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NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 55.23 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title T - Natural Heritage Trust Article 55 - Natural Heritage Trust 55.23 - Actions Against the Trust.

§ 55.23. Actions  against  the trust. Except in an action for wrongful   death, an action  against  the  trust  founded  on  tort  shall  not  be   commenced  more  than one year and ninety days after the cause of action   therefor shall have accrued, nor unless a notice  of  claim  shall  have   been  served  on the trust within the time limited by, and in compliance   with all the requirements of section fifty-e of  the  general  municipal   law.  An  action against the trust for wrongful death shall be commenced   in accordance with the notice of claim and time limitation provisions of   title eleven of article nine of the public authorities law.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.01 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57 - Divisions of History and Public Records 57.01 - Office of State History.

§ 57.01. Office  of  state  history.  There  shall be in the education   department the office of state history.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.02 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57 - Divisions of History and Public Records 57.02 - New York State History Month.

§  57.02.  New  York  state  history  month.  1. Each month of October   following the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two  thousand   nineteen  that  amended this subdivision shall be designated as New York   state history month.2. The purpose of this month shall be to celebrate the history of  New   York   state   and  recognize  the  contributions  of  state  and  local   historians.3. The commissioner of education, through the office of state  history   is  hereby  authorized to undertake projects to recognize New York state   history month. Such projects  may  include  the  creation  of  an  essay   contest  for  state  residents  who  are  enrolled  in any elementary or   secondary education program which shall reflect upon the  importance  of   New York state history. Any project or projects created pursuant to this   subdivision  may,  in  the  discretion of the commissioner of education,   authorize non-monetary awards to be given  to  project  participants  or   project winners as such commissioner may deem appropriate.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.03 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57 - Divisions of History and Public Records 57.03 - Functions of the Office of State History.

§ 57.03. Functions  of  the  office  of state history. It shall be the   function of the office of state history:1. To collect, edit and publish, with the approval of the commissioner   of education, any archives, records,  papers  or  manuscripts  that  are   deemed  essential  or  desirable  for  the  preservation  of the state's   history.2. To prepare and publish, with the approval of  the  commissioner  of   education,  or  assist  in  the  preparation  and  publication of, works   relating to the history of the colony and state of New York.3. To acquire,  administer,  preserve,  exhibit,  interpret,  and,  in   conformity  with  the  regulations  of the commissioner of education, to   loan, exchange or dispose of historical  objects  of  personal  property   relating  to  the  history  of  the colony and state of New York; and to   advise any state agency, board, commission, office,  civil  subdivision,   institution,   organization,   or   individual   on   the   acquisition,   administration,   preservation,    exhibition,    interpretation,    and   disposition of historical objects.4.  To  perform  the  functions  of the state education department set   forth  in  section  19.11  of  the  parks,   recreation   and   historic   preservation  law  with respect to historic sites under the jurisdiction   of the office of parks, recreation and  historic  preservation;  and  to   advise  and  assist  any  political  subdivision  of  the  state and any   institution, organization  or  individual  concerning  the  designation,   acquisition,  administration, interpretation, use and disposition of any   historic site, property or place relative to the history of  the  colony   and  state  of  New  York,  and  to  coordinate educational programs and   projects at such historic sites or properties.5. To advise and assist any state agency, board,  commission,  office,   civil  subdivision,  institution  or  organization  in  the planning and   execution of any commemorative event relating  to  the  history  of  the   colony   and   state   of  New  York  or  New  York's  participation  in   commemorative events outside of the state.6. To perform other functions or duties assigned  the  office  by  the   commissioner of education.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.09 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57 - Divisions of History and Public Records 57.09 - Duties of Local Historian.

§ 57.09. Duties of local historian. It shall be the duty of each local   historian,  appointed  as  provided  in the last section, in cooperation   with the state historian, to collect and preserve material  relating  to   the  history  of  the  political  subdivision  for  which  he  or she is   appointed, and to file such material in fireproof safes or vaults in the   county, city, town or village offices. Such historian shall examine into   the condition, classification and safety from fire of the public records   of the public offices of such county, city, town or village,  and  shall   call  to  the attention of the local authorities and the state historian   any material of local  historic  value  which  should  be  acquired  for   preservation.  He  or  she  shall make an annual report, in the month of   January, to the local appointing officer or officers and  to  the  state   historian  of  the work which has been accomplished during the preceding   year. He or she shall, upon retirement or removal from office, turn over   to the local county, city, town or village authorities, or to his or her   successor in office, if one  has  been  then  appointed,  all  materials   gathered  during  his  or her incumbency and all correspondence relating   thereto. It shall be the duty of the county historian to  supervise  the   activities  of  the  local  historians  in towns and villages within the   county in performing  the  historical  work  recommended  by  the  state   historian,  and  also  to  prepare  and  to  present  to  the  board  of   supervisors a report of the important occurrences within the county  for   each  calendar year. The state historian, at regular intervals, not less   than once a year, shall indicate to the  local  historians  the  general   lines along which local history material is to be collected.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.11 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57 - Divisions of History and Public Records 57.11 - Penalty.

