Nevada Code § 378.255

Management and retention of records; provision of microfilming and digital imaging services; inspection of confidential or privileged governmental records; recovery of records
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The
State Library, Archives and Public Records Administrator may:
1. Adopt regulations and establish
standards, procedures and techniques for the effective management of records.
2. Make continuing surveys of current
practices for the management of records and recommend improvements in those
practices, including the use of space, equipment and supplies to create,
maintain and store records.
3. Establish standards for the preparation
of schedules providing for the retention of state records of continuing value
and for the prompt and orderly disposition of state records which no longer
possess sufficient administrative, fiscal, legal or research value to warrant
their further retention.
4. Establish, maintain and operate a
center for storing and retrieving records for state agencies pending the
acceptance of the records by the Division or the disposition of the records in
any other manner prescribed by law.
5. Establish a program for providing
microfilming and digital imaging services for the records of the Legislative
and Judicial Branches of State Government, upon request.
6. Establish a program of planning and
preparation to assist state agencies and local governments in providing
protection for records essential for the continuation or re-establishment of
government in the event of a disaster.
7. Provide advice and technical assistance
to state agencies, local governmental agencies and, if requested, the
Legislative and Judicial Branches of State Government concerning any aspect of
managing records.
8. Through the Division, inspect the
physical nature of, and information contained in, governmental records in the
custody of a state or local governmental agency which are not confidential or
privileged.
9. Through the Division, inspect the
physical nature of, and information contained in, confidential or privileged
governmental records in the custody of a state or local governmental agency if
the inspection is necessary to carry out the provisions of subsection 3, 5, 6
or 7 and if the inspection is not prohibited by any federal law or regulation.
Inspections must be logged as required pursuant to NRS 239C.230 . The Division shall not
disclose any confidential or privileged information in governmental records
inspected pursuant to this subsection, and such inspection does not alter,
affect, abrogate or waive the confidential or privileged status of the
information.
10. With the approval of the Committee to
Approve Schedules for the Retention and Disposition of Official State Records
created pursuant to NRS 239.073 , bring
an action to obtain possession of the records of a state or local governmental
agency which are:
(a) Of historical value and are not being
properly cared for; or
(b) Privately held.
In an action
to recover a record which is privately held, it is rebuttably presumed that a
governmental record which appears to be the original of a document received or
the file copy of a document made by a governmental agency is governmental
property.

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