Marvin Mandel, Governor                         805

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 8 of Article 54
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume),
title "Hall of Records," subtitle "Hall of Records Commission," be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

8.

If the Commission shall decline to accept any original papers, offi-
cial books, records, documents or files offered to it under the provi-
sions of Section 7, then the custodian thereof, with the written
approval of the Board of Public Works, is authorized and empowered
to destroy the same. After such records are destroyed, the custodian
thereof shall file with the Hall of Records a list of all papers, books,
documents and files destroyed and a certificate of destruction. Such
lists shall be retained in the custody of the Archivist and shall be
available at reasonable times to inspection by the members of the
public. Nothing in this section shall authorize the destruction of
(a) papers, books, documents or files which have been in custody
for a period of less than three years or such other period as may
be expressly prescribed by statute, (b) public records expressly
required by statute to be maintained permanently, except in those
cases where the original record has been photographed, photocopied,
or microphotographed in accordance with the provisions of Section 11
of this article, provided that the copy or reproduction of the original
record be available upon request in the same manner as the original
record, (c) permanent books of account, (d) the records of any
court of record in this State, (e) the land records recorded by the
respective clerks of the circuit court for the several counties and the
clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City except as provided for
in Section 150 of Article 26 of this Code; but old records of which
accurate transcriptions have been made and placed in use, under the
terms of Article 26, Section 17, and the "housekeeping" records or
the records of internal management of the offices of clerks of court
and registers of wills shall not be considered "records of a court"
for the purpose of this section and Sections 9 and 10 and shall be
subject to disposal as described above, provided, however, that the
books, accounts, and records pertaining to the financial operations
of any agency or department, officers, boards and commissions of the
State of Maryland, and of all the clerks of courts, registers of wills,
and all collectors of the State taxes of the State of Maryland, includ-
ing the City of Baltimore, insofar as they affect the collection of State
taxes, shall not be destroyed until such time as the requirements of
Article 19, Sections 29 to 34, inclusive, relating to the audit of such
books, accounts and records by the State Auditor, shall have been
complied with.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 5, 1972.

CHAPTER 248
(Senate Bill 890)

AN ACT to add new Sections 166E, 166F, 166G and 166H to the
Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany County (1963 Edition,