§ 57.11. Penalty.  A public officer who refuses or neglects to perform   any  duty  required  of  him  by  this  article  or  to  comply  with  a   recommendation  of  the commissioner of education under the authority of   this article, shall for each  month  of  such  neglect  or  refusal,  be   punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.13 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.13 - Statement of Legislative Intent.

§ 57.13. Statement  of  legislative intent. The legislature finds that   public records are essential to the administration of local  government.   Public  records  contain information which allows government programs to   function, provides officials with a  basis  for  making  decisions,  and   ensures  continuity  with  past  operations. Public records document the   legal responsibility of government, protect the rights of citizens,  and   provide  citizens  with  a  means  of monitoring government programs and   measuring the performance of public officials. Local government  records   also  reflect  the  historical  development of the government and of the   community it serves. Such records need to be systematically  managed  to   ensure  ready  access  to vital information and to promote the efficient   and economical operation of government.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.15 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.15 - Short Title.

§ 57.15. Short  title.  This  article  may  be  cited  as  the  "Local   Government Records Law".
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.17 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.17 - Definitions.

§ 57.17. Definitions.  Wherever  used  in  this article, the following   terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth:1. "Local government" means any county, city,  town,  village,  school   district,   board   of   cooperative   educational   services,  district   corporation, public benefit corporation, public  corporation,  or  other   government  created  under  state  law  that  is not a state department,   division, board, bureau,  commission  or  other  agency,  heretofore  or   hereafter established by law.2.  "Governing  body" means the town board, village board of trustees,   city council, county legislature  or  board  of  supervisors,  board  of   education  or  board  of  trustees  of  a  school  district  or board of   cooperative educational services, board of fire commissioners  or  other   body authorized by law to govern the affairs of a local government.3.  "Local  officer" shall mean and include a local officer as defined   in section two of the public officers law and any officer  of  a  public   benefit corporation.4.   "Record"  means  any  book,  paper,  map,  photograph,  or  other   information-recording   device,   regardless   of   physical   form   or   characteristic,  that  is  made,  produced, executed, or received by any   local government or officer thereof pursuant to  law  or  in  connection   with the transaction of public business. Record as used herein shall not   be  deemed  to  include  library  materials,  extra  copies of documents   created only for convenience of reference, and stocks of publications.5. "Retention period" means the  minimum  length  of  time  that  must   elapse before a record is eligible for disposition.6.  "Records retention and disposition schedule" means a list or other   instrument describing records  and  their  retention  periods  which  is   issued by the commissioner of education.7.  "Disposition" means the disposal of a record by destruction, sale,   gift, transfer to the local government archives, or by other  authorized   means.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.19 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records 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.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.21 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.21 - Local Government Records Advisory Council.

§ 57.21. Local  government  records advisory council. The commissioner   of education shall appoint a local government records  advisory  council   consisting   of   representatives   of  local  government  associations,   historians, the chief administrative  judge,  the  commissioner  of  the   department  of  records and information services of the city of New York   or its successor agency, other users of local  government  records,  and   other  citizens.  The  city  clerk  of  the  city of New York shall be a   non-voting members of such advisory council.  The council  shall  advise   the  commissioner  of  education  concerning  local  government  records   policies and procedures, state services and financial support needed  to   assist  or  advise  local officials, and regulations pertaining to local   government records, and grants for local government  records  management   improvement  pursuant  to  section  57.35  of this chapter. The advisory   council shall prepare an initial report on the above matters by December   first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven to be provided to the  commissioner   of   education,   the   governor,  and  appropriate  committees  of  the   legislature.    The  commissioner  of  education  shall  not  promulgate   regulations  for  the administration and maintenance of local government   records before July first, nineteen  hundred  eighty-eight  except  with   prior consultation with and review by the advisory council.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.23 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.23 - Oversight and Advisory Services.

§ 57.23. Oversight  and  advisory  services.  1.    It  shall  be  the   responsibility  of  the  commissioner  of  education  to  advise   local   governments  on  planning  and  administering programs for the creation,   maintenance, preservation, reproduction, retention, and  disposition  of   their  records;  to  advise  local  governments  on  the  development of   micrographics systems, automated  data  processing  systems,  and  other   systems  that rely on technology to create, store, manage, and reproduce   information  or  records;  and  to  advise  local  governments  on   the   preservation  and  use  of vital records and records with enduring value   for historical or other research purposes.2.  The  commissioner  of  education  is   authorized   to   establish   requirements  for  the  proper  creation,  preservation,  management and   protection of records, and  shall  develop  statewide  plans  to  ensure   preservation  of  adequate documentation of the functions, services, and   historical development of local governments.3.  The  commissioner  of  education  is  authorized   to   promulgate   regulations to implement the provisions of this article with advice from   the local government records advisory council.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.25 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.25 - Records Retention and Disposition.

