The administrator is authorized to inspect or survey the records of any agency, and to make surveys of records management and records disposal practices in the various agencies, and he shall be given the full cooperation of officials and employees of the agencies in such inspections and surveys. Records, the use of which is restricted by or pursuant to law or for reasons of security or the public interest, may be inspected or surveyed by the administrator, subject to the same restrictions imposed upon employees of the agency holding the records.
History: 1953 Comp., § 71-6-7, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 245, § 7.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths
Section 14-3-3 - State commission of public records; creation.
Section 14-3-4 - Duties and powers of commission.
Section 14-3-5 - Gifts, donations and loans.
Section 14-3-6 - Administrator; duties.
Section 14-3-7 - Inspection and survey of public records.
Section 14-3-7.1 - Access to confidential records.
Section 14-3-8 - Records center.
Section 14-3-8.1 - Records center revolving fund; created; revenues from sales deposited in fund.
Section 14-3-9 - Disposition of public records.
Section 14-3-10 - Disagreement as to value of records.
Section 14-3-11 - Destruction of records.
Section 14-3-12 - Transfer of records upon termination of state agencies.
Section 14-3-13 - Protection of records.
Section 14-3-14 - Advisory groups.
Section 14-3-15 - Reproduction on film; evidence; review, inventory and approval of systems.
Section 14-3-15.2 - Electronic authentication; substitution for signature.
Section 14-3-16 - Attorney general may replevin state records.
Section 14-3-17 - Approval of existing state agency systems.
Section 14-3-20 - Interstate compacts; filing; index.
Section 14-3-22 - Public policy on certain publications; state commission of public records duties.