, or (D) a statement by the party's agent or servant concerning a matter within the scope of his agency or employment, made during the existence of the relationship, or (E) a statement by a co-conspirator of a party during the course and in furtherance of the conspiracy.
§ 27403. Rule 803. Hearsay Exceptions; Availability of Declarant Immaterial
Subject to the provisions of § 27403, the following are not excluded by the hearsay rule, even though the declarant is available as a witness:
(5) A memorandum, report, record or data compilation, in any form, of acts, events or conditions, other than opinions or diagnoses, made at or near the time of such acts, events or conditions, in the course of a regularly conducted activity, if it was the regular course of such activity to make such memorandum, report, record, or data compilation at the time of such act, event, or condition, or within a reasonable time thereafter, as shown by the testimony of the custodian or other qualified witness unless the source of information or method or circumstances of preparation indicate lack of trustworthiness. The circumstance of the making of such memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, including lack of personal knowledge by the entrant or maker, may be shown to affect its weight;
(6) Evidence that a matter is not included in the memoranda, reports, records, or data compilations, in any form, kept in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (5) of this section to prove the nonoccurrence or nonexistence of the matter, if the matter was of the kind of which a memorandum, report, record, or data compilation was regularly made and preserved, unless the sources of information or other circumstances indicate a lack of trustworthiness;
(7) Upon reasonable notice to the opposing party prior to trial, records, reports, statements or data compilations made by a public official or agency of facts required to be observed and recorded pursuant to a duty imposed by law, unless the sources of information or the method or circumstances of the investigation are shown by the opposing party to indicate a lack of trustworthiness; g
(8) Records or data compilations, in any form, of births, fetal deaths, deaths, or marriages, if the report thereof was made to a public office pursuant to requirements of law;
(9) To prove the absence of a record, report, statement, or data compilation, in any form, or the nonoccurrence or nonexistence of a matter of which a record, report, statement, or data compilation, in any form, was regularly made and preserved by a public office or agency, evidence in the form of a certification in accordance with § 27-902. or testimony. that diligent search failed to disclose the record, report. statement or data compilation, or entry;
(10) Statements of births. marriages, divorces, deaths, legitimacy. ancestry, relationship by blood or marriage, or other similar facts of personal or family history, contained in a regularly kept record of a religious organization;
(11) Statements of fact contained in a certificate that the maker performed a marriage or other ceremony or administered a sacrament made by a clergyman, public official, or other person authorized by the rules or practices of a religious organization or by law to perform the act certified, and purporting to have been issued at the time of the act or within a reasonable time thereafter;
(12) Statements of births, marriages, divorces, deaths, legitimacy, ancestry, relationship by blood or marriage or other similar facts of personal or family history contained in family Bibles, genealogies, charts, engravings on rings, inscriptions on family portraits, engravings on urns. crypts, or tombstones or the like;
(13) The record of a document purporting to establish or affect an interest in property, as proof of the content of the original recorded document and its execution and delivery by each person by whom it purports to have been executed, if the record is a record of a public office and an applicable statute authorized the recording of documents of that kind in that office;
(14) A statement contained in a document purporting to establish or affect an interest in property if the matter stated was relevant to the purpose of the document, unless dealings with the property since the document was made have been inconsistent with the truth of the statement or the purport of the document;
(15) Statements in a document in existence thirty years or more whose authenticity is established;
(16) Market quotations. tabulations, lists, directories, or other published compilations, generally used and relied upon by the public or by persons in particular occupations;
(17) Reputation among members of his family by blood, adoption, or marriage. or among his associates, or in the community, concerning a person's birth, adoption, marriage, divorce, death, legitimacy, relationship by blood, adoption, or marriage, ancestry, or other similar fact of his personal or family history;
(18) Reputation in a community, arising before the controversy, as to boundaries of or customs affecting lands in the community, and reputation as to events of general history important to the community or state or nation in which located;
(22) A statement not specifically covered by any of the foregoing exceptions, but having equivalent circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness, if the court determines that (a) the statement is offered as evidence of a material fact, (b) the statement is more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence which the proponent can procure through reasonable efforts, and. (c) the general purposes of these rules and the interests of justice will best be served by admission of the statement into evidence. A statement may not be admitted under this exception unless the proponent of it makes known to the adverse party, sufficiently in advance of the trial or hearing to provide the adverse party with a fair opportunity to prepare to meet it, his intention to offer the statement and the particulars of it, including the name and address of the declarant.
