(1) The secretary of state and the director of financial management shall jointly establish a procedure and formula for allocating the costs of services provided by the division of archives and records management to state agencies. The total amount allotted for services to state agencies shall not exceed the appropriation to the *archives and records management account during any allotment period.

Terms Used In Washington Code 40.14.025

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • public records: shall include any paper, correspondence, completed form, bound record book, photograph, film, sound recording, map drawing, machine-readable material, compact disc meeting current industry ISO specifications, or other document, regardless of physical form or characteristics, and including such copies thereof, that have been made by or received by any agency of the state of Washington in connection with the transaction of public business, and legislative records as described in RCW 40. See Washington Code 40.14.010
(2) There is created the public records efficiency, preservation, and access account in the state treasury which shall consist of all fees and charges collected under this section. The account shall be appropriated exclusively for the payment of costs and expenses incurred in the operation of the division of archives and records management as specified by law.

NOTES:

*Reviser’s note: The “archives and records management account” was changed to the “public records efficiency, preservation, and access account” by 2011 1st sp.s. c 50 § 932.
Effective dates2011 1st sp.s. c 50: See note following RCW 15.76.115.
Effective date1996 c 245: “This act takes effect on July 1, 1996.” [ 1996 c 245 § 5.]
Effective datesSeverability1991 sp.s. c 13: See notes following RCW 18.08.240.
Effective date1985 c 57: See note following RCW 18.04.105.
Effective date1981 c 115: See note following RCW 40.14.020.