§ 10-17-2-1 — Book for recording; electronic preservation of discharges; annual reliability testing

Indiana § 10-17-2-1

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 10: PUBLIC SAFETY
• Art. 17: VETERANS' AFFAIRS
• Ch. 2: County Recording of Military Discharge

Text

(a) To provide a special and permanent record
of discharges from a branch of the military service of the United States
of members of a branch of the service who are residents of Indiana, the
county recorder shall do either of the following:
(1) Procure a sufficiently large and well bound book of good
material in which the county recorder shall record all discharges.
(2) Preserve discharges received by the recorder in an electronic
format that may be accessed in the office of the recorder and store
paper copies or microfilm of the discharges at a secure offsite
location from which the paper copies or microfilm may be
retrieved as necessary.
(b) The county recorder shall annually test the reliability of
hardware and software used to provide electronic access to discharges
preserved under subsection (a)(2).
[Pre-2003 Recodification Citation: 10-5-4-1.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2003, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.42-2020, SEC.6.