§ 27-804. Rule 804. Hearsay Exceptions; Enumerated; Declarant Unavailable; Unavailability, Defined
(e) A statement not specifically covered by any of the foregoing exceptions but having equivalent circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness. if the court determines that (i) the statement is offered as evidence of a material fact, (ii) the statement is more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence which the proponent can procure through reasonable efforts, and (iii) the general purposes of these rules and the interests of justice will best be served by admission of the statement into evidence. A statement may not be admitted under this exception unless the proponent of it makes known to the adverse party, sufficiently in advance of the trial or hearing to provide the adverse party with a fair opportunity to prepare to meet it, the proponent's intention to offer the statement and the particulars of it, including the name and address of the declarant.
§ 27-901. Rule 901. Requirement of Authentication or Identification; General Provision; Illustrations and Examples; Enumerated
(1) The requirement of authentication or identification as a condition precedent to admissibility is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.
(2) By way of illustration only, and not by way of limitation, the following are examples of authentication or identification conforming with the requirements of this rule:
(a) Testimony that a matter is what it is claimed to be;
(g) Evidence that a writing authorized by law to be recorded or filed and is in fact recorded or filed in a public office, or a purported public record, report, statement, or data compilation, in any form, is from the public office where items of this nature are kept;
(h) Evidence that a document or data compilation, in any form, (i) is in such condition as to create no suspicion concerning its authenticity, (ii) was in a place where it, if authentic, would likely be, and (iii) has been in existence thirty years or more at the time it is offered;
(i) Evidence describing a process or system used to produce a result and showing that the process or system produces an accurate result: and
0) Any method of authentication or identification provided by act of the Legislature or by other rules adopted by the Supreme Court which are not in conflict with laws governing such matters.
§ 27-902. Rule 902. SeIf-Authentication When Extrinsic evidence of authenticity as a condition precedent to admissibility is not required with respect to the following:
(1) A document bearing a seal purporting to be that of the United States. or of any state, district, Commonwealth, territory, or insular possession thereof. or the Panama Canal Zone, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or of a political subdivision, department. officer, or agency thereof, and a signature purporting to be an attestation or execution;
(2) A document purporting to bear the signature in his official capacity of an officer or employee of any entity included in subdivision (I) of this section, having no seal, if a public officer having a seal and having official duties in the district or political subdivision of the officer or employee certifies under seal that the signer has the official capacity and that the signature is genuine;
(3) A document purporting to be executed or attested in his official capacity by a person authorized by the laws of a foreign country to make the execution or attestation, and accompanied by a final certification as to the genuineness of the signature and official position (a) of the executing or attesting person, or (b) of any foreign official whose certificate of genuineness of signature and official position relates to the execution or attestation or is in a chain of certificates of genuineness of signature and official position relating to the execution or attestation. A final certification may be made by a secretary of embassy or legation, consul general, consul, vice consul, or consular agent of the United States, or a diplomatic or consular official of the foreign country assigned or accredited to the United States. If reasonable opportunity has been given to all parties to investigate the authenticity and accuracy of official documents, the court may, for good cause shown, order that they be treated as presumptively authentic without final certification or permit them to be evidenced by an attested summary with or without final certification;
(4) A copy of an official record or report or entry therein, or of a document authorized by law to be recorded or filed and actually recorded or filed in a public office, including data compilations in any form, certified as correct by the custodian or other person authorized to make the certification, by certificate complying with subdivision (1), (2). or (3) of this section or complying with any Act of Congress or the Legislature or rule adopted by the Supreme Court of Nebraska which are not in conflict with laws governing such matters;
(5) Books, pamphlets, or other publications purporting to be issued by public authority;
(6) Printed materials purporting to be newspapers or periodicals;
(8) Documents accompanied by a certificate of acknowledgement executed in the manner provided by law by a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgements;
(9) Commercial paper, signatures thereon, and documents relating thereto to the extent provided by general commercial law; or
(10) Any signature, document, or other matter declared by Act of Congress and the laws of the State of Nebraska to be presumptively or prima facie genuine or authentic.
