Sec. 1. (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.

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 10-17-2-1

  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(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.]

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