Terms Used In Alabama Code 16-1-5

  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

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.