§ 27-1001. Rule 1001. Definitions; Writings and Recordings, Photographs, Original and Duplicate
For purposes of this article the following definitions are applicable:
(1) Writings and recordings consist of letters, words, or numbers, or their equivalent, set down by handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, magnetic impulse, mechanical or electronic recording, or other form of data compilation;
(2) Photographs include still photographs, X-ray films, video tapes, and motion pictures;
(3) An original of a writing or recording is the writing or recording itself or any counterpart intended to have the same effect by a person executing or issuing it An original of a photograph includes the negative or any print therefrom. If data are stored in a computer or similar device, any printout or other output readable by sight, shown to reflect the data accurately, is an original; and
(4) A duplicate is a counterpart produced by the same impression as the original, or from the same matrix, or by means of photography, including enlargements and miniatures, or by mechanical or electronic rerecording, or by chemical reproduction, or by other equivalent techniques which accurately reproduce the original.
§ 27-1002. Rule 1002. Requirement of Original
To prove the content of a writing, recording, or photograph, the original writing, recording, or photograph is required, except as otherwise provided in these rules or by Act of Congress or of the Legislature of the State of Nebraska or by other rules adopted by the Supreme Court of Nebraska.
§ 27-1003. Admissibility of Duplicate
A duplicate is admissible to the same extent as an original unless (1) a genuine question is raised as to the authenticity of the original or (2) in the circumstances it would be unfair to admit the duplicate in lieu of the original.
§ 27-1004. Rule 1004. Admissibility of Other Evidence of Contents; When
The original is not required. and other evidence of the contents of a writing, recording, or photograph is admissible if:
(1) All originals are lost or have been destroyed, unless the proponent lost or destroyed them in bad faith; or
(2) No original can be obtained by an" available judicial process or procedure; or
(3) At a time when an original was under the control of the party against whom offered. he was put on notice, by the pleadings or otherwise, that the contents would be a subject of proof at the hearing, and he does not produce the original at the hearing; or
(4) The writing, recording. or photograph is not closely related to a controlling issue.
§ 27-1005. Rule 1005. Public Records
The contents of an official record. or of a document authorized to be recorded or filed and actually recorded or filed, including data compilations in any form. if otherwise admissible. may be proved by copy, certified as correct in accordance with ~ 27-902 or testified to be correct by a witness who has compared it with the original. If a copy which complies with the foregoing cannot be obtained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, then other evidence of the contents may be given.
§ 27-1006. Rule 1006. Voluminous Writings, Recordings, or Photographs; Summaries
The contents of voluminous writings, recordings, or photographs which cannot conveniently be examined in court may be presented in the form of a chart, summary, or calculation. The originals, or duplicates, shall be made available for examination or copying, or both, by other parties at a reasonable time and place. The judge may order that they be produced in court.
§ 27-1007. Rule 1007. Testimony or Written Admission of Party
Contents of writings, recordings, or photographs may be proved by the testimony or deposition of the party against whom offered or by his written admission, without accounting for the nonproduction of the original.
§ 25-12.112. Admissibility of Reproduced Records in Evidence; Destruction of Records; Approval
If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling, or department or agency of government in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation, or combination thereof of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of the same to be recorded, copied, or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, optical imagery, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business unless held in a custodial or fiduciary capacity or unless its preservation is required by law and, with respect to agencies or departments of government, if the State Records Administrator approves such destruction. Such reproduction, when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under direction of the court. The introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement, or facsimile does not preclude admission of the original.
