[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Patton 6-26-1984 by Ord. No. 84-189. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The retention and maintenance of true and exact
copies of public records relating to the construction, alteration,
maintenance and occupancy of buildings and structures is essential
to the proper administration of government and the protection of public
health, safety and welfare. The storage of such records in original
format has become an onerous obligation requiring the dedication of
much office space, has made retrieval of information time consuming
and difficult and provides for no security of records from destruction
by fire or atmospheric conditions and age. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in recognition of these serious problems has authorized local governments
to maintain quality microfilm copies of essential public records and
to subsequently destroy the originals or transfer them to a secure
storage at the direction of the Pennsylvania Local Government Records
Committee.
In accord with the provisions of the Municipal
Records Act of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (53 P.S. §§ 9000
through 9010) all essential public records relating to the construction,
alteration, maintenance and occupancy of buildings and structures
in the Township of Patton shall be maintained by true and exact microfilm
copy.
After the microfilming of the public records
and the creation of a microfilm duplicate, the Director of Centre
Region Code Administration shall authorize the destruction or the
transfer to a secure storage area provided by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in accord with the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
of the records so copied.
