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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="10-616" title_number="10" title_name="Governmental Procedures" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Records">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In accordance with the record retention and disposal schedules, a public official shall offer to the Archives any public record of the official that no longer is needed, such as:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an original paper;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a book;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a file;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a record of a court of record for which an accurate transcript is in use;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>a record that relates to the internal management of or otherwise is a housekeeping record for an office of a clerk of court or register of wills; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>any other written or recorded materials regardless of their physical form or characteristics.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Records accepted for transfer to the Archives shall be accompanied by a records inventory.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>With the written approval of the State Archivist, a public official may destroy the record that the public official offers under this section, but the Archives declines to accept.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After records are destroyed, the public official shall send to the Archives:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a list of the records that were destroyed; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a certificate of destruction.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The State Archivist shall keep each list of the records destroyed under this subsection.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The list shall be available for public inspection at reasonable times.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