§ 44-1947. Policy; Reasonable Examination Required
No title insurance policy shall be written unless and until the title insurer has caused to be conducted a reasonable examination of the title and has caused to be made a determination of insurability of title in accordance with sound underwriting practices for title insurers. Evidence thereof shall be preserved and retained in the files of the title insurer or its title insurance agent for a period of not less than fifteen years after the title insurance policy has been issued. In lieu of retaining the original copy, the title insurer or the title insurance agent may in the regular course of business establish a system whereby all or part of these writings are recorded. copied, or reproduced by any photographic. photostatic. microfilm. microcard. miniature photographic, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for reproducing the original. This section shall not apply to (I) an insurer assuming no primary liability in a contract of reinsurance or (2) an insurer acting as a coinsurer if one of the other coinsuring insurers has complied with this section.
§ 44-1905. Transferred to § 44-1947
§ 23-1517.01. Records; Microfilm; Requirements
The recording of all instruments by the roll form of microfilm may be substituted for the method of recording instruments in books, and the filing of all documents by the roll form of microfilm may be substituted for the method of filing original documents. If this method of recording instruments on microfilm or filing documents on microfilm is used, the original Instruments so recorded and the original documents so filed need not be retained after the microfilm has been verified for accuracy and quality, and a security copy on silver negative microfilm in roll form must be maintained and filed off premises under safe conditions to insure the protection of the records and shall meet the microfilm standards as prescribed by the State Records Administrator as provided in §§ 84-1201 to 84-1220. The fee books shall provide the proper index information as to the microfilm roll and numerical sequence of all such recorded instruments and of all such filed documents. The internal reference copies or work copies of the instruments recorded on microfilm and of documents filed on microfilm may be in any photographic form to provide the necessary information as may be determined by the official in charge.
§ 25-1281. Official Records; Photographic Copies; Admissibility; Destruction of Original Records
In all cases in which any instrument or document is required by law to be copied or recorded in any public record in any public office within the State of Nebraska, the officials having charge of the making of such records may employ the use of photographic processes for the reproduction of such instrument or document. This shall be done for the public records and shall be a true copy of the original instrument or document to be so recorded, and may likewise use any such photographic process for the making of certified copies of such public records: Provided, no such photographic processes shall be used for the making of permanent records until it shall have been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the officials having charge of such records and the State Records Administrator, that the processes to be used will produce an accurate and permanent record of the instrument or document to be recorded. Any such existing records when reproduced by such photographic processes may be destroyed by the official having charge of the same when approval is given by the State Records Administrator.
§ 25-2209. Clerk of District Court; Required Records Enumerated; Compilation and Filing; Methods
Authorized
The clerk of the district court shall keep records to be called the appearance docket, the trial docket, the journal, the complete record, the execution docket, the fee book, the general index, and the judgment record. Such records may be compiled, filed, and maintained on a computer system. Effective not later than October 1, 1992. provision for dockets and records of the district courts shall be established by rule of the Supreme Court. The journal and complete record may be compiled and filed on microfilm. The recording of all instruments by the roll form of microfilm may be substituted for the method of recording instruments in books. If this method of recording instruments on microfilm is used, a security copy on silver negative microfilm in roll form must be maintained and filed off premises under safe conditions to insure the protection of the records. The internal reference copies or work copies of the instruments recorded on microfilm ma" be in any photographic form to provide the necessary information as may be determined by the official in charge. and shall meet the microfilm standards as prescribed by the State Records Administrator.
§ 841201. Legislative Intent
The Legislature declares:
(1) That programs for the systematic and centrally correlated management of state and local records will promote efficiency and economy in the day-to-day record-keeping activities of state and local governments, and will facilitate and expedite governmental operations.
(2) That records containing information essential to the operations of government, and to the protection of the rights and interests of persons, must be safeguarded against the destructive effects of all forms of disaster and must be available as needed; wherefore it is necessary to adopt special provisions for the selection and preservation of essential state and local records, thereby insuring the protection and availability of such information.
