Instead of maintaining the record books described by Sections 52.001, 52.002, and 52.003, the county clerk may maintain the information described by those sections relating to a person's or estate's probate proceedings:

1. (1) on a computer file;
2. (2) on microfilm;
3. (3) in the form of a digitized optical image; or
4. (4) in another similar form of data compilation.

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.