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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 10-10 Disposal of records.">
  <section prefix="§" num="10-10" heading="Disposal of records.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Scope of section.">Nothing in this section applies to any record that has been transferred to the custody of the Maryland State Archives.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="In general.">Except as provided in this section or in an approved Record Retention and Disposition Schedule, records created or received by an agency in the course of official City business are the property of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and may not be destroyed, sold, transferred, or otherwise disposed of.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Agency compliance.">Each agency must comply with its Record Retention and Disposition Schedule and the disposal process set forth in &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="gsg"&gt;Title 10, Subtitle 6 of the State Government Article of the Maryland Code&lt;/cite&gt; to ensure:<para num="(1)">the orderly retention of records required for the operation of the agency; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">the prompt disposal of records having no further value.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Agency Certificate of Disposal.">
      <para num="(1)">An agency head must submit a Certificate of Disposal to the City Records Management Officer for any record disposed of in accordance with the agency’s Record Retention and Disposition Schedule.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The Certificate of Disposal required by this section must set forth a list of the disposed records and a certification that the records were disposed of in accordance with this subtitle.</para>
      <para num="(3)">The City Records Management Officer shall transmit a copy of any Certificate of Disposal received under this subsection to the State Archivist.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Disposal of records held at a records storage center.">
      <para num="(1)">At least 30 days before any records held at any City records storage center administered under this subtitle are destroyed, a list of the records proposed for destruction must be submitted to the City Solicitor and the City Auditor for review.</para>
      <para num="(2)">At any time during the 30-day review period, the City Solicitor or the City Auditor may submit to the City Records Management Officer a written objection to the destruction of a record or set of records on the list.</para>
      <para num="(3)">On receipt of a written objection under paragraph (2) of this subsection, the City Records Management Officer must retain the record.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 20-407</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
