# State Government (GSG)

## Title 10. Governmental Procedures

### Subtitle 6. Records

#### Section 10-615

Except as expressly provided in Sec. 10-619 of this subtitle, this Part III of this subtitle does not authorize:

(1) the destruction of a permanent book of account;

(2) the destruction of a land record of a clerk of a circuit court;

(3) the destruction of any record that relates to the financial operation of a unit of the State government or to collection of State taxes until the requirements of Sec.Sec. 2-1220 through 2-1227 of this article are met;

(4) the destruction of any record until the expiration of the period that a statute expressly sets for that record to be kept;

(5) the destruction of any public record that a statute expressly requires to be kept permanently; or

(6) the destruction of any record of a court of record unless:

  (i) the destruction is authorized under Sec. 1-605(d)(6) or Sec. 2-205 of the Courts Article;

  (ii) an accurate transcript of the record is in use; or

  (iii) the record relates to the internal management of or otherwise is a housekeeping record for an office of a clerk of court or register of wills.

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Md. Code Ann., State Gov't (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)