# State Government (GSG)

## Title 10. Governmental Procedures

### Subtitle 6. Records

#### Section 10-617

(a) A public official may offer to the Archives or may destroy any of the following materials that the public official no longer needs:

  (1) a book, magazine, or newspaper;

  (2) other library or museum material that was made or acquired for reference or exhibition purposes;

  (3) an extra copy of a document that was kept only for convenience of reference;

  (4) a stock of publications;

  (5) an acceptance or refusal of an invitation or engagement of a public officer; and

  (6) material that otherwise relates to personal business of a public officer.

(b) The State Archivist may set classes of materials that the public official may destroy if the public official no longer needs the materials.

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