The secretary is authorized to establish an interim records center or centers and, acting through the state archivist and the division, to promulgate policies, rules, and regulations and institute and implement programs for the storage, processing, and servicing of records of state and local governmental agencies pending their deposit in the state archives or the records center or their disposition in any other manner authorized by law; and to establish, maintain, and operate facilities for microfilming, photostating, indexing, deacidification, decontamination, archival lamination and encapsulation and any other records repair and rehabilitation services for state and local agencies.

Acts 1956, No. 337, §14; Acts 1985, No. 238, §1, eff. July 6, 1985