§ 84-1202. Terms, Defined
For purposes of the Records Management Act, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Agency shall mean any department, division, office, commission, court, board, or elected, appointed, or constitutional officer, except individual members of the Legislature, or any other unit or body, however designated, of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of state government or of the government of any local political subdivision;
(2) Agency head shall mean the chief or principal official or representative in any such agency or the presiding judge of any court, by whatever title known. When an agency consists of a single official, the agency and the agency head shall be one and the same;
(3) State agency shall mean an agency of the state government;
(4) Local agency shall mean an agency of a local political subdivision, including any entity created by local public agencies pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act;
(5) Local political subdivision shall mean any county, city, village, township, district, authority, or other public corporation or political entity, whether existing under charter or general law, including any entity created by local public agencies pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act. Local political subdivision shall not include a city of the metropolitan class or a district or other unit which by law is considered an integral part of state government;
(6) Record shall mean any book, document, paper, photograph, microfilm, sound recording, magnetic storage medium, optical storage medium or other material regardless of physical form or characteristics created or received pursuant to law, charter, or ordinance or in connection with any other activity relating to or having an effect upon the transaction of public business;
(7) State record shall mean a record which normally is maintained within the custody or control of a state agency or any other record which is designated or treated as a state record according to general law;
(8) Local record shall mean a record of a local political subdivision or of any agency thereof unless designated or treated as a state record under general law;
(9) Essential record shall mean a state or local record which is within one or the other of the following categories and which shall be preserved pursuant to the act:
(a) Category A. Records containing information necessary to the operations of government under all conditions, including a period of emergency created by a disaster; or
(b) Category B. Records not within Category A but which contain information necessary to protect the rights and interests of persons or to establish or affirm the powers and duties of state or local governments in the resumption of operations after a disaster:
(10) Preservation duplicate shall mean a copy of an essential record which is used for the purpose of preserving the record pursuant to the act: and
(11) Disaster shall mean any occurrence of fire, flood, storm, earthquake, explosion, epidemic. riot, sabotage, or other conditions of extreme peril resulting in substantial injury or damage to persons or property within this state, whether such occurrence is caused by an act of nature or of man, including an enemy of the United States.
§ 84-1203. Secretary of State; State Records Administrator; Duties
The Secretary of State is hereby designated the State Records Administrator, hereinafter called the administrator. The administrator shall establish and administer, within and for state and local agencies, (I) a records management program which will apply efficient and economical methods to the creation, utilization, maintenance, retention, preservation. and disposal of state and local records. (2) a program for the selection and preservation of essential state and local records, (3) establish and maintain a depository for the storage and service of state records, and advise, assist, and govern by rules and regulations the establishment of similar programs in local political subdivisions in the state, and (4) establish and maintain a central microfilm agency for state records and advise, assist and govern by rules and regulations the establishment of similar programs in state agencies and local political subdivisions in the State of Nebraska
§ 84-1204. State Records Board; Established; Members; Duties; Meetings
A State Records Board, hereinafter called the board, is hereby established to advise and assist the administrator in the performance of the duties enjoined upon him or her by the Records Management Act and to perform such other functions and duties as the act requires. In addition to the administrator, the board shall consist of the Governor, the Attorney General, the Auditor of Public Accounts, the Chief Justice, the Clerk of the Legislature, the Director of Administrative Services, the Director of the Nebraska State Historical Society, the State Archivist, and the director of the records management program, who shall be appointed by the administrator with the approval of the board, or their personally designated representatives. The administrator or his or her representative shall be chairperson of the board, and the director of the records management program shall be its secretary. Upon call by the administrator, the board shall convene periodically in accordance with its rules and regulations or upon call by the administrator or his or her personally designated representative.
§ 841205. Repealed
§ 84-1206. Administrator; Duties; Powers
(1) With due regard for the functions of the agencies concerned, and with such guidance and assistance from the board as may be required, the administrator shall:
(a) Establish standards, procedures, and techniques for the effective management of public records;
(b) Make continuing surveys of paperwork operations. and recommend improvements in current records management practices, including but not limited to the economical use of space, equipment, and supplies employed in creating, maintaining, storing, preserving, and servicing records;
(c) Establish standards for the preparation of schedules providing for the retention of records of continuing value, and for the prompt and orderly disposal of records no longer possessing sufficient administrative, legal, historical, or fiscal value to warrant their further retention; and
(d) Obtain from the agencies concerned such reports and other data as are required for the proper administration of the records management program including organizational charts of agencies concerned.
(2) The administrator shall establish standards for designating essential records, shall assist agencies in identifying essential records, and shall guide them in the establishment of programs for the preservation of essential records.
