Whenever any map, plat or other document on file with or in the official custody of any county clerk in this state shall be in danger of damage or destruction by reason of age, mutilation or any other cause, it shall be lawful for the board of county commissioners of such county to authorize the county clerk to have a true and correct copy thereof made and filed in the office of said county clerk, after having been certified by such county clerk to be a true, correct and compared copy of the original.
History: Laws 1939, ch. 130, § 1; 1941 Comp., § 13-401; 1953 Comp., § 71-4-1.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Cross references. — For state records administrator advising and assisting in programs for disposition of records, see 14-3-18 NMSA 1978.
For durability of records, see 14-8-7, 14-8-8 NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 66 Am. Jur. 2d Records and Recording Laws §§ 81, 128.
76 C.J.S. Records § 2 et seq.
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