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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="10-610" title_number="10" title_name="Governmental Procedures" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Records">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each unit of the State government shall have a program for the continual, economical, and efficient management of the records of the unit.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The program shall include procedures for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the security of the records;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the establishment and revision, in accordance with the regulations, record retention and disposal schedules to ensure the prompt and orderly disposition of records, including electronic records, that the unit no longer needs for its operation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the maintenance of inventories of records series that are accurate and complete; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the transfer of permanent records to the custody of the Archives.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each head of a unit of State government shall designate, from among the unit’s executive staff, a records officer for the unit to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>serve as liaison to the Division and the Archives; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>develop and oversee the program.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
