Composition
The State Records Commission consists of seven members, five of them are ex officio and the other two are appointed. The ex officio members are the:

• Director of the Department of Archives and History, who serves as the chairman of the commission
  
• Chief Examiner of the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts
  
• Attorney General
  
• Secretary of State
  
• Commissioner of the Department of Revenue

The appointed members are selected by the heads of the Departments of History at the University of Alabama and Auburn University.

Duties
The State Records Commission is charged with the following responsibilities:

• conduct surveys of public records created by state agencies (Code of Alabama 1975, Section 41-13-24).
• issue regulations classifying all public records and prescribing the period for which records of each class shall be retained (Code of Alabama 1975, Section 41-13-24).
• determine which public records shall be perserved permanently because of historical value and which records may be destroyed or otherwise diposed of (Code of Alabama 1975, Sections 41-13-21).
• approve records disposal requests submitted by state agencies prior to the records destruction (Code of Alabama 1975, Sections 41-13-21).

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