N.Y. Lab. Law § 35

§ 35. Maintenance of records. 1. The department is authorized and\nempowered to use electronic storage technology to record and maintain\npublic records, papers, documents or matters required by law to be\nrecorded. Such records shall be capable of being copied, photographed,\nor microphotographed by a process which accurately reproduces the\noriginal thereof in all details.\n 2. The copies thereof shall be deemed to be an original record for all\npurposes, including introduction in evidence in all courts or\nadministrative agencies. A transcript, exemplification or certified copy\nthereof shall, for all purposes recited herein, be deemed to be a\ntranscript, exemplification, or certified copy of the original.\n 3. The department shall have the power to dispose of or destroy its\nrecords, subject only to receiving the consent of the commissioner of\neducation as may be required by article fifty-seven of the arts and\ncultural affairs law.\n