(3) The administrator may advise and assist members of the Legislature and other officials in the maintenance and disposition of their personal or political papers of public interest and may provide such other services as are available to state and local agencies, within the limitation of available funds.
§ 84-1207. State Executive Head; Duties
In accordance with general law, and with such rules and regulations as shall be promulgated by the administrator and the board as provided in § 84-12 16, such head of any state agency, department, board, council, legislative or judicial branch, and political subdivision shall:
(1) Establish and maintain an active, continuing program for the efficient and economical management of the record-keeping activities of the agency;
(2) Make and maintain records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency, designed to furnish information to protect the legal and financial rights of the state, and of persons directly affected by the agency's activities;
(3) Make, and submit to the administrator, schedules proposing the length of time each record series warrants retention for administrative, legal, historical or fiscal purposes, after it has been made in or received by the agency, and lists of records in the custody or under the control of the agency which are not needed in the transaction of current business, and do not possess sufficient administrative, legal, historical or fiscal value to warrant their further retention:
(4) Inventory the records in the custody or under the control of the agency. and submit to the administrator a report thereon, containing such data as the administrator shall prescribe, and including his recommendations as to which if any such records should be determined to be essential records. He shall review his inventory and report periodically and, as necessary, shall revise his report so that it is current, accurate and complete; and
(5) Comply with the rules, regulations, standards and procedures issued and set up by the administrator and the board, and cooperate in the conduct of surveys made by the administrator pursuant to §§ 84-1201 to 84-1226.
§ 84-1207.01. Agency Head; Designate Records Officer; Duties
In addition to the duties enumerated in ~ 84-1207, each state agency head shall designate a records officer from the management or professional level who shall be responsible for the overall coordination of records management activities within the agency.
§ 84-1208. Administrator; Preservation Duplicates of Essential Records; Process Used; Exception
(1) The administrator may make or cause to be made preservation duplicates of essential records or may designate as preservation duplicates existing copies thereof. A preservation duplicate shall be durable, accurate, complete. and clear and, if made by means of photography, microphotography, photocopying, film, microfilm, optical imagery, or similar processes, shall be prepared in conformity to standards prescribed and approved by the board.
(2) A preservation duplicate made by a photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, optical imagery, or similar process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original shall have the same force and effect for all purposes as the original record, whether the original is in existence or not. A transcript, exemplification, or certified copy of such preservation duplicate shall for all purposes be deemed a transcript, exemplification, or certified copy of the original record.
(3) No copy of an essential record shall be used as a preservation duplicate unless, under the general laws of the state, the copy has the same force and effect for all purposes as the original record.
§ 84-1209. Administrator; Storage of Records and Preservation Duplicates; Charges
The administrator may establish storage facilities for essential records, preservation duplicates and other state records and may provide for a system of charges to allocate the cost of providing such storage among the agencies and departments utilizing the storage services. The system of charges shall, as nearly as may be practical, cover the actual costs of operating the storage facilities.
§ 841210. Administrator; Records; Maintain; Temporary Removal; Inspection; Copies Certified
(1) The administrator shall properly maintain essential records and preservation duplicates stored by him.
(2) An essential record or preservation duplicate stored by the administrator may be removed by the regularly designated custodian for temporary use when necessary for the proper conduct of his office, and shall be returned to the administrator immediately after such use.
(3) When an essential record is stored by him, the administrator, upon the request of the regularly designated custodian thereof, shall provide for its inspection or for the making or certification of copies thereof, and such copies, when certified by the administrator, shall have the same force and effect for all purposes as if certified by the regularly designated custodian.
§ 841211. Records; Confidential; Protection
(1) When an essential record is required by law to be treated in a confidential manner, the administrator, in effectuating the purposes of §§ 841201 to 84-1226, shall protect its confidential nature, as well as that of any preservation duplicate or other copy thereof. Any hospital or medical record submitted to the administrator for microfilming or similar processing shall be made accessible in a manner consistent with the access permitted similar records under § 83-109 and § 83-1068.
