1. Secretary of the Archives and Records Commission means and refers to that office created under the terms of Title 74 O.S.1951, Section 564 and following,¹ and to the powers, privileges, and duties assigned that office under such statutes.

2. The Archives and Records Commission means and refers to that Commission created under the terms of Title 74 O.S.1951, Section 564, and to the powers, privileges, and duties assigned such Commission under such statutes.

3. The phrase “dead storage files” refers to and includes all rooms, storehouses, warehouses, floor space, office space, files, filing cabinets, vaults, and other places in which are stored, kept, maintained, or otherwise held, documents, papers, records, and archives not in actual use which belong to, or are in the custody of, any agency, authority, board, commission, department, institution, instrumentality, office, officer, official, or society of the State of Oklahoma. To be in actual usage such documents, papers, records, and archives must be in continual demand for immediate reference purposes, for actual use in the day-to-day work required of any agency, authority, board, commission, department, institution, instrumentality, office, officer, official, or society of the State of Oklahoma in their principal offices or places of business. Any documents, papers, records, and archives not in such continual usage are to be considered dead storage files.