MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            2887

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 § 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, except
as provided for in [§ 1A of Article 17 and §150 of
Article 26 of this Code,] §1—605(D-3) AND §2-206 OF THE
COURTS ARTICLE OF THE CODE, (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; but old records of which accurate
transcriptions have been made and placed in use, under
the terms of Article 26, § 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 §§ 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, including
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 40, §§ 6 1A to
61E, inclusive, relating to the audit of such books,
accounts and records by the State Auditor, shall have
been complied with.

SECTION 11. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That
Sections 19, 51 of Article 59 — Mental Hygiene, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and
1973 Supplement) be and they are hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 59 - Mental Hygiene
19.

Each facility which has, as patients, any persons