The Archive is a General Service of the Administration. It is a good in the public domain according to the Local Body of Goods Regulations (RD. 1372/1986 of 13 June) as it maintains and takes care of the City Council's Documentary Heritage.

The functions of this service are developed according to what was stated on the LocalGovernment Regulatory Law 7/1985, dated 2 April,; the Spanish Historical Heritage Law 16/1985, dated 25 June; the Legal System for Public Administrations and the Common Administrative Procedure Law 30/1992, dated 26 November; the Andalusian Historical Heritage Law 1/1991, dated 3 July; and the Law 3/1984 dated 9 January, for the Andalusian Public Archives. All of them are concerned with the basic regulation of the Archive, either in its whole organic document or by the combination of several documents and institutions where the file management of the City Council is systematized.

As for the centralization of the notarial collections on top of Parties, it was justified by successive regulations: the creation of a provincial map by December 30, 1833 decree, and the division of provinces into Legal Jurisdiction in 1834. The regulations that deal with Notaries Public had to be added, as the Notaries Public Law in 1862 and the establishment of the General Archives did in 1869. It was not until 1892 that the definite Order was registered in the census allowing the centralization of all the former Protocols included in the Legal Jurisdiction, achieving the first inventory of files in 1902.