§ 659 - Microfilming of court records
§ 659. Microfilming of court records
(a) The supreme court by administrative order may provide for permanent preservation of all court records by microfilming, or by any other photographic process which will provide compact records in reduced size, in accordance with standards established by the department of buildings and general services of the Vermont agency of administration which take into account the quality and security of the microphotographed records, and ready access to the micrographic record of any cause so recorded.
(b) After microfilming, the supreme court by administrative order may provide for the disposition of original court records by destruction or in cases where the original court record may have historical or intrinsic value by transfer to an appropriate institutional facility such as the archives of the secretary of state, the department of buildings and general services of the agency of administration, the Vermont historical society, or the university of Vermont. (Added 1975, No. 241 (Adj. Sess.), eff. April 7, 1976; amended 1995, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 4(c)(2), eff. May 6, 1996.)