Sec.11-8-12. Fire-resistive safes

No safe, file cabinet or record container in which records designated by the public records administrator as essential operating records of the state or of any of its political subdivisions are housed shall bear lower than a Class C rating, as established by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., or any other nationally recognized testing authority, unless such safe, file cabinet or record container is protected within a suitable fire-resistive vault. The public records administrator may, if the importance of the records to be housed or the severity of the environmental fire hazard warrants, require the use of Class B or Class A equipment, as so established.