(a) The Texas State Library will charge the fees established by the Office of the Attorney General at 1 TAC §§70.1 - 70.12 (relating to Cost of Copies of Public Information) and the amounts described in subsection (b) of this section for providing any person the following:
  (1) Reproductions of materials from its collections of library and archival materials that are maintained for public reference;
  (2) Copies of public records of other agencies stored in the State Records Center; and
  (3) Records of the commission.
(b) The Texas State Library will maintain a fee schedule outlining the charges for providing information to any individual and review the schedule annually. In addition to the fees described in subsection (a) of this section and listed on the fee schedule, the library will charge as follows:
  (1) Certification of copies is $5.00 per instrument, which may include several pages with certification required only once. If certification is requested on each page, the cost is $5 per instrument if the instrument consists of 5 pages or less or $1 per page if the instrument consists of more than 5 pages.
  (2) If a customer requests items printed from digital information resources, the items will be billed at the page rate for paper copies.
  (3) If a customer requests printing of large format materials held in the Texas State Archives, the charge will be assessed at an established rate available on the agency fee schedule.
  (4) The charge for duplication of non-standard materials from the archival collections is the actual commercial reproduction cost plus 25% of that cost.
  (5) If any materials must first be digitized prior to duplication, an additional fee to cover the cost of digitization, available on the agency fee schedule, will be charged.
  (6) A customer will be billed for third party access or use charges. Examples of services where use charges might occur include, but are not limited to:
    (A) Digital information resources available through online services; or
    (B) Document delivery or interlibrary loan services for providing materials or copies.
  (7) The minimum charge for any service requiring preparation of an invoice is $1.00.
(c) Reproduction of copyrighted materials will be carried out in conformance with the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code).
(d) The library will charge for labor, overhead, computer programming, computer resource time, and remote document retrieval, when applicable, as authorized by the rules established by the Office of the Attorney General.
(e) The library will not provide copies of or access to the records of other agencies housed in the State Records Center without written permission of the agency.

Source Note: The provisions of this §2.51 adopted to be effective July 4, 1994, 19 TexReg 4814; amended to be effective March 4, 1997, 22 TexReg 1889; amended to be effective May 12, 2004, 29 TexReg 4463; amended to be effective August 31, 2015, 40 TexReg 5456; amended to be effective January 11, 2017, 42 TexReg 11; amended to be effective March 18, 2020, 45 TexReg 1852