(2) Nothing in the Records Management Act shall be construed to affect the laws and regulations dealing with the dissemination, security, and privacy of criminal history information under Chapter 29, article 35.
§ 84-1212. Program for Selection and Preservation of Essential Records; Review Periodically
The administrator shall review periodically, and at least once each year, the program for the selection and preservation of essential records, including the classification thereof and the provisions for preservation duplicates and for the safeguarding of essential records and preservation duplicates to insure that the purposes of §§ 84-1201 to 84-1226 are accomplished.
§ 84-1213. Records; Property of Government; Protected; Willfully Mutilate, Destroy, Transfer, Remove, Damage, or Otherwise Dispose of; Violation; Penalty
All records made or received by or under the authority of, or coming into the custody, control, or possession of agencies in any of the three branches of the state government, or of any local political subdivision, in the course of their public duties. are the property of the government concerned, and shall not be mutilated, destroyed, transferred, removed, damaged, or otherwise disposed of, in whole or in part, except as provided by law. Any person who shall willfully mutilate, destroy, transfer, remove, damage, or otherwise dispose of such records or any part of such records. except as provided by law, and any person who shall retain and continue to hold the possession of any such records, or parts thereof, belonging to the state government or to any local political subdivision, and shall refuse to deliver up such records, or parts thereof. to the proper official under whose authority such records belong, upon demand being made by such officer or, in cases of a defunct office, to the succeeding agency or to the state archives of the Nebraska State Historical Society, shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor.
§ 84-1213.01 Records; Violation; Prosecute
The State Records Administrator, or any official under whose authority such records belong, shall report to the proper county attorney any supposed violation of § 84-12 13 that in its judgment warrants prosecution. It shall be the duty of the several county attorneys to investigate supposed violations of such section and to prosecute violations of such section.
§ 84-12 14. Agency; Disposition of Records; Procedure
Whenever any agency desires to dispose of records which are not listed on an approved records retention and disposition schedule applicable to that agency. the agency head shall prepare and submit to the administrator, on forms provided by the administrator, a list of the records sought to be disposed of, and a request for approval of their disposition. which list and request shall be referred to the board for action at its next regular or special session. On consideration thereof, the board may approve such disposition thereof as may be legal and proper, or may refuse to approve any disposition, and the records as to which such determination has been made may thereupon be disposed of in accordance with the approval of the board.
§ 84-1215. Nonrecord Material; Destruction; Procedure; Personal and Political Papers; Preservation
(1) If not otherwise prohibited by law, nonrecord materials, not included within the definition of records as contained in § 84-1202, may be destroyed at any time by the agency in possession thereof, without the prior approval of the administrator or board. The administrator may formulate procedures and interpretations to guide in the disposal of nonrecord materials, but nothing therein shall be contrary to any provision of law relating to the transfer of materials of historical value to the state archives of the Nebraska State Historical Society.
(2) Members of the Legislature and other officials are encouraged to offer their personal and political papers of public interest to the state archives for preservation subject to any reasonable restrictions concerning their use by other persons.
§ 841216. Administrator; Rules and Regulations; Promulgate
* The administrator shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary or proper to effectuate the purposes of §§ 84-1201 to 84-1226. Those portions thereof which relate to functions specifically delegated to the board shall be approved and concurred in by the board.
§ 841217. Agencies; Preservation of Records; Administrator; Advise
All provisions of the Records Management Act shall apply to all agencies as defined in subdivision (1) of §84-1202 and the administrator shall advise and assist in the establishment of programs for records management and for the selection and preservation of essential records of such branches, and, as required by such branches, shall provide program services pursuant to the provisions of §§ 84-1201 to 84-1226.
§ 841218. Political Subdivisions; Preservation of Records; Administrator; Advise and Assist; Rules and Regulations
The governing bodies of all local political subdivisions in this state, with the advice and assistance of the administrator and pursuant to the rules and regulations established by him, shall establish and maintain continuing programs to promote the principles of efficient records management for local records, and for the selection and preservation of essential local records, which programs, insofar as practicable, shall follow the patterns of the programs established for state records as provided in §§ 84-1201 to 84-1226. Each such governing body shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary or proper to effectuate and implement the programs so established, but nothing therein shall be in violation of the provisions of general law relating to the destruction of local records.
841219. Administrator; Biennial Report; Copies; Furnish
The administrator shall prepare a biennial report on the status of programs established by him as provided in §§ 84-1201 to 84-1226, and on the progress made during the preceding biennium in implementing and effectuating such programs. Copies of this report shall be furnished the Governor, the Speaker of the Legislature, and such other officials and agencies as the Governor or the board shall direct.
§ 841220. Act, How Cited
§ § 84-1201 to 84-126 shall be known and may be cited as the Records Management Act.
§ 84-1221. Repealed
§ 84-1222. Purchase of Microfilm System or Equipment; Approval; Property of State Records Administrator
After May 18. 1977. no state agency shall purchase any microfilm system or equipment prior to the approval of the State Records Administrator. The administrator shall not approve internal microfilm activities of any state agency unless such activities may not be feasibly provided by the central microfilming agency and are necessary to a particular operation within the state agency. Any equipment purchased under this section shall become the property of the State Records Administrator and shall be subject to the provisions of § 84-1223.
§ 84-1223. Micrographic Production, Processing, and Viewing Equipment; Property of Administrator; Exception; Credit
On May 19. 1979. all micrographic production. processing, and viewing equipment currently owned or subsequently acquired under the provisions of § 84- 1222 by any state executive, judicial, or legislative agency, except the University of Nebraska or the state colleges, shall become the property of the State Records Administrator, regardless of the fund source from which the equipment was originally purchased. Appropriate credit. against future charges. shall be given to all agencies for the fair market value of all equipment accepted which had been purchased with federal funds or trust funds. Equipment purchased with funds from the Highway Cash Fund shall not be deemed to have been purchased with federal funds or trust funds.
§ 84-1224. State Records Administrator; Microfilm; Micrographic Equipment; Powers
The State Records Administrator shall:
(1) Be empowered to review the microfilm systems within every agency of the state;
(2) Be empowered to cause such systems to be merged with a central microfilm agency in the event that a cost analysis shows that economic advantage may be achieved;
(3) Be empowered to permit the establishment of microfilming services within any agency or department of the state if a potential economy or a substantial convenience for the state would result;
(4) After July 1, 1978, be empowered to determine the operating locations of all micrographic equipment in his possession.
§ 84-1225. State Records Administrator; Micropublishing and Computer Output Microfilm Services; Charges
The State Records Administrator shall provide for a system of .charges for micropublishing services and computer output microfilm services rendered by the central microfilming agency to any other department or agency of the state when these charges are allocable to a particular project carried on by such microfilming agency. Such charges shall, as nearly as may be practical, reflect the actual cost of services provided by the central microfilming agency. On July 1, 1978, and thereafter the State Records Administrator shall extend this system of charges to include source document microfilming. The State Records Administrator shall extend this system of charges and user fees for all micrographic equipment which is the property of the administrator and which is used by any other state agency or department.
§ 84-1226. Records Management Micrographics Services Revolving Fund; Created; Credits; Expenditures; Rental
(1) There is hereby created a fund to be known as the Records Management Micrographics Services Revolving Fund. All charges received by the Secretary of State under §§ 84-1209 and 84-1225 and legislative appropriations shall be credited to such fund. Whenever any micrographics equipment of any state agency, except the University of Nebraska or the state colleges, shall become surplus property and shall be sold pursuant to § 81-161.04. the proceeds from the sale of such equipment shall be deposited in the state treasury and shall be credited by the State Treasurer to the Records Management Micrographics Services Revolving Fund. Expenditures shall be made from such fund to finance the micropublishing services and the computer output microfilm services by the Secretary of State or his or her authorized agent in accordance with appropriations made by the Legislature, to receive and expend funds pursuant to § 84-1209 for the providing of records storage services for state agencies. (2) By agreement between any state agency and the State Records Administrator, any state agency may be billed one full year's rental for equipment at the beginning of each fiscal year. The State Records Administrator may coordinate with the Director of Administrative Services to set up a separate subaccount within the fund for the purpose of accounting for micrographic equipment procurement and replacement.
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