HOUSE BILL 368

50th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2011

INTRODUCED BY

Nate Gentry

AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS; PROVIDING THAT PUBLIC RECORDS SUBMITTED TO THE STATE RECORDS ADMINISTRATOR MAY BE INSPECTED UNDER THE INSPECTION OF PUBLIC RECORDS ACT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 14-4-11 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1967, Chapter 275, Section 9) is amended to read:

     "14-4-11. PERSONAL RECORDS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS.--The state records administrator may accept and place in the state archives the personal files, records and documents of elected state officials or of former elected state officials, subject to any reasonable restrictions, moratoriums and requirements concerning their use by other persons. Such restrictions, moratoriums and requirements made by the donor, however, shall not prevent the archivist of the [state] records center from having access to the files, records and documents for indexing and cataloguing purposes. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as limiting the right to inspect public records under the provisions of the Inspection of Public Records Act."

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