New York Laws
Article 18 - Provisions Generally Applicable to Public Retirement Systems
808 - Preservation of Records.

§ 808. Preservation of records. a. Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, each public retirement system, as defined in subdivision a of
section eight hundred of this article, other than the New York state
teachers' retirement system, is authorized to reproduce all or any part
of its records by any computerized process which accurately produces a
digital image of a paper record. Whenever the retirement system shall
have so reproduced such records and whenever such reproductions or media
have been placed in conveniently accessible files and provision has been
made for preserving, examining and using the same, the retirement system
may cause the original record which has been so reproduced to be
disposed of or destroyed.

b. A duly authorized representative of the retirement system is hereby
authorized to certify to the authenticity of any reproduction herein
authorized. The retirement system may charge for copies of reproductions
of such records as provided for by applicable law, rules or regulations.