N.Y. WKC Law § 143

§ 143. Maintenance of records. 1. The board is authorized and\nempowered to use electronic means in accordance with section three\nhundred five of the state technology law to record and maintain public\nrecords, papers, documents or matters required by law to be recorded.\nSuch records shall be capable of being copied, photographed, or\nmicrophotographed by a process which accurately reproduces the original\nthereof in all details.\n 2. The copies thereof shall be deemed to be an original record for all\npurposes, including introduction in evidence in all courts or\nadministrative agencies. A transcript, exemplification or certified copy\nthereof shall, for all purposes recited herein, be deemed to be a\ntranscript, exemplification, or certified copy of the original.\n 3. The board shall have the power to authorize the destruction, sale\nto a historical, educational, or scientific organization or to otherwise\ndispose of its records, subject only to receiving the consent of the\ncommissioner of education as may be required by article fifty-seven of\nthe arts and cultural affairs law.\n