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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 24

certain circumstances in lieu of the Board of Public
Works; modifying and clarifying the exclusion of
certain materials required by law to be retained for
certain periods; requiring the Commission to give, at a
certain time, written approval to schedules for the
destruction of records; deleting an obsolete reference;
and clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 54 — Hall of Records

Section 8 and 10(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 54 - Hall of Records

8.

If the Commission [shall decline] DECLINES to accept
any original papers, official books, records, documents or
files offered to it under the provisions of §7, then [the]
THEIR custodian [thereof], with the written approval of the
[Board of Public Works, is authorized and empowered to]
COMMISSION, MAY destroy [the same] THEM. After [such] THE
records are destroyed, [the] THEIR 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] THESE 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] THIS section [shall] DOES NOT 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 DESIGNATED FOR
RETENTION FOR A PERIOD OF TIME expressly prescribed by
statute, (b) public records expressly required by statute to
be maintained permanently, except in those cases where the
original record has teen photographed, photocopied, or
microphotographed in accordance with the provisions of § 1 1
of this article, [provided that] IF the copy or reproduction
of the original record [be] IS 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 §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], 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] MAY not be