The Secretary of the Department of Administration is hereby designated the state records administrator, hereinafter called the administrator. The secretary may designate someone within the department to carry out the duties of the administrator. The administrator shall establish and administer in the Department of Administration of the executive branch of state government a records management program, which will apply efficient and economical management methods to the creation, utilization, maintenance, and retention, preservation, and disposal of state records; and shall establish and maintain a program for the selection and preservation of essential state records and shall advise and assist in the establishment of programs for the selection and preservation of essential local records.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 5A. Department of Administration
Article 8. Public Records Management and Preservation Act
§5A-8-2. Declaration of Policy
§5A-8-4. Categories of Records to Be Preserved
§5A-8-5. State Records Administrator
§5A-8-6. Records Management and Preservation Advisory Committee
§5A-8-7. Duties of Administrator
§5A-8-8. Rules and Regulations
§5A-8-9. Duties of Agency Heads
§5A-8-10. Essential State Records Preservation Duplicates
§5A-8-11. Essential State Records Safekeeping
§5A-8-12. Essential State Records Maintenance, Inspection, and Use
§5A-8-13. Essential State Records Confidential Records
§5A-8-14. Essential State Records Review of Program
§5A-8-16. Assistance to Legislative and Judicial Branches
§5A-8-18. Destruction of Nonrecord Materials
§5A-8-20. Alternate Storage of State Records
§5A-8-22. Personal Information Maintained by State Entities