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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="10-615" title_number="10" title_name="Governmental Procedures" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Records">
  <text>Except as expressly provided in § 10–619 of this subtitle, this Part III of this subtitle does not authorize:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>the destruction of a permanent book of account;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>the destruction of a land record of a clerk of a circuit court;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>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 §§ 2–1220 through 2–1227 of this article are met;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>the destruction of any record until the expiration of the period that a statute expressly sets for that record to be kept;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>the destruction of any public record that a statute expressly requires to be kept permanently; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>the destruction of any record of a court of record unless:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>the destruction is authorized under § 1–605(d)(6) or § 2–205 of the Courts Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>an accurate transcript of the record is in use; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
