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. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall
have the following meanings:
(a) "Acquire" includes acquisition by gift, purchase, lease,
eminent domain, or otherwise.
(b) "Archival value" means the ongoing usefulness or significance
of a record based on the administrative, legal, fiscal, evidential,
or historical information it contains, justifying its permanent
preservation.
(c) "Public record plant" means the plant, or any part thereof, or
any record therein, of any person engaged in the business of
searching or publishing public records or insuring or guaranteeing
titles to real property, including copies of public records or
abstracts and memoranda taken from public records that are owned by
or in possession of that person or that are used by that person in
his or her business.
(d) "Public use form" means a form used by the state to obtain or
to solicit facts, opinions, or other information from the public or a
private citizen, partnership, corporation, organization, business
trust, or nongovernmental entity or legal representative thereof.
(e) "Record" has the same meaning as "public records" as defined
in subdivision (e) of Section 6252, and includes, but is not limited
to, any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the
public's business prepared, owned, used, or retained by a state or
local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics. Library
and museum materials made or acquired and preserved solely for
reference or exhibition purposes and stocks of publications and of
processed documents are not included within the definition of the
term "record" as used in this article.