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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 14.18.05.02" title_num="14" subtitle_num="18" chapter_num="05" heading="Scope.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>These regulations apply to the microfilming of record material by any agency of State, county, or local governments.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>With the written approval of the State Archivist, the head of an agency or office may destroy original material that has been photographed, photocopied, or microphotographed if:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The head of the agency or office offers the original material to the Archives, but the Archives declines to accept;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The copy is made in a manner that meets the standard of quality of the Archives for permanent photographic records;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The copy is placed in an adequately accessible container; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Provisions are made:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>For the preservation, examination, and use of the copy in a manner that the Archives approves, and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>For a record that a statute otherwise expressly requires to be kept permanently, for the copy to be available, on request, in the same manner as the original material.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>