Ala. Code § 16-1-5
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Section 16-1-5 Photographing or Microphotographing Records - Intent
Official statutory text
It is the intent of Sections 16-1-3 and 16-1-4 to permit the State Superintendent of Education and each of the several city and county superintendents of education to destroy, in the manner prescribed in Section 16-1-4, any records, documents, books or papers required by law to be kept or maintained by them in the event that photographic reproductions of such records, documents, books or papers are made and to give such photographic reproductions the same force and effect as the originals thereof.
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