§ 57.25. Records  retention  and  disposition.  1.  It  shall  be  the   responsibility of every local officer to maintain records to  adequately   document  the  transaction  of  public  business  and  the  services and   programs for which such officer  is  responsible;  to  retain  and  have   custody  of  such  records for so long as the records are needed for the   conduct of the business  of  the  office;  to  adequately  protect  such   records;  to  cooperate  with  the local government's records management   officer on programs for the orderly and efficient management of  records   including   identification   and  management  of  inactive  records  and   identification and preservation of records of enduring value; to dispose   of records in accordance with legal requirements; and to pass on to  his   successor  records  needed for the continuing conduct of business of the   office. In towns, records no  longer  needed  for  the  conduct  of  the   business  of  the office shall be transferred to the custody of the town   clerk for their safekeeping and ultimate disposal.2. No local officer shall destroy, sell or otherwise  dispose  of  any   public  record without the consent of the commissioner of education. The   commissioner of education shall, after  consultation  with  other  state   agencies  and  with  local  government  officers,  determine the minimum   length of time that records need to be retained.  Such  commissioner  is   authorized  to  develop,  adopt  by  regulation, issue and distribute to   local  governments   records   retention   and   disposition   schedules   establishing  minimum  legal  retention  periods.   The issuance of such   schedules  shall  constitute  formal  consent  by  the  commissioner  of   education  to  the  disposition  of records that have been maintained in   excess of the  retention  periods  set  forth  in  the  schedules.  Such   schedules  shall  be  reviewed  and  adopted by formal resolution of the   governing body of a local government prior to  the  disposition  of  any   records. If any law specifically provides a retention period longer than   that  established  by  the  records  retention  and disposition schedule   established herein the retention period established by  such  law  shall   govern.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.27 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.27 - Records With Statewide Significance.

§ 57.27. Records  with  statewide  significance.  The  commissioner of   education is authorized to designate particular local government records   for  permanent   retention   because   of   their   enduring   statewide   significance.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.29 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.29 - Reproduction of Records and Disposition of the Originals.

§ 57.29. Reproduction  of  records  and  disposition of the originals.   Any  local  officer  may  reproduce  any  record  in  his   custody   by   microphotography   or   other   means  that  accurately  and  completely   reproduces all the information in the record.  Such  official  may  then   dispose of the original record even though it has not met the prescribed   minimum   legal   retention   period,  provided  that  the  process  for   reproduction and the provisions made for preserving  and  examining  the   copy  meet  requirements  established  by the commissioner of education.   Such copy shall be deemed to be an original  record  for  all  purposes,   including  introduction as evidence in proceedings before all courts and   administrative agencies.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.31 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.31 - Cooperative Records Storage and Management.

§ 57.31. Cooperative   records   storage  and  management.  All  local   government records shall be kept in secure facilities maintained by  the   local  government unless the consent of the commissioner of education is   obtained to their transfer and storage elsewhere. Any  local  government   may  cooperate  with  another  local  government  or governments for the   improved management and preservation of records, and may  enter  into  a   contractual arrangement for such purposes.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.33 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.33 - Exclusions.

§ 57.33. Exclusions.  The  provisions  of this article shall not apply   to:1. The records of any court, except as provided in  section  57.35  of   this article.2.  The  records of any city with a population of one million or more,   and the records  of  any  county  contained  therein,  so  long  as  the   destruction  of  the records of such city or county shall be carried out   in  accordance  with  the  procedure  prescribed  by  any  existing  law   exclusively applicable to the destruction of the records of such city or   county,  provided  that  section  57.35  of  this article shall apply to   grants for local government records management for supreme court records   in the custody of the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond  and   Bronx,  and  records under the jurisdiction of the department of records   and information services of the  city  of  New  York  or  its  successor   agency, and records under the jurisdiction of the city clerk of the city   of  New  York.  If  any such law shall be amended by local law after the   first day of July, nineteen hundred fifty-one, the  provisions  of  this   section  shall  not  apply  to  the  destruction  of such records if the   procedures therefor established by such law, as amended  by  local  law,   shall be acceptable to the commissioner of education.3.  The  records  of  any  state  department, division, board, bureau,   commission or other agency.
NY Arts & Cult Aff L § 57.37 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs Title U - Divisions of History and Public Records Article 57-A - Local Government Records Law 57.37 - Regional Records Offices.

§ 57.37. Regional records offices. 1. The commissioner of education is   authorized to establish in each judicial district, except New York city,   a  regional  records  office.  In  New  York  city,  the commissioner of   education is authorized to establish a single regional records office to   oversee records management programs for entities within the city of  New   York  whose  records are not under the jurisdiction of the department of   records and information services or its successor agency  and  the  city   clerk of the city of New York.2.   The   regional   records   offices  shall  provide  advisory  and   consultative services and technical assistance to local  governments  on   records  management  and  the  administration  of  archival  records and   address recommendations of the New York state local  government  records   advisory council.3.  The  commissioner of education is authorized to employ specialists   in records management, archives  administration  and  other  specialists   necessary  to provide advisory, consultative and technical assistance to   local governments from monies available for this purpose in the New York   state local government records management improvement fund,  established   pursuant to section ninety-seven-i